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BANK TO DEPOSIT ITSELF ON BROAD STREET
OceanFirst Bank will take space in a building that’s been a supermarket, a five-and-dime and home to a number of financial services companies over its 92-year history. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "BANK TO DEPOSIT ITSELF ON BROAD STREET"
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January 9th, 2013 @ 7am
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Hovnanian’s headquarters, on Maple Avenue in Red Bank. (File photo. Click to enlarge) After going one-for-22, Red Bank-based national homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises racked up a second consecutive net gain in itsContinue reading "HOV POSTS SECOND CONSECUTIVE PROFIT"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 7am
WHERE’D THE LOVE GO?
The former home of Love Lane Tuxedos is one of downtown Red Bank’s most persistent large vacancies. (Click to enlarge) By MIKE BARON Where’s the love for the old LoveContinue reading "WHERE’D THE LOVE GO?"
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May 3rd, 2012 @ 8am
The addition will connect two existing buildings while permitting vehicles to pass underneath. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Framed by talk about its positive effects on lunchtime restaurantContinue reading "‘FLOATING’ DOWNTOWN OFFICE WAFTS TO OK"
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January 20th, 2012 @ 10am
Hovnanian’s Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Hovnanian Enterprise reported a $72.7 million loss as revenue fell in latest fiscal quarter. The deficit was worseContinue reading "MORE RED INK FOR RED BANK HOMEBUILDER"
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June 8th, 2011 @ 8am
Middletown police say they arrested a township-based employer Tuesday for theft of his workers’ Individual Retirement Account benefits. David Crosby, 56, of Murphy Road in the Port Monmouth section, wasContinue reading "BOSS BUSTED FOR EMPLOYEE BENEFIT THEFTS"
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April 14th, 2011 @ 12pm
A Lincroft rare-coin dealer has sold a World War II-era penny for $1.7 million, according to a report by Coin Update News. Legend Numismatics handled the sale of the coin,Continue reading "PENNY FETCHES 170,000,000 PENNIES"
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September 23rd, 2010 @ 7am
File photo of the company’s headquarters overlooking the Navesink River. (Click to enlarge) Homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises slashed its net loss in its latest fiscal quarter, but still produced more redContinue reading "HOV BEATS OUTLOOK — IN WRONG DIRECTION"
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September 2nd, 2010 @ 5am
Forty-one-year-old financial advisor Stephen Severio of Fair Haven was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday after admitting that he defrauded clients out of more than $700,000, the Asbury ParkContinue reading "ADMITTED SCAMMER GETS SEVEN YEARS"
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August 16th, 2010 @ 9am
Hovnanian’s headquarters overlooking the Navesink River at Maple Cove. (Click to enlarge) The misery isn’t over at Red Bank-based national homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises, despite a brief return to the blackContinue reading "HOV POSTS ANOTHER QUARTERLY LOSS"
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June 3rd, 2010 @ 8am
Two major newspapers take a peek today into the world of technology-driven stock trading— and its connection to a whipsaw drop and rebound in prices earlier this month — byContinue reading "ABOVE BROAD STREET, A WALL STREET SHAKER"
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May 17th, 2010 @ 5am
A stockbroker from Fair Haven is looking at seven years in prison under the terms of a plea deal he accepted yesterday for pocketing nearly $700,000 he swindled from 31Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN BROKER COPS TO $700K SCAM"
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February 17th, 2010 @ 7am
Hovnanian’s Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Hovnanian Enterprises reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $250.8 million yesterday. That’s down from a net loss ofContinue reading "HOV REVENUE FELL BY HALF IN 2009"
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December 17th, 2009 @ 8am
One day after he pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from an $8 million investment scam, Fair Haven resident Maxwell Smith was in state court Wednesday, owning up to moreContinue reading "MONEY MAN ADMITS TO STATE FRAUD CHARGES"
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November 19th, 2009 @ 7am
Maxwell Smith, a 69-year-old financial advisor and Fair Haven resident, pleaded guilty to fraud charges yesterday, admitting he stole at least $8 million from clients. He faces up to 20Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN MAN ADMITS $8 MILLION SCAM"
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November 18th, 2009 @ 8am
A former broker at the Red Bank office of Merrill Lynch was indicted by a Monmouth County grand jury yesterday on charges that he swindled $500,000 from more than twoContinue reading "MERRILL BROKER INDICTED FOR FRAUD"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
HOV POSTS 12TH CONSECUTIVE NET LOSS
Hovnanian’s HQ, at the foot of Maple Avenue in Red Bank. Homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises has notched its third straight year in red ink, according to data released Wednesday. The glimmerContinue reading "HOV POSTS 12TH CONSECUTIVE NET LOSS"
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September 3rd, 2009 @ 7am
STAPLES TO LAND IN RED BANK’S IN-BOX
The big-box retailer will lease a space less than a quarter the size of its average store at 137-139 Broad Street. Staples Inc., the big-box office supply retailer, is comingContinue reading "STAPLES TO LAND IN RED BANK’S IN-BOX"
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July 15th, 2009 @ 6am
A Fair Haven investment adviser who is reported to have a villa in France was charged in federal court in Newark today with running a Ponzi scheme, the Star-Ledger is reporting. The criminal allegations against Maxwell Smith follow earlier allegations...
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May 6th, 2009 @ 2pm
A Morris County judge today froze the assets of a Fair Haven investment adviser who is alleged to have swindled an elderly client out of $9 million over a decade, according to reports by the Star-Ledger and Morristown's Daily Record....
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 4pm
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CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.