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VIDEO: WALKING RED BANK’S ENTIRE RIVERFRONT
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Video: Reporter sets out to walk the entire Red Bank waterfront from end to end.
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July 27th @ 4pm
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RED BANK HOUSING AUTHORITY EYES NEW SENIOR APTS. SITE
Red Bank Housing Authority 112025 Evergreen Terrace
Public housing agency hires a builder to design a new 54-apartment building that would replace an aging Red Bank senior citizen complex. (click to read)
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July 22nd @ 2pm
RED BANK: DEVELOPERS WITHDRAW SHREWSBURY AVE APARTMENT PLAN, FOR NOW
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Developers withdrew a plan to build 14 new apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue before the Zoning Board on Thursday night, opting to revise their designs. (Click to read)
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July 17th @ 2pm
RED BANK: SCHOOL OF ROCK CLOSES WITH WALLS CRUMBLING DOWN
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RED BANK: School of Rock closes Red Bank location as building is deemed unsafe. (Click to read)
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July 15th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: CATEZZA GOES DARK; NEW ITALIAN SPOT EYES FRONT STREET
Red Bank Retail Churn: Catezza goes dark, while an Italian eatery eyes the old Front Street Trattoria location.
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July 15th @ 2pm
RED BANK: 14 APARTMENT PLAN GOES TO ZONING BOARD
240 Shrewsbury Avenue
Red Bank Zoning Board will decide whether to approve 14 garden apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue. (Click to read)
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July 14th @ 5pm
SEE THE PLANS FOR RED BANK TRAIN STATION PROJECT
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175 units and a woonerf: A look at the plans for The Rail North, the first phase of Red Bank's totally yooj train station redevelopment. (Click to read)
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July 7th @ 2pm
VIDEO: TOUR THE DRAMATIC REMAKE OF RED BANK’S MARINE PARK
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A video walk-through of Red Bank's dramatically remade Marine Park on the Navesink River. (Click to read)
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June 27th @ 6pm
RED BANK: NEW RULES, NEW GARDEN HELP NATIVE PLANT EFFORTS BLOOM
A new native plant garden and an ordinance requiring native plants in major developments could boost butterfly fortunes in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 24th @ 2pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S ADUs, SMALL HOTELS. DATA CENTERS, VAPE SHOPS BANNED
In: backyard cottages and boutique hotels. Out: data centers, vape shops and strict parking rules for small businesses. Red Bank Council revamps planning laws. (Click to read)
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June 13th @ 1pm
RED BANK: CONDO PROJECT STALLS, THEN STARTS – AGAIN
Rivermark 96-98 West Front Street
The on-again off-again construction of a ten-unit luxury condo building on Red Bank's waterfront is..on again. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 2pm
RED BANK CHURN: PINBALL LOUNGE, PRE-MADE MEALS SPOT OPEN
Red Bank Retail Churn: A pinball speakeasy and a $10 premade meals spot open. All the details and more news of comings and goings in Churn.
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April 15th @ 7am
RED BANK: RALLO PLANS EATERY FOR FORMER GAS STATION
Birravino owner to unveil plans for new eatery in Red Bank. (Click to read)
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April 7th @ 2pm
DOCUMENTING OLD RED BANK, BEFORE THE BULLDOZERS ARRIVE
History buff and filmmaker sets out to document a block of old Red Bank before the bulldozers and condos arrive. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 7am
RED BANK CHURN: MEXIMODO OWNER PLANS EATERY; CORNERSTONE GOURMET OPENS
A new gourmet market/caterer opens in the former Citarella's space and Meximodo's owner plans a restaurant on Front Street. (Click to read.)
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March 16th @ 7am
COLLECTOR SNAGS “MACHO” TRANS AM UNEARTHED IN RED BANK JUNKYARD
Rare Pontiac Trans Am pulled from unlicensed junkyard in Red Bank is purchased by collector. (Click to read)
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March 6th @ 12pm
RED BANK: PAIR OF TWO FAMILY HOMES OK’D
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A pair of two-family homes will rise next to Coffee Corral under a plan approved by the Red Bank Planning Board. (Click to read)
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February 19th @ 3pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH SEEKS INPUT ON JOHNNY JAZZ PARK REMAKE
Borough of Red Bank plans a makeover for Johnny Jazz Park. (Click to read)
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February 12th @ 10am
RED BANK: DRAPERY SHOP CLOSES, WHILE CURTAIN RISES ON NEW SIP ‘N PAINT, COFFEE SHOPS
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, we look at officials' claim of 22 new businesses opening in 2025. Also, one of Red Bank's longest running businesses calls it quits, while new ventures spring up. (Click to read)
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January 21st @ 6pm
RED BANK COUNCIL: NEW FIRE CHIEF, NEW COUNCILMAN MEMBER, SAME OLD HARMONY
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Red Bank council swears in new member and new fire chiefs at annual reorganization meeting. (click to read)
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January 2nd @ 12pm
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
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.