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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

RED BANK: SIGN OF PROGRESS AT ‘THE VAULT’?
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RED BANK: There's a small new sign on the facade at 55 Broad Street, aka 'The Vault.' But is it a sign of things to come? What's Going On Here checks in.
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October 6th, 2020 @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COVID-19 CLAIMS TWO BUSINESSES
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RED BANK: In this 400th edition of Retail Churn, two more businesses fall to the pandemic: the restaurant Via45 and Paint A Tee, a children's event space.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN SOLD
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RED BANK: The Downtown restaurant and bar has new owners. Filings indicate no immediate plans for changes to the West Front Street building.
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September 28th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Four tenants at Grandville Towers win a point as rent board decides they were deprived of value with pool closure this summer. Up next: so what's that worth in dollars?
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September 25th, 2020 @ 12am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: What's on the council agenda, and, once again, what's not: dueling resolutions calling investigations into leaked emails.
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September 21st, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: PD, DPW, PLANS IN REVISION
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FAIR HAVEN: It's back to the drawing board for two major projects following the council's decision to abandon controversial purchase of River Road property.
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September 18th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission to discuss East Front Street Victorian structure slated for demolition by Hackensack Meridian.
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September 16th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: CHANGES EYED AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields playground would be relocated to Mohawk Pond and street closed to traffic under Open Spaces application OK'd by council.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: POOL CLOSURE PROMPTS RENT CASE
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RED BANK: With the pool and gym closed by COVID-19, some Grandville Towers tenants want a rent reduction under borough ordinance.
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August 28th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: One month after plan to buy River Road site was killed, council sets special meeting to lay out new options for police station and DPW.
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August 20th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANDERSON ‘EVOLUTION’ ROLLS ON
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RED BANK: Decades in the works, the revival of the long-vacant Anderson Storage building is all but complete with the opening of Sickles Market and Booskerdoo.
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August 12th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD RESUMES WORK
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RED BANK: Sidelined for five months by the pandemic, the zoning board gets back to hearing variance requests Thursday night.
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August 6th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEW LOT, HOURS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council workshop agenda this week: new paid-parking hours; a new lot for Marine Park; and new downtown meters going live Thursday.
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August 3rd, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: PURCHASE PLAN SCRAPPED
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough scraps proposed $3.4M purchase of River Road site, explores building new police station at current location.
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July 15th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LATIN-FLAVORED CAFÉ OPENS
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RED BANK: Hit hard by the pandemic a father and two sons finally open their new restaurant, one that includes a "Latin touch" on its menu.
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July 8th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Nearly New Shop, started by an former Pan Am stewardess in 1993, joins parade of closings downtown.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: Four years after announcing plans for a store in the Anderson Building, Sickles says it will open, with a Booskerdoo inside, in August.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: NO DUNKIN’ ON OVER EASY
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FAIR HAVEN: Proposed Over Easy restaurant has a far easier time of it than its prospective neighbor, a Dunkin' shop that triggered heated arguments.
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June 17th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: RETAIL DAMAGE, BUT HOPE, TOO
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RED BANK: As the dust settles, business closings are on the rise downtown, but there are also a few glimmers of optimism.
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June 8th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
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FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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 ...