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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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: BORO RELEASES PLAN FOR 40-UNIT “NAVESINK CROSSING”
A rendering of the proposed project for 26-28 Shrewbury Avenue included in the the rehabilitation plan by borough planner BFJ Planning.
Five stories with a waterfront walkway: Borough planner issues a report with development guidelines for a proposed 40 unit building on the Navesink River. (Click to read.)
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March 10th @ 2pm
VIDEO: RED BANK’S CREEPY ABANDONED EXXON, WITH A GORGEOUS VIEW
Video: The old abandoned Exxon station at Red Bank's northern gateway is both creepy and beautiful. It's high profile and a near total secret. Take a tour to see what's at stake as the borough council tags the area for a rehabilitation.
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September 29th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK THROWBACK: BORO BUYS THEATER TO CREATE MARINE PARK
100 years ago this week, the Borough of Red Bank made one of the best moves in its history: buying land to create Marine Park. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 9am
MEET RED BANK’S TRAILBLAZING “NO MOW” GARDENERS
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A dozen Red Bank gardeners are lauded for their ambition - and lack of it - by a program aimed at creating swaths of native habitat, one yard at a time. (click to read)
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September 1st, 2025 @ 10pm
AFTER CLEANUP GAINS, NAVESINK RIVER POLLUTION PERSISTS
marine park rally for the two rivers Madeline DePrimo and George Kwiecinski
Efforts to reduce human and animal waste pollution in the Navesink River pollution were making headway. The pandemic was a major setback. (click to read).
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May 6th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK GOES BIG WITH MARINE PARK PLAYGROUND PLANS
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Red Bank plans new playground for Marine Park, with a wheelchair-accessible pirate ship, 40-foot zipline and more. (click to read)
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January 24th, 2025 @ 9am
WILL IT FREEZE? AS ICE COVERS NAVESINK RIVER, RED BANK ICE BOATERS WAIT AND HOPE
As a thin layer of ice forms, ice boaters hope for a long-awaited return to the Navesink River. (click to read)
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January 9th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S HOSPITAL TAX SPAT DEAL, EYES MARINE PARK & DPW REMAKES
Council OK's $1.2 million settlement of hospital tax dispute, hires architect to redesign decrepit public works facility and more. Read the roundup here. (click to read)
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November 15th, 2024 @ 11am
PUMPKIN SMASHING DEER CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Deer pumpkin Bank Street Mark Gregory
With a neighborhood pumpkin smasher on the loose, a doorbell camera reveals a cloven-hoofed culprit. (click to read)
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October 31st, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANKERS CRANE NECKS FOR GLIMPSE OF NORTHERN LIGHTS
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Red Bank woman has travelled across five countries to see the northern lights. Thursday she was one of a group of skywatchers looking for the spectacle over the Navesink River. Did she finally see it? (click to read)
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October 11th, 2024 @ 8am
DOGGO FEST, VINYL HOUNDS AND THE WAG: RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS
RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS: Dog Days event, street fair, record fest and more. (click to read)
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September 6th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: UNSINKABLE SIDEWALK SALE TOPS WEEKEND PICKS
Red Bank's 70th annual, indomitable, rain or shine sidewalk sale tops the list of things to do on a spectacular weather weekend.
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August 9th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS
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Summer heat slows us down, the calendar thins, but the music in Red Bank never stops. Redbankgreen's picks of things to do this weekend.
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July 19th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: BOATERS RETURN AS SEWAGE WORRIES EBB
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Boating and other activities return to the Navesink River after a sewer main break prompted warnings about water quality. (click to read)
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July 16th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVERWALK PLANS FADE INTO HISTORY – AND PATIOS
RED BANK: A strip of riverfront land set aside for public access has been overtaken by private patios and "No Trespassing" signs. (click for more)
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June 19th, 2024 @ 7am
FAWNING OVER HER BABY
A mother deer and her fawn were spotted between a row of garages on Hudson Avenue and some trees alongside the Broad Street parking lots. Redbankgreen has video of the cuteness.
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June 12th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: DUCKLING RESCUED FROM SEWER
RED BANK: The best 90 seconds of video you'll see today: firefighters rescue duckling from 100-foot-long storm sewer pipe.
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May 30th, 2024 @ 2pm
TUB TIME
RED BANK: A sparrow waits for the next available dirt tub while two others take their Sunday baths. (Click for video.)
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May 21st, 2024 @ 11am
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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.