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Prospective buyers packed a ballroom at the Molly Pitcher Inn, but few bid. An auction of units at the nearly completed Metropolitan condo project on Red Bank's Wallace Street was halted early Saturday afternoon after just two were sold. Officials...
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January 24th, 2009 @ 3pm
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Planner Paul Szymanski testifies on behalf of the developer about the proposed project at Thursday night's zoning board meeting. A 36-unit affordable housing project envisioned alongside a rail yard on Red Bank's West Side sailed to unanimous approval by the...
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January 9th, 2009 @ 6am
Emily Asher Neiman works the room at an opening in September. By TOM CHESEK Veteran observers of Red Bank's commercial streetscape know that the phenomenon known as "the Retail Churn" goes into overdrive each January, regardless of the general economic...
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January 7th, 2009 @ 6am
216 Pine Place in Middletown. A redbankgreen reader with a nose for financial hanky-panky calls our attention to a house for sale in the River Plaza section of Middletown. Turns out this is the home built by two defendants in...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 5am
The Route 520 bridge as seen from the Chapel Beach Club on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. By SUE MORGAN It's not too much holiday sugar that has Sea Bright and Rumson officials and residents hopped up about a proposed...
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December 30th, 2008 @ 5am
The house at 38 West River Road, visible from the Victory Park gazebo, has been acquired by Rumson for a park expansion. Monmouth County has awarded Rumson $250,000 toward its $875,000 purchase of land adjoining Victory Park for a westward...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
First place: The Ferreri residence at 53 South Street. Mayor Pasquale Menna announced the winners of Red Bank's first (in recent memory, at least) holiday home decoration contest Monday night. Only nine homeowners nominated themselves or were nominated by others,...
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December 24th, 2008 @ 7am
The site of the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, owned by Riverview Medical Center, is not covered by the deal. After a year trying to knit together a consensus, Councilman Mike DuPont finally got a watered-down version...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
The building, nearing completion, stands on the former site of Dorn's Photography and several old houses. The developer of The Metropolitan, a 37-unit condo project on Wallace Street in Red Bank, will auction off 31 of them at deeply slashed...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 9am
HOV HQ on West Front Street, Red Bank. A near stoppage in mortgage lending drove Hovnanian Enterprises to its ninth consecutive quarterly loss in the period ending October 31, the Red Bank-based homebuilder reported yesterday. According to Bloomberg, the loss...
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December 17th, 2008 @ 7am
The exterior is just about finished at Union Street Village. But as indicated by the' sample' list of residents in the intercom, the eight condo units as well as a commercial space remain vacant. News that three players in Red...
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December 15th, 2008 @ 10am
A view of the Navesink from Bank Street. Thanks largely to a YouTube video recorded by a Bank Street resident, a condo plan approved recently by the Red Bank zoning board will have to provide clearly marked public access to...
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December 12th, 2008 @ 6am
George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 11am
Following through on plans reported on by redbankgreen in October, Riverview Medical Center has demolished the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, opposite the hospital. Officials at the medical center, which paid $2.3 for the site in July,...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Employees of Siciliano Landscape prepare the Maple Avenue lot for grass seed Wednesday. Just nine months ago, a quarter-acre parcel of Red Bank-owned land on the Navesink River appeared headed toward the auction block to provide cash for tax relief....
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December 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Residents shot the idea full of holes. This week, the council killed it. Two weeks after an outpouring of criticism of a possible purchase of a building to house borough government operations, the Sea Bright council has dropped the idea,...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Bank Street's Brian Donohue videotaped a recent encounter with a Chapin Avenue condo owner over public access to the Navesink River and posted it on YouTube. On the agenda for tonight's Red Bank zoning board meeting are the terms and...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Owner PRC Group is seeking permission to convert the 91 rental units at Grandville Towers to condos. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press that senior-citizen tenants of Grandville Towers won't be forced to move if the...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 10am
By SUE MORGAN Rose Greco doesn't own a boat, but felt it necessary to stand up Monday night for boat owners who might not completely understand the wording of proposed revisions to the Fair Haven's boat storage ordinance. "It's ambivalent,"...
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November 25th, 2008 @ 6am
Volunteers cleared the lot of debris in June. (Click to enlarge) The last remaining point of direct public access to the Navesink River in Red Bank has been preserved, capping an effort launched earlier this year by a Fair Haven...
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November 24th, 2008 @ 6am
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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