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Category Archives: Real Estate

Four years after the topic came to the fore, borough officials still don't know exactly what they want to do with the old incinerator site at the end of Sunset Avenue. But the site has gotten a clean bill of...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Looks like the long search for a cellular phone tower in Fair Haven is near its end. The Asbury Park Press reports today that the borough has signed a deal to lease a plot of land from the United Methodist...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
A federal watchdog agency will look into the circumstances under which a Rumson developer obtained rights to convert former military housing at Fort Hancock into commercial space on Sandy Hook without showing he has the money to do the job,...
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July 31st, 2007 @ 6am
After a series of discussions over the past couple of years about how to improve access to and the usability of the Swimming River and Navesink River shorelines, the Red Bank Waterfront Plan is finally ready. Have at it, folks....
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July 26th, 2007 @ 8am
One of the crappiest — and, apparently, most star-crossed — corners of Red Bank seems destined to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Last week, the new owner of property at the southeast intersection of Monmouth and West streets,...
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July 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Dr. Diana Salvador, above, says yes; Council President Sharon Lee, at right, agrees, but says citizens will have to get behind the idea first. Kids' activist David Prown's request that the Red Bank council put the brakes on a plan...
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July 24th, 2007 @ 9am
Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...
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July 22nd, 2007 @ 2pm
Zuhdi Karagjozi, the Rumson man who founded Kara Homes, claims in court papers that the bankrupt homebuilder's chief restructuring officer and "his henchmen" are poised to cheat him, according to a story on the Asbury Park Press website. From the...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 12pm
A rumor that billionaire investor Warren Buffett was buying shares of Hovnanian Enterprises lifted the Red Bank-based homebuilder's shares 12 percent last Friday. But so far today, the shares, while up, aren't going nuts. According to BigCharts, the shares were...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 10am
Virginia Bauer, who rallied Congresss to enact tax breaks for families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims after her husband died in the attack, is leaving her post as state Commerce secretary to take a job with the real estate firm...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
The already bizarre border war between two prominent Rumson families took another unusual turn earlier this week when the judge in the case ruled that "members of the public" will benefit if Citigroup Vice Chairman Pete Dawkins and his wife,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 7am
A Tiffany clock sold for $6,000, and a pair of Tiffany lamps went for another six grand. A 1964 Chevy Impala SS went for $16,000. But that Navesink River-front mansion we told you about last week — the one that...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about dual efforts by Red Bank officials to address quality of life concerns: the noise ordinance aimed at bars and restaurants, and the hiring of a new bilingual code inspector to deal with...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
Here's an event that may appeal to bargain vultures as well as to those members of the hoi polloi aching for an up-close glimpse of how the other half lives. In fact, it might appeal especially to someone who's ready...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Rumson resident Zuhdi Karagjozi, founder of Kara Homes, has been bounced from the company as part of a reorganization plan, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The name of the company has also been de-Kara-ed. It will now be called...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 1pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI After years of grousing by Fair Haven residents about a dead zone of cellphone service, and more than a year of contention over how to resolve it, the borough may at last have hit on a...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Although everyone who spoke at a Fair Haven public hearing on a proposed tree-protection ordinance said they supported the idea of one, the one on the table Monday night was divisive. A self-proclaimed "tree guy" who...
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June 13th, 2007 @ 5am
The median price of all new single-family homes built in Monmouth County last year was $810,000, more than 3.5 times the national median of $230,000, according to a new report from the county Planning Board. Typical size: 3,875 square feet,...
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June 8th, 2007 @ 6am
It's a wrap as Debra Johnson arranges final details after closing Victory Market for the final time last Friday. A Red Bank meat business with World War II roots closed its doors Friday after the owners could not agree with...
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June 4th, 2007 @ 2pm
With promotional booths at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival going for thousands of dollars, d. Magazine, published by Red Bank photographer Danny Sanchez found an alternative more suited to his budget. He rented out the empty storefront at...
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June 2nd, 2007 @ 10am
Partyline
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...