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Category Archives: Real Estate

The ingredients are compelling, to say the least. There's a handsome West Side school building built in 1912 with great bones, but nestled in a neighborhood that sorely needs fresh economic and aesthetic blood. There's a high-profile architectural firm, one...
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January 22nd, 2007 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Hovnanian Enterprises, the publicly-traded homebuilder that last year moved its corporate headquarters to the heart of Red Bank from Middletown, is scaling back its ambitions in the borough, according to a published report. GlobeSt.com, a real estate industry publication, says...
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January 20th, 2007 @ 11am
Last time we wrote about Shrewsbury Manor, the 59-unit apartment complex just east of the Molly Pitcher Inn was being prepped for shut-down. The family-owned real estate development firm that built and still owns the complex was planning to replace...
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January 19th, 2007 @ 8am
The Red Bank trio who last year admitted defrauding Fort Monmouth out of close to $1 million through a no-show-jobs scam have been sentenced to federal prison, the Asbury Park Press reports. The tally: 46 months for Michael Rzeplinski, a...
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January 18th, 2007 @ 6pm
We'd heard it called "Mrs. Watt's house" before. But "building dickey?" That one was new. Last week's 'Where' generated not only a record number of responses—all of them substantially correct—but some amusing takes on a structure meant to suggest something...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 11pm
The would-be developer of the former Doremus estate in Fair Haven wants to give the adjoining Schwenker's Pond to the borough. He may soon be advised to go jump in a lake. "The pond is a mess, frankly," says Mayor...
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January 16th, 2007 @ 9am
A gateway property on Red Bank's West Side, the administration headquarters of the Community YMCA on Drs. James Parker Boulevard, has been sold, redbankgreen has learned. The buyer, PS5 LLC, paid $1.3 million for the longtime public school building, according...
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January 12th, 2007 @ 2pm
It seems we were overdue for a 'Where' out of Rumson, because the responses came pouring in on last week's posting, which, yes, showed a carriage house on Buena Vista Avenue in that borough. Todd Weidman of Little Silver beat...
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January 11th, 2007 @ 1am
Rich Volpe (in blue hat) of IBEW Local 440, which is picketing the Metropolitan building site on Wallace Street, talks Tuesday morning with construction manager Scott Thomas about where the picketers are permitted to walk. The question arose because the...
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January 9th, 2007 @ 2pm
Red Bankers have heard a lot about code enforcement in recent months. There appears to be a consensus that a lack of vigor in holding absentee landlords accountable for housing violations is at the root of rental-house overcrowding, particularly but...
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January 8th, 2007 @ 11pm
Sunday's Star-Ledger has a terrific profile of Fair Haven's Bob Lucky, head of the Fort Monmouth re-use panel and an engineer whose seminal work led to the creation of the Internet. The article, by Wayne Wolley, begins: Bob Lucky earned...
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January 7th, 2007 @ 11am
Les Gertrude, the grande dame Broad Street apartment building that's long been troubled by balky elevators, is getting a new pair of lifts. At a meeting Tuesday night involving tenants, the landlord and a clutch of local officials, plans to...
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January 5th, 2007 @ 12am
We call this entry, and the two just below, 'Loose Ends,' because we're taking a moment as the calendar changes to 2007 to update redbankgreen readers on a couple of stories from our first few months in business. This one...
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December 28th, 2006 @ 12am
First, in late June, we featured the ladder in a tree in our 'Where Have I Seen This?' feature. Then came the complaints from neighbors. Not funny, they said, in essence. In fact, downright dangerous. Not to mention ugly. So...
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December 28th, 2006 @ 12am
Remember that attempt to flip a house on Madison Avenue we told you about in June? Well, the house remains unsold 18 months after an investor bought it, at the top of the market, for $475,000 $450,000. Sara Swanson, the...
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December 28th, 2006 @ 12am
Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has a story today about how new rules aimed at weeding out conflicts-of-interest at zoning and planning board meetings are being applied. Does the fact that a board member works at a marina...
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December 26th, 2006 @ 8am
Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises was blindsided by the swift drop in values on its inventoried land, the company acknowledged yesterday in reporting a $115 million fourth-quarter loss. "We did not anticipate the suddenness or magnitude of the fall in pricing...
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December 19th, 2006 @ 9am
Ten questions for John and Rachel Decker, owners of Graman's Vacuum & Appliance Parts Co. on Monmouth Street, at the corner of West Street. They live in Tinton Falls. How long have you owned this business, and who had it...
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December 14th, 2006 @ 1am
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December 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
The Borough Council's trial-like hearing on a series of seven allegations against the liquor license of Best Liquors has been postponed for a month, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The reason: store owner Sunny Sharma's hiring of a new...
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December 6th, 2006 @ 7am
Partyline
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.