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Category Archives: Real Estate

[UPDATE, 12:57 am, Oct. 6, 2006: After the following story was posted, Kara Homes filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, claiming assets of $350.2 million and liabilities of $296.8 million.] Kara Homes, builder of big-ticket houses on the former site...
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October 5th, 2006 @ 4pm
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Here's a tool that the folks who packed Red Bank Borough Hall over taxes last week will want to spend some time with. Actually, anyone who pays property taxes ought to take a look at it. Data maven Robert Gebeloff...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 11am
The Southies got the crowd they wanted—and the startled attention of Red Bank's governing body—as an overflow throng descended on the Borough Council Monday night to demand a halt to rising property taxes. Responding to a recent leafletting campaign launched...
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September 26th, 2006 @ 2am
The state of New Jersey has apparently had it with Sea Bright beach club owners—and the borough, too—over the question of just who owns the beach. Using a pair of court rulings as leverage, acting Attorney General Anne Milgram today...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 6pm
There's never a blade of grass out of place, it seems, at the Mac Testing & Consulting facility on the corner of Maple Avenue and Reckless Place. The green-shuttered white building, the verdant lawn and the flowerbeds surrounding the educational...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
At this point, it's a far cry from Proposition 13, the landmark 1970s effort that resulted in constitutional limits on property-tax increases in California. And it's barely a whisper compared to the noise made by the toilet-paper flaunting brigades who...
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September 21st, 2006 @ 9pm
A man's home is his castle, but if he's got a jones for medieval architecture and a lot of ironstone lying around, who's to say he can't fill his yard with castles, too? Last week's 'Where' featured a pair of...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 11pm
Here's a feud that must make for some chilly encounters on the SeaStreak Ferry gangplank. The Asbury Park Press has a story today on an escalating four-year battle between a couple of Wall Street bigs with adjoining estates on West...
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September 18th, 2006 @ 5pm
Million-dollar homes are a growing factor in the glut of properties for sale in Monmouth County, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The Press reports that the number of Monmouth County homes for sale priced at or above the $1...
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September 15th, 2006 @ 11am
One buyer sent a deposit check from Ohio before he'd even laid eyes on Corinthian Cove, the six-unit deluxe condo spread on West Front Street, between the Bluffs and the Red Bank Public Library. Now, construction is wrapping up and...
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September 6th, 2006 @ 9am
David Prown, who is as deserving of the title of Mr. Red Bank as anyone in this town (see Tom Chesek's profile of him in the current issue of Red Bank Red Hot, if you need more info), is the...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 11pm
For anyone who's ever craved a few minutes more peace and quiet before the anal leaf-blower next door starts his weekly lawn scour, Middletown is offering a modicum of relief. Under an ordinance approved by the town council last night,...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 12pm
Sophie Bubis' epic 11-year battle to preserve what she believes is her right to sit on privately owned beach property—and to maintain an unimpeded ocean view from her home—has taken a toll on her finances, the Star-Ledger reports today. Friends...
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August 21st, 2006 @ 10am
The Red Bank Historic Inventory would grow to 80 properties with the inclusion of ten new—or actually, old—properties under a proposal to the council by the borough's Historic Preservations Commission. Layli White of The Hub has a story today. From...
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August 17th, 2006 @ 6am
Sue Malmi of River Plaza (Middletown) was the first reader to pin down the location of the Doelger's Antiques sign. It's on the south side of the East Side Cafe on Broad Street, next to the Verizon building. So close,...
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August 17th, 2006 @ 12am
The Fair Haven Borough Council has once again changed the designated site for the town's first cellphone tower, should it ever be built. The Asbury Park Press reports that the council voted 3-1 to locate the tower three doors west...
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August 16th, 2006 @ 8am
Here's the latest on the Sara Swanson flip story we told you about in June: the Madison Avenue house Swanson's been rehabbing for over a year is finally on the market. The four-bedroom, twoTHREE-bath house is listed at $699,000. Will...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9am
The three owners of the Red Bank house shown here have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the government through a kickback scheme at Fort Monmouth. A story in today's Asbury Park Press...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 2pm
Last week's image shows a coat-of-arms painted on the side of a building at 90 West River Road in Rumson. The property is owned by the Tedesco family, and the building, a turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th, that is) structure, is...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
The stall-out of the real estate market in recent months isn't only a matter of potential buyers staying out of the market. It's also a function of contract cancellations, which appear to be a significant factor in the woes of...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 9am
Partyline
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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.