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RED BANK: NOR’ EASTER SOAKS, BUT SPARES BOROUGH
Coastal storm pushes Navesink River over its (Red) banks. (click to read)
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RED BANK: TOWNHOMES PLAN GETS SPLASH OF COLD WATER
A "concept plan" for townhomes on the Wells Fargo tract gets some cold water from Red Bank's mayor. (click to read)
RED BANK: COUNCIL PREPS REHAB STUDY FOR WATERFRONT SITE
Red Bank set to launch redevelopment study of waterfront parking lot eyed for a 40-unit apartment building. (click to read)
RED BANK: BUILDER EYES FORMER BANK SITE ON BROAD STREET FOR TOWNHOMES
The former Wells Fargo building on Broad Street once eyed as possible borough hall is being sold, with a developer planning townhomes on the site. (click to read)
RED BANK: BROADWALK WRAPS UP STORMY SEASON, CHANGES COULD BE ON TAP
Petitioners demanded an end to Red Bank's Broadwalk pedestrian plaza this year. Could changes be in store? (click to read)
COUNT BASIE, BON JOVI HONORED AT BASIE CENTER WALK OF FAME
William "Count" Basie and Jon Bon Jovi honored as first inductees of the 100-year-old Red Bank theater's new "Walk of Fame." (click to read)
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)
RED BANK: EMINENT DOMAIN FOE BUYS MI LUPITA’S TRACT, FORGES AHEAD WITH CONDOS
A developer who got approval for a 20-unit condo building near the Red Bank train station instead sold the land for $4.3 million. The new owner says she plans to go ahead with the project, even as she fights to save her own property in Perth Amboy from eminent domain. (click to read)
RED BANK: MEMORIES TAKE FLIGHT WITH AIRPORT MURAL
Red Bank's newest mural is based on a photo from the Dorn family collection of historic photos. It left the son of the man who took the photo almost speechless. (click to read)
RED BANK: INSOMNIA COOKIES, “STREET” EATS AND MORE FILL BIZ VACANCIES
RED BANK: Mexican eatery Toro Rojo closes, while Insomnia cookies and a flurry of other new arrivals are filling fill a string of vacant storefronts along Broad Street. The latest in Retail Churn. (click to read)
RED BANK POLICE: SMOKE SHOP OWNER WAS SELLING WEED
Owner, employee of Red Bank smoke shop charged with illegal marijuana sales. (click to read)
COPS RAID RED BANK SMOKE SHOP
State special agents, Red Bank police raid Monmouth Street smoke shop. (click to read)
RED BANK’S ANDERSON MARKET OPENS: TAKE A TOUR
From Nashville-Pakistani hot chicken to seafood caught by clammers right up the road, a video and photo tour of the offerings at the new Anderson Market. (click to read)
RED BANK: BUILDER PLANS TOWNHOMES FOR ATLANTIC CLUB TRACT
Developer says he's under contract to buy Red Bank's Atlantic Club and 13 other properties with a plan to build new townhomes on the site.(click to read)
MEET RED BANK’S TRAILBLAZING “NO MOW” GARDENERS
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)
RED BANK: BORO HOPES TO SPUR WALKWAY, CLEANUP ON RIVERFRONT SITES
Red Bank Borough Council advances plan aimed at spurring development - and a public river walk - on two prominent waterfront properties. (click to read)
RED BANK: BORO EYES REHAB TAG FOR TWO RIVERFRONT TRACTS
Should two prominent riverfront properties in Red Bank be declared areas "in need of rehabilitation?' The council will vote Thursday. (click to read)
RED BANK: PETITION CALLS FOR BOROUGH TO END “BROADWALK”
Reps of three dozen Red Bank businesses sign a petition calling for an immediate end to "Broadwalk" the downtown pedestrian plaza. (click to read)
RED BANK: EATERY OWNERS ROAST BROADWALK
A group of Red Bank restaurant owners tell the Borough Council that turning Broad Street into a seasonal pedestrian plaza is killing their business. (click to read)
RED BANK: RESIDENT SAYS TRUCKS VANDALIZED WITH “NO PARKING” SIGNS
A Red Bank man who has waged a decades-long legal war with the borough over junk-filled vehicles he parks outside his house claims two of them were recently vandalized. (click to read)
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 ...