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AS LUXURY BUILDINGS RISE, RED BANK’S “MISSING MIDDLE” DISAPPEARS
As Red Bank builds more affordable housing and luxury units/million-dollar condos rise by the hundreds, where will people in the middle live? (click to read)
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RED BANK: COOKIES, BUBBLE TEA, CANDLES AND COFFEE SHOPS OPEN
RED BANK: A coffee and sandwich shop, a coffee and candle shop, and a bubble tea shop open up. Oh and Danny's Steak House booze license gets sold, all that and more in Retail Churn. (click to read)
RED BANK: CONDO BUILD PAUSES, BUT JUST FOR QUALITY, BUILDER SAYS
West Front Street condo project pauses construction, but developer promises Shore's "most luxurious" building will soon be done. (click to read)
POLL: WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF BROADWALK?
Take our redbankgreen reader poll on Broadwalk, Red Bank's annual downtown pedestrian plaza. (click for more)
RED BANK: “BROADWALK,” BROAD STREET TRAFFIC CLOSURE BEGINS
Red Bank's annual closure of the northermost section of Broad Street to vehicles begins Monday. (click to read)
RED BANK: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB ON “MOST ENDANGERED” LIST
Red Bank's 145- year-old Monmouth Boat Club has been put on Preservations NJ's annual "Ten Most Endangered" historic places. (click to read)
RED BANK: CANNABIS GROWERS SAY PARTNER TOSSED $500K CROP IN DUMPSTER
Partners in a Red Bank indoor pot farm say the owner tossed hundreds of pounds of weed in a dumpster as part a plot to freeze them out of the business. (click to read)
RED BANK: SCHOOL TAX HIKE TRIMMED TO 10 PERCENT
A planned 13 percent hike in Red Bank school taxes is whittled down to ten percent by a last minute curveball from Trenton. (click to read)
RED BANK’S DOWNTOWN FLOWER MAVEN DIES
Danielle Boyle, the gardener who beautified downtown Red Bank and likened her work to conducting an orchestra has died at age 54. (click to read)
RED BANK PLANNERS TAP BRAKES ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
Red Bank Planning Board delays vote on massive redevelopment plan to consider lower building heights and other changes. (click to read)
RED BANK SCHOOLS SEEK TAX HIKE TO COVER STATE AID CUTS
Squeezed by state aid cuts and skyrocketing costs, Red Bank Borough schools ask state to allow a 13 percent tax levy hike. (click to read)
RED BANK CHURN: FUNERAL HOME FOR SALE, NEW MENSWEAR SHOP VANISHES AND MORE
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a Rolex dealer and a toy shop move to bigger digs, while a "comfy chic" boutique opens and a menswear shop disappears after a fiery five-month run. (click to read)
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL SCRAPS GYM PLAN, SELLING BUILDING
The Red Bank Charter School is selling a building it had hoped to convert into a gym. (click to read)
MAFIA BIG ARRESTED AT RED BANK CONDO AMID STATEWIDE DRAGNET
Alleged top Mafia boss arrested in predawn raid of his downtown Red Bank condominium in statewide takedown that nabs 39 Lucchese members and associates. (click to read)
RED BANK PLANNING BOARD GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
Residents sound off on a plan that would allow up to 400 apartments, green space and 725 parking spaces near the Red Bank train station. (click to read)
THROWBACK: “DEAD BANK” TACKLES VACANT DOWNTOWN STOREFRONTS
A look back at April, 1990 when the Borough of Red Bank took action to address vacant storefronts that gave rise to the nickname "Dead Bank."
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
RED BANK: GALLERIA OWNER SEEKS OK FOR 40 APARTMENTS ON RIVERFRONT
Red Bank's building boom roars on as a developer proposes 40 units on the banks of the Navesink River. (click to read)
RED BANK: MONMOUTH STREET SIDEWALK PROJECT BEGINS
Three months of construction to replace and improve sidewalks begins on Monmouth Street in Red Bank this week. 
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE ZIPS FORWARD
Sunset corn hole by the Navesink, anyone? More details - from a hammock hangout to a food truck area - emerge in the plan to remake Red Bank's Marine Park. (click to read).
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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 ...