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RUG MAN: HE’S LEAVING, BUT ALSO STAYING
Get the message? But while the rug store is closing, its owner is putting down roots: he bought the building. By WID CONROY When a request by Nazmiyal Rug DecorContinue reading "RUG MAN: HE’S LEAVING, BUT ALSO STAYING"
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A ‘WHITE ELEPHANT’ NO MORE
Red Bank Corporate Plaza, showing off its backside along Wall Street. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Four months ago, when redbankgreen first reported on the impending pizza renaissance inContinue reading "A ‘WHITE ELEPHANT’ NO MORE"
THIS WON’T LAST, BUT IT ISN’T MEANT TO
Gallery mavens at last night’s opening, in the see-through space last occupied by Design Front. (Click photos to enlarge) Emily Asher Neiman, who closed her short-lived gallery on Monmouth StreetContinue reading "THIS WON’T LAST, BUT IT ISN’T MEANT TO"
Hovnanian’s Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Hovnanian Enterprises reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $250.8 million yesterday. That’s down from a net loss ofContinue reading "HOV REVENUE FELL BY HALF IN 2009"
RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of November 27 to December 4, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Broad St.Continue reading "RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER"
HEAD START PLANS MOVE TO FORMER SCHOOL
The upper floor of the former P.S. 5 has been the home of S.O.M.E. Architects for the past two years, but the ground floor has largely remained vacant. (Photo byContinue reading "HEAD START PLANS MOVE TO FORMER SCHOOL"
UNSTACKING BRICKS
Demolition of Red Bank’s defunct incinerator smokestack on West Sunset Avenue finally got underway Monday morning. A crew using a $3 million claw started tearing away at the 100-foot-tall, 70-year-oldContinue reading "UNSTACKING BRICKS"
GRANDVILLE CONVERSION GETS GREEN LIGHT
The owner wants to create five new units in the 91-unit building. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Compromise sealed the deal to move forward with plans to renovate Grandville Towers from apartmentsContinue reading "GRANDVILLE CONVERSION GETS GREEN LIGHT"
PLANNERS OK STORE CONVERSION TO EATERY
A rendering of the proposed restaurant’s facade. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) by DUSTIN RACIOPPI Planning Board Chairman John Cash said little at Monday night’s planning meeting, but spoke the wordsContinue reading "PLANNERS OK STORE CONVERSION TO EATERY"
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: SENKELESKI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/senkeleski.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the fourth and final installment in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red BankContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDID ...
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/murphy.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the third in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY"
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMBARDI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lombardi.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the second in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMB ...
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dupont.mp3] Today, redbankgreen kicks off a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up for grabs in theContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: DuPONT"
Y EXPANSION STALLED BY FACADE DESIGN
The YMCA took down some trees along its Maple Avenue frontage last month. There’s still no decision over an expansion plan by the Community YMCA that includes a facade thatContinue reading "Y EXPANSION STALLED BY FACADE DESIGN"
The building was shut down by the borough government as uninhabitable in 2007. The more recent photo was taken last month. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It was, for a long time,Continue reading "SLANTY SHANTY STRAIGHTENS UP"
SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’
Kathleen Gasienica, left, and Cindy Burham, third from left, speaking with Administrator Stanley Sickels after last night’s council meeting. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Less than a week after Mayor Pasquale MennaContinue reading "SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’"
MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY
Kayakers putting into the Navesink River at the Maple Cove Sunday evening. (Click to enlarge) An ongoing battle over a couple of benches and sign proposed for installation on publicContinue reading "MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY"
ATRIUM GETS A LOT
Atrium resident Doris Crisson, 88, speaks in favor of the valet-parking plan at last night’s hearing. (Click to enlarge) For the second time in four years, one of Red Bank’sContinue reading "ATRIUM GETS A LOT"
PARK AT INCINERATOR SITE YEARS AWAY
Mayor Pasquale Menna with engineer Christine Ballard of T&M Associates at the incinerator site last Friday. (Click to enlarge) The work of finally pulverizing Red Bank’s 70-plus-year-old incinerator smokestack toContinue reading "PARK AT INCINERATOR SITE YEARS AWAY"
COUNCIL UNANIMOUS ON DENSITY CHANGES
State Senator Jennifer Beck returned to borough hall in a failed bid to halt higher building densities. Wrapping up more than 18 months of Master Plan review, the Red BankContinue reading "COUNCIL UNANIMOUS ON DENSITY CHANGES"
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STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
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 ...