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An architectural rendering of the proposed garage and office building, as seen from the northwest corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and West Front Street. A proposal to effectively double the size of the Galleria Red Bank shopping, dining and office complex...
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April 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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It's one chair, no waiting, in the Navesink River off Riverside Gardens Park as the mercury heads into the mid-60s or higher today. Warm weather arrives and puts up its feet for a weekend stay beginning today, according to the...
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April 17th, 2009 @ 6am
Claudette Herring and Lauren Phillips-Daly in the doorway of their soon-to-be restaurant, Via 45. The closing of Thyme Square restaurant in Red Bank a few months back was so abrupt that, until about a week ago, one could still peer...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 10am
These four tables on the Maple Avenue side of the Buona Sera were expressly rejected by the borough council last September, says resident Carl Colmorgen, who took this photo yesterday. When Buona Sera Ristorante asked the Red Bank Council last...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 11am
Jamian LaViola's solution to indoor-outdoor dining on Monmouth Street: garage doors. A long-awaited transformation of a Monmouth Street watering hole moved into its final stages yesterday when Jamian's Food & Drink (formerly Echo), blew out its old facade. In it's...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 10am
Some say the root problem is parking, while others say it's an imbalance in the store mix in favor of high-end goods and services. But whatever they identify as the cause of Red Bank's economic woes, downtown merchants agree that...
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March 26th, 2009 @ 9am
With a parking deck topped by two floors of offices, Galleria Park would connect to the existing building via a two-level footbridge. Below, a view of the proposed structure from West Front Street. (Click to enlarge) The nation's economy may...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 1pm
A heated tent awaits the throng of full-time and part-time Irishmen for today's St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Dublin House. Below, a view of the recently completed first-floor bar. (Click to enlarge) Patrons of today's St. Patrick's Day celebration...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 6am
It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 8am
It's one of the more popular concepts to emerge from the promotion-concocting labs of Red Bank RiverCenter: the spring Dine Downtown promotion, going on every Tuesday and Wednesday evening in March at a select group of eateries around town. A...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 8am
Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Borough officials have an ordinance on tonight's agenda to limit so-called 'college nights' like the one that resulted in last week's violence. Three separate incidents of violence involving patrons of Chubby's Waterside Café had Red Bank police scrambling early last...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Emergency workers take crash victim Michael Maxted to a waiting ambulance. A 22-year-old Red Bank man was injured late Friday afternoon when an SUV crashed through the facade of the Cluck U Chicken fast food business on Water Street. Michael...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 5pm
Mayor Menna wants the borough to hand off signmaking, health inspections and other tasks to Monmouth County. Should Red Bank job out to Monmouth County services now provided by borough employees or contractors? Coming off a recent deal with the...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 7am
Mayor Pasquale Menna speaks as RiverCenter executive director Nancy Adams looks on. Through all the reports that things are worse elsewhere and exhortations that merchants find "opportunity" in the current recession, the topic that the 300 or so people who...
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January 28th, 2009 @ 8am
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek reports on how an Asbury Park restaurateur wound up going toe-to-toe with professional skinflint Suze Orman on a webcast edition of the Oprah Show recently. Jeff Haveson of Restaurant Plan...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Concerns about an effort to drum up funds for a Fair Haven government employees' holiday party prompted Borough Administrator Mary Howell to issue a letter telling business owners there are no repercussions for declining to contribute. Because of "miscommunicated" information,...
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December 11th, 2008 @ 7am
Oh, and the parking is free all day, even if the meters aren't bagged. Economic conditions, to be sure, are not favorable, and they're markedly worse than when store owners and restaurateurs dreamed up 'Red Bank Residents' Appreciation Day' earlier...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 2pm
Officials in Fair Haven are weighing whether to route all emergency calls from the borough to the Monmouth County Sheriff's office as a cost-saving measure, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Under the proposal, all police, fire and first aid...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 10am
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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 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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!