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A Broad Street building with one of downtown Red Bank's most distinctive facades has been sold and is about to undergo a makeover, redbankgreen has learned. The property, at number 7 Broad, near the intersection with Front Street, sold last...
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By LINDA G. RASTELLI Yes, there's a mention of a bar in the concept plan for what a made-over Fair Haven business district might look like. But that's as racy as it gets. Borough residents are emphatic that they're "very...
The first 72 hours of 2008 will be busy ones for the critters at Fins and Feathers, a pet store at the corner of Monmouth Street and Maple Avenue. They'll be hopping, flying and skittering a couple of hundred yards...
The owner of the Metropolitan condo complex now under construction on Wallace Street has acquired the Broad Street home of Murphy Style Grill, redbankgreen has learned. Onyx Equities, a real estate investment firm based in Woodbridge, completed the $3 million...
Is it the end of the line for the last beachfront bar in New Jersey? By LINDA G. RASTELLI The owners of Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright have signed a contract to sell the oceanfront nightclub for $5 million, redbankgreen...
Red Bank RiverCenter's new executive director is Nancy Adams, a downtown revitalization consultant from Maplewood, who replaces longtime agency head Tricia Rumola. RiverCenter announced the hire in a press release issued this afternoon. redbankgreen hasn't yet heard back from Adams...
Beachgoers head back to the parking lot at Sea Bright yesterday afternoon. Brilliant sunshine, warmth offset by gentle breezes, cool nighttime temperatures — this weekend's weather could hardly have been more enjoyable. Businesswise, the Labor Day weekend was the capper...
Out front, the open-air courtyard. By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA Early one morning a while back, Dublin House co-owner Sean Dunne walked into the "eerie" empty bar to check on construction work underway on the second floor. But when he went to...
Musician, sports commentator, restaurateur and marathon man Tim McLoone is featured in today's New York Times, which calls him "the voice of New Jersey." Now, before any Sinatra, Springsteen and Jon Bovi fans blow an artery, it's not meant to...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just two weeks after a controversial go-ahead for Sea Bright officials to try to buy Donovan's Reef, negotiations have come to a halt. Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams tells redbankgreen today that the sellers have rejected the borough's...
Tricia Rumola, a borough native who rose from college intern to executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter and helped solidify its national reputation in the realm of downtown revitalizations, is leaving the organization at the end of the month. Rumola...
By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA To a foodie, the news that the owners of Sogo Sushi on Monmouth Street spent four years preparing for the opening of their new restaurant wouldn't be terribly surprising. After all, there are so many factors to...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Buying Donovan's Reef for Sea Bright borough's use is either (choose one) a "great investment" in the town's future or a "nutty" waste of taxpayer’s money. Battle lines were drawn in firm but civil tones last...
Squeezed for parking, the Borough of Sea Bright tonight will mull the question of whether to try to buy Donovan's Reef. The beach bar's owners are said to be asking $4.5 million for the oceanfront property, which is across East...
By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA Though the name would lead you to believe otherwise, the erstwhile La Petite France on East Front Street was not French cooking. Not, at least, according to the new chef and owner, Frédéric Vidal. "I don't say...
It's as Jersey as the Sopranos: the Star-Ledger's Munchmobile, a van with a giant polyurethane wiener on the roof that tours the state every summer in search of the best eats — ice cream, burgers, Italian, seafood, whatever. Well, yesterday...
Pop star Bon Jovi is suing the Ocean County-based maker of an energy drink called Mijovi for trademark infringement, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The suit against was filed after the singer and Middletown resident previously known as Jonathan...
Here's pianist Tony DeSare playing some electrifying stride piano on 'Fly Me to the Moon' during his Jazz Arts Project show earlier this month at the River's Edge Café. DeSare, along with Bruce Williams on alto sax, will back Joe...
This weekend's roster of on-street performances in the StreetLife series includes twin sisters who go by the conjoined moniker of HelenaMaria. They'll be playing out in front of River’s Edge Café at 35 Broad Street. Also on tap, weather permitting:...
Andrew Gennusa was just 21 years old when he and his brother, Jason, founded Manhattan Bagel Co. with a single store in in a Middlesex County strip mall. It turned out to be a the start of a heady ride....
Partyline
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!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
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 ...
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 ...