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Category Archives: Retailing

The owner of a jewelry store in The Grove was sentenced to federal prison earlier this week for tax evasion that a judge called an example of "appalling" greed. The Asbury Park Press has the story about Lincinio Neves, owner...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Asbury Park Press samples some of the familiar complaints about parking in downtown Red Bank, an issue in which the challenge of finding a space near one's destination or staying one coin ahead of the meter reader counts as...
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August 14th, 2006 @ 11am
Spykes, the naughtywear shop on Shrewsbury Avenue, is going dark today. Patent-leather dark. Owner Mary Jennings is temporarily putting the business in storage while she plans a move around the corner, to the former Gasper Sign shop on Bridge Avenue,...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
Eight years ago, when the Red Bank Farmers' Market opened in the Galleria parking lot, it had only two vendors. Today, there are 30, and every week more merchants ask to be let in, some hoping to hawk goods that...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
The 52nd annual Red Bank sidewalk sale, which began yesterday, continues today and runs through tomorrow. Stay hydrated, shoppers. Temperatures will soar into the mid-90s. The National Weather Service has an excessive heat warning in effect from 2p today until...
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July 29th, 2006 @ 7am
We got a late start on last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, so this is a few days old. But hey, it's the doldrums, right? Rob Walker, who writes the 'Consumed' column, has a piece titled 'Silent Green,' which makes...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
Today's Star-Ledger has an eight-page pullout guide to Red Bank in its "Ticket" section, and a more extensive version at its website. The section doesn't aim for depth (thus we're reminded, repeatedly, that 20 years ago the town was known...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
Ten quick questions for Gail Mayr of Lena’s Bagels and Deli, 441 Broad Street, Shrewsbury. We understand you’re quite well-traveled on the local bagel circuit. So where have you worked? I started at the Bagel Station on Monmouth Street, where...
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July 13th, 2006 @ 10pm
Can an ice cream shop keep White Street from nodding off early? We'll find out starting in about a month, when Ben & Jerry's opens for business at 68 White, in the space formerly occupied by the Beacon Fine Arts...
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July 6th, 2006 @ 10pm
A fabric store is retail rarity, and not merely because there are so few left. There’s a special kind of intimacy nurtured within its sound-muted confines. It’s a place where women—and the customers are almost always women, often accompanied by...
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June 28th, 2006 @ 11pm
It's official: this game has been liberated from the iron grip of the Dueling Steins, Dayna and Larry. We have a new champion, Dylan Barlett of Little Silver, who correctly identified last week's image as the giant emblem painted on...
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June 28th, 2006 @ 11pm
Ten quick questions for Marcos Machado, owner of Fernando's Shoe Repair, 74 Monmouth Street, Red Bank. What happened to Fernando? He retired and moved back to Portugal. I've had the shop since 1998. You moved here in April from 4A...
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June 22nd, 2006 @ 10pm
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June 20th, 2006 @ 8am
Ten quick questions for “Chef Kevin” Lynch, executive chef and manager of the cheese, dairy and bakery departments at Sickle’s Market, Little Silver. Are you a ‘foodie’? Yes. Which is more important, quality food or comfortable shoes? Tough question. You...
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June 16th, 2006 @ 8am
Is women’s casual-wear and home-décor retailer Anthropologie coming to The Grove? A jobs posting last week on craigslist indicates the chain is hiring store managers, department managers and other anthropologistes with retail experience for a location given as “Red Bank.”...
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June 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
Spykes, the risqué undergarment and footwear store that opened four years ago on Shrewsbury Avenue, has reduced its hours. A handwritten note on the door says the business is now open only from 3 to 6p Mondays and 12 to...
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June 3rd, 2006 @ 10am
Partyline
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 ...
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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 ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.