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Category Archives: Streets & Roads

FAIR HAVEN: Brush disposal, bike lanes and police and public works facilities pack a busy agenda for Tuesday night's council session.
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October 13th, 2020 @ 7am
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RED BANK: CHANGES EYED AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields playground would be relocated to Mohawk Pond and street closed to traffic under Open Spaces application OK'd by council.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: ‘TRANSITION’ CUSTOM ROLLS ON
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FAIR HAVEN: Pandemic aside, 'Transition Day' rolls on as new fourth-graders bike to their new school in a shower of cheers and confetti.
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September 4th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: POWER LINE STRUCK
RED BANK: Backhoe strikes live electrical lines on White Street. Operator safe after being briefly trapped inside vehicle. Video from scene.
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September 1st, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: TRAIL FUNDING SOUGHT
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FAIR HAVEN: Council to hold public hearing Monday on "dusted off" proposal for new trail that would also aid with cost of cleaning up McCarter Pond.
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August 14th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ANDERSON ‘EVOLUTION’ ROLLS ON
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RED BANK: Decades in the works, the revival of the long-vacant Anderson Storage building is all but complete with the opening of Sickles Market and Booskerdoo.
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August 12th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: BIKE LANE DEBATE CONTINUES
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FAIR HAVEN: Council debate over planned 'sharrow' markings through the River Road business district continues, with some cyclists opposed.
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July 28th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: 26 WEST WINS STREET SETUP OK
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RED BANK: Without discussion, council okays 26 West on the Navesink's use of Boat Club Court for dining tables two weeks after "unauthorized" setup.
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July 23rd, 2020 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL SPLITS ON BIKE PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Bike-safety plan splits council over whether to paint 'sharrow' markings on River Road through the business district.
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July 20th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: MAYOR SLAMS STREET TAKEOVER
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RED BANK: Menna slams restaurant for unauthorized and "dangerous" shutdown of public street, complete with fake grass and a fence.
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July 13th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PARKLET EFFORT BEGINS
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RED BANK: Concrete barriers installed around parking spaces downtown. What's Going On Here? The arrival of "parklets" downtown.
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July 10th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLAZA PLANS REWORKED
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RED BANK: Borough scraps Monmouth Street plaza, extends Broad Street plaza by additional day, and plans to allow dining "parklets" downtown.
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July 9th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: FOXES, DEER MOVE ON IN
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RED BANK: While a trio of deer chowed down on a Madison Avenue lawn, a red fox crossed the street two doors away, apparently in search of its own breakfast.
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July 8th, 2020 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: CROSSING TO CLOSE FOR WORK
LITTLE SILVER: NJ Transit plans to replace the railroad crossing at Silverside Avenue, work that will require about 10 days of detours this month.
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July 1st, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: WHITE STREET GAS LINE RUPTURED
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RED BANK: Underground utility work for the White Street makeover project ruptures natural gas line downtown, prompting store evacuations.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: AWFUL INTERSECTION FIXED
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RED BANK: After years of talk and a prolonged construction project, Monmouth County finalizes makeover of pothole-plagued intersection.
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June 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LANE TO GO ONE-WAY, PARTWAY
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RED BANK: A steep and narrow road near the Navesink River would become one-way, but not for its full length, under a change on this week's council agenda.
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June 15th, 2020 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
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FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
RED BANK: BOROUGH FRESHENS ITS PRIDE
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RED BANK: A downtown crosswalk painted last year in the rainbow colors of the LBGTQ pride flag gets a freshening for National Pride Month.
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June 4th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: PLAZA DETAILS STILL IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Borough officials shed light on plans for pedestrian dining and shopping plazas, but say they need clarity from Trenton on key issues.
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June 2nd, 2020 @ 5pm
Partyline
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 ...
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 ...