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Last week's 'Where' was too dam easy for six readers. They recognized it right away as the Shadow Lake spillway on Hubbard Avenue in the River Plaza section of Middletown. If you don't know it, the structure has the words...
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
The stone lion with the wagging tongue of last week (you didn't see it wag? Look again) turned out to be a bit of stumper. Taking "a wild guess," Beth Gilmartin wrote in that it was from the Courts of...
No, this creature's tongue does not actually wag. It's just redbankgreen's 'picture person' (that's the title she gave herself) having some fun. You know where this is, don't you? We'd enjoy hearing from you, whether you're absolutely sure or just...
You can live in a place for years and years and still occasionally experience a moment of discovery that's small but feels big at the time. That's what happened to redbankgreen in stumbling on the site of last week's photo....
Last week's 'Where' had respondents divided, though they were all in the same realm. Les Hathaway saw it as the exhaust stack on a Red Bank DPW truck. Bob Colmorgen said our photo was shot at the former Red Bank...
'Where' readers had two chances to get last week's image, which showed the word 'Oh!' scrawled on a guardrail. As nearly all of our respondents pointed out, its on the Hubbard's Bridge on West Street, visible as you're leaving Red...
Mirror, mirror on the tree, who knows this 'Where' with certainty? Last week's generated eight responses, several of which were rather emphatic — readers sometimes get excited to 'finally' get a 'Where' — and, alas, mistaken. Fran Waldmann, Fred Blumberg,...
Last week's image proved to be one of the more popular yet puzzling 'Wheres' we've had in a while. Plenty of readers had no trouble identifying the location. Jenn Woods, George Lyristis, Alicia Woods, Fran Waldmann, Jennifer Gallagher, Raeann Guzzi,...
Perhaps the three weathervanes featured in last week's 'Where' were too generic, but the responses didn't come in as expected. We got just one, and it was wrong. Oh well, that's the way the wind blows. And when it blows,...
There's a charm in those old architectural details, isn't there? Even where the work in question is in an accelerated state of decay — maybe more so. It's like watching your own time slip into history before your eyes. Do...
Just one response came in for last week's 'Where.' Mark Molzon guessed that it showed a pay phone near the Red Bank recycling yard. It was a pay phone, of course — a member of a vanishing technological species. But...
Last week's 'Where' showed a pile of big rocks below a guardrail and some bent parking signs. It's the riprap on Union Avenue opposite the Monmouth Boat Club. The view is from Boat Club Court. That slope, behind some businesses...
Edition number 95 of "Where Have I Seen This?" was no challenge for at least the half-dozen readers who wrote in over the last week. All correctly identified it as a sign outside Marion Security Agency on Bridge Avenue. Marion,...
Last week's 'Where' generated an interesting variety of responses from a surprisingly small geographic area, perhaps owing to the number of Victorian homes in central Red Bank. One reader thought the photo showed a detail of "Mrs. Pearl Dwek's house"...
Last week's Where yielded yet another surprising result: three out of the five readers who wrote in were mistaken about what we thought was an obvious location. Peter DeFazio and Joe Sapienza got it right: a side wall at Nirvana,...
At least one member of the sprawling redbankgreen staff expected more readers to recognize last week's image, which showed a basic cinderblock shell of a building under construction. The reason: its location, at the Sea Bright anchorage of the Rumson-Sea...
Devoted fans of Patricia Mink's Savoury Fare at 3 West River Road in Rumson have had their taste buds on hold in recent days, waiting for the take-out cuisine business to reopen after a vacation. And here goes redbankgreen, tempting...
Half a dozen readers quickly identified last week's image, which showed an architectural detail from the roofline of 74 Broad Street, at the northwest corner of Monmouth Street. Now the street-level location of a Valley National Bank branch, the building...
Ahh, Valentine's Day... When a young heart falls for timeworn architectural details of unspecified location... Know it? Tell us, please. As for last week's photo, Monmouth911 and Peter DeFazio were able to discern from the silhouette that our camera had...
Last week's entry focused on an example of a vanishing species: a payphone, this one nicely framed in a blue cowling and set against the teal trim of a building. Readers IslanderE2 and Monmouth911 wrote in with the right location:...
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VOLUNTEERS GET INTO THE WEEDS
Toting plastic trash bags, 51 volunteers conducted a walking litter cleanup on Red Bank's West Side Saturday.
“IT’S A PARTY AT WAWA!”
You wish you could vibe like Brian, who lives on the other side of Hubbard’s Bridge. He caught redbankgreen’s attention in Red B ...
POPE OKS ORATORY
RED BANK: St. Anthony of Padua obtains papal approval to establish Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a community of priests and brothers devoted t ...
RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
RED BANK: Lunch Break founder Norma Todd is depicted in a mural painted this week on the front of the newly renovated social service agency.
TULIPS TOGETHER
Spring tulips taking in the sunset outside the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank Monday evening.
RIVER RANGERS RETURN
River Rangers, a summer canoeing program offered by the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association, returns this summer for up to 20 participa ...
DOUBLE DYLAN IN RED BANK
Trucks for a production company filming what one worker said was a Bob Dylan biography have lined Monmouth Street the past two days with cre ...
AFTER THE RAIN
A pear tree branch brought down by a brief overnight storm left a lovely tableau on the sidewalk in front of Red Bank's Riverside Gardens Pa ...
CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
Asked by a redbankgreen reporter why these cones were on top of cars, the owner of the car in the foreground responded: “That’s ...
RAIL RIDER’S VIEW
A commuter's view of Cooper's Bridge and the Navesink River from North Jersey Coast Line train 3320 out of Red Bank Tuesday morning.
PUT ME IN COACH!
Red Bank T-Ball kicked off at East Side park on Saturday morning. The brisk weather proved to be no deterrent to the young players, ranging ...
IT’S A SIGN!
Once proudly declaring its all-but-certain arrival in Spring 2019, the project previously known as Azalea Gardens springs to life again with ...
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES OF CARL
The Easter Bunny getup and St. Patrick’s Day hat that belonged to longtime Red Bank crossing guard and neighborhood smile-creator Carl ...
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.