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Last week's Where was probably a little too easy. It showed the gate-controlled entrance to a garage on Riverview Plaza, opposite the emergency room entrance to Riverview Medical Center. The garage serves tenants of the office building at 21 East...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
Look familiar? If you think you can ID this week's shot, zap us an email, please. Last week, we showed you the door — or what appears to be some sort of portal in a brick wall. Three readers wrote...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 8am
How about it, folks? If you think you know where the above photo was taken, zap us an email, please. We had a light turnout for last week's Where Have I Seen This? Was that because the answer was so...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 6am
Volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members stood by at the Liberty Hose firehouse on White Street during the widespread power outage Tuesday evening. (Click to enlarge) Burglar and fire alarms went off all over town, prompting the police chief...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10pm
Sorry this image doesn't enlarge, folks. But if you lean in close, you should be able to generally make out the scene it captures — and maybe even identify the location. If you know it, we'd enjoy hearing from you....
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December 4th, 2008 @ 7am
You'd have thought it was a sweltering week in the dead of summer instead of the crisp, Thanksgiving-tinged days of autumn. Last week's Where, showing a blue and white striped fence, attracted 23 responses, which may be a record for...
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November 13th, 2008 @ 6am
The folks at Dunkin' Donuts HQ will eat this one up: redbankgreen readers apparently love their DDs. We received a record 18 responses to last week's 'Where,' and 17 of them were verifiably correct. The image was of the brand-new...
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August 28th, 2008 @ 8am
First thing last Thursday, we got an email from one of the Colmorgens guessing that the location of the 'Where' posted that morning was above Mr. Pizza Slice on Monmouth Street. A short while later, though, sibling Carl Colmorgen was...
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August 21st, 2008 @ 6am
Jenn Woods, Donald Patters, William Crooks, Fred Blumberg, Pete DeFazio, Matt Borowski and Carl Colmorgen all wrote in to correctly identify the slice of urban skyline we featured in last week's photo. It's a view looking northeast across Broad Street...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Think you know this one? Shoot us an email, please. The Colmorgens, Pete DeFazio, Jesse Feldmus, Tim Garner, Carrie Ludwikowski and Chris Rawding all instantly recognized last week's 'Where' as a sizable and somewhat elaborate bit of graffiti sprayed onto...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 7am
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...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 7am
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....
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June 5th, 2008 @ 7am
The suspect vehicle on Route 36 in Eatontown at about noon. Red Bank police apparently had a hand in the arrest of man suspected of robbing a Bank of America branch on Route 35 in Middletown late this morning. No...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 1pm
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...
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May 29th, 2008 @ 8am
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,...
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May 8th, 2008 @ 8am
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...
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April 17th, 2008 @ 7am
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...
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April 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
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,...
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March 27th, 2008 @ 9am
Red Bank Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald confirmed yesterday that a stabbing occurred on New Year's Eve on or near Dr. Parkers Boulevard. Details of the incident will be released today, he told redbankgreen. Also over the holiday, a 20-year-old Middletown...
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January 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Partyline
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.

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