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RED BANK: FAMILY DISPLACED BY CONDO FIRE
RED BANK: Family displaced and pet cat is killed as fire breaks out in their Ambassador Drive home. (click to read)
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RED BANK: APARTMENTS RISE FROM HOLE
RED BANK: What's Going On Here? After months as an abandoned hole in the ground, a downtown lot is being transformed into luxury apartments.
RED BANK: AZALEA GARDENS TO RESTART
RED BANK: Azalea Gardens plan for 18 homes on the edge of downtown wins approval extension, plans to start foundations this year, developer says.
RED BANK: RIVERWALK BACK ON TRACK?
RED BANK: Two years after the borough stopped work on a luxury apartment project, there are new signs of life. What's Going On Here?
RED BANK: RAYRAP PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
RED BANK: House fire? Quick demolition? What's Going Here? Here's the scoop about recent activity at Harding and Hudson, the site of RayRap's long-awaited project.
RED BANK: WORK HALTED OVER SAFETY ISSUES
RED BANK: Borough inspectors order halt to construction of a new apartment building over concerns about excavation safety.
RED BANK: APARTMENTS FINALLY UNDERWAY
RED BANK: There's a big hole in the ground surrounded by a fence on Mechanic Street. What's Going on Here? Click for the answer.
RED BANK: RAYRAP HOME PLAN WINS FINAL OK
RED BANK: Developer Ray Rapcavage wins final approval for 18 homes with a huge garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
LITTLE SILVER: A QUICK STOP TO A FAST FIRE
LITTLE SILVER: Quick action on a fast-moving fire on the hottest day of the year limits loss to a one unit in a four-condo building.
LITTLE SILVER: BLAZE DESTROYS CONDO UNIT
LITTLE SILVER: A fire first seen coming from an outdoor wall fixture destroyed a condo on Birch Avenue. No injuries were reported.
RED BANK: RAYRAP CLEARS FIRST HURDLE
RED BANK: A year after defeat, developer Ray Rapcavage wins key approval for townhouse-and-garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
RED BANK: LATEST RAYRAP PLAN IN SPOTLIGHT
RED BANK: A year after being stopped cold, RayRap returns to the zoning board this week with a plan for townhouses on the edge of downtown.
RED BANK: Like another developer thwarted by the zoning board, RayRap wants its property designated as "in need of rehabilitation."
RED BANK: ACCESS AGREEMENT UNDER FIRE
RED BANK: A plan to give tenants access to a yet-to-be built Red Bank apartment building via a borough parking lot came under fire Wednesday night, 10 years after it cleared its first hurdle.
RED BANK: RAYRAP TO PUSH FOR LAW CHANGE
RED BANK: Builder Ray Rap will press the council to raise the number of bedrooms allowed downtown without variances.
RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN
Ray Rapcavage, seen below on Hudson Avenue opposite his properties, including a house destroyed by fire in May, 2012. Above, a rendering of the proposed project, with an English gardenContinue reading "RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN"
RED BANK: FIRE BURNS DOG-FILLED CONDO
RED BANK: Fire damages a condo unit with two people and six dogs inside.
RED BANK: WHAT’S NEXT FOR RAYRAP SITE?
The zoning board shot down a plan to build 22 townhouses and condos on a parcel bound by Clay Street, Harding Road and Hudson Avenue, throwing the future of the siteContinue reading "RED BANK: WHAT’S NEXT FOR RAYRAP SITE?"
RED BANK: ZONERS ZAP RAYRAP PLAN
Resident Bill Brooks studies a RayRap exhibit prior to the zoning board hearing. Below, a rendering of the proposed six-unit condo building that would front on Harding Road at HudsonContinue reading "RED BANK: ZONERS ZAP RAYRAP PLAN"
RED BANK: RAYRAP TRAFFIC PLAN RAPPED
Planning consultant John Jahr addresses a question from Hudson Avenue resident William Hartigan as builder Ray Rapcavage props up an exhibit Thursday night. Below, a view of the six-unit condoContinue reading "RED BANK: RAYRAP TRAFFIC PLAN RAPPED"
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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 ...
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.