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RED BANK: BORO DRAWS UP NEW HISTORIC PRESERVATION GUIDELINES
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Property owners in Red Bank's two historic districts, take note: there's new proposed guidelines for renovating your building. (click to read)
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November 10th, 2025 @ 6am
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RED BANK: HISTORIC GUIDELINES PLAN ON TAP
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Six months after tabling a plan for a new historic district for Irving Place Red Bank seeks to prepare a wider survey to protect historic buidlings townwide. (click to read)
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March 13th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: NEW HPC SLATE MULLS EXPANSION, AND SLATE
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission starts possible addition of Irving Place to its portfolio; mulls unapproved removal of slate roof.
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March 22nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: RESTART FOR PRESERVATIONISTS
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Committee members, meeting for first time in eight months, get acquainted with new law they'll administer.
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February 22nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: PRESERVATION LAW ADVANCES
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RED BANK: Proposed changes to historic preservation law clear planning board review, return to council for possible adoption January 25.
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January 17th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: PORTMAN PAINTS ROSY OUTLOOK
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RED BANK: Mayor outlines plans for "amazing" makeover of Marine Park and other "long overdue" projects for 2024.
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January 2nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: NEW HPC EXPECTED ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council expected to appoint new Historic Preservation Commission, start work on new ordinance Thursday, says Bonatakis.
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October 10th, 2023 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNCIL VOWS HPC RESTART
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RED BANK: Council agrees to reconstitute Historic Preservation Commission, but only after new design standards are written into ordinance.
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August 25th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HPC AIMS TO RAZE AND REBUILD
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission embarks on a teardown, aiming to replace enabling ordinance chairman says has no strong support.
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March 17th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: BOAS QUITS HPC, SLAMS CHAIRMAN
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RED BANK: Longtime Historic Preservation Commission member Boas quits over new chairman's "authoritarianism."
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December 22nd, 2022 @ 8am
RED BANK: SPARED HOUSE TO GET SPRUCE-UP
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RED BANK: Saved from the wrecking ball earlier this year, 19th-century house downtown has new owners who plan to restore its onetime glory.
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November 17th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD SIDES WITH PUB OVER HPC
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RED BANK: Zoning board overrules Historic Preservation Commission, will allow Dublin House Pub facade makeover.
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May 20th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LONG-IN-THE-TOOTH SIGN UPSIZED
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RED BANK: This.
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April 15th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Why did a modern office building need Historic Preservation Commission OK for remodeling work? No one seemed to know Wednesday night.
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March 17th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: MAKEOVER TO GET HPC REVIEW
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RED BANK: A modernist building among Broad Street's converted Victorians goes before Historic Preservation Commission for makeover approval this week.
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March 15th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: CENTURY HOUSE SPARED
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RED BANK: In the face of opposition, office developer kills plan to demolish century house at 26 Wallace Street. It's now back on the market.
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March 2nd, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: HPC SPLITS OVER CENTURY HOUSE
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RED BANK: Preservation commission debates next steps regarding plan to demolish century house for parking; approves revised Sally Boy's design.
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February 17th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOME’S HISTORIC VALUE DISPUTED
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RED BANK: Claims about historic value of 132-year-old house eyed for demolition are "in error," says developer's expert. HPC members are itching to differ.
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February 8th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BUILDING WOULD FOLLOW NEW LOT
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RED BANK: New offices planned downtown, but first, developer needs planning board OK to demolish 132-year-old house for 30 parking spaces.
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February 2nd, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: HPC REJECTS TWO PLANS, OKS ONE
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission rejects proposed facade makeovers at Dublin House Pub and Sally Boy's; approves a third.
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January 20th, 2022 @ 7am
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner films praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...