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RED BANK: NEW TOOTH SIGN OK’D
RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission OK's replacement of dentist's tooth-shaped sign in less time than recommended for a good brushing.
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RED BANK: BIG DOORS, BIG TOOTH ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Two restaurants propose garage-style doors, and dentist seeks to replace iconic tooth sign when Historic Preservation Commission meets.
RED BANK: SPLASHY ‘STASH’ WINDOWS OK’D
RED BANK: Filmmaker Kevin Smith, characteristically profane, wins approval for splashy signage on new Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store.
RED BANK: ‘STASH’ SIGNAGE UP FOR REVIEW
RED BANK: Preservation commission to review sign requests by Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash; a pizzeria; and a juice bar, all on Broad Street.
RED BANK: MANSION RAZED; MORE LAND EYED
RED BANK: Ignoring pleas by preservationists, Riverview razes 19th-century riverfront mansion, and moves to acquire more property.
RED BANK: HOSPITAL PLAN DRAWS HPC IRE
RED BANK: Frustration erupts at Historic Preservation Commission over hospital plan to raze riverfront Victorian mansion.
RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission to discuss East Front Street Victorian structure slated for demolition by Hackensack Meridian.
RED BANK: HPC AIMS TO SAVE DOOMED HOUSE
RED BANK: Five months after planning board OKs demolition of hospital-owned Victorian house, historic commission proposes an alternative.
RED BANK: OFFICES WITH CAR LIFTS OK’D
RED BANK: Board OKs office building designed to fit into historic district with a modern touch: underground parking served by valets and elevators.
RED BANK: PLANS CLEARS HISTORICAL REVIEW
RED BANK: With Historic Preservation Commission flexing new muscle, developer scraps modernist office building for Victorian and gets thumbs-up.
RED BANK: BUILDING DESIGN TO BE REVISED
RED BANK: Modernist building won't fly in historic district, preservation commissioners tell developer. Architect says he'll revise design again.
RED BANK: RIVERMARK PROJECT APPROVED
RED BANK: Planners approve Rivermark office and luxury condo project at West Front Street and Maple Avenue after a bit of shrinkage.
RED BANK: CORNER PROJECT ‘TOO BIG’
RED BANK: Planners praise proposed office and luxury condo plan for corner of West Front and Maple, but tell developer it's too big.
RED BANK: DEVELOPER CLARIFIES PLAN STATUS
RED BANK: Developer comments on report about plans corner of Maple Avenue and West Front Street, where he hopes to erect office building.
RED BANK: PRESERVATIONISTS CONCERNED
RED BANK: Preservationists concerned as historic buildings change hands and buyer hints at replacing them with office building.
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE RESCUE PLAN OK’D
RED BANK: A plan to save the Fortune House, and build 31 apartments out back, wins zoning board approval..
RED BANK: PRESERVATION EFFORTS LAUDED
The home of Paul and Nancy Cagno, at the corner of Wallace and Mount streets, above, and the circa 1903 mansion that’s now the office of Smallwood Wealth Management, at 199Continue reading "RED BANK: PRESERVATION EFFORTS LAUDED"
RED BANK: ANOTHER RESTAURANT APPROVED
At 18 Broad Street, now concealed by scaffolding, the Art Deco foyer seen below will be replaced by one more reminiscent of the building’s 19th-century origins, the architect said. (PhotosContinue reading "RED BANK: ANOTHER RESTAURANT APPROVED"
RED BANK: FOCUS ON FOYER WINDOWS
The foyer of the former If the Shoe Fits store is the last remaining example of Art Deco design downtown, say preservationists. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: FOCUS ON FOYER WINDOWS"
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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.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.