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RED BANK: JULY FLOOD WASN’T THE FIRST FOR BUILDER DENHOLTZ
The developer chosen by NJ Transit to build the Red Bank train station redevelopment project is being sued by a $1.7m condo buyer on a previous project, where several units flooded in February. (click to read)
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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 train leaves the station Wednesday morning.
SEE THE PLANS FOR RED BANK TRAIN STATION PROJECT
175 units and a woonerf: A look at the plans for The Rail North, the first phase of Red Bank's totally yooj train station redevelopment. (Click to read)
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ SEEKS OK FOR TRAIN STATION PROJECT PHASE 1
Planning Board to hold public hearing on proposed 175-unit apartment building, parking garage and public plaza near historic Red Bank train station.(Click to read)
RED BANK: SERVICES SLATED FOR TEEN KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
Services will be held Friday and Saturday for Terry Haupt Jr., the Red Bank teen killed by a NJ Transit train on May 13. (Click to read)
RED BANK: CROWD PACKS PARK TO HONOR TEEN KILLED BY TRAIN
Hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of a teen killed by a train in Red Bank last week. (Click to read)
RED BANK: COMMUNITY MOURNS STUDENT KILLED IN TRAIN STRIKE
Hundreds gathered to honor and mourn a student killed in what school officials called an accident Wednesday. (Click to read)
FATAL TRAIN STRIKE NEAR RED BANK STATION
A 16-year-old Red Bank student was killed by a train after walking onto the track in Red Bank Wednesday. (Click to read)
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION, LOCUST LANDING PLANS SAIL THROUGH COUNCIL
Two big votes on an emotional night as Red Bank council approves a pair of major housing initiatives: Locust Landing rehab plan and 400-apartment train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
RED BANK: BILLBOARD COMPANY SUES OVER SIGN DENIAL
A billboard company whose plan to build a 25-foot LED sign at the entrance to Red Bank was nixed is now suing the zoning board to get it built. Will the court case put a wrench in hopes of redevelop the site? (click to read)
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN SHAVES ONE FLOOR OFF BUILDING HEIGHT
Red Bank planners shave one floor off the maximum building height and make other tweaks to the massive train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
AS LUXURY BUILDINGS RISE, RED BANK’S “MISSING MIDDLE” DISAPPEARS
As Red Bank builds more affordable housing and luxury units/million-dollar condos rise by the hundreds, where will people in the middle live? (click to read)
TWO RED BANKS, SAME “WHOOPS TOO TALL” PROBLEM
Same town name, similar foolishness: A few days after a truck carrying a van struck a train overpass here in Red Bank, New Jersey, a train carrying cars struck a highway overpass in Red Bank, Tennessee.
RED BANK : AMAZON TRUCK CARRIER CRASHES AT RAILROAD OVERPASS
Driver hauling an Amazon delivery truck crashes at Red Bank's West Front Street railroad overpass. (click for more)
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
NJ Transit "heritage" locomotive makes an appearance at the Red Bank station.
RED BANK PLANNERS TAP BRAKES ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
Red Bank Planning Board delays vote on massive redevelopment plan to consider lower building heights and other changes. (click to read)
RED BANK PLANNING BOARD GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
Residents sound off on a plan that would allow up to 400 apartments, green space and 725 parking spaces near the Red Bank train station. (click to read)
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
‘DUMB BOXES’ AND ‘TEXAS DONUTS’: TRAIN STATION PROJECT BRINGS DESIGN DEBATE TO RED BANK
As Red Bank prepares to join the ranks of towns redeveloping around train stations we ask, "Why do all these buildings look like that?" (click to read)
RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN ADDS…TRAIN STATION
Red Bank is seeking to add six properties to its train station redevelopment plan, including the train station platform area and a rail yard. (click to read)
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
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 ...