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RED BANK: WHITE STREET DISRUPTION FEARED
RED BANK: Merchants fear third economic blow in a year as borough embarks on White Street makeover and parking lot reconfiguration.
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RED BANK: PICKUP PARKING ZONES SET
RED BANK: Borough creates 36 quick-pickup parking zones to serve retail and dining "clusters" as merchants start to emerge from COVID-19 lockdown.
RED BANK: PUBLIC PROJECTS ADVANCING
RED BANK: What's Going On Here with these borough projects? Updates on Bellhaven Natural Area, Eastside Park and parking meter replacement.
RED BANK: BRAKES TAPPED ON METERING PLAN
RED BANK: Council slows controversial plan to extend paid-parking enforcement to 10pm and will revisit the issue next month.
RED BANK: EXTENDED METERING ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council to take up proposal to extend meter enforcement by four hours, to 10 p.m. Here's what else may be coming on the parking issue.
RED BANK: STREET AND LOT CHANGES AIRED
RED BANK: Officials air plans for White Street streetscape makeover and upgrades to adjoining lot, where massive development was envisioned two years ago.
RED BANK: BOARD SUED OVER TWO DECISIONS
RED BANK: Planning board faces two lawsuits, one for denying an extension to Hampton Inn, another for approving Saxum's 210-apartment project on VNA site.
RED BANK: BALLOONS, TRAFFIC ON AGENDA
RED BANK: The agenda for Wednesday's council meeting includes a ban on mass balloon releases and a downtown traffic study.
RED BANK: WHITE STREET MAKEOVER ON DECK
RED BANK: Borough to hold information/public input session on plan for angled parking and White Street streetscape makeover.
RED BANK: A study of traffic at 19 downtown intersections is on the agenda for council's workshop meeting Wednesday. Also: a ban on mass balloon releases.
RED BANK: PROJECT REVIEW GETS UNDERWAY
RED BANK: Hearing on massive development proposed for West Front Street block gets underway with hints of concern about size, height and traffic impacts.
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT ON DECK
RED BANK: A nine-story, 150-apartment addition that would shatter the borough's height limits goes to the zoning board this week. Here's what you need to know.
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED
RED BANK: A proposed nine-story development atop Pazzo would add 150 apartments downtown and shatter the borough's limits on building height and density.
RED BANK: SAXUM PLAN APPROVED
RED BANK: Saxum plan for 210 apartments on former VNA site wins approval. Mayor cites boost to affordable housing as neighbor says board "sold out."
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
RED BANK: Council wrap includes details of parking bond, update on Eastside Park project, and the return of a former police department employee.
RED BANK: Council drops 'archaic' citizenship requirement for license, and commenting protocol once again is put to the test. Session recap.
RED BANK: Planning board hearing and possible vote on Saxum plan for 210 apartments on former VNA site postponed to December 2.
RED BANK: BOARD AIRS SAXUM PLAN HURDLES
RED BANK: Public and planning board take aim Saxum plan for 210 apartments, citing traffic, fire safety, environmental and other concerns.
RED BANK: PARKING SYSTEM TO GET MAKEOVER
RED BANK: Borough plans to replace all parking meters and kiosks in coming months, officials say as they unveil 'smart' meter for curbside use.
RED BANK: NEW PARKING METERS TO DEBUT
RED BANK: Borough plans to replace coin-operated parking meters with new technology, and will roll it out at a presentation slated for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Partyline
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 ...