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RED BANK: INTERSECTION GETS EYE-POPPING MAKEOVER TO SLOW TRAFFIC
A Red Bank intersection where residents have demanded action on pedestrian safety for years is transformed with bollards and a Dating Game paint job. What's going on here? (click to read)
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RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK ON SIDEWALK DIES
A woman struck by an SUV while walking on a Red Bank sidewalk in March has died. (click to read)
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)
COURT UPHOLDS RED BANK POLICE CROSSWALK STING
A drivers' attempt to fight a ticket issued during a police sting crashes and burns. Twice. (click to read)
RED BANK: NO CHARGES IN MAY PEDESTRIAN DEATH
Prosecutors: No charges against the driver in a May crash that took the life of a 20-year-old Frankie Luna Santamaria of Red Bank. (click to read)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK, SAMARITANS LIFT SUV
A driver struck a pedestrian who was pinned under the car in Red Bank until a group of good Samaritans lifted the vehicle. (click to read)
RED BANK: DRIVER STRIKES, INJURES PEDESTRIAN
A pedestrian was struck by a driver of an SUV and injured crossing Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank. (click to read)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN WARNINGS FLASH AT CRASH HOT SPOT WITH MORE PROMISED
As pedestrian deaths spike statewide, flashing beacons go up on East Front in Red Bank with more promised for Shrewsbury Avenue. (click to read)
PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY TRAIN NEAR RED BANK
Pedestrian killed by NJ Transit train near Red Bank on New Year's Eve.
CARELESS AT RECKLESS: RED BANK PEDESTRIAN STRUCK AS INCIDENTS DOUBLE
Drivers strikes, injures pedestrian in Red Bank crosswalk, as Monmouth County fatalities skyrocket. (click to read)
GIFTED BIKE RACKS, RED BANK ASKS: “WHERE DO YOU WANT ‘EM?”
Red Bank was gifted two dozen bike racks. Officials want your input on where to install them. (click to read)
RED BANK: RESIDENTS SEEK (FOUR WAY) STOP TO SPEEDING
Concerns over speeding and pedestrian safety spur a campaign to create a new four-way stop on the route to the Red Bank Primary School. (click to read)
RED BANK: NEW BIKE LANE ROLLED OUT
A fresh coat of green paint and new parking restrictions mark the creation a new bike lane on Harrison Avenue. (click to read)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY TRAIN
RED BANK: A Highlands man died after he was struck by a train at the borough station Saturday afternoon.
RED BANK: DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL HIT-AND-RUN
A Red Bank man has been charged with leaving the scene of an August 5 crash that killed a 23-year-old man in Shrewsbury. (click to read)
RED BANK: POLICE STING TARGETS CROSSWALK SCOFFLAWS
Red Bank Police issue 25 summonses to drivers who fail to stop for pedestrians (click to read)
FAMILY MOURNS HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM; DRIVER STILL AT LARGE
Pedestrian killed in hit and run, leaving family and Red Bank community searching for answers. (click to read)
RED BANK: COUNCIL HATCHES BIKE/PEDESTRIAN POLICY
With resident fears over pedestrian and cycling dangers riding high, council plans a new committee and new law to create safer streets. (click to read)
RED BANK: FAMILY MOURNS MAN KILLED WALKING HOME FROM WORK
Frank Luna Santamaria was killed by a car while walking home from work. His family is raising money to pay for a funeral in Mexico. (click to read)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN DIES FROM INJURIES
RED BANK: A 20-year-old borough man has died of injuries sustained when he was struck by a car last week, police said. (Click to read more.)
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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.