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RED BANK: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY NAMED
RED BANK: By 4-1 vote, council approves members of new redevelopment agency, along with a second group to serve as technical advisors.
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RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
RED BANK: Green Acres grant applications for two parks, and appointments to the new redevelopment agency are on the council's agenda Wednesday night.
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: HARASSMENT REPORT ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Report on investigation into harassment claim against Shehady by former borough employee on Wednesday's council agenda.
RED BANK: REDEVELOPMENT ON AGENDA
RED BANK: What's on the council's agenda this week? The creation of a redevelopment agency; the closing of an alleyway to vehicles; a smoking ban and more.
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
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: PARKING SYSTEM FOUND ‘BROKEN’
RED BANK: Forget a new parking garage for now. A study finds the borough's parking operation "broken" and says that needs to be fixed first.
RED BANK: A parking study commissioned in the aftermath of an aborted redevelopment of the White Street lot is to be unveiled Thursday evening.
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: CORNER OVERHAUL PROPOSED
RED BANK: A dowdy corner in the town's historic district could get some big and bold architecture, if a proposed medical office building wins approval.
RED BANK: REDEVELOPMENT WORK ON AGENDA
RED BANK: The consultants who suggested the borough set up redevelopment agency are expected to get the contract to run it.
RED BANK: PARKING GRIPES, IDEAS ECHOED
RED BANK: Consultant begins work on parking study with a forum that elicits familiar complaints and suggestions from merchants and residents.
RED BANK: The authors of a report calling for the creation of a downtown redevelopment agency appear on the verge of winning a contract to make it happen.
RED BANK: MIXED-USE BUILDING WINS OK
RED BANK: A mixed-use building would replace a house on Shrewsbury Avenue under a development plan OK'd by the planning board.
RED BANK: BIG PLANS FOR HUMBLE PROPERTY
RED BANK: A humble residential property could become the latest addition to booming redevelopment along Shrewsbury Avenue if a builder's plans are OK'd.
RED BANK: PARKING STUDY GETS IN GEAR
RED BANK: Democrats issue request for parking study bids while wrapping up a move of some permits from White Street to east side lots.
RED BANK: MUMFORD DROPS PARKING BID
RED BANK: Mumford, one of two remaining contenders to redevelop White Street parking lot, leaves smoking tire tracks as he drops his bid.
RED BANK: Back in control of the borough agenda, Democrats plan to put out a call for a parking consultant as early as this month, Yngstrom says.
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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 ...
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.