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RED BANK: COPS PUSH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Red Bank police were out on Broad Street Wednesday afternoon for a brief pedestrian safety enforcement push. The effort resulted in five summonses issued to motorists and 13 warnings, someContinue reading "RED BANK: COPS PUSH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY"
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SEA BRIGHT MULLS MORE BACK-IN PARKING
A motorist attempts to park in a reverse-angle space in Sea Bright last June. Mike Dannemiller, below left, addresses the council Thursday morning. (Photos by John T. Ward) By JOHNContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT MULLS MORE BACK-IN PARKING"
SHREWSBURY: ENOUGH SIGNS FOR YOU?
A view east along Patterson Avenue on November 17, above, and again on Wednesday morning, below, when a motorist was pulled over for speeding. (Photo by John T. Ward. ClickContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: ENOUGH SIGNS FOR YOU?"
RED BANK URGES INTERSECTION UPGRADES
Emergency responders working to save a Staten Island woman who was run over at the intersection in 2010. She later died of her injuries. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RED BANK URGES INTERSECTION UPGRADES"
SEA BRIGHT TRIES A NEW ANGLE ON PARKING
Kathy Morris attempts to park in the new reverse-angle spaces last week; she promises she’ll soon master the task. The concept was championed by trauma nurse Linda Richter, below. (PhotosContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT TRIES A NEW ANGLE ON PARKING"
SEA BRIGHT TO PUT COP ON CROSSWALK BEAT
The tiny borough plans to deploy a police officer devoted to enforcement of pedestrian safety laws. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Sea BrightContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT TO PUT COP ON CROSSWALK BEAT"
The intersection of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard is slated for $225,000 in pedestrian safety improvements. One of Red Bank’s busiest intersections has been singled out for aContinue reading "WEST SIDE CROSSING TO GET SAFETY UPGRADE"
BIKERS GET SAFETY MARKERS IN RED BANK
Borough workers painted the first of a series of “sharrows” on the new pavement on Chestnut Street Tuesday morning. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) A push to makeContinue reading "BIKERS GET SAFETY MARKERS IN RED BANK"
BIKE & WALK PLAN GETS A SHEPHERD
Jenny Rossano, seen here in 2009 with Safe Routes Red Bank co-founder Jim Willis, will help coordinate the integration of a recent bike and pedestrian study with the town’s masterContinue reading "BIKE & WALK PLAN GETS A SHEPHERD"
RED BANK TO GET MORE FOUR-WAY STOPS
The intersection of River Street and Bridge Avenue is one of three leading to the Red Bank Primary School that will become four-way stops. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank MayorContinue reading "RED BANK TO GET MORE FOUR-WAY STOPS"
RESIDENTS GIVE THEIR TWO CENTS ON SAFETY
Mary Lou Burden, right, shows transportation consultant Dave Cox a problem spot on a map. Below, comments compiled on a street map. (Click to enlarge) Mary Lou Burden knows theContinue reading "RESIDENTS GIVE THEIR TWO CENTS ON SAFETY"
Red Bank residents took a walk through town and then gathered at borough hall for a barbecue hosted by PBA Local 39 Tuesday as part of National Night Out, anContinue reading "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: A NIGHT OUT"
PEDESTRIAN UPGRADES DUE ON FRONT STREET
Traffic-calming bumpouts on Monmouth Street. Similar configurations may be in store for Front Street. (Click to enlarge) A stretch of Front Street in Red Bank is slated for design changesContinue reading "PEDESTRIAN UPGRADES DUE ON FRONT STREET"
RED BANK CLAIMS LESS OVERCROWDING
This house at 21 Linden Place was the most-cited for overcrowding and related violations in 2009, borough records show. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Overcrowding of rental homes isContinue reading "RED BANK CLAIMS LESS OVERCROWDING"
THE DUDES OF HAZARD
The guys over at Red Bank’s e.d. Design, shown standing at one of Red Bank’s many walking hazards they noticed while taking a smoke break.  (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) ByContinue reading "THE DUDES OF HAZARD"
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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.