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RED BANK: FED UP AIRBNB OWNER PACKS IT IN
The home at 51 Oakland Street, on the left side of the attached duplex. Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A property owner whose Oakland Street Airbnb rental was the target of neighbors’ noise complaints and borough code enforcement citations is closing down operations and selling the home out frustration.
“EL PALOMO” IS IN THE HOUSE
Jesus Rios, a mariachi singer who performs under the stage name “El Palomo” (The dove) pauses for a moment before entering a backyard graduation party on Leighton Avenue where he performed Saturday. Yes, he said, it was very hot in that suit. But El Palomo he managed to still look very cool.
RED BANK: PERSISTENT PUDDLE
A safety cone stood beside the puddle on June 27, 2024. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) UPDATE: Borough Administrator Jim Gant provided an update on the borough’s efforts to address the pesky puddle. See details at the bottom of the story. We admit, it’s one of...
CROC SPOTTED IN RIVER
Frighteningly hideous and green, a solitary Croc lurked ominously amid the flotsam and foam in the Navesink River alongside the Red Bank Fire Department’s Marine unit docked at Marine Park. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get posted (after editorial...
RED BANK: EX MAYOR MIKE ARNONE DIES
(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Dr. Michael Arnone, a well-known dentist and father of five who served three terms as mayor of Red Bank from 1978 to 1990, died on July 1. Arnone also served in the state Assembly for seven consecutive terms from 1989 to 2004. He...
WEEKEND PICKS: WOMEN’S SOCCER, JAZZ VIOLIN AND MORE
Fireworks? Nope not in Red Bank. But check out our picks of other things to do in town this kinda sorta Fourth of July weekend. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) It’s technically the July Fourth weekend, when the conventional wisdom says it’s time to hit the road or the beaches. But true connoisseurs of leisure and haters of crowds know it’s a holiday (like New Year’s Eve) which is best spent near home. If you’re among them, check out our list of picks for the weekend here in Red Bank.
RED BANK THROWBACK: 1983’s “WORST FIREWORKS EVER”
(Courtesy of Red Bank Public Library) Click to enlarge.) Forty years ago this week in 1984, The Red Bank Register reported pyrotechnicians worked “very carefully” on Red Bank’s Fourth of July fireworks display to ensure “no repeat of last year’s problems.”. That ominous reference made...
RED BANK: FAMILY DISPLACED BY CONDO FIRE
A drone view shows the scene of the Ambassador Drive fire. A family escaped uninjured but were displaced from their home after a fire broke out in the basement and caused “heavy damage” to their townhome in the Elkridge complex on Ambassador Drive Tuesday night, officials and neighbors said.
CONDO FIRE FOUGHT
Red Bank volunteer firefighters were on the scene of a condo fire in the Elkridge complex on Ambassador Drive Tuesday night. The alarm was first reported at about 9:20 p.m. at 96 Ambassador Drive, a private road off Spring Street at the Little Silver border. The specific address has not been confirmed.
KISS ICON REFLECTS ON BROADWALK
A Swarovski crystal-bedazzled self-portrait painting of Paul Stanley, longtime singer and guitarist for the rock band Kiss peers out from a display at C.T. Peters Inc. Appraisers on Front Street, with the Broadwalk pedestrian plaza reflecting in the window. The painting, is titled “End of the Road Starchild” a reference to Stanley’s “starchild” stage persona. In this case, the road referred to in the title might the end of Broad Street, over which Stanley’s face appears to loom like a ghostly presence. Try to get the song “I Was Made for Loving You” out of your head now.
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE BEGINS
Workers with Precise Construction of Freehold begin removing old fences at the decrepit clay tennis courts in Marine Park. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Nearly 12 years after Hurricane Sandy sent waves of water across the clay tennis courts on the site, construction workers began this week turning the northwest corner of Marine Park into the park’s new parking area.
CHISELIN’ AWAY
Marcelo Garcia Lopez works with hammer and chisel on a new feature for his flower garden on Shrewsbury Avenue: a hollow in a carved log in which he plans to plant flowers and succulents (like the one next to it, he says). Take a walk past 184 Shrewsbury to smell the flowers and see how it turned out.
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ AIMS FOR ‘DENSE’ TRANSIT VILLAGE
The Rail, a multiuse Denholtz Properties project seen at right, abuts the North Jersey Coast Line. Below, a flyer announcing the public workshop to be held July 31. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank officials plan to hold a public session later this month on what...
RED BANK: SYMPHONY AND CACOPHONY ON THE RIVER
The NJ Symphony Orchestra at Marine Park. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra sent magical sounds into a perfect summer night while pro-Palestine protestors loudly decried the war in Gaza, all while police boats circled to guard a Presidential visit just across the river.
RED BANK: VOGEL RUNWAY GETS PUNKED
The runway at the Punk Edit fashion show. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) While many of you are planning to view some Fourth of July fireworks in the coming week, many locals are likely still agog at the sartorial pyrotechnic display that took place at the Basie Center’s Vogel space Wednesday.
RED BANK: COUNCIL SWALLOWS “HARD TRUTH” ON WATER RATES
Members of the Red Bank Borough Council defended a plan to raise water and sewer rates Thursday, calling it a painful “hard truth” but a better option than selling off the water utility to a private for-profit company. A chart from the Engenuity Infrastructure water rate study. The...
WEEKEND PICKS: SUMMER SYMPHONY GLORY
It doesn’t get much better than this. So many great things about Red Bank – the Navesink River, the arts scene, the people, all in one place on a summer night as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra returns to the Navesink banks. Redbankgreen has a pick of things to do for a magical musical weekend.
CAR CRACKS BUILDING
A medical office building in Red Bank was evacuated after a car struck it Thursday afternoon. No one was reported injured in the crash, which occurred at 231 Maple Avenue at about 3:15 p.m. said Fire Chief Bobby Holiday. Because the crash caused cracks in the foundation that were visible...
RED BANK: FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOLERS EXCEL
Class of 2024 members Selena Martinez-Santiago, Madelyn Sanchez-Berra, Molly Burden and Kai Sarcoma. Below, Lawrence Hicks. Press release by the Red Bank Borough Public Schools. Red Bank Regional High School celebrated its Senior Awards recognition ceremony on June 5th, 2024, and the RBMS class of 2020 received a diverse representation...
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