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RED BANK: PARADE TO TAKE 75TH STROLL
The weather outlook appears ideal for Sunday’s 75th annual Halloween Parade, a delightfully frightful stroll through downtown Red Bank. Scenes from the 2022 parade and afterparty in the White Street parking lot. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The parade begins at 2 p.m., with the volunteer...
RED BANK: PROJECT HEARING DELAYED AGAIN
A Red Bank zoning board hearing on a plan for 32 new apartments at the train station has been postponed yet again. Developer Warren Diamond proposed the four-story building, with frontage on Bridge Avenue and Oakland Street, earlier this year. Under the proposal, two houses on Oakland Street would be...
RED BANK: BASIE BOOSTS PARKER CENTER
The Parker facility on Shrewsbury Avenue is in the midst of an expansion. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The designation will put up to $15,000 into the health center’s coffers, according to a Basie announcement last week. Parker Family Health Center executive director Suzy Dyer. (Photo...
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN DEER
A pair of whitetail deer was spotted crossing Wallace Street in downtown Red Bank Monday. (Photos by Ingeborg Perndorfer. Click to enlarge.) According to the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, whitetail deer populations “have reached problematic numbers in numerous suburban communities.”. If you value the news coverage...
RED BANK: ROOF’S OFF. WHAT’S UP?
The roof is gone and the rest of a one-story building on a triangular slice of land at 301 Maple Avenue in Red Bank has been gutted. And recently, a bright orange sticker was slapped on one of the remaining windows. What’s Going On Here? Click ‘read more’ for the...
RED BANK: THREE INJURED SLIGHTLY IN CRASH
Three people suffered minor injuries in a three-vehicle crash in Red Bank Thursday morning, police said. (Red Bank Fire Department photos. Click to enlarge.) (Red Bank Fire Department photos. Click to enlarge.) All three declined medical attention following the crash, which occurred at about 7:40 a.m. at the intersection of...
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for September, 2023. This information is unedited; see below for additional information. Shrewsbury Av., a building was tagged with black in color spray paint. Ptl. Preston Mellaci. Theft: A patrol unit took a report of theft...
RED BANK: THREE CANNABIS SHOPS LICENSED
Redbankgreen photo. Click to enlarge.) That means three pot shops have cleared all the local licensing requirements, borough officials said Thursday night. The prospective homes of Canopy Crossroad, on West Street, above, and the Frosted Nug, on North Bridge Avenue, below. (redbankgreen photos. Click to enlarge.) • Monteverde NJ at...
RED BANK: LIBRARY TO MARK A CENTENNIAL
The library has been based in the former West Front Street home of Sigmund and Bertha Eisner since 1937. Below, the 1880 catalogue of the original Red Bank Mutual Library, started in a Broad Street clothing store, listed only 144 books. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) That...
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO TARGET IDLE TRAILERS
Unhitched trailers, like this one in front of the house at 90 Bank Street, have been the subject of complaints. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Responding to complaints, the Red Bank council plans to strengthen its law on work trailers left curbside. Under amendments on Thursday night’s...
RED BANK: NEW HPC EXPECTED ON AGENDA
The borough’s Washington Street Historic District, the location of many applications the HPC reviews, was created in 2009. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) At its semimonthly meeting scheduled for Thursday night, the council plans to appoint new and returning members to the commission, Councilperson Kristina Bonatakis, said last week.
RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
T. Thomas Fortune, below, and the cultural center dedicated to him in his onetime Red Bank home, above. (Above photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) When the Black newspaper editor and civil-rights activist T. Thomas Fortune moved to Red Bank in the summer of 1901, his arrival was front-page news. “Mr. Fortune is one of the most noted colored men of the country,” the Red Bank Register reported.
RED BANK: MODERN HOME PLAN APPROVED
The house at 211 River Street, above, is to be demolished and replaced with the structure below. (Photo by John T. Ward; rendering by Catherine Franco. Click to enlarge.) Meanwhile, the owner of a postage-stamp-sized lot will have to wait to find out if a neighbor makes a purchase offer before he can proceed with his plans for a new house.
RED BANK: TRIAL BIKE LANES ASSESSED
Cyclists gathered at Canal Street and Hudson Avenue, above, and pedaling along East Bergen Place, at right, during the Red Bank Porchfest townwide music festival Sunday. In addition to numerous pedestrians moving from stage to stage, the event appeared to bring out several hundred cyclists, many of whom used temporary bike lanes set up with assistance from the transportation nonprofit EZ Ride to get around town.
RED BANK: TWO HOMES ON AGENDA
Plans for two single-family homes, both needing variances, are scheduled for review by the Red Bank zoning board Thursday night. • At 1 Berry Street (seen at top) – on a short block between Central Avenue and South Pearl Street – new owner Jacob Morales proposes building a home on a vacant, undersized lot.
RED BANK: POLICE CHASE & NAB SUSPECTS
The incident began with a report of car burglaries in the parking lot at Grandville Towers, police said. ( Archive photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) At about 2:38 a.m., police responded to a report by a witness of “multiple males” wearing all black clothing and face masks burglarizing cars parked in the lot outside the Grandville Towers apartment high-rise on Morford Place, Frazee told redbankgreen in a statement.
RED BANK: BOARD OKS NEW HEIGHT LIMITS
Navesink Riverside Residences and Marina (formerly Riverview Towers), center, and the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, to its right, are in the waterfront zone. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARD. Red Bank’s planning board made quick work of approving two pending ordinances Monday night.
RED BANK: BROAD REOPENS TO TRAFFIC
After a four-and-a-half-month closure, the northern blocks of Broad Street in downtown Red Bank were reopened to vehicular traffic Monday. The lowering of the traffic bollards at three intersections marked the season’s end of the in-street shopping and dining plaza known as Broadwalk, which this year began May 15 and ended Sunday.
RED BANK: PORCHFEST ROLLS AND SHINES
For the second year in a row, the sun shone Red Bank’s Porchfest townwide music festival Sunday. The five-hour event, a fundraiser for the housing nonprofit HABcore, offered peripatetic audiences opportunities to hear classical music, bluegrass, hard rock and more by 90-something acts (including a spotted lanternfly) performing on 25 porches, driveways, in back yards and at least one gazebo.
RED BANK: SKIES CLEAR, OKTOBERFEST ROCKS
Delayed a week by rain, and nearly drenched by more precipitation on its-rain-or-shine backup date, Red Bank Oktoberfest teemed with good cheer Saturday afternoon. The first-time event went off just as skies cleared from a morning of rain, drawing some 2,000 attendees to sip locally made beer and liquor and enjoy food and music in Edmund Wilson Plaza, between Triumph Brewing Company and the Two River Theater. Volunteer firefighters were among the volunteers helping keep sample cups filled.
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