Category: Red Bank

Comment Is Free…

Yep! Free. RBr is committed to commenting on community, culture, equity, and generally just shooting the breeze about Red Bank. Anyone with a stake in the town is invited to make a contribution and keep their views in one place…

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The Parklet you didn’t know you wanted…

Our cool little town of Red Bank has recently seen another addition to its ever more hazardous streetscape. The borough has installed a “parklet” on the at the busy junction of Monmouth and Broad. This “parklet” was spitballed at a…

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Take The Blue Train…

It was really good to see that at least one Red Bank institution, Red Bank Green, is starting to take an interest in what’s going on in the town apart from just some developer’s nocturnal fantasy. This is my response…

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Red Bank where The Car Is The Star…

When trying to remedy Red Bank’s traffic woes, remember, that it was never built for cars… Broad St, c.1905. People strolling and chatting in the street, kids riding bicycles, a 19thC tram system which stretched from the Bayshore to AC……

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Transit? It’s so last century…

… or is it? If all New Jersey’s railroads still existed, it would make one hell of a transit map, looking like some small European country. And this doesn’t even include the tramlines…

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Happy New Year!

Are You READY! For This? Red Bank Zoning Board meeting: Thursday, 1/4/2024 @6.30pm: ZB Agenda 1.4.2024.pdf (redbanknj.org)

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Red Cross, Red Flag, Red Bank…

This is not Red Bank NJT Station, but Aberdeen-Matawan, where the red cross of death has recently appeared on the station house. It appears that being listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic…

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Lost Horizon

Red Bank may be about to lose its potential as an expanded transit hub Red Bank is about to lose its weekly southbound rail freight movement from Sayreville, over NJT lines through to the old CNJ link and onwards towards…

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Now. Where were we? Oh yes…

2023 Master Plan up for discussion It has been a while, but here we are, on the cusp of a new form of government and a new era, that of the 2023 Master Plan. Whether “non-partisan” elections illuminate the machinations…

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