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RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
RED BANK: Opening this month, exhibit honoring editor and activist T. Thomas Fortune looks at his life, work and legacy.
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MIDDLETOWN: GEORGE BOWDEN DIES
MIDDLETOWN: George Bowden, longtime Red Bank resident and champion of historic preservation, died Sunday. He was 92 years old.
RED BANK: FORTUNE ‘MIRACLE’ COMPLETED
RED BANK: Once facing demolition, the onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has now been restored. You can tour it this weekend.
MIDDLETOWN: FUNDRAISER FOR BOWDENS
MIDDLETOWN: A GoFundMe account seeks to help an elderly couple, former Red Bank volunteers, who were injured by a fire in their home earlier this month.
RED BANK: NEW HISTORY IN FORTUNE HOUSE
RED BANK: Builder finds new history, and a lot of rot, in effort to restore Fortune House, onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist.
ON THE GREEN: A FORTUNE IN HISTORIC VALUE
SHREWSBURY: The Eastern Branch Library hosts an October 19 panel and an ongoing exhibit about the fight to rescue and restore Red Bank's historic Fortune House.
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE’S GOOD FORTUNE
RED BANK: The crumbling Fortune House gives journalism students a taste of what it's planned to become: a cultural and educational center.
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE RESCUE PLAN OK’D
RED BANK: A plan to save the Fortune House, and build 31 apartments out back, wins zoning board approval..
SAVING A FORTUNE, IN RB REAL ESTATE
Red Bank’s T. Thomas Fortune House, pictured in a 2011 file photo, is the subject of an ongoing effort to rescue and preserve the property as a community cultural center.Continue reading "SAVING A FORTUNE, IN RB REAL ESTATE"
ROUND TWO FOR FORTUNE HOUSE
A ‘for sale’ was planted out front of the T. Thomas Fortune House on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "ROUND TWO FOR FORTUNE HOUSE"
The former home of African-American journalist T. Thomas Fortune is safe — for now, that is. There's demolition work underway at the historic Fortune house property on Drs. James Parker Boulevard, but no reason to be alarmed, says unofficial Red...
Today's Sunday Star-Ledger has an extensive piece about the black activist journalist T. (Timothy) Thomas Fortune and the effort to save his longtime Red Bank home from the wrecking ball — or, as the article's author puts it, "from predatory...
A proposed deal that would have put the historic T. Thomas Fortune house into the hands of developers is dead for now, redbankgreen has learned. Real estate broker Geoff Brothers, who is handling the sale, confirmed that the would-be buyers,...
A group of undisclosed buyers has made an offer for the historic T. Thomas Fortune house on Drs. Parker Boulevard, the Asbury Park Press reports today. A contract has yet to be signed by the sellers, the paper reports. But...
The T. Thomas Fortune House, home to one of America's first African-American newspaper publishers — and coiner of the term 'African-American' — is among New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic locales, a statewide conservation group said yesterday. The inclusion of...
RED BANK: GOODBYES AND HELLOS
Councilman Art Murphy, who resigned last week, seen here in 2014. Below, George and Gladys Bowden, who were honored for decades of volunteer work. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: GOODBYES AND HELLOS"
The prospective buyers of the historic T. Thomas Fortune house property want to develop the site into affordable housing, according to a press release from the borough Historic Preservation Commission. The names of the would-be buyers have yet to be...
Preservation Red Bank, a private-sector organization that works to allow old buildings to keep getting older, will hold its annual meeting this Sunday in one of the borough's oldest — a place that all but creaks with character. The group...
Considering its dire implications, the news earlier this month that a Red Bank house had been had been designated one of New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic sites was oddly encouraging to a near-octagenarian with a weatherbeaten voice and fu...
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FEELING LOW?
This very, very, very low-riding Lincoln Continental (due in part to multiple flat tires) sits in contrast to the elevated super jacked Chev ...
CURB YOUR ROADRUNNER
The newly completed mural on the side of taco-lovers mecca International Mexican Grocery at 82 Shrewsbury Avenue features a woman with a roa ...
CURB YOUR SNOWMAN
These two forlorn characters, left on the curb of the parking lot on Wallace Street just east of Broad Street, are in for some serious miser ...
SANTA AND SMILES LIGHT THINGS UP
Holiday Light Fun with the Holiday Express and Santa. Downtown Red Bank (photo by Partyline contributor Adam Kaplan)  
SWIMMING RIVER SUNSET
Recent sunset from Swimming River Park on W. Front St. with the shoreline of Red Bank in the background.  (photo by Partyline contributor T ...
RED BANK, RED CHAIR, ORANGE SKY
A Red living room chair sits on the shore of the Swimming River as the sun sets Sunday. (photo by Brian Donohue)
BROAD STREET GETS LITTY
Turn up the sound to hear the crowd’s countdown to the annual tree lighting. 🎄🌟✨ Santa, The Grinch, a dog dressed as the Grinc ...
SOGGY PICKLE
Several days after a rain, the new pickleball/tennis courts at East Side Park are still partially under water.  Partyline contributor Craig ...
BLACK FRIDAY HITS JACK’S
It’s not even 8am and there’s a line outside of Jack’s Music Shoppe down to Starbucks. Music fans are parked there for  ...
👀 THANKSGIVING EVE FESTIVITIES IN FULL SWING
It wasn’t even 10PM and there was a packed house at Red Rock on Wharf Ave. Blocks away on Monmouth Street, an equally impressive line ...
EARLY THANKSGIVING AT ELSIE’S
Elsie’s Thanksgiving Sub is almost as iconic as Elsie’s itself. On special for $10.99. It even has the cranberry sauce.
MONDAY MORNING QB
The license plate frame on this car parked in a lot in town reflects the sentiment perhaps many who plan fantasy football feel on a November ...
BRING THAT SHEET RIGHT IN HERE
A construction worker waits while a crane sends a stack of sheet rock up to the third story of the new apartment building being built at 120 ...
ELUSIVE SHADOW “MURAL” APPEARS
This pic is a little tricky because it only appears during a sunny day. It is next to 117 Monmouth St in an empty lot awaiting construction. ...
RED BANK FARMERS MARKET: ONE LAST WEEK
Fabulous weather to visit the RB Farmer’s Market Sunday. The market closes for the season after next weekend. (Photo by Partyline cont ...
RED BANK SUNRISE
View of the sun rising over Red Bank Friday morning taken from the docks at Swimming River Park. (photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim ...
HAWKISH OUTLOOK
A normally skittish species, this red-tailed hawk allowed humans to walk directly under the light pole on which it was perched in the aftern ...
ARMLESS MAILBOX GUARDIAN
This character was seen guarding the mail atop a mailbox on River St.
YOU LOSE YA SHOES?
A pair of size 12 blue Italian-made Bugatchi shoes were left next to the trash can at Peters Place and Broad Street. Slightly worn, but stil ...
HOLIDAY EXPRESS KICKS OFF SEASON
Holiday Express rolled into Red Bank on Saturday to celebrate the start of the holiday season at Lunch Break, the nonprofit that provides me ...