Some know him as Steve. If you work in downtown Red Bank, the sky's the limit, especially on a sunny day. But you better move fast if you want seconds at the borough soup kitchen. If there's one thing Red Bank can promise shoppers, it's variety. The makeup of both stores and shoppers is changing.
New shops come in to fill ready-made specialty niches for vintage clothing or African art.
It's midafternoon at the Albert S. Miller Shoe Co., and store manager Don Strohmenger is ringing up the sale of a pair of ivory nubuck walking shoes for Sue Kuhar. On this warm June afternoon, the inside of Johnny's Jazz Market is cool. But coming into the old Woolworth's building is a retailer trying to recapture that warm feeling of the past, Restoration Hardware. It's a typical day as trading starts on Wall Street. And in Red Bank, a bunch of men in T-shirts and shorts crowd around a computer to watch numbers dance across the screen.