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News & Views for Boston's North End & Waterfront Community
There were many proud North Enders as part of the Sons of Liberty. Paul Revere gets most of the attention, but an emerging online archive is highlighting the exploits of North End hero Dr. and Major General Joseph Warren. Dr. Joseph Warren on the Web is actively archiving the life of this Hanover Street resident [...]
Residents and local business owners probably already figured out the recession ended just by looking at the number of people in the restaurants and shops, record tourists, surging real estate prices, more traffic, no parking, crowded T trains or the cranes in the air. City Hall released its official numbers today, mostly all showing a [...]
The Eliot K-8 Innovation School has a new website at www.eliotK8school.org. The site was created by the Eliot School Family Council to help centralize school information including classroom micro-sites accessible by parents. The Charter Street school is in the midst of a phased expansion to the former North Bennet Street School buildings and has recently [...]
Have you heard the news? In late November Governor Patrick signed off on a plan to make Massachusetts highways look like Times Square. He must have decided that trees, rolling meadows and a granite road cut or two just didn’t send the right message in the souped-up, electronic world we now live in. The Times [...]
Happy 2013! It’s a brand new start and time for something new from NorthEndWaterfront.com … Monthly Wallpaper Calendars for your computer desktop and mobile devices! Coming out every month, these wallpaper calendars will feature a local image of Boston’s North End or Waterfront. For January 2013, this photo is hot off the press (or SD [...]
There is a new Italian American magazine in town, Bostoniano! The name may sound familiar because it comes from the creator of the Bostoniano.info blog / website, published by Nicola Orichuia. Using the tag line, “Boston’s Italian American Voice,” the free monthly magazine dropped off its first issue this week to 20 locations in the [...]
Members of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association, NEWRA, voted 22-2 in favor of a new policy that would allow video and audio recordings at regular monthly meetings. The discussion and vote took place on December 13, 2012 at the Nazzaro Community Center. The official policy is: Videotaping or audiotaping of NEWRA regular monthly [...]
Matt Conti alerted me to this. More about Matt later, but for now, consider what he found. Zillow.com is a real estate web site that appears to be growing in influence. It is filled with listings, but also celebrity real estate gossip and assessments of real estate industry health across the country. Recently it rated [...]
A large banner advertisement hangs in the window at the Charles/MGH T station. These are beautiful windows. Why is this big ad there? $$$$$. First, I heard a 72-year old woman complain about this ad. Then a 10-year-old boy pointed it out, saying it was too big. It is hard to see from some angles, [...]
In an effort to streamline the logistics of those in need from the early September Cooper Street fire, neighbors have set up a Facebook page, called NorthEnd Relief. “We have a lot of folks prepared to help,” said organizer Rhonda Lee who is working with Mary Marenghi on the effort. The website is intended to [...]
With all the student move-ins happening this weekend, there is a useful website for residents to check where and when the City of Boston has issued a Street Occupancy Permit. These permits clear parking and curbspace for move-ins in front of the address. For example, the following link shows all the permits issued for Endicott [...]
NorthEndWaterfront.com has hit 1,000 “Likes” on Facebook! We started cross-posting a while ago and know that many readers now follow the blog exclusively through Facebook. In case you are reading this and want to do the same, you can find our Facebook page here and hit the “Like” button. A great way to share our [...]
One of the more popular ways to follow North End Waterfront .com is through the free e-newsletter that delivers the latest “News & Views” to your email inbox. Earlier in the year, we enhanced the format and increased the frequency so that a summary email to goes out a daily basis (only when there are [...]
The event website is now live for the May 31, 2012 Blazers & Baubles benefit for the Zack Heger Foundation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The waterfront cocktail party will be hosted by WCVB’s Bianca de la Garza at the Fairmont Battery Wharf. More details and information on ticket purchases can be found at www.blazersandbaubles.com.
I am introducing a new solution to bring the best of the both worlds to the comment system for NorthEndWaterfront.com. Commenters can continue to use the existing regular comment box or the new Facebook comment box. Now, you now have the choice of how you want to enter your comments on NorthEndWaterfront.com. When I changed [...]
NorthEndWaterfront.com has a real logo, finally! Coming up on the site’s third anniversary and exactly one month since introducing the new magazine grid format, I am very pleased to share the final design that is emblematic of our core mission. The logo bridges the local history of citizen journalism and the modern era of blogging, [...]
I always look forward to picking up my copy of the North End Regional Review every Tuesday and was honored to see this heartfelt commentary from longtime neighborhood reporter, Phil Orlandella. I agree with Phil that the Regional and NorthEndWaterfront.com complement each other in bringing timely information to the community. Recently, I was interviewed by [...]
If liquor is the lifeblood, then the North End would be the heart of Boston as graphically shown by the map-making geniuses at Bostonography.com. Using liquor license data compiled by the Boston Business Journal, Bostonography’s Tim Wallace created a density heat map of Boston and surrounding areas, entitled Boozeton, Massachusetts. The Boston liquor license density [...]
Almost 70% of the web poll voters “Love” or “Like” the new NorthEndWaterfront.com website style. Cool. And then, there is the 30% that “Hate It,” which has me emotionally devastated. (Not really. It’s the internet. Change is hard. I get it.) Most folks like the magazine-style grid layout and the “wow” factor of the big [...]
Founder and longtime publisher of the Beacon Hill Times, Karen Cord Taylor, turns her weekly column to the subject of digital groups that have formed in neighborhoods. Highlighted is the North End’s own NEWMA (North End / Waterfront Mothers Association) Google Group that currently has 645 members. The most active member and moderator is Jessica [...]
Journalist and North End resident, Bob Skole, is profiled in the latest installment of the digital narrative project, North End Stories. Skole worked for The Italian News, having interviewed Tony Bennett and the Defense Secretary for the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Check out all the entries at www.NorthEndStories.com.
The My Neighborhood Census Viewer was recently released by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, allowing the public to research data to the 2010 census block area. Using the viewer to create a rough area of the North End / Waterfront reveals the following: There are 11,753 residents in the North End / Waterfront. See the map [...]
The City of Boston launched Citizens Connect Live, an online chat which allows constituents to contact the Mayor’s Hotline via the City of Boston website. Chat agents will initially be available during normal business hours, and may direct users to online services and answer questions regarding city services. Use the “LIVE – CHAT NOW” Button [...]
Freedom Trail Announces First Official Smartphone Application The Freedom Trail Foundation is making the leap from the 17th to the 21st century with the first official Freedom Trail smartphone and tablet application. Available for iOS and Android devices, the new Freedom Trail® app features 16 official historic sites of Boston’s Freedom Trail. The first of [...]
Jeanne Dasaro of “North End Stories” presented at both NEWNC and NEWRA meetings this month to introduce her oral history project. North End Stories is a digital narrative that aims to collect, preserve, and share the stories of Italian-Americans whose families immigrated to Boston’s North End in the late 19th and early 20th century. Answering [...]
Our friends and fellow bloggers, Penny and Ed, at BostonZest.com come to the North End’s “The Wine Bottega” on Hanover Street. A North End search for life’s staples: bread, cheese, and…wine, led us to one of our favorite shops– The Wine Bottega. We asked owner Kerri Platt to help us find a special bottle that [...]
Boston.com’s Town Correspondent, Jeremy C. Fox, frames the debate regarding the proposed $2.9 million replacement carousel slated for the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. An interesting take in the article comes from the carousel community where the editor of Carousel News & Trader said: “the planners hadn’t consulted any carousel experts he’s spoken to and had [...]
Elaine McMillion has posted some clips from a documentary, “North End Project.” One of the more in-depth interviews is shown below, “Phil & Tony.” More information about “North End Project” can be found at ElaineMcMillion.com.
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS program is excited to host its 2nd annual Pics in the Parks free photography workshops in July and August. The workshops, held in a different park every Tuesday at 6 p.m., are open to people of all ages and skill levels who have a camera. Now in its [...]
In the North End story that went national and lingers on (and on), there are two new pieces out. The first is from Old North Church Vicar Stephen T. Ayres in the Boston Herald. Rev. Ayres says he explained to Palin immediately before her now famous comments, “how Revere founded the church’s bell-ringing guild in [...]
The North End / Waterfront parents group, known as NEWMA (North End / Waterfront Mothers Association) has updated their website, www.NEWMA.info. There are new playgroup and neighborhood resources as well as school and camp information. We are honored they are also embedding the NorthEndWaterfront.com calendar. NEWMA’s communication and email list remains active through the NEWMA [...]
In the final excerpt of the Chronicle TV5 episode on Hanover St., Taranta Restaurant is featured with Chef Jose Duarte’s Peruvian-Italian cuisine. Taranta is introducing quick-response (QR) squid ink fish monitoring and green, environmentally friendly technology. Taranta Restaurant – 210 Hanover Street Boston, MA 02113, 617-720-0052 More at the Chronicle website. View previous excerpts of [...]
NorthEndBoston.com’s Guild Nichols has re-tooled and launched his slick “new” site. Featured on the site are profiles of two neighborhood shops, “Andie Day” and “Mercato del Mare.” “Have you walked by the new offices of designer Andie Day on Hanover Street recently – just past the Fire Station? It’s a visual delight to behold. Either [...]
WCVB TV 5’s Chronicle covers the past and present of Hanover Street in an episode that aired on May 10, 2011. The promo description for the piece: Boston’s Hanover Street: it’s North End nightlife, Hub history and unique characters all mixed together on one very intriguing thoroughfare. Tonight, Anthony Everett eavesdrops on the local gossip [...]
It is not often that a North End business makes the pages of the Wall Street Journal, but that is what happened today for Where.com when the news emerged that eBay was acquiring the company for $135 million. Located on the third floor of 77 N. Washington St., Where builds location-based mobile apps for iPhones, [...]
James Foley, a reporter for GlobalPost, is being detained in Libya with other foreign journalists by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. (Click image for Facebook page.)GlobalPost, an international news organization headquartered at The Pilot House, Lewis Wharf in the North End/Waterfront, has dispatched a recovery team to Libya’s border crossing with Tunisia to seek release [...]