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Sunday Globe Magazine: “The Boston Waterfront Has Arrived”

Phyllis Rugnetta, Mary Giuffreda, and Nancy Caruso joined fellow North End resident Frank Ania for a game of bocce on the North End waterfront. This 1998 photo is included in the Globe’s gallery associated with the May 13, 2012 article, “The Boston Waterfront has Arrived.” View the entire gallery. Tom Keane writes “The Boston Waterfront [...]

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Greenway Conservancy Considers Its Funding Options

There are several reports out on Tuesday’s meeting of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. The Boston Herald’s Erin Smith continues to build on her series of articles questioning the non-profit’s funding and salaries. Officials at the embattled Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy — under political pressure for its executives’ six-figure salaries and bonuses — have [...]

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Trade and Craft Making at North Bennet Street School Featured in Boston Globe

Making Magic at the North Bennet Street School, by Yvonne Abraham of the Boston Globe, features the North End trade school. Entering the 127-year-old trade and craft school on the corner of Salem and North Bennet streets in the North End is like going back in time. Furniture-making students bend over benches, creating intricate inlays [...]

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Globe Travel: North End vs. Federal Hill

This week’s Boston Globe travel section compares the offerings found in the Little Italy section of Boston versus Providence. Yes, it’s the North End against Federal Hill.  These competition articles are interesting, but like the endless cannoli debates, there is no rule saying you can’t have more than one! Here is the headline rundown: Parking: [...]

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Take a Culinary Tour Through the North End With the Pallotta Sisters

The Palotta sisters have been everywhere lately, including the “Today Show” and “Ciao Italia” not to mention scoring the win against Bobby Flay earlier in the year. Now, take a culinary walk with Carla and Christine as the NEBO Restaurant (NEBO = North End Boston) chefs meander around the neighborhood with Kathleen Pierce, Globe travel [...]

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Globe’s “Perils of Parking” Identifies Commercial Wharf West in Top 10 List of Towing Hot Spots

  The Boston Globe’s Andrew Ryan and Matt Carroll recently investigated and published an article on the questionable towing practices in private lots throughout the city. (See Perils of Parking: A City on the Hook.) “Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Globe requested all the towing data the City of Boston had on file [...]

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Improv Asylum Gears Up For “No Rest for the Wicked Funny” Benefiting Globe Santa

  No Rest for the Wicked Funny is a 24-hour improvised performance held at Improv Asylum at 216 Hanover Street in Boston’s North End. This amazing event is filled with celebrity guests, live auctions and the best part… all monies generated go directly to GLOBE SANTA. If you can’t make the event, you can still [...]

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Herald Poll and Globe Editorial Support Proposed Boston HazMat Truck Ban

With over 3,000 votes, the results of a Boston Herald web poll this week were decisively in favor of prohibiting hazmat trucks from Boston. The final results were 71% supporting a ban and 29% voting in favor of the truckers. These web polls are far from scientific, but this was a notable end result given [...]

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YMCA Withdraws from Plans to Build on Greenway

There was a lot of ink spilled this week on the news that the YMCA has officially withdrawn from its plans to build on Parcel 6 of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Of course, this is hardly a surprise since the YMCA (1) had not raised any significant money for the project, (2) previously identified [...]

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One-Way Traffic and Wider Sidewalks Proposed for Hanover Street in Boston Globe

Boston Globe’s Meghan E. Irons reports the idea of one-way traffic on Hanover Street, including wider sidewalks and al fresco dining, as proposed by the North End Chamber of Commerce. “We are getting more people than Faneuil Hall, Chinatown, Newbury Street,’’ said Frank De Pasquale, head of the North End Chamber of Commerce, which is [...]

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Meet the 2012 Candidates for NEWNC, North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (Video)

Candidates for Saturday’s election for North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council, NEWNC, introduced themselves this week at the council’s monthly [...]

Four North End Eateries Receive Support at Neighborhood Council Meeting (Video)

The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council, NEWNC, voted to support four North End restaurant applications currently pending in front [...]

NEMPAC Presents “Cabaret” on May 30, 2012

Looking for a night of laughter and fun? You’ve found the right spot. We are very excited to invite you [...]

Celebrity Chef Todd English Faces New Lawsuit Over Kingfish Hall at Faneuil Hall Marketplace

Celebrity chef and restaurant owner Todd English is facing a $1 million+ lawsuit due to unpaid rent at Kingfish Hall [...]

Philip Frattaroli Runs (and Finishes) Boston Marathon to Help UMass ALS Champion Fund

North Ender, NEWNC member and Ducali Pizzeria & Bar owner, Philip Frattaroli, ran the 2012 Boston Marathon raising $30,628 for [...]

Ward Boss Lomasney

Martin Lomasney Legend & Wit Live on in New Exhibit (May 15 – August 4, 2012) Ward Boss Lomasney, a [...]