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Northern Bank & Trust, holder of the mortgage, was revealed as the winner of last week’s auction for Yacht Haven, the bankrupt property off Commercial Wharf. The bank’s winning bid was $8 million, well above the $5 million level that most of the other bidders dropped out. The bank holds a $10.1 million mortgage on Read More…
Rowdy College Students on North St (Oh, in 1865)
College students causing havoc in the North End? Some things never change as shown by this find by Harvard Law Librarian, Lesley Schoenfeld. Manuscripts include records from the Wood Detective Agency, where founder James Rodney Wood wrote in 1879 about his former work in 1865 as a Boston Police Officer at Station 1 on Hanover Read More…
Solving a parking problem, Boston Style
A handicap ramp on the North St. sidewalk, at the corner of Commercial St., outside the real estate company office (former home of Sarni Cleaners) has been a gold-mine for the city and towing truck operators for quite some time. The ramp is not at a crosswalk. One was there years ago. The ramp is hard to Read More…



