Today is Monday, April 1 and on this day in 1955 Tony DeMarco from the North End won the World’s Welterweight title. Known as the “Flame and Fury of Fleet Street”, DeMarco is honored with a statue on the corner of Hanover and Cross Streets. He will also be inducted into the International Boxing Hall Read More…
The 109th Fisherman’s Feast in Honor of La Madonna Del Soccorso Di Sciacca is scheduled for Thursday, August 15 through Sunday, August 18, 2019 in Boston’s North End at North, Fleet and Lewis Streets. Opening ceremonies start at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday night when the statue of La Madonna Del Soccorso will leave her permanent chapel Read More…
The decade-long effort to protect Long Wharf‘s open space by a group of current and former North End residents (dba, the North End Ten) received another win this week with a Superior Court judgement against the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA, now known as the Boston Planning & Development Agency). [See Mahajan et al. Read More…
