Neighborhood View of the Day: I stopped by opening night for NEMPAC’s presentation of Cosi Fan Tutte, a fully staged opera production including a live orchestra. Your last chance to catch it at Faneuil Hall is tonight, Friday, June 28th. (For those that can’t speak Italian, there are subtitles.) See NEMPAC.org for tickets. A public Read More…
Friday, June 28th, is the last day of school at Boston Public Schools, including the North End’s Eliot K-8 School. It can’t come a day too soon for the kids that had a sweltering week in the building without air conditioning and temperatures reaching over 90 degrees. CBS Boston interviews Eliot Principal Traci Walker Griffith Read More…
The Harbor Link Gardens were officially opened this week with a ribbon cutting ceremony on the Old Northern Avenue Bridge. The project, once dubbed the Bridge of Flowers, installed 12 giant planters filled with horticultural masterpieces selected to absorb the harsh salt, sun and wind conditions on the popular pedestrian walkway. The public / private Read More…
The North End Chamber of Commerce (NECC) will be meeting on Tuesday, July 2nd at 3:30 p.m. in St. Leonard’s Hall, 35 Prince Street. All North End/Waterfront business owners are welcome to attend. According to NECC President, Donna Freni, the July 2nd meeting will be the second in a series of monthly meetings planned for Read More…
6/28/13 UPDATE: Due to the rain forecast, this work has been postponed. New dates will be distributed when available. The following flyer is being distributed by MassDOT in the area of Endicott, Stillman, Cooper, N. Margin and Cross Streets in the North End. In addition to the ramps being closed overnight, MassDOT is preparing residents Read More…
The weekly Boston Police Journal Log shows reported incidents in the North End / Waterfront area, courtesy of BPD District A-1. Robbery / Firearm 06/26/13 2:18am Convenience store clerk at 7-Eleven store, Hanover St. and Commercial St., reports an unknown male suspect entered the store carrying a black handgun, jumped over the counter and threw Read More…
Word circulated on Twitter that @AtlasPyrovision would be setting off fireworks from a barge in Boston Harbor for a private event on Wednesday night. The show started around 10:15 pm and lasted for 30 minutes. Some cloud cover and smoke gave a surreal feeling to the display, like the movie “Independence Day.” Photos from the Read More…
The “City Hall to Go” truck will be making the rounds in the North End on the fourth Thursday of the month, starting on June 27, 2013. At 12:30 pm, the truck will be across from 480 Commercial Street next to the front of the Mirabella Pool entrance. Nation’s First City Hall on Wheels Hits Read More…
Mayor Thomas M. Menino received an award for Civic Leadership at the Downtown North Association Annual Meeting in recognition of the Mayor’s work over the past twenty years in the Downtown North neighborhood. Presenting the award to Mayor Menino is Bob O’Brien, Executive Director of DNA Photos by Isabel Leon, Mayor’s Office Photography Please visit Read More…
Mary DeWitte’s 4th grade class from the North End’s Eliot School visited Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway on Tuesday to meet the Park’s architect/designer, Don Tellalian. The students were especially intrigued with the Park’s Abstract Sculpture, a split dodecahedron, and how the geometric shape is annually reconfigured and why. Many walked the labyrinth and Read More…
Boston: Haymarket onramp to I-93 North and Sumner Tunnel onramp to I-93 North to close over night on Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29 Friday, June 28, at 8 p.m. until Saturday, June 29, at 9 a.m. and Saturday, June 29, from 10 p.m. to Sunday, June 30, 10 a.m. The Haymarket Read More…
That is the question North End resident and business owner, Toni Gilardi, asked when she shared this photo of an overflowing trash barrel on Richmond Street today.