7-Eleven at 464 Hanover Street (on the corner of Commercial Street) received support for new signage this week from both the North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) and North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA). The design will be identical to that recently installed on the other 7-Eleven at 340 Hanover Street (corner of N. Bennet Read More…
The Callahan Tunnel was rededicated on Saturday morning by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Acting MassDOT Secretary Frank DePaola, former Secretary Jeff Mullan, City Veterans Commissioner Francisco Urena, Lt. Callahan’s niece and other family members presided over the ceremony. The tunnel originally opened on Veterans’ Day in 1961, and was named in memory of Lt. Read More…
It could be anything from local stories to development plans, or simply just North End / Waterfront news. Regardless, we put together the most popular posts on NorthEndWaterfront.com, allowing you to catch up on the top stories from around the neighborhood. Top Posts This Week: Letter: Responding to North Square Design Proposal A letter was submitted Read More…
The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) voted 8-0 in support of a petition to change the occupancy at 59-61 Endicott Street, the former location of Pat’s Pushcart. Several years ago, a permit was inexplicably granted by the city ti convert the restaurant space into residential units. To make the change legal, in retrospect, the Read More…
The designated Haymarket Hotel development team, including Eamon O’Mara, Normandy Properties and Harbinger Development presented their latest plans at this week’s meeting of the North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC). Located at Parcel 9 along Blackstone Street and the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, the proposal includes a 10 story, 225 room hotel with 25,000 square feet of Read More…
For some, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony might smell like the air after a spring shower. For people in Seattle, it smells like Teen Spirit. For Julia Felix, it is the familiar smell of spruce and maple. She carves the soft wood with gentle care and hopes that she can bring the joy of music to the world Read More…
In this day and age, Twitter is one of the most popular, and quickest flowing sources of news. It is an interactive platform enabling people to keep up and contribute to the local buzz. Every week, I will be monitoring influential tweets related to the neighborhood, from #NorthEnd #NorthEndBoston, #BosWaterfront to #BostonWaterfront – with or without the hashtag’s. The top five Read More…
From this week’s Police blotter: Larceny/ Shoplifting 11/08/14 ~ 11:45am A store on Prince Street reports that a male suspect entered the store and was asking questions about items while a female stood outside. Once they were gone the worker noticed a 42 inch metal sculpture was missing. The following is the complete list of incidents Read More…
On Monday, November 10, 2014, the Eliot K-8 Innovation School raised $66,000.00 at its annual Fall Evening for Education at Vinoteca Di Monica in the North End. This event was generously hosted by the Mendoza family for the sixth year. Among the people in attendance were Mayor Marty Walsh, State Representative Aaron Michlewitz and Principal Traci Walker Griffith. Read More…
School officials hosted a meeting about the Eliot Upper School extension project and the ongoing construction at the site of the former North Bennet Street School in Boston’s North End. Community members heard a presentation from the architecture firm Finegold Alexander + Associates. Nancy Goodwin, the lead architect for the project, explained that the school will go through Read More…
Featured in Part 3, the final cartoon throwback of our series, is the Prized Cartoon that took first place in the contest by Our Boston Magazine. Published in the August, 1926 issue, the cartoon speaks to a lot of similar issues that North Enders face with parking today, almost 100 years later. Traffic, street closings, narrow one-way streets, sporadic Read More…
Five F-15 fighter jets from the Massachusetts Air National Guard did a Boston flyover on Thursday morning as part of a promotional media event. The jets flew as low as 1,000 feet over ground and followed a route from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield along Eastern Massachusetts, including Salem, Boston and Cape Cod. Read More…