On Saturday, March 28, 2015, members from the St. Lucy Society headed out to the Perkins School for the Blind to attend their Annual Easter Egg hunt. There were many “beeping” Easter Eggs hidden throughout the school gym and auditorium. The children had to listen for the beeping in order to find the Easter Read More…
The folks at Google Maps have brought the classic arcade game, Pac-Man, to life on the streets. In what appears to be an April Fool’s “feature,” you can make any street map into working Pac-Man board. In the screenshot above, Pac-Man is on Hanover Street near St. Stephen’s Church where the Freedom Trail turns to go Read More…
The North End Athletic Association (NEAA) is happy to announce the release of their schedules for T-Ball (ages 4-5), Minors (ages 6-8), and Majors (ages 9-12) baseball. Registrations have been received at an all-time high as it appears everyone is done with this winter. Commissioner Ralph Martignetti stated, “I know there is still snow on the Read More…
by Mary Wright, RN, health educator at North End Waterfront Health Wednesday April 1, 2015 is the American Heart Association’s “National Walking Day.” Heart disease is the number one killer in the US. Introducing more physical activity into your life is one way to lower your risk of heart disease. Your goal should be to get Read More…
The Abstract Sculpture, a public art split dodecahedron at the Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway, was reconfigured this week for the 2015 season. The new configuration of the Abstract Sculpture is quite a dramatic change going from one of the tallest arrangements to a more squat, horizontal shape. The annual configuration is the fourth since the park was Read More…
Seven years ago, the city of Boston joined the national Scripps Spelling Bee competition and announce that it would begin to send a representative to the finals in Washington DC. And right there at the beginning, the Nazzaro Center has been instrumental in seeing that the North End community was included. And so, for the Read More…
Mayor Walsh has asked for help in re-making City Hall Plaza. He has resorted to Twitter to re-invent, re-imagine, re-envision #CityHallPlaza. In letters, radio commentary and Twitter, Bostonians have chimed in. Art exhibits, a baseball diamond, a roller rink, Yo-Yo Ma’s music garden idea, trees, an inexplicable suggestion for an “enhanced multimodal hub-ness”—all these ideas Read More…
Update! The Greenway Conservancy is extending the deadline for this contest to Thursday, April 2nd at 3pm. The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy has announced a social media contest asking Bostonians one simple question: When will it FINALLY reach 70 degrees in Boston? Using the #GreenwayOver70 to aggregate responses, the Greenway is asking Bostonians to think optimistically Read More…
Boston Public Works has announced that mechanical street sweeping resumes citywide on April 1, 2015. Don’t get ticketed or towed! Look at the posted street signs for the specific day and time. Note that the City has extended street sweeping to include the 5th week of each month. For example, if your street is normally Read More…
This week brings April fools and a wealth of events leading into Easter weekend! In addition to a few public meetings and hearings, Easter events will take place over the weekend and Wednesday marks 60 years since Tony DeMarco won the World Welterweight Title! Monday, March 30 12:00pm Snow Removal Hearing at Boston City Hall This is regarding Read More…
The Boston Redevelopment Authority wants to convince you that urban renewal is a good thing. Kicking off this week is a series of public meetings to extend the BRA’s authority to control development using its enhanced powers over the zoning code. Urban renewal allows the BRA to clear property titles and seize privately owned land Read More…
The support that NorthEndWaterfront.com receives is epic in many ways — through the dozens of neighborhood groups, non-profits, businesses, our great commentators and most importantly, from you – the readers. The rollout of our new Patron program has been going great! I am truly thankful to those that are voluntarily contributing to the site as it Read More…