Each year the North End Christmas Fund, which is made up of members Social Service Agencies in the North End, raises money to provide a little Christmas Cheer to Families and Seniors in the North End that need help. It is not always a financial need, sometimes a person may have had a tough year Read More…
Three Things to Know for Monday! 1. Notable articles from around town: Boston Woman With Down Syndrome Starts Cookie Business, Dreams Big Collette Divitto’s cookie business is building right in her North End apartment, where she makes fresh batches of her “amazing” chocolate chip cookies that are dipped in cinnamon. Born with Down syndrome, the 26-year-old continues to utilize Read More…
For those of you old enough to remember, you will know what this means: There was 13,909 in attendance at the Nazzaro Center last Monday night. The NEAD FAMILY DINNER/FAMILY TALK with Mayor Marty Walsh packed the house. Entering the 8th year of a fantastic event that was the brainchild of deceased NEAD President Bobby Read More…
Enjoy the weekly recap of the top 5 posts from NorthEndWaterfront.com! Life on the Corner: It’s All About Jobs Looking at how the North End job market has evolved since old Italian laborers used to come home exhausted from ten hours of backbreaking work. Sharing a few old photos, one being Washington Street around 1953, shows Read More…
Two well-known New York celebrity chefs, Mario Batali & Joe Bastianich, decided to come to Boston and teach us provincials about Italian food. Their Italian food emporium, Eataly Boston, in the Prudential Center mall, is opening to the public later this week. I managed to get a press pass and here is a preview of Read More…
Three Things to Know for the Weekend! 1. Be sure to catch these articles: ‘A Very Emotional Day’: Ex-House Speaker Sal DiMasi Back in Boston After Prison Release Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi landed back in Boston after being granted a compassionate release due to his overwhelming health issues. View the video above and read more Read More…
The Old North Church Annual Christmas Concert will be held on Sunday, December 11th at 5:00 p.m. 193 Salem Street, Boston, MA. This years program includes arrangements of familiar Christmas carols and Christmas inspired works for choir and orchestra. The program includes German Baroque composer Christoph Graupner’s “Advent cantata”, Georg Philip Teleman’s Missa brevis, based Read More…
Wishing you the happiest of Thanksgivings this year from Matt and Conor at NorthEndWaterfront.com! We are most thankful for our passionate readers, our dedicated volunteer contributors and of course, our most loyal patrons and sponsors that help keep this site going. We’ll tease you that a new theme is coming in 2017 and some other changes … Read More…
This year marks the 10th year for the North End Holiday Shopping Stroll, coming on Friday, December 2nd to the local retail shops in the neighborhood. To kick off the occasion, the shop owners came together with some Boston influencers to the first ever North End Holiday Stroll Kickoff Reception, hosted by Il Molo with Read More…
The annual Italian Heritage Luncheon for North End seniors was held last week, hosted by the Boston Elderly Commission at the U.S. Coast Guard’s All Hands Club on Commercial Street. Mayor Marty Walsh attended as the group enjoyed good food, mingling and dancing. Photos by Phil Orlandella.
Join us for Handel’s Messiah this Holiday Season! We are thrilled to present our 2nd Holiday Concert of Handel’s “Messiah” Part I. The concert, conducted by Kristo Kondakci, will be held in the North End at the St. Stephen’s Church on Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the Read More…
The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park (FOCCP) kicked off the holiday season with their traditional annual lighting of the park’s signature trellises on Monday, November 21st. Local businesses and neighbors support the efforts of FOCCP, the all-volunteer neighborhood organization, to raise the funds needed to illuminate the trellis and 14 trees annually. Mayor Martin J. Read More…