Come celebrate autumn with the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA) on Wednesday, October 30 at 6 p.m. at the Pilot House. Curious about how to get involved with your neighborhood? Come and find out about NEWRA. Non-members, friends and neighbors welcome. See the full event notice below.
Today is Tuesday, October 29 and Halloween is just a couple of days away which means swarms of trick-or-treaters and their families will take to the streets. Be sure to check out Boston.com’s guide on times, street closures, weather updates and more. Here’s what else you need to know for today… 10:30AM Toddler Story Time. Read More…
ABCD’s North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center (NE/WE NSC)’s annual fundraising event Buona Sera: An Evening with Friends raised nearly $40,000 to aid low-income and elderly residents of the North End and West End who turn to the center for assistance. For the seventh year in a row, Ron Della Chiesa of WGBH and the Boston Read More…
WHO & WHAT: Ian Urbina, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the New York Times, will discuss his book, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, which explores the rampantly criminal world that runs lawless on the world’s oceans. Too big to police and under no clear international authority, the oceans’ vastness leaves Read More…
Over the weekend, a group of young men were caught on video vandalizing the benches in the Gassy, also known as DeFilippo Playground and Prince Street Park. Boston Police A-1 later found and arrested the one with the angle cutter. He said the benches were in the way of them doing bike stunts.
The Eliot Upper School in Boston’s North End kicked off Mass STEM week with week-long collaborative projects in science, technology, engineering and math. Lieutenant Governor Polito as well as Vertex CEO Dr. Jeffery Leiden, DESE Commissioner Jeff Riley, Executive Director of Lynch Foundation, Katie Everett, Jill Shah, President of the Shah Foundation visited the Eliot School to launch Read More…
Signs were put up Monday at the corner of Salem and Cross Streets to officially announce the future arrival of Chase Bank. J.P. Morgan Chase announced a large-scale expansion in the Boston area back in October 2018 with over 60 new bank branches and 130 ATMs, including a proposed location in Boston’s North End. In Read More…
The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), in collaboration with other City of Boston departments, invited the Downtown and Chinatown community on Thursday, October 24 to participate in the PLAN: Downtown Community Priorities Workshop. Participants were updated on the planning work completed to date, while exploring preliminary recommendations and public space improvements identified by PLAN: Read More…
Monday’s high tide brought flooding to the North End’s Lewis Wharf. A “wicked high tide” is expected to bring more coastal flooding on Tuesday, when there will be a 12-foot high tide at 12:35 p.m. Similar conditions are predicted for Wednesday afternoon, when rainwater will add to the high tides. Photo submitted by Davida Carvin. Read More…
Vittorio Forcellati of Medford formerly of the North End, unexpectedly passed away at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on October 25, 2019 surrounded by his loving family at the age of 75. Beloved husband of Erminia (Picillo) Forcellati. Devoted father of Angela D’Esposito and her husband Antonio of Medford, Joseph Forcellati and his wife Cara of Read More…
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of the Public Garden invite you to the first Boston Common Master Plan Open House on October 29 between 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street. A short speaking program will begin at 6:30 p.m. The goal of the Master Plan is to create a Common that Read More…
Today is Monday, October 28 and last week it was reported that a local family solved a 37-year-old puzzle and discovered a hidden talisman buried under home plate in Langone Park in the North End, read more on The Boston Globe. Here’s what else you need to know for the week ahead… 12:30PM Seniors Movie Matinee. Read More…