Anna at the North End Vigil

Low-Cost Internet Program “Starry Connect” to Launch at Ausonia Apartments in the North End

Starry, Inc. is partnering with the Boston Housing Authority to launch “Starry Connect”, a pilot program aimed to provide free and low-cost internet access to housing authority residents. The program is being piloted at Ausonia Apartments in the North End. The program provides free, common area WiFi to building residents in the community rooms and hallways. Read More…

Google Street View Provides Virtual Experience for Freedom Trail Sites

Using its 360-degree online imagery, Google Street View has gone “off the streets” along Boston’s Freedom Trail sites. The interactive virtual experience is created using backpacks with 15 camera lenses each pointing in different directions allowing the Google system to stitch them into a panorama. The online destinations in the North End and other Boston sites adds to the Read More…

“North End by Map” Historical Geography Talk Dec. 1

Join the Leventhal Map & Education Center and the North End Branch of the Boston Public Library for a virtual exploration of history through maps on Tuesday, December 1st from 7 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. In the nineteenth century, where was the North End Branch Library? What was at the location where the library now Read More…