Amy Dwyer, Government and Community Affairs Manager of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, updated the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA) on happenings in the North End Parks. Ms Dwyer also addressed Parcel 12 planning including the possibility of a dog park. A community workshop is tentatively scheduled in mid-March 2014. View the video Read More…
Our story begins in Southern Italy from where almost all North Enders originated especially the hill towns surrounding Avellino and Sicily. The Italians who traveled to America were desperately poor and led an agrarian life which had changed little since the Middle Ages. The voyage itself was perilous and they all traveled in Third Class Read More…
On January 17, 1950, the Great Brink’s Robbery took place in Boston’s North End at the corner of Commercial and Prince Streets. Known today as the “Brink’s Garage,” the property marks where $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities were taken in the “crime of the century” and the largest Read More…
