City officials knew that asking North End residents to move their cars for winter street sweeping would not be popular, but they probably did not expect a partial walk-out at last night’s community meeting. With the promise of cleaner streets, the Public Works Department (PWD) made their case. Tempers flared when it was clear that Read More…
A group of local residents, loosely referred to as the “North End Ten,” celebrated the recent federal court ruling against the Boston Redevelopment Authority and its plans to lease the space at the end of Long Wharf for a restaurant development. The NE10 have been fighting the BRA since 2008 to keep the area as an open space park, in Read More…
I had a lot of questions reading in NorthEndWaterfront.com about the city of Boston contract with ExteNet Systems to install WiFi Antenna atop city-owned “shoebox” cement and steel “cobra” streetlight poles and atop traffic signal poles. Most of the NorthEndWaterfront.com report focused on aesthetics, emphasizing the contract did not extend to the “Acorn” or “gaslight” street light fixtures. What I Read More…
