I thoroughly enjoy watching you walk your dogs through #LombardPlace, that “L” shaped alley that connects Prince and Thacher Streets, the one with a bit of cobblestone and some greening. What I’m not enjoying is whomever thought it was OK for your dog to poop in front of the stairs to my landing. Yes, you Read More…
Last week, using the BOS:311 app on my phone, I reported this unsightly graffiti. I am pleased to report that not even four days later, I looked out to see a young man scrubbing that graffiti off the building. I’d like to encourage North End residents to download the BOS:311 cell phone App. It DOES work. The city of Read More…
The new 20-something roofdeck party fun is apparently tossing cigarette butts into the street/alley below. A couple weeks ago, it was throwing beer bottles and even a thick Alibi bourbon bottle, which didn’t break but which landed with the most disturbing high-pitched thud. I spent quite a while Friday picking up dozens of cigarette butts out of Lombard Read More…
Friday afternoon, I came home to the building littered with an oversized addressed mailing from Clean Energy Option. The official-looking envelope, complete with perforated edges, instructions for opening, and a NOTICE in bold capital letters, announcing NOTICE: MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS CAN NOW CHOOSE THE SOURCE OF THEIR ELECTRICITY After peeling open the envelope, I found a “Dear Read More…
This photo shows more than half a dozen hypodermic needles I discovered dumped under my landing on Lombard Place. In conversation with the city of Boston “Needle Patrolman,” I learned the block of Prince Street from Salem up to and including the Gassy has become a needle patrol hotspot. “Neighborhood Photo” is a regular feature on NorthEndWaterfront.com. Email your photos 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…
North End real estate agents have got to start protecting the golden egg laying goose that is the North End. North End real estate agents live or die by the reputation of this neighborhood, the reputation that the North End is a community, a community in which we know each other by name, we care Read More…