Four North End area businesses were named finalists in BOSTON UNCOMMON a Boston.com reader-participation awards program featuring nightlife, art & culture, restaurants and innovation. The North End area finalists include: Best Tour Not for Tourists – North End Market Tour Best New Health and Business Power Boost – MyStryde Best New Trick from an Old Standby – Converse Read More…
Roseann Sdoia, a North End victim of the Boston Marathon bombings, continues to make strides including intense physical therapy to replace her right leg with a prosthetic limb. The Associated Press’ Bridget Murphy filed a report on Boston.com including the video embedded above. On April 15, she saw a flash of light at her feet Read More…
The situation at Christopher Columbus Park appears to have stabilized after a concerning homeless incident in the tot lot and reports of drug use in the rose garden. New lights and directed patrols have helped, but neighbors still report occasional problems especially when they dig around certain areas of the park. Boston.com’s Jeremy C. Fox Read More…
Boston.com Town Correspondent, Jeremy C. Fox, publishes a photo article of Downtown Boston’s cast iron buildings, starting with the oldest cast-iron building in New England, the McLauthinlin Building at 120 Fulton St. In the 2008 revised edition of the “AIA Guide to Boston,” Susan and Michael Southworth write that cast-iron architecture didn’t catch on in Read More…
Boston.com’s Jeremy C. Fox interviews Susan Voloshin, the new librarian at the North End Branch Library on Parmenter Street: Visitors to the North End Branch Library have been growing accustomed to a new face in recent months, as they’ve gotten to know the first new branch librarian in the neighborhood in more than 15 years. Read More…
Boston.com’s Town Correspondent, Jeremy C. Fox, frames the debate regarding the proposed $2.9 million replacement carousel slated for the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. An interesting take in the article comes from the carousel community where the editor of Carousel News & Trader said: “the planners hadn’t consulted any carousel experts he’s spoken to and had Read More…
Boston.com Your Town reporter, Jeremy C. Fox, updates us on the status of a new carousel expected to be located on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway in late 2012. The new carousel will be slightly closer to the North End than the current one, in a landscaped area between the Harbor Islands Pavilion and the Read More…
As part of its rollout of “Your Town” hyperlocal websites, Boston.com has released its North End website, along with sites for several other Boston neighborhoods. Boston.com is the web presence of the Boston Globe and owned by the New York Times. Using a (free) strategy of featuring local blogs, NorthEndWaterfront.com articles are being included as Read More…