North End residents Benny DeLuca and Brenda Moschella didn’t have to go far for a great summer evening of music as the legendary Tavares performed August 3 at the Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series on City Hall Plaza. (Photo by Jon Seamans) Stephen Reppucci of the North End, at center with his 11½-year-old Yorkshire terrier Read More…
Do you know that dark corner on the side of City Hall? It’s now the new “City Hall Porch” and accessible on the 3rd floor mezzanine. The Porch adds to the recently installed Front Lawn as efforts to encourage people to use City Hall Plaza. The Porch features bench seating and lawn chairs. The Front Lawn Read More…
The Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco party returned to City Hall Plaza on Friday night. Many took advantage of the free skate rentals while some just dressed up to dance.
Because nothing is more London Boston than a ferris wheel… The remake of City Hall Plaza took another step forward with a bid awarded to the owners of TD Garden, Delaware North / Boston Garden Development Corporation. Working with city officials, the private group will look to add new programming elements and amenities to the Read More…
Millennium will soon finish its tower, and new people will move in. Avalon Bay’s residential tower adjacent to the Tip O’Neil building has topped off. A hotel and residential building is rising on Dalton Street in the Back Bay. 888 Boylston is going up too. Eight million square feet of construction is slated for the Read More…
City Hall Plaza is maligned, disparaged, abhorred and then used whenever we have a citywide celebration—think World Series. The place has been poorly maintained for almost 50 years while serving as a staging area, a site for the Big Apple Circus and concerts and a parking lot for unidentified cars. Parts of it have been Read More…
Sure. I have some feelings about Boston’s City Hall Plaza. I like parks and I like outdoor activities, concerts and World Cup celebrations. I like a good City celebration as much as the next guy, but I can’t stand City Hall Plaza and I won’t be happy until every square foot from Congress to Cambridge, Read More…
Mayor Walsh has asked for help in re-making City Hall Plaza. He has resorted to Twitter to re-invent, re-imagine, re-envision #CityHallPlaza. In letters, radio commentary and Twitter, Bostonians have chimed in. Art exhibits, a baseball diamond, a roller rink, Yo-Yo Ma’s music garden idea, trees, an inexplicable suggestion for an “enhanced multimodal hub-ness”—all these ideas Read More…
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh pushed the button on Wednesday to raise the tent for the Big Apple Circus. The roof of the Big Top is 63 feet high. The circus kicks off on March 25th and runs through early May. More information at BigAppleCircus.org. Photo by Isabel Leon, Mayor’s Office Photography
City Hall is sponsoring a series of Wednesday Night Concerts at Government Center on City Hall Plaza for Summer 2013. Featured acts include The Stylistics, Disco Night, Strictly Sinatra, Charlie Thomas & the Drifters and Roberta Flack. The concert schedule is shown below.