An early morning fire broke out on the roof of 52 Hull Street, a 4-story residential building at the corner of Snowhill Street in Boston’s North End. Ladder 1 was called at 4:21 a.m. and with 5 alarms being subsequently ordered by 4:33 a.m. Boston Fire reported that no residents were home at time of fire and two firefighters were treated Read More…
A fire broke out early Saturday morning on Hull Street, up the block from Old North Church on the Freedom Trail in Boston’s North End. Residents are crediting a passerby for noticing it early on the roof, alerting those inside and the Boston Fire Department. (Photos above by Brendan O’Brien.) A building resident, Leo, shares Read More…
[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFMUFA7ArA] Boston Police have released this video showing a possible suspect in the sexual assault on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day. The video is from the area of Salem & Hull streets that night near the location of the attack. Police are interested in speaking with this individual immediately. If you are this Read More…
Boston Police are investigating a sexual assault at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday night, on the eve on St. Patrick’s Day, in the area of Hull and Salem Streets in Boston’s North End. This is the second indecent assault in a month on women living in the North End within a few blocks of each other. Read More…
“Maya’s Dragon,” labeled as such with a sign, is shrinking in the higher temperatures Monday. It was captured here on Sunday by Old North’s Rev. Steve Ayres at Hull and Snow Hill Streets.
[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZ_6EFSTbY] North End resident Tom Schiavoni provides a review and update on efforts to reopen the Visitor Center and public restrooms in the Michelangelo building on Hull Street. The discussion was held at the September 12, 2013 meeting of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA).
It’s a new week and the same old problem. In what is now a series, “Think We Need More Barrels?” Mary McGee brings us Part Deux with the following lovely scene Monday morning on the corner of Snow Hill and Hull Streets. She asks, “Wouldn’t you love to have one of these on your block?” Read More…
A June 3, 2013 letter from Friends of Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is scanned below as written to the Old North Church and Paul Revere House regarding re-opening of public restrooms at the Michelangelo Visitor Facility. The letter is also available here in PDF format. Related attachments include: Welcome to the Historic North End; Sorry, Read More…
With no public funding in sight to re-open the Hull Street restrooms on the Freedom Trail, the Old North Church has opened its own toilet facilities to the public on a trial basis. The two bathrooms are located in the basement of the gift shop. These are the only restrooms open to the public on Read More…
This adult male raccoon was spotted by E. Pedi in the North End, “running amok on Hull Street on July 13th in the early morning hours. After climbing fences into backyards and decks on Sheafe Street, the ill raccoon takes cover under a deck for 5 days, finally dying on July 17th during the heat Read More…
The Herald’s Jessica Fargen chimes in regarding the lack of public restrooms in the North End along the tourist-heavy Freedom Trail with a story in the Sunday paper, No Restrooms for the weary in the North End. “Discontent is growing in the potty-challenged North End as residents and tourists endure summer without a true public Read More…
When the three million annual Freedom Trail walkers leave Faneuil Hall and enter the North End, little do they realize they have to traverse the entire neighborhood and over to the Charlestown Navy Yard to reach the next public restroom. Unfortunately, that is the current situation along the North End Freedom Trail since the Hull Read More…