Welcome back to our weekly update that highlights some of the cases appearing on 311 in the North End/Waterfront neighborhoods. All 311 cases are public information and can be found at 311.boston.gov. Pothole at 94 Prince St North End This 311 user writes, “Damaged pot hole/street lighting box that causes loud noise when driven over that’s disruptive to Read More…
Welcome back to our weekly update that highlights some of the cases appearing on 311 in the North End/Waterfront neighborhoods. All 311 cases are public information and can be found at 311.boston.gov. Residential Trash out Illegally at 149 Fulton St North End This 311 user writes, “Again!!” The original 311 post can be found here. The post was Read More…
It was moving out day for the printing presses from the City of Boston’s former printing plant on North Street, as captured in the photos below by Bruce McCue. The equipment was recently auctioned off by the city.
The Boston Herald’s Thomas Grillo interviews North End developer, Matteo Gallo, about the empty buildings at 150 North St. and 130 Richmond St. discussed last week in the paper. Gallo said the North St. building along the Greenway with the small gold dome, could be a boutique hotel or residential units. The Richmond St. building Read More…
The Herald’s Thomas Grillo writes about increasing pressure on the City of Boston to do something with the empty buildings on North and Richmond Streets in the North End. “The Boston Finance Commission wants to know why Mayor Thomas M. Menino has failed to market two adjacent properties near the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Read More…
A handicap ramp on the North St. sidewalk, at the corner of Commercial St., outside the real estate company office (former home of Sarni Cleaners) has been a gold-mine for the city and towing truck operators for quite some time. The ramp is not at a crosswalk. One was there years ago. The ramp is hard to Read More…
On December 5th, the North Street Grille (229 North St.) held its Annual Toys for Tots drive in the North End. Friends of the North Street Grille donated a total of 98 Toys this year. Dan sent in the following photos from the charity event.
Schedule Addition: NEMPAC Play – Saturday & Sunday at 1:30pm This play gives a historical account of the feast and how it came to the North End. The Gloucester statue of St. Peter — the patron saint of fishermen, and a centerpiece for the annual St. Peters’s Fiesta each June — will be hitting the Read More…
The Globe highlights the last day of operations, after 113 years, at the City of Boston Printing Department Building on the corner of North & Richmond Streets. “A budget crunch has pushed Boston out of the printing business, prompting the city to outsource the production of everything from business cards to death certificates to temporary “no Read More…
College students causing havoc in the North End? Some things never change as shown by this find by Harvard Law Librarian, Lesley Schoenfeld. Manuscripts include records from the Wood Detective Agency, where founder James Rodney Wood wrote in 1879 about his former work in 1865 as a Boston Police Officer at Station 1 on Hanover Read More…