The Friends of Cutillo Park have been working with the Parks Department to get a new, park-like trash barrel that was installed last Friday next to the basketball court at the Park, located on Stillman Street in the North End. The previous lone trash barrel in Cutillo Park, which was a 55-gallon drum, was recently Read More…
Boston code enforcement has begun ticketing North End restaurants that have trash barrels out in the morning after collection. Recently ticketed was former North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) member Jorge Mendoza of Monica’s on Richmond Street who received a $50 ticket at approximately 8 a.m. (Official cutoff is 7am, but has rarely been Read More…
(This is the third in a continuing series of “Think we need more barrels?” North End resident, Thomas F. Schiavoni examines the role of City Hall in exacerbating the neighborhood’s ongoing problem with litter and household trash disposal.) It’s not the tourists, stupid. You would not believe what stuff gets tossed away as litter. An Read More…
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…
That is the question North End resident and business owner, Toni Gilardi, asked when she shared this photo of an overflowing trash barrel on Richmond Street today.
The City of Boston is adding 400 new solar-powered “Big Belly” trash compactors with recycling around the city, including several in the North End / Waterfront area. This will dramatically increase the number of Big Bellies, bringing the total in the city to 575, according the the Department of Public Works. Vector Media is purchasing Read More…
North End residents came out this week to hear new trash clean-up ideas from City Councilor Sal LaMattina and work with NEWRA’s Clean Streets Committee. Recurring issues include household trash not being property disposed, lack of street trash barrels, trashpickers, dog waste and general enforcement of existing cleanliness ordinances. Councilor Sal LaMattina, starting a new Read More…
March is the time of year when the North End/Waterfront streets are the dirtiest. Street cleaning does not start until April 1st so all the trash from the winter is blowing around with no snow to hide it all. Attendees at this month’s NEWRA Clean Streets Committee agreed that the streets look pretty bad. No one is more frustrated by Read More…