Boston's bike department held an open house Monday night on their planned expansion of the Bluebikes program. The expansion aims to add 100 stations to the network, 47 of them by September of this year, throughout the North End, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Downtown, South End, and West End.

Ultimately, the aim is to have a Bluebikes dock within a 10-minute walk of every Boston resident, and within a three-minute walk in high-density areas.

A lawsuit filed by an abutter to stop development of a hotel at the old J. Pace's spot has been dismissed.

Councilor Zapata née Coletta's office shares:

I would like to invite you to an upcoming North End neighborhood clean up on Saturday, July 20 at 10am. We will meet at the Prado and spread out from there. There is no need to bring anything but yourself and a friend! We'll have cleaning supplies courtesy of the Office of Civic Organizing.

We hope you can make it and help beautify our streets!

The Neighborhood Council will hold its monthly meeting tonight Monday, July 8th at 7pm at the Nazzaro Center.

The Mirabella Pool will open for the 2024 summer on Friday, June 28th.

Lap Swim:
8am - 10am Monday - Friday

Open Swim:
noon - 7pm Monday - Friday
You must have an account in the registration system to participate in Open Swim, but you don't need to actually register for a time slot. Just show up between noon and 7pm weekdays and you will be checked in when you arrive.

Parents of Eliot school children were notified via email on Wednesday that the last day of school had been cancelled. The email notification - which came on a holiday and with less than 48 hours notice - left parents scrambling to find childcare and reschedule end-of-year activities.

The closures affect 2,502 students across three campuses and six schools.

The Neighborhood Council will hold its monthly meeting Monday, June 10th at 7pm at the Nazzaro Center.

Voting items on the agenda:

• 211-213 Hanover Street – Mother Annas seeks new beer and wine license to replace transferred liquor license.
• 358-364 Hanover Street – New Restaurant, Pappare, seeks a zoning variance to expand existing footprint of prior restaurant into office space.

Full agenda:

Between 2010 and 2020, North End households added 1,448 additional cars for a total of 3,643 vehicles - up 65% from 2,195 in 2010 according to Census data.