North End and Boston Harbor panorama - 1900
These photographs (ten of them) were taken from the chimney atop Lincoln Wharf Substation in 1900. They are available online through the BPL and Digital Commonwealth.
These photographs (ten of them) were taken from the chimney atop Lincoln Wharf Substation in 1900. They are available online through the BPL and Digital Commonwealth.
Frank Depasquale and his representatives and architect presented a new reduced-height, two-story plan for 60-70 Cross Street at tonight's Residents Association meeting.
The new plan eliminates the third floor and the plan for the second floor from the designs proposed at the Neighborhood Council meeting Monday.
The Association voted 16-8 in support of the updated plans.
Included in Boston Public Library's Boston Pictorial Archive is a photo of 1-2 Hull Street Place from 1944. This is notable because, as far as I know, it's the only photo of the structures that existed behind the skinny house on Hull Street.
The Neighborhood Council will host it's September meeting on Monday, September 9th at 7pm at the Nazzaro Center - after taking August off.
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!