The entire collection can be found on Digital Commonwealth. Here are a few that caught my eye. Thanks to the Friends of the North End Library for passing them along.
Most slides are from 1975, but some date back to the 1950s
The Eliot K8 Innovation school outperformed the State and City MCAS averages by a wide margin again in 2024. In fact, more students at the Eliot school meet or exceed expectations in Math and Reading than almost any other K8 school in the state.
Further, while scores at most districts in the state and schools in Boston lag far behind the benchmarks set in 2019, the Eliot school's tests show that students have largely made up for pandemic setbacks - or were never setback in the first place.
Eight years ago today, the Herald Published an article about neighborhood opposition to the proposed redevelopment of 60-70 Cross Street by Charter Realty. The president of the Neighborhood Council at the time explained that some residents didn't believe the design matched the historical nature of the neighborhood.
The last paragraph of the article gives a hint at the turmoil that came later - which ultimately saw the project cancelled .
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.
