CarCarll alerts us to this alert from the French equivalent of the State Department about travel in the US:
Boston : la circulation à pied et de nuit est à éviter dans les quartiers de Dorchester, Mattapan et Roxbury. L’attention des Français doit également être appelée sur une recrudescence de la petite délinquance, observée notamment lors des grandes manifestations culturelles ou sportives et
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Matt Conti photographed a bagpiper outside Old North Church this morning during a commemoration for Remembrance Day, the British version of our Veterans Day.
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Boston Police report officers investigating a report of yobs throwing beer and urinating off a Hanover Street fire escape wound up arresting three of them - one of whom they say was dropping lit cigarettes on the heads of cops on the ground below.
According to police, officers arrived at 226 Hanover St. around 12:50 this morning in response to a 911 call about... Read more
The Polcari Playground outside the Nazzaro Center has a new basketball court, and NorthEndWaterfront.com reports it's become the go-to place for smashing pumpkins (and no, this writer will not make a crack about Billy Corgan).
NorthEndWaterfront.com sounds the alarm for Cardinals fans.
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A weary citizen filed a complaint at dawn today about overnight work outside his or her window on Salem Street in the North End:
All night LOUD work site was quite disruptive to sleep for my young family. Wish there would have been some more communication for the neighborhood. All I knew was that the water was going to be shut off...would suggest that
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Matt Conti attended the Columbus Day Parade in the North End, where a number of people dressed up as pirates.
Tim Mouradian, meanwhile, journeyed to Salem, which, he reports, "is fun in October."
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The Secret Service reports it is looking for this guy in connection with "skimmer" devices placed at ATMs at Century Bank branches at 275 Hanover St. in the North End and in Peabody on Sept. 18 and 19.
The devices, placed over the card slot on a machine, read the user's account number and PIN during a transaction - often through electronics that read... Read more
The Herald reports Boston by Segway, which has racked up close to $200,000 in city fines over the past couple of years, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It lists the city as its largest creditor, due to the fines for having his tours operate on city sidewalks and in groups larger than allowed by a 2011 ordinance passed by the city council.
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Final (if still unofficial) city and districtwide results. The city has yet to release ward-by-ward numbers, but NorthEndWaterfront.com tallied them for the North End, Beacon Hill and downtown.
Jim O'Sullivan ponders the race geographically, since it pits two guys who don't live anywhere near the geographic center of the city. He notes that while Walsh beat Connolly bigtime in Dorchester, Connolly won... Read more
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports, says the boot and associated lockbox were found floating in the fountain by the Paul Revere statue - empty, of course.
NorthEndWaterfront.com gives us the scoop on the decision by the Sons of Italy, which cited demographic data it says shows Revere now has a higher percentage of residents with Italian background than the North End.
Oh, look: Another human defecater videoed in the act in the North End. Coming after last week's two girls, one alley incident, one can only declaim: People, get your shit together.
But wait, this isn't a problem just confined to the newly chi-chi North End: Somebody's been doing their public duty in Jamaica Plain as well.
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NorthEndWaterfront.com posts video and photos that suggest a) the North End needs more public restrooms, b) Never do anything in the North End you don't want to see on video, and c) Yecch. Probably best to file this one as NSFW.
Matt Conti at NorthEndWaterfront.com watched the summer's end fireworks over Boston Harbor tonight.
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Somebody is kind of unhappy with the people renting houseboats at Lewis Wharf in the North End:
The folks renting these trashy houseboats are indeed the Trash of the Universe.
The city is holding an end-of-summer blast, so get to Christopher Columbus Park or Castle Island to see the 9 p.m. fireworks.
Not one but two disgusted citizens snapped photos of a mess so big it slopped over from Salutation to Hanover in the North End this morning:
A major mess and it is now 9:15am.
But wait, there's more: NorthEndWaterfront.com has more photos of the soon-to-be-fetid... Read more
