A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint to demand the city replace the pink trash barrel of Prince Street, and not just because now there's trash all over the street: Read more.
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By adamg - 5/12/22 - 9:12 pm
Did you vote for Biden in 2020? You might want to think twice before dining at Rabia's Dolce Fumo on Salem Street in the North End, because its owner hates you. Read more.
By adamg - 5/11/22 - 11:07 am
The Dig finds the lyrical side to the complaint by four North End restaurant owners over the fees they had to pay to use public sidewalks and streets for tables this year.
By adamg - 5/9/22 - 8:08 pm
Four North End restaurant owners say the $7,500 fee they had to pay to extend their restaurants to the public sidewalk is just horribly unfair and so they filed a federal lawsuit against the city today. Read more.
By adamg - 5/7/22 - 10:15 am
Adam Balsam presents the evidence that the skinniest house in Boston was originally part of a larger two-family house in the early 1870s, but, in story that would not sound unfamiliar today, decided to try to carve a third unit out of the property.
He's also created a skinny-house chronology.
By adamg - 5/3/22 - 10:05 pm
City election results show Gigi Coletta won the special election today to fill the rest of Lydia Edwards's two-year term as city councilor for District 1 (Charlestown, East Boston, North End), defeating Tania Del Rio.
Read more.
By adamg - 5/3/22 - 12:01 pm
The owner of Antico Forno and Terramia, the owner of Vinoteca di Monica and a Boston police officer are seeking to join a lawsuit against Boston against the requirement for people to show proof of vaccination for most public indoor spaces that was lifted in February. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/22 - 10:27 pm
A federal judge today sentenced Dante Mirabella, 56, to 92 months in prison for three armed holdups in May, 2019 that netted him a little more than $1,000, including one waiter's tips for the night and a parking attendant's own personal cash. Read more.
By adamg - 4/24/22 - 2:32 pm
Adam Balsam chronicles the 27 different species of birds he spotted over a week in the North End and the Public Garden.
By adamg - 4/19/22 - 11:13 am
A vexed North End citizen files a 311 complaint about all the bleepity-bleep beeping on Salem Street: Read more.
By Ron Newman - 4/10/22 - 5:57 pm
WCVB reports that both Green Line and Orange Line trains are once again stopping at Haymarket station, for the first time since March 26. On that day, part of a building collapsed above the station while being demolished, killing a construction worker.
By adamg - 4/9/22 - 8:40 pm
Aegon Targaryen VI watched the post-storm rainbow over Boston Harbor from Christopher Columbus Park. Read more.
Council candidates discuss environmental issues in a district that includes an international airport
By adamg - 4/7/22 - 10:00 am
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on an environmental forum with Gabriela Coletta and Tania Del Rio, who are running to replace Lydia Edwards as the District 1 (East Boston, Charlestown, North End) city councilor.
By adamg - 4/5/22 - 12:35 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a Hanover Street takeout place that would be the North End's first Cambodian-style sandwich shop. Read more.
By adamg - 3/29/22 - 2:55 pm
Nick Varano supporting the mayor's plan.
Mayor Wu today announced changes in the fee plan for North End dining: Restaurants can pay month by month to put tables on public sidewalks and parking spaces and small restaurants, restaurants without liquor licenses and those not on the main drags of Hanover and Salem streets can get "hardship" reductions in the fees that meant to pay for extra trash pickup and safety measures in the restaurant-dense neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 3/25/22 - 9:21 pm
Flier slipped under wiper blades along Hanover today.
Kristina Rex posts a copy of a letter Mayor Wu sent to North End restaurant owners that says the proposed outdoor-dining fee is because the people who actually live in the North End are fed up with the disruptions caused by outdoor dining there and the money would try to make things a bit better for them.
But, Wu continues: Read more.
By adamg - 3/23/22 - 10:30 pm
WCVB reports restaurant owners who got to use city sidewalks and parts of the street for outdoor dining during the pandemic are pushing back on the city's plans to charge them $7,500 to pay for special cleanup efforts and stuff needed in the restaurant-dense neighborhood, plus another few hundred a month to pay for parking for North End residents who lose on-street parking spaces. Restaurant owners in the rest of the city do not face similar charges.
By adamg - 3/23/22 - 10:47 am
Ryan spotted this South Boston resident-parking sign on Parmenter Street in the former North End.
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