North End

Nice day for some North End opera

By adamg - 3/6/22 - 6:11 pm

Jon Latino caught some opera on the Prado this afternoon: Read more.

Overnight construction at Government Center Garage project driving nearby residents nuts; Michlewitz asks city to halt the work

By adamg - 3/2/22 - 11:24 pm

State Rep. Aaron Michlewitz today called on City Hall to halt all overnight construction work at the Bulfinch Crossing/Government Center Garage project until developer HYM, the city and the T can figure out a way to allow construction of the office skyscraper part of the project while also letting his constituents get some sleep. Read more.

Boston to resume expanded outdoor dining in April - except in the North End

By adamg - 2/24/22 - 2:22 pm

The mayor's office announced today that restaurants across the city, except in the city's most restaurant-heavy neighborhood, can once again apply for permission to use city sidewalks and parking spaces for outdoor dining starting April 1. Read more.

Getting a first look at the two candidates running to replace Edwards as councilor

By adamg - 2/17/22 - 9:23 am

The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports on a forum in Charlestown with Gabriela Coletta and Tania Del Rio, who are running for the District 1 (Charlestown, North End, East Boston) City Council seat that Lydia Edwards gave up after her election to the State Senate.

The city has scheduled the election for May 3; there will be a preliminary on April 5 if another candidate joins the race.

Manhole bursts into flames in the North End

By adamg - 2/3/22 - 4:16 pm

On North Margin Street shortly before 2 p.m. Read more.

New North End sandwich place changes name; turns out a New Yorker was already using the name

By adamg - 2/2/22 - 12:15 pm

Update: Name change approved.

The owners of New England Wichcraft Company on Salem Street today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let them change the name to New England Wicked Craft Company. Read more.

White Elephant houseboat breaks free in storm, sinks at North End wharf

By adamg - 1/30/22 - 12:37 pm

Roof of the White Elephant at North End dock

Roving UHub photographer Kevin Whitely shows us the White Elephant, a houseboat that's normally docked at Lewis Wharf in the North End, but which broke free during the blizzard and wound up sunk in the water at Yacht Haven, at the next wharf over. That gray rectangle in the photo is the White Elephant's roof.

Edwards to stay a city councilor until April 30

By adamg - 1/21/22 - 6:18 pm

Newly elected state Sen. Lydia Edwards announced today she will formally resign as a city councilor on April 30, which she says will give the city council enough time to call a special election to replace her without her East Boston, Charlestown and North End constituents losing representation on the council.

In a statement, she said: Read more.

What if Lydia Edwards doesn't want to leave her city-council seat?

By adamg - 1/21/22 - 12:11 pm

Update: She'll resign on April 30.

GBH reports the now dual councilor/senator doesn't want to talk about leaving her council seat. Maybe at some point, she says. There's no law that says she has to give up the job as councilor.

New North Washington Street Bridge delayed due to bad welds

By adamg - 1/20/22 - 11:38 am

The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports that "several recently installed beams" were not welded correctly in the new bridge between the North End and Charlestown.

Maskholes attack

By adamg - 1/19/22 - 9:02 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Sturbridge man at the North Station commuter-rail station yesterday after he refused a request by officers to put on a mask while trying to get on a train and hit one of the officers in the face as they were escorting him out of the station. Read more.

BPS rejects parent proposal to shut Charlestown High School to make way for new school largely free of BPS oversight

By adamg - 1/19/22 - 6:45 pm

A BPS committee this evening rejected a proposal to shut Charlestown High School and use its building for a brand-new "innovation and inclusion" school that would be largely autonomous from BPS and would limit enrollment to students from elementary schools in Charlestown and the North End. Read more

One family of diners in the North End reports first night of vaccine requirement went well

By adamg - 1/16/22 - 12:49 am

Former BTD commissioner and state highway administrator Tom Tinlin reports: Read more.

Eliot School parents fit to be tied, this time over what they say is a penalty for exam-school admission

By adamg - 1/13/22 - 12:45 pm

The Patriot-Bridge in Charlestown, home to Charlestown High School, which Eliot School parents want to remake as an innovation school reports that parents are now upset because of a BPS plan to penalize their kids 10 points on their GPAs to try to level exam-school admissions across the entire BPS district. Read more.

2022 comes in with a boom

By adamg - 1/1/22 - 12:49 pm

See it larger.

Matt Conti had the best seat for the foggy First Night fireworks over Boston Harbor at midnight. Read more.

The secret Backup of Shame ramp in the North End for truckers who nearly storrow at the Callahan

By adamg - 12/29/21 - 4:01 pm

Truck being backed out of the Callahan entrance onto North Street

Finn witnessed one of the rarest of Boston sights this afternoon: Somebody actually using the normally blocked ramp down from North and Cross streets down to the Callahan Tunnel, across from the old Tunnel Administration building. Read more.

Police say they've nabbed the guy who robbed two North End banks on the anniversary of the release of 'The Town'

By adamg - 12/20/21 - 12:19 pm

Boston Police report the arrest of Rolando Gala, charged with robbing the Century Bank and Citizens Bank branches on Hanover Street on Sept. 17.
Read more.

Three sue to get their names expunged from personal-lookup Web sites run by a North End company

By adamg - 12/17/21 - 11:08 am

Part of the site's subscription form, from the complaint.

Three Midwesterners whose names show up when you search for them on a commercial public-records Web site have sued, alleging that the way the site makes you buy a subscription to see their information violates their states' laws against the use of somebody's identity or "persona" in commercial ventures without their permission. Read more.

LaMattina might run to fill Edwards's council term, but would vow to focus on constituent services and not run again

By adamg - 12/16/21 - 9:59 pm

Sal LaMattina, who retired from the District 1 City Council seat that Lydia Edwards won in 2017, is talking to supporters about possibly running for the seat again after Edwards is elected to the State Senate next month. Read more.

Edwards wins special Democratic state-senate primary, which means she'll be replacing Boncore

By adamg - 12/14/21 - 8:47 pm

Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards has defeated Revere School Committee member Anthony D'Ambrosio in the Democratic primary to replace state Sen. Joe Boncore in the First Suffolk and Middlesex district (which includes East Boston). With no Republican candidate, that means she will soon move from the City Council to the State Senate. Read more.