Christopher Columbus Park
Also busted yesterday: Segway riders in the North End
By adamg - 10/11/11 - 8:56 am
Busted!
An alert citizen uses Citizens Connect to praise an unidentified city worker:
The gentleman in blue seems to be offering tourists on Segways citations as souvenirs of their tour. Boston Gliders should be ticketed every time they use the sidewalk and this is a good spot for it. They use the sidewalk for a large part of every tour but try to hide on the harborwalk, puopolo park, behind the aquarium, fan pier, where they think there is no enforcement.
The city banned Segways from parks and sidewalks in June; the owner of Boston Gliders, of course, promptly sued.
The annual blessing of the fishing waters at Christopher Columbus Park
By adamg - 8/20/11 - 10:03 amNorthendWaterfront.com provides the video of the start of the Fisherman's Feast. Although there aren't any fishing boats there anymore, there used to be.
Citizen complaint of the day: Apparently, the city's yet to start enforcing its ban on Segways in parks
By adamg - 8/12/11 - 9:06 am
An annoyed citizen reports:
Segway traffic jam at Christopher Columbus Park! Large Segway tour group blacking steps & monopolizing pedestrian plaza riding practice laps. Aren't Segways illegal in pedestrian areas and parks?
The City Council adopted Segway restrictions in June, but said enforcement would have to wait until after transportation and police officials came up with specific regulations that include on-street lanes Segway tour operators can use.
Yes, somebody did fall off a Segway in Christopher Columbus Park
By adamg - 6/21/11 - 7:23 amBoston Fire and Boston EMS both confirm this account that a woman sustained serious enough injuries falling off a Segway Sunday evening that she needed transportation to a local hospital:
The formerly healthy rider was just taken away on a stretcher, on a backboard, in a neckbrace, bleeding.
Spokespeople for both departments, however, did not have additional information on what might have caused the fall, around 6:20 p.m. by Joe's American Bar.
Last week, the City Council voted to severely restrict Segway use by people without disabilities in Boston, citing the potential menace to senior citizens and other pedestrians. Two days later, however, a Segway tour company operating out of the North End sued over the regulations, saying in part the council could offer no proof the two-wheeled vehicles were unsafe.
Frozen in time at Christopher Columbus Park
By adamg - 9/12/10 - 11:41 am
Jeff Tamagini took a portfolio's worth of photos of Boston Ballet dancers yesterday at the Boston Ahts Festival at Christopher Columbus Park (still going on today).
Copyright Jeff Tamagini. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
Fun for the whole family: Let's pretend Boston gets hit by a Katrina-like storm
By adamg - 10/17/09 - 7:45 pm
Sure, you could just stage a boring rally to call for action on climate change. Or you could hold a Boston Under Water Climate Festival, featuring such fun events as
- Building a sandbag flood barrier
- A massive group photo in front of the sandbag wall with a banner calling on world leaders to get us back to 350 and to pass a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty this yearFlooding Station: learn about what sea level rise and higher storm surges will mean for Boston
- Fred Small sings "Three Five 0"
- Canoe relay racing!!
- Participatory Climate Theater!!
- Plus blue face-painting, bike-flag making, and much, much more!
Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-5:30 p.m. at Christopher Columbus Park.
He must be so proud
By adamg - 7/4/09 - 10:54 pm
Libertarians, anti-income-taxers, Barney Frank haters, birthers, objectivists, Reagan lovers, Sarah Palin fans, Oath Keepers and gun owners descended on Christopher Columbus Park this Independence Day to vow to retake America from the the jack-booted heel of socialized medicine and pollution caps, or something, in yet another Tea Bagging.
Most of the 300 or 400 protesters were from out of state, but at-large City Council candidates Sean Ryan and Doug Bennett also attended. Bennett, in fact, was the first speaker of the day, moving further away from his Republican roots by complaining about tax-and-spend "Republicrats" who are putting us deeper into a depression. I ran into him before the speechifying; he said that while he might not agree with everything the protesters said, he did agree the income tax was unconstitutional, because the founding fathers didn't include it in the Constitution.
Girly men can't appreciate a pit bull with lipstick:
Feathers flew at Christopher Columbus Park
By adamg - 4/4/09 - 6:43 pm
Petercip managed to avoid getting feathers in his lens at today's waterfront pillow fight.
Steve Garfield posts photos from today's annual public pillow fight.
Steve also posted a video, which sums it all up:
