Christopher Columbus Park

Also busted yesterday: Segway riders in the North End

adamg — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:56:25 +0000

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

adamg — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:03:48 +0000

NorthendWaterfront.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

adamg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:06:30 +0000

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

adamg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:23:19 +0000

Boston 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

adamg — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:41:10 +0000

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

adamg — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:45:22 +0000

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

adamg — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:54:31 +0000

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:

North End park gets $300,000 restroom

adamg — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:34:30 +0000

At least the city didn't flush any of its own money down the toilet.

Feathers flew at Christopher Columbus Park

adamg — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:43:26 +0000

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.

More photos.

Steve also posted a video, which sums it all up:

Starry night

adamg — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:50:28 +0000

Greg MacKay spends some time under the arbor at Christopher Columbus Park.

The Christopher Columbus statue gets a temporary head

adamg — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:51:46 +0000

Presumably, however, Matt eventually got tired and stopped posing behind the headless statue.