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Waterfront residents seek new identity

adamg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:47:16 +0000

The Herald reports residents of Harbor Towers and Rowes Wharf are trying to rename their stretch of the waterfront as the Wharf District.

Ed. Boston English question: If they succeed, would kids born there be called Wharf Rats?

End of lawsuits means construction can begin on luxury housing on Lovejoy Wharf

adamg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:37:54 +0000

The Boston Business Journal reports on the end of litigation by residents of one luxury building against a proposed luxury building on the water by North Station.

Spreading some Christmas chair

adamg — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:41:16 +0000

Dan Ryan spotted this pickup driving around by the South Boston waterfront today.

H/t Porter Davis for the headline.

Anthony's Pier 4 one step closer to disappearing

adamg — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:27:20 +0000

The BRA last night gave final approval to plans for the first of three new developments on the pier, a 383-unit apartment building, the Boston Business Journal reports.

The BRA has more details on the project.

Greek food store gets approval to sell beer and wine; clothing store, however, has to stick to fabric

adamg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:33:44 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Greek International Foods on Washington Street in West Roxbury for a license to sell beer and wine. However, the board rejected a request from Louis, the upscale clothing store on the waterfront, to nestle a full-service liquor store among its suits.

Silver Line stats show Southie surge

adamg — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:38:13 +0000

These stats just in from the T for the South Boston end of the Silver Line for January through August:

Total annual year-to-date ridership up 7.0% from 3,148,612 in 2010 to 3,368,580 in 2011.
Average weekday ridership up 5.7% from 15,015 in 2010 to 15,877 in 2011.
Average Saturday ridership up 67.3% from 5,550 in 2010 to 9,285 in 2011.
Average Sunday ridership up 8.0% from 8,422 in 2010 to 9,098 in 2011.

Another waterfront bar tries to stop patrons from making a splash

adamg — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:55:24 +0000

A man who jumped into Boston Harbor from the roof deck at Whiskey Priest in August has gotten the bar in hot water.

A manager at the Northern Avenue watering hole told Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer today they've added additional staff to the deck and posted 10 to 12 signs around the deck warning that harbor jumping will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - assuming they can catch the jumpers to begin with.

Firefighters rescue South Boston construction workers trapped by shifting rebar

adamg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:51:28 +0000

Man cage to the rescue. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports some shifting rebar pinned two workers and injured a third some 30 feet below ground level around 1:40 p.m. at the Vertex construction site on the waterfront at 50 Northern Ave.

Firefighters used a crane and a "man cage" to get the men, suffering from leg and arm injuries up to waiting EMTs.

The workers are helping to build two 18-story buildings as the $1-billion headquarters of Vertex, a pharmaceutical company now based in Cambridge.

Hey, Massholes: Stop jumping into the harbor from the Atlantic Beer Garden

adamg — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:39:14 +0000

The Atlantic Beer Garden found itself before the Boston Licensing Board this morning to explain why somebody jumped off its roof while holding a fake Stanley Cup on June 18.

It faces an additional hearing for another incident within the past month in which another man eating dinner on a waterside deck decided to take a swim as well.

Man prepared by jumping into harbor from Pier 4 first.

Restaurant attorney Jeremiah Sullivan said the Bruins jump was not something the restaurant could have anticipated and that in response, the restaurant has installed a fence and is meeting with local police to try to keep people from scaling to the top of the restaurant's roof again. The topmost part of the restaurant is not public and already had a fence.

"How did a man with a fake Stanley Cup get over that without being noticed by anyone?" board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer asked. Restaurant manager Joseph Primo said nobody noticed the guy climbing up there because it was a very busy night.

Police Sgt. Robert Mulvey said the Bruins jumper attracted quite the crowd. "The crowd was very agitated and excited about what had happened and encouraged him to do it again."

Primo acknowledge he did not call police. He said that in hindsight, he should have, but the jumper left quickly and there appeared to be no safety issues once he left.

The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take related to the Bruins incident.

Might want to get that visit to Anthony's Pier 4 in relatively soon

adamg — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:14:40 +0000

The Globe reports construction's set to begin next spring on a 21-story residential and retail building on Pier 4. The restaurant named for the pier and founder Anthony Athanas is slated to eventually be torn down, its land turned into a waterfront part; developers say the restaurant may be moved into another building slated for a later part of the pier project.

BRA page on the project

Below the mud: Beneath Chelsea Street's new bridge, another work in progress

icoverthewaterfront — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:36:15 +0000

The Longfellow Bridge has its design challenges ahead, and the BU bridge has been no picnic for engineers.

But another bridge in Boston – the Chelsea Street bridge between Chelsea and East Boston – is a simple affair. By the end of the summer, the new bridge, designed by HNTB and built by J.F. White of Framingham, may be complete. It may even happen ahead of schedule.

Although the men working with iron above the river are having no trouble, the men who move mud below it have been facing a dozen daunting engineering tasks for over a year.

They’re all trying to figure out how to make the channel for oil tankers wider. Engineers, pilots, tug captains, oil companies, private landowners, and Coast Guard and Army personnel have been at the drawing board for two years now.

The new bridge, after all, will span the more than 200-ft. wide channel without interruption. That’s thanks to two superstructures that now dominate the Chelsea skyline (anyone can see them from the Tobin Bridge). So the bridge, when opened, might be wide enough to fit a “Panamax” oil tanker headed to the Gulf, Irving and Global tanks upstream.

But what about a baby's arm holding an apple?

adamg — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:28:35 +0000

A perplexed visitor inquires:

About 15 or so years ago, I was in Boston, maybe by the Aquarium, and noticed a statue in the harbor, kind of on the wall at the edge, of a sailor climbing out of the water. As the tide comes in, the body (statue) is covered and at high tide all you see is a hand reaching up. Do you have any idea what this, where this is, or if it even exists?

Work begins on drug-company headquarters in the seaport

adamg — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:52 +0000

WBUR reports on the groundbreaking for the new Vertex headquarters next to the federal courthouse.

Boston's other parade yesterday was at night - and on the water

adamg — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:08:41 +0000

NorthEndWaterfront.com posts video of last night's Parade of Lights in Boston Harbor.

Patrice Bergeron shows off his newest cup

adamg — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:54:32 +0000

Michael Ratty was at Tia's at Long Wharf this afternoon when Bruins showed up with the Cup (Marchand kissing it).