Universal Hub - Boston Harbor

Historic light

adamg — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:11:37 +0000

Brian MacLean was out on the harbor yesterday and snapped Boston Light.

Copyright Brian MacLean. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Morning on the harbor

adamg — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:26:19 +0000

Patty Neal captured the view from State Street this morning.

Man pulled out of harbor off Christopher Columbus Park, dies; might have been pushed in during a fight

adamg — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:27:58 +0000

A good Samaritan jumped into Boston Harbor near Long Wharf shortly after 11 this morning and helped keep somebody foundering in the water afloat until a State Police boat arrived and troopers pulled both out. Boston EMS treated the man at the scene and then transported him to Mass. General for further care, Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald says.

The Herald reports he died not long after his arrival at the hospital and that police are investigating.

NorthEndWaterfront.com quotes President of the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park that the man may have been pushed by somebody he was brawling with.

4/24/13 - 11:07 am

The remains of the pier in Charlestown

adamg — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:58:52 +0000

Michael captured stillness on the Charlestown waterfront.

Copyright Michael. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

It only looks this bad this morning

adamg — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:38:51 +0000

Leslie Jones took lots of photos of Boston things covered in ice, such as firetrucks, but especially fishing boats, such as this trawler in 1938.

Posted under this Creative Commons license.

Court rules end of Long Wharf not a park, which could pave way for restaurant there

adamg — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:32:05 +0000

It may look like a park and have people walk in it like it's a park, but the far end of Long Wharf isn't a park, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today.

The ruling is a victory for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which wants to turn an open-air kiosk-like structure there into a restaurant.

A group of ten North End residents has fought the idea for years - and won a victory in Suffolk Superior Court, when a judge ruled that end of Long Wharf was a park on which a restaurant could not be built without a two-thirds vote of the state legislature, under a section of the state constitution that pertains to the preservation of parkland and open space.

But the state's highest court ruled today that intent is everything, and that the BRA took over the wharf in 1970 under its authority to revitalize the area and promote real-estate development - as part of an urban-renewal plan dating to 1964 - rather than to put a park in. Therefore, the court concluded, the area is not subject to the constitutional restriction, known as Article 97:

Building boom hits East Boston waterfront

adamg — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:44:50 +0000

City and state officials formally broke ground today on a luxury-housing project along Marginal Street and Pier One.

The first of seven buildings in the $46-million Portside at Pier One project is a five-story apartment building with 176 units - 26 designated as "affordable" - along with ground-floor retail space. It's due to open next spring. Ultimately, the project will include a total of 550 apartments.

Construction began in 2006, then stalled along with the economy.