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Tempest-tossed boats, trees land where they're not expected, thousands lose power, delays across the T

By adamg - 10/17/19 - 8:52 am
Boat on dry land after storm

Matt Conti shows us a boat on dry land in the North End after the storm overnight. He has more photos of damage in the North End.

John Hanzl surveyed the damage along Harbor Towers: Read more.

People with disabilities in the middle as two non-profits battle over who gets to maintain the Greenway

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 8:58 am

Boston Magazine takes a look at the issues between the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Work, Inc., which for ten years had a contract in which its workers with disabilities would maintain the Greenway.

North End street floods for second time in a week

By adamg - 10/10/19 - 11:16 pm

WBZ reports a water main under Richmond Street in the North End broke today, flooding the street a week after a water main under Richmond Street broke, flooding the street.

Last one out of the tavern, shut the lights

By adamg - 10/7/19 - 11:41 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports on the end of yet another old-time Boston bar, this time the Four Winds on Commercial Street in the North End.

Water-main break shuts Richmond Street in the North End

By adamg - 10/2/19 - 9:03 am
Flooded Richmond Street in the North End

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a water main burst on Richmond Street between Hanover and North streets around 5:15 a.m. BWSC workers are on scene trying to repair the main.

Ciizen complaint of the day: New North End school needs a crossing guard, pronto

By adamg - 9/6/19 - 9:01 am

The new Eliot School building on Commercial Street opened to students yesterday. This morning, several concerned citizens filed 311 complaints, including this one, about the problems kids are having crossing what could be the North End's busiest, widest street, just off what could be its busiest, widest intersection:

No crossing guard for Eliot school on commercial street. Traffic is treacherous. Drivers are crazy. Someone's going to get hurt.

Boston Harbor, illuminated

By adamg - 8/29/19 - 9:52 pm

The annual Illuminate the Harbor fireworks.

North End neighbors rally around homeless Prado musician who had his violin stolen at knifepoint

By adamg - 8/29/19 - 12:37 pm

NorthEndWaterfont.com reports North Enders have set up a GoFundMe page for Nico, who played violin on the Prado behind the Paul Revere statue until thieves stole his violin - by cutting the ties he used to keep it connected to him as he slept.

Hybrids come in ship form now

By adamg - 8/26/19 - 8:09 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com snapped the Emerald Ace, which uses solar power and lithium-ion batteries to help it carry up to 6,400 cars at a time, as it passed through Boston Harbor yesterday.

Old Ironsides goes out for a quick run around Boston Harbor

By adamg - 8/23/19 - 11:33 am
USS Constitution in Boston Harbor

Gary Waldeck watched the USS Constitution out and about this morning. Read more.

Man who was arrested for an armed holdup in the North End now faces federal charges that could mean life

By adamg - 8/23/19 - 9:13 am

The US Attorney's office reports a federal grand jury yesterday indicted Dante Mirabella, 52, on charges he held up Bob's Grocery on Endicott Street at gunpoint on May 30 - charges that carry penalties of up to life in prison. Read more.

New Eliot School building opens this fall

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 10:08 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on the impending opening of the new Eliot School building at 585 Commercial St., which once served as headquarters for Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid.

One if by land, two if by sea and three if by air

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 8:47 am

Around 11 a.m., an RAF jet squad will zoom down along Boston Harbor from the north, to promote STEM learning, not to try to avenge Bunker Hill.

Citizen complaint of the day: Something stinks in North Square

By adamg - 8/18/19 - 9:38 pm
Smelly truck

Several nose-holding citizens (or maybe just one particularly incensed citizen) filed 311 complaints yesterday and today about a stench-creating garbage truck that's been just sitting on North Street over the weekend: Read more.

Jonesin' for scungilli salad!

By MrZip - 8/5/19 - 2:42 pm

Anybody have a recommendation for scungilli (conch, often sliced thin and marinated) salad in the North End/downtown? My go-to place has gone-too. I'd also happy knowing of a local market that sells scungilli.

A lot of those fish that started showing up at the Charles River locks are now dying

By adamg - 8/1/19 - 10:54 am
Dead pogies at the Charles River locks

Dead fish. Photo by William McAdoo.

Although some of the pogies that began showing up at the mouth of the Charles a few days ago made it out to their briny destiny in the Atlantic, others are now piling up by the locks and dam, dead. Read more.

Something fishy going on at the Charles River dam

By adamg - 7/29/19 - 11:59 am
A lot of fish in the Charles River

See it larger.

UPDATE: The fish are dying now.

Theodore Hook spotted a ton of swirling pogies at the Charlestown locks this morning.

Contractor at North End building site where pedestrian had construction material fall on her is cited by city

By adamg - 7/26/19 - 9:18 pm

WBUR reports ISD today cited Corolla Contracting for violations that led to "an unsafe and dangerous worksite" at a site off Atlantic Avenue that left a woman walking nearby with critical injuries after metal construction material fell on her from several floors up yesterday.

Construction material falls off building and onto woman in the North End

By adamg - 7/25/19 - 10:09 am
Crane in the North End

The scene. Photo by JraK.

WHDH reports a woman suffered life-threatening injuries this morning after being struck by construction debris, possibly knocked off an Atlantic Avenue building by a construction crane. JraK reports the woman was walking a dog at the time.

Police seek two for North End alley arson

By adamg - 7/20/19 - 10:35 pm
Wanted for questioning about arson in the North End

Surveiilance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for two people they suspect set a fire in an alley off Hanover Street between Cross and Richmond streets around 5 a.m. today. Read more.

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