North End

So, who won the Italy/England soccer match?

By adamg - 7/11/21 - 6:44 pm

People celebrate Italy UEFA win on Hanover Street

One look at Hanover Street will tell you. Adam Castligioni shows us the scene on Hanover and Prince streets. He reports Hanover is now a pedestrian plaza. Read more.

The raging Charles

By adamg - 7/10/21 - 1:20 pm

DCR was ready when you are, Gridley, and opened the locks at the Charles River Dam at low tide to let the water piling up in the Basin flow into the Harbor yesterday, as Ari Ofsevit shows us.

Citizen complaint of the day: Cutest menace ever in North End community garden

By adamg - 7/9/21 - 11:39 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a havoc-wreaking gopher at DeFilippo Park in the North End: Read more.

Court ruling means residents of one North End wharf building might have to move their cars permanently

By adamg - 7/7/21 - 11:35 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that the state can decide whether to force the owners of condos at Commercial Wharf to abandon the wharf space they now use for parking, because they never received a formal state license to use the waterfront land for stowing cars. Read more.

Taps on the Prado

By adamg - 5/31/21 - 6:40 pm

Adam Castiglioni watched Victor Brogna of the North End honor members of the service who gave their lives with a rendition of Taps on the Prado today: Read more.

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Like Venus rising from the sea, if Venus were a bridge across the mouth of the Charles

By adamg - 4/21/21 - 10:02 am

New North Washington Street Bridge under construction

Gary Waldeck noticed a support for the new North Washington Street Bridge, looking like it's ready to be unpacked from the crate it came in.

Earlier:
Taking the temporary bridge out for a spin.
The end of the old Charlestown Bridge, once a key El link.

Wall of North End residence collapses

By adamg - 4/19/21 - 4:11 pm

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports the outer chimney wall of a four-story residential building at 8 Baldwin Pl. in the North End collapsed this afternoon. No injuries reported, but four people were displaced.

North End residents have not had the best of luck with chimneys.

Old North Church re-opens to visitors on Saturday

By adamg - 4/15/21 - 12:17 pm

The Beacon Hill Times reports on the historic site's re-opening after 13 months of being closed due to Covid-19.

Bostonians really did tar and feather people

By adamg - 4/8/21 - 9:08 am

J. L. Bell has a series of articles up on Owen Richards, one of His Majesty's customs agents, who was tarred and feathered on May 18, 1770 for seizing a schooner for smuggling - and then paraded around town for four hours:

A court filing in January 1771 stated he “lost his Cloaths, Money, and Papers to the Amount of near £20 st[erling]. And in order to satiate their abandoned Brutality, they set fire to the Feathers as they stuck in the Tar, upon his naked back.”

Two North End restaurants get OK to expand

By adamg - 4/6/21 - 10:13 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Giacomo's, 355 Hanover St., to add tables with a total of 20 more seats on the second floor, and by Forcella in North Square to expand into a neighboring space and add 12 seats. Read more.

Boston parks head takes new job that focuses on just one park

By adamg - 4/1/21 - 9:20 am

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced yesterday it's hired Chris Cook as its new executive director. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: No room for jaywalkers on Hanover Street

By adamg - 3/31/21 - 10:58 am

No break in barriers between outdoor patios along Hanover Street

Some North Enders have been grumbling for weeks about the loss of parking spaces along Hanover Street as restaurants ready their pandemic-inspired outdoor patios for their official opening tomorrow. One fuming citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning abut the way some of the barriers just don't stop: Read more.

Not so fast with expanded outdoor dining in the North End; neighborhood restaurants have to wait until April 1

By adamg - 3/13/21 - 8:10 pm

Although the mayor's office announced yesterday that Boston restaurants could begin serving at tables set up on public sidewalks and parking spaces on March 22, the Boston Licensing Board announced today that North End restaurants will have to wait until April 1. Read more.

Hanover Street cafe closes for good

By adamg - 3/12/21 - 11:30 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that My Cousin's Place, 396 Hanover St. in the North End, is no more.

North End restaurant that had been warned about Covid-19 issues before gets a one-day license supension for new violation; three other eateries also dinged

By adamg - 2/27/21 - 10:19 am

The Boston Licensing Board this week ordered a one-day shutdown for Rabia's on Salem Street after BPD detectives found too many people inside on Feb. 20. Read more.

Flatiron-style residential building to replace vacant lot in the North End

By adamg - 2/23/21 - 11:43 am

Proposed 25 Atlantic Ave. residential building

Rendering by MGF Architects.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a five-story, six-unit residential building on the triangular lot where Commercial Street ends at Atlantic Avenue in the North End. Read more.

Developer files plans for five-story hotel along Cross Street and the Greenway in the North End

By adamg - 2/12/21 - 9:29 pm

Rendering by the Architectural Team.

William Caulder's 6M Development of the North End today filed plans for a five-story, 134-room boutique hotel with two restaurants along Cross Street, next to where Goody Glover's used to be before it was replaced by a Chase Bank branch. Read more.