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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.

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.

By adamg - 7/18/19 - 9:24 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports that earlier this month, somebody got down low to the ground with a saw and cut down two saplings at the Copp’s Hill Burying Ground - the latest trees to be killed in a spree that dates to 1995.

Brighton Center has had a similar problem, but the man responsible for that has never been known to leave that neighborhood.

By adamg - 7/9/19 - 11:19 pm

On a busy Saturday night in February, a new kitchen worker at Ducali Pizzeria on Causeway Street snapped while being teased by a co-worker and beat the man to the floor, where he tried to smash the guy's face into broken shards from glassware that had tumbled there during their fight, police and the family that owns the restaurant said at a hearing today. Read more.

By adamg - 7/3/19 - 9:48 am
Fireworks over Boston Harbor

Adam Balsam watched last night's fireworks over Boston Harbor from Lewis Wharf in the North End.

Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 7/2/19 - 10:28 pm
Building gone on North Street in the North End

Donald F surveyed the scene after workers tore down what was left of 279 North St., which partially collapsed this past weekend. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/19 - 9:32 am

KMV reports the interior walls and ceiling of a building under renovation on North Street at Fleet Street collapsed around midnight. No injuries, but the streets are shut as a precaution. Photo of the damage.

By adamg - 6/13/19 - 9:54 am

A weary North End resident filed a complaint at 11:16 p.m. yesterday about helicopters over his or her neighborhood: Read more.

By adamg - 6/9/19 - 5:47 pm
Bees swarming an iron pole in the North End

No doubt by now the North End is buzzing about this 311 complaint about a swarm of bees taking over a fence pole at Fleet Street and Webster Place this afternoon.

Earlier:
Bees swarming the back of a car in Dorchester.

By adamg - 6/1/19 - 10:28 pm

Boston Police report officers arrested a man wanted for three armed robberies this week - after first watching him conduct several drug transactions on Salem Street Friday night. Read more.

By adamg - 5/31/19 - 3:19 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports that Bob's Grocery on Endicott Street was held up by a masked man with a gun Thursday evening (report has photos). Police records show it happened around 6:40 p.m.

By adamg - 5/30/19 - 11:52 pm
Bright lights at Puopolo Park

The harbor's so bright, they gotta wear shades.

At 9:07 tonight, a concerned citizen in Charlestown filed a 311 complaint about some bright lights in the big city, specifically, the spotlights across the harbor at Puopolo Park in the North End: Read more.

By Bob Leponge - 5/15/19 - 11:26 am

This sign, posted at the construction site on Causeway street just east of North Station / The Garden, offers arriving truck drivers a chance to test their logic skills. Astute observers will note that it allows, for example, 1 concrete truck and 500 delivery trucks.

By adamg - 5/2/19 - 10:43 pm

A doff of the detective's cap to Kristin Foley for figuring out why Boston Harbor suddenly exploded in colors tonight: The Boston-Based Group Formerly Known as Junior Achievement but now as JA Worldwide celebrated its 100th anniversary tonight with fireworks over Boston Harbor: Read more.

By adamg - 4/26/19 - 7:59 am
Sky in the North End

For getting up early, Hannah Armstrong was rewarded with a nice sunrise over Commercial Street in the North End.

MMad shows us the sunrise was just as nice in Quincy: Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/19 - 7:53 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports that state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz wants to keep the narrow streets of "the inner North End" scooter free. The City Council last month approved regulations proposed by Mayor Walsh to set up a system to let companies begin renting scooters in the city.

By adamg - 4/21/19 - 3:41 pm
Fog over the North End

Full House Tickets shows us the fog rolling in around 2:30 p.m. Then ten minutes later: All gone.

By adamg - 4/15/19 - 9:14 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com has photos from last night's Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church. Sara Cuthbertson got up early to watch the battle on Lexington Green.

By adamg - 3/29/19 - 3:55 pm
Turkey in the North End

Roving UHub photographer Caroline Driscoll spotted this feathered Freedom Trail walker in front of Aqua Pazza at North and Richmond streets in the North End this afternoon.

Last seen heading up North towards Cross Street. My guess is that it’s heading back to the Green Line to get to its Brookline headquarters.

By adamg - 3/16/19 - 11:01 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports a Charter Street resident who went out to walk her dog Wednesday morning came home to find her door open and two guys in her son's room - who rushed out of the apartment after one put a gun up to her face.

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