The National Park Service has proposed changes to the Charlestown Navy Yard that would include replacing the large, vacant Hoosac Stores warehouse next to the USS Constitution site with a new museum and visitor center. Read more.
Charlestown Navy Yard
By adamg - 12/7/21 - 1:20 pm
In rejecting proposals by three developers to turn the decaying Pier 5 at the Charlestown Navy Yard into sites for more housing, the BPDA says it's now on board with proposals by residents to turn the pier into a park. Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/21 - 11:58 am
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports the BPDA has dismissed three proposals by developers for building housing at the Charlestown Navy Yard's rotting Pier 5 - one of which called for dealing with rising sea levels by building the units as floating pods.
The agency, which owns the pier, had solicited proposals for what to do with it; a residents group has called for it to be replaced with a park.
By adamg - 7/20/21 - 9:09 am
BostonTimelapse captured the haze over South Boston from the NPS Dorchester Heights camera this morning.
Nathaniel Stinnett got a similar view of the fire-generated, high-altitude haze, across Boston Harbor at the Charlestown Navy Yard: Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/21 - 4:09 pm
Water-line living, from Navy Blue proposal.
Three developers have proposed replacing a long unused and decaying pier at the Charlestown Navy Yard with housing and various public amenities. Two proposed what would be Boston's first floating neighborhood - a series of homes on floating platforms connected to a new pier that would double as a pedestrian walkway - while the third proposed dealing with higher sea levels by building a higher pier, topped by a building with affordable apartments. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/5/21 - 5:24 pm
A woman who allegedly got out of her car with a romantic interest at a stop sign in the Charlestown Navy Yard to hug and kiss before they got back in the car and continued kissing now faces federal charges of OUI and obstructing traffic because the stop sign was within the bounds of the Boston National Historic Park. Read more.
By adamg - 11/25/20 - 10:22 am
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports on two developers' proposals for the old power-plant building at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The BPDA will hold a public meeting on the two on Dec. 3.
By adamg - 11/16/20 - 6:16 pm
With the Massachusetts Covid-19 rate now well into spring-surge numbers, the Navy has ordered the historic ship shut to visitors, like it did in the spring, WBZ reports.
By adamg - 3/26/20 - 3:21 pm
Good luck appealing that ticket.
Yesterday, Live Boston posted photos of an old Volvo with New York plates in the Charlestown Navy Yard that had allegedly become a coronavirusmobile.
BTD ain't got time for that and today Live Boston shows us what some parking enforcement officer thought of the handwritten coronavirus warnings on the car.
By adamg - 3/25/20 - 3:55 pm
Live Boston spotted this New Yorker's old Volvo and its notes in the Charlestown Navy Yard today.
By adamg - 8/10/19 - 5:26 pm
One of the boxes on a Cambridge bench yesterday while guarded by Bronson.
UPDATE: Group that says it's based in Rome takes responsibility.
Bomb squads from both Boston and Cambridge Police today recovered small metal boxes with taped "Open Me" notes on the side as the departments urged the public to be cautious and to call 911 if they found more. Read more.
By adamg - 3/29/19 - 3:27 pm
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports on the restaurant boat, which will be berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
By adamg - 12/14/18 - 10:40 am
Upton + Partners's proposed Ferris wheel.
The BPDA is looking for ways to spruce up the Charlestown Navy Yard and turn it into a destination for people who have already seen Old Ironsides - with more art, history and use of the water. Earlier this week, the agency released copies of presentations from several design firms with ideas on how to "activate" both the water's edge and the three-mile Harborwalk section that runs through the Navy Yard. Read more.
By adamg - 11/14/18 - 6:15 pm
Stanley Forman reports the driver hit the gas instead of the brake and over Pier 6 he went. Driver and passenger got out OK.
By adamg - 11/25/17 - 10:27 am
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports the BPDA has discovered that Pier 5 is in such bad shape it can't be used for anything, except as a fenced-off eyesore.
By adamg - 7/23/17 - 11:40 pm
Roving UHub photographer Melissa from Waltham watched the Constitution's drydock fill with water tonight after 26 months of repairs.
By adamg - 6/23/17 - 10:54 am
With a two-year restoration project nearly done, Patrick Kennedy of Suffolk Construction takes a look at the one thing without which the work wouldn't be possible, at least not without hauling the ship onto a muddy embankment: The dry dock.
Undefeated in the War of 1812, Constitution was already a legend when she entered the brand-new, Quincy-granite dry dock in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1833. (That’s 184 years from this Saturday.)
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