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By adamg - 5/6/24 - 10:45 am
The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.
By adamg - 5/6/24 - 9:51 am
A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week concluded Patrick Mendoza, charged with trying to plug somebody on Hanover Street, was no longer an immediate threat to society and so could be released from jail to modified home release while awaiting trial - he is allowed to leave home for work or for medical or legal appointments. Read more.
By adamg - 5/5/24 - 5:21 pm
Police officers responding to 911 calls about gunfire and shouting found a man shot in the leg at 226 North St. in the North End around 2:55 a.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.
Two cars were also hit by gunfire.
By adamg - 5/5/24 - 2:49 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.
By adamg - 5/3/24 - 10:47 am
Banner across Salem Street. Source.
Some restaurant owners in the North End have thrown up banners in the neighborhood to get visitors to make reservations for outdoor dining via 311, which might confuse out of towners who don't know 311 doesn't handle restaurant reservations. Read more.
By adamg - 5/1/24 - 11:17 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Locale, 352 Hanover St. in the North End, to double its size by moving into the space now used by a barber shop next door. Read more.
By adamg - 4/18/24 - 2:52 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the owners of Giacomo's and Riccardo's are looking to open a lobster place at 204 Hanover St. in the North End. They go before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday for permission to buy a liquor license from another restaurant.
By adamg - 4/10/24 - 9:41 pm
WBZ reports on an incident at Hanover and Commercial streets Tuesday night where a worker at Rocco's ran outside and chased a hit-and-run driver who got out and then ran after slamming into another car.
By AdamB - 4/2/24 - 12:51 pm
Big Day Boston, the friendly downtown birding competition, is returning to Copp's Hill Terrace in Boston's North End, Saturday, May 4th, 2024. Read more.
By adamg - 3/27/24 - 11:59 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Fatima and Mahmood Ibrahim to open a 40-seat Middle-Eastern fusion restaurant at 115 Salem St. in the North End. Read more.
By adamg - 3/20/24 - 11:48 am
Death to rats - and any dogs that eat the things (from second complaint).
At 8:41 a.m., a concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking the city to do something about the rats digging holes along a wall of the dog park on Snow Hill Street in the North End. Read more.
By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:07 pm
An alarmed citizen files a 311 complaint about a battle at the RUFF dog park on Snow Hill Street this evening: Read more.
By adamg - 3/7/24 - 5:34 pm
A long-time employee at Massimino's Cucina Italiana on Endicott Street faces a charge of indecent assault and battery for an incident last September involving a woman co-worker. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/24 - 2:26 pm
On March 1, 1925, people who supported a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted of a 1920 robbery turned double murder in Braintree, marched through the North End and Scollay Square for a rally at Faneuil Hall, where Boston City Council President James Moriarty joined their cause. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/24 - 9:48 am
Boston announced today it's accepting applications from restaurants that want to use public sidewalks and curbs for seasonal outdoor patios - except along the narrow, crowded streets of the North End, where restaurants will again be barred from setting up tables along the curb. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/24 - 1:11 pm
This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.
Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.
By adamg - 1/5/24 - 12:33 pm
The owners of 21 North End restaurants and the North End Chamber of Commerce yesterday sued the city over its 2022 fees for restaurants in the neighborhood that wanted to use public sidewalks and streets for patio seating - and its ban on such patios last year - alleging the Wu administration and a local residents' groups hate Italians for some reason. Read more.
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