As COVID-19 rocked dense urban neighborhoods, and racial unrest fueled some violent protesting and looting over the last several months, most in the downtown neighborhoods were bracing for what could be an exodus from city life. Young families, retired empty…
Author: Seth Daniel
Fenway Purveyors Get Creative Without Red Sox Nation at the Door
No fans in the seats of Fenway Park at this summer’s Red Sox games means fewer, if any, customers at the adjacent businesses that live off of the nation’s pastime each summer. To try to make up the difference, they’re…
South End to Create Their Own MOU to Check Roundhouse: Residents Said to Have the Support of Mayor Walsh
In the wake of the surprise, new homeless shelter at the Roundhouse Hotel on Mass/Cass in the South End, residents and business of the South End are combining forces to create their own standards of conduct for the 180-person shelter,…
Peters Park Turning into a Mess This Summer, Neighbors Say
Peters Park – the king of open spaces in the South End – has taken a turn for the worse this summer as the homeless population increases and more drug activity has shown up. Neighbors in the area and from…
Pine Street, Roundhouse Hotel to Open Homeless Shelter at Mass/Cass
Agreement Shocks Neighbors, Some in City Hall By Monday morning, tables, lamps and other hotel amenities were being taken out the front door of the Best Western Roundhouse Hotel on Mass/Cass in the South End to make way for a…
Whittier Street Mobile COVID Testing Hits Back Bay, Newmarket
The Whittier Street Health Center on Tremont Street has wheels, and their mobile COVID-19 testing lab is coming to the area for free testing of all residents – no appointment necessary. The Mobile testing facility travels through the area and…
Outdoor Dining Surges on Newbury, Hopes for Longer-Term Situation
Outdoor dining is a great luxury in some American cities, but it took a pandemic for it to become a potentially permanent feature of the Boston dining scene, and now many restaurant operators clinging to anything they can get to…
The Grande Dame of Worcester Square: Rose Mehegan Passes at 98
If one searched hard enough, somewhere in the center of Worcester Square park in the South End, they would likely still find the thumbprint of Rose Mehegan – a former resident of the Square who ran traditional lodging houses there…
Red Sox Give Grants to Ten Fenway Organizations
Ten community organizations in the Fenway will receive a total of $100,000 this summer through the latest round of the Fenway Park Demonstration Project Community benefits fund – a fund maintained by the City and Red Sox since 2013. The…
A Rare Chance: JVS/BCAE merger looking at two options for Bay Village facility
Following the announcement of the merger between the Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) and Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE), JVS said this week it is looking at two options for how to use the former BCAE facility on Arlington Street…