The movement to reconstitute the park and properly honor Allan Rohan Crite at Crite Park in the South End has gone into warp speed this summer, and that was buttressed last Wednesday night, Aug. 12, with the unveiling of the…
Month: August 2020
Walsh Announces $30 Million New Affordable Housing Funding Round
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the City of Boston has released two Requests for Proposals (RFP) offering approximately $30 million for afford-able housing developments seeking City of Boston financial support. This is the first affordable housing funding the City…
Northeastern Officials Outline Plans for Off-Campus Housing, COVID-19 Testing
Northeastern University officials were on hand for a virtual meeting sponsored by the St. Botolph Neighborhood Association Tuesday, Aug. 11, to outline their plans for housing students at area hotels for the fall semester, as well for how the school…
BBAC Approves Refurbishment of 224 Clarendon St. Entrance
The Back Bay Architectural Commission (BBAC) on August 12 approved with provisos the refurbishment of the entrance at 224 Clarendon St. Architect Tom Trykowski presented the proposal for the project, which is part of a new design that had been…
Roxbury Corners Coop Files Injunction to Stop Tubman House Closing, Demo
The full-court pressure returned to the Tubman House project this week, as a preliminary injunction and civil complaint was filed in Suffolk Superior Civil Court on Aug. 18 for United South End/Lower Roxbury Development Corporation (also known as Roxbury Corners…
Death at Verb Hotel in March Ruled a Homicide: Revere Man Arrested in Maine
At about 12:10 p.m. on Friday, March 13, officers assigned to District D-4 (South End) responded to a radio call for a cardiac arrest in the area of 1271 Boylston St. (Verb Hotel) in Fenway. On arrival, officers located an…
Travel Lane to Close in Each Direction on Mass Turnpike for a Year Due to Parcel 12 Project
One traffic lane will close in each direction on the Mass Turnpike effective Saturday, Aug. 22 and lasting for approximately a year as construction proceeds on the Parcel 12 air-rights project, a representative for Samuels & Associates said. The Boston-based…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…
Guest Op-Ed: Pine Street Out!
By George Stergios and Bob Minnocci, Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association Three weeks ago, Pine Street Inn leased the Roundhouse Suites and added another 180 homeless people to the Mass & Cass area, where there are hundreds already living in…