A 19-story residential building proposed for Huntington Avenue would bring much-desired housing to the Fenway, although the plan has also sparked some concern regarding how its height might impact the abutting Museum of Fine Arts, among other neighboring sites. Representatives…
Author: Dan Murphy
WLP Art Instructor and Former Guest Designs This Year’s Holiday Card for Shelter
Each year, Women’s Lunch Place produces a holiday card, with proceeds going to support women experiencing hunger, homelessness, and poverty, and while the cards have typically been designed in the past by a current guest of the Newbury Street women’s…
New Committee Takes Charge of Annual Comm. Ave. Mall Holiday Tree-Lighting
The annual holiday lighting of the trees on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall will stretch an additional two blocks this year, going all the way from Arlington Street to Kenmore Square, as the newly formed Commonwealth Avenue Mall Enhancement Committee takes…
Public Gets a Look at Latest Plans for Parcel 13
The public got a look at the latest plans for the proposed development of air-rights Parcel 13 in the Back Bay, which will include a 100-percent affordable housing component, in addition to Level 2 lab space, during a virtual meeting…
NABB LBU Committee Hears From Owners of Proposed Boylston Street Dispensary
The owners of another adult-use cannabis dispensary proposed for Boylston Street made their pitch to the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay License and Building Use Committee at the group’s monthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 7, which took place virtually.…
Boston Voters Support Healey for Governor in General Election Victory
Like voters throughout the Commonwealth, Boston residents resoundingly supported Maura Healey in her historic victory in the Nov. 8 general election to become the next Governor of Massachusetts. According to the city’s unofficial election results, the bill of Healey, the…
City’s Mass. And Cass Crisis Response Leader on Hand for Monthly CSN Meeting
The director of the city’s Coordinated Response Team for the Mass. and Cass Crisis was on hand for the Wednesday, Nov. 2, meeting of Chester Square Neighbors, which was held virtually. Tania del Rio, who has been in the position…
New Fence Being Installed at Berkeley Community Garden
The Berkeley Community Garden in the South End is getting a safety upgrade with the installation of a new 6-foot-high fence with a concrete retaining wall along the Dwight Street alley. The Community Garden, located on East Berkeley Street between…
City Ponders Future of Zoning in the Fenway
The Boston Planning & Development Agency sponsored a Fenway Community Advisory Committee meeting virtually on Tuesday Oct. 25, to discuss the future of zoning in the neighborhood. The meeting, which was co-sponsored by the office of City Councilor Kenzie Bok,…
Citywide Forum Focuses on Homelessness
A citywide forum focusing on the issue of homelessness in Boston, including efforts to help get more of the city’s unsheltered population off the streets through new affordable- and supportive-housing opportunities, took place Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the Copley Branch…