By Karen Cord Taylor You have a taxicab company, or maybe you drive a cab. You paid a lot of money for the medallion that allows you to operate that cab. People trying to hail your cab have no idea…
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Summer in the City
By Phineas J. Stone Boston turns into an entirely different place once June 1 hits, and really the warm up for that comes in late May. The early morning sunrise, pleasant temperatures, the return of the birds and the overall…
News Briefs
MOVIES AT THE PRU RETURN The free Family Film Festival series is returning this summer to Prudential Center and the list of great family movies is below. Saturdays starting July 2 through August 27, beginning with fun kid activities at…
Rock n’ Roll Yoga at the Verb Hotel in Fenway
by Marianne Salza Poolside at The Verb Hotel, a group of women stretched in a low lunge pose, reaching up towards the green wall of Fenway Park during the first Rock n’ Roll Yoga class of the summer on May…
Methadone Mile Neighbors Look for Security
By Seth Daniel Earlier this month at a neighborhood function in the South End, two mayors came face-to-face for a handshake. One of them was Mayor Martin Walsh – the mayor of Boston. The other was George Stergios – the…
Newbury St To Close To Car Traffic for a Day
By Seth Daniel Everyone has been taught to look both ways before crossing the street, but this summer – at least for one day and maybe more – that may not be necessary. Imagine shopping on Newbury…
Flower Exchange Purchased by the Abbey Group of Boston
Several sources confirmed this week that the Abbey Group intends to purchase the large, key parcel of land on Albany Street known as the Flower Exchange and will move to develop it with biotech companies in the fashion of Cambridge’s…
First Look at Gateway Project
By Dan Murphy The public got a look at preliminary design plans for the $1 billion Back Bay/South End Gateway project during a meeting sponsored by the Boston Redevelopment Authority the Boston at the Common Hotel and Conference Center on…
South End Forum Unveils Parking Recommendations
By Seth Daniel The South End Forum’s Parking Task Force unveiled a slate of recommendations for the greater South End neighborhood regarding parking changes – including year-round street sweeping and eliminating the use of snow space savers in the neighborhood.…
Leggat McCall to Revise Albany Block Project
By Seth Daniel The principals for the Albany Block project told members of the Blackstone/Franklin Square Neighborhood Association on Tuesday night that they would be re-presenting their controversial project to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) in the coming weeks in…