INJECTION SITE IN SOUTH END? The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) caused a stir this week when its membership voted to endorse supervised drug consumption areas, also known as safe injection sites, for the state. While nothing has been decided, and…
Neighborhood Walking Tours are Back
NEWBURY STREET A free historic walking tour will take place May 4, from 6 – 7:30pm, beginning at 46 Newbury Street in front of Brooks Brothers. This tour will explore how an appreciation for art and architecture guided the historic…
Blighted Hotel Alexandra Deal Falls Through This Week after Promising Talks with Two Buyers
By Seth Daniel A potential sale of the blighted and dilapidated Hotel Alexandra by the Church of Scientology to at least two potential developers has fallen through this week, sources have indicated, in a blow to the neighborhood that erases…
Siena Condo Building Tops Off Steel Work in Ink Block
By Seth Daniel Sales are brisk and steel is assembled at the Siena condo building in the Ink Block area of the South End, one of the last remaining buildings on the slate for the popular block brought by National…
Charlesgate Alliance Seeks to Reclaim Lost Neighborhood
By Dan Murphy By restoring Charlesgate Park, an ad-hoc citizen’s group hopes to piece back together a city neighborhood lost to the construction of the Bowker Overpass more than half a century ago. “The Charlesgate neighborhood exists at the ‘back…
Charles River Esplanade to Get New Signage
By Beth Treffeisen For many local residents who run, bike, or even roller blade down the Charles River Esplanade, the wooden signs that pop up here and there may just blend into the background. But, for many tourists, these signs…
KABINETT Art Gallery Settles into its New Home on Shawmut Ave
By Beth Treffeisen Tucked into a little nook down the mostly residential Shawmut Ave. in the South End, a tiny 200 square foot space entices passerby’s with unique and quirky pieces from Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp and more in a tiny…
Sidewalks Around Boston Public Library are Set for Replacement
By Beth Treffeisen Plans for a new pilot program that will update and repair the mismatched sidewalks that surround the Boston Public Library are underway. Para Jayasinghe from the Boston Public Works Department made a presentation in front of the…
South End Library Hopes to Cure ‘Urgent’ Need for Reconfiguration in City Budget
By Seth Daniel The South End Public Library has been an outpost for families and programming – and even neighborhood meetings for many years – but as the homelessness and addiction problems have grown in the neighborhood it has also…
A High-End Residential Complex is Slated to Open Next to Ramsay Park
By Beth Treffeisen With a slim crowd in attendance, the developers behind the proposed six-story, luxury residential complex that is slated to go in at One Newcomb Street in the South End, showed off their plans for creating an infill…
Forgotten Corner in the Public Garden is Set for a Plant Overhaul
By Beth Treffeisen The corner of the Boston Public Garden that is behind the William Ellery Channing Statue near the Arlington T stop, is the last missing piece of the Friends of the Public Garden ongoing project to restore the…
Police Briefs 05-04-2017
Back Bay – Kenmore/Fenway – South End Police Log April 24 58 Westland Ave. – Death Investigation 70 Burbank St. – Assault Simple – Battery 444 Harrison Ave. – Property – Missing 265 Beacon St. – Larceny All Others 200…