North End

North End restaurant owner plans major Italian redo of entire Cross Street block: Restaurant, cooking school, clothing and furniture stores

By adamg - 11/19/24 - 12:22 pm

Rendering of proposed Cross Street expansion

Rendering by Anthony Pisani.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by serial North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale to add a second floor to the vacant strip of storefronts on Cross Street between Hanover and Salem street so he can open a series of businesses keyed to Italian culture - including a cooking school to be run with an existing culinary institute in Italy, aimed at both people looking at restaurant careers and residents and even elementary-school students who just want to learn more about Italian cooking. Read more.

Ted Williams has a tunnel and soon Bill Russell will get a bridge

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 2:05 pm

Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.

Boston has four valuable all-alcohol licenses to give out over the next year: A North End restaurant owner is asking for two of them

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 3:07 pm

Carla Gomes, who owns two Italian restaurants in the North End, today made the case why she should get two of the four all-alcohol licenses - worth an instant $600,000 or so to whoever gets them - that the Boston Licensing Board will give out over the next year, although she said she's not greedy and would be happy with just one. Read more.

North End post office just never opened today

By adamg - 10/1/24 - 3:12 pm

Sign on door of North End post office: Not open

A roving UHub photographer notes the post office on Hanover Street in the North End has a sign on the door saying it would be opening late, at 10:30 a.m., but that they still weren't open when she swung by at 2 p.m.

Earlier:
Letters, we get letters - just not through the Postal Service.

As the big yachts go, it was bigger than most

By adamg - 9/17/24 - 11:15 pm

Hodor on the left. See it larger.

Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, couldn't help but notice the Lonian docked at Commercial Wharf today, because the thing is enormous: It's a 285-foot-long superyacht. Read more.

Culture shift: Boston considering opening some streets to open drinking

By adamg - 8/30/24 - 12:47 pm

GBH uncorks the news that City Hall is considering several "open container districts" where people could buy something adult at a local restaurant and then just walk around sipping like we're a common New Orleans or Las Vegas. Read more.

Not the usual Coast Guard cutter docked at the North End

By adamg - 8/11/24 - 1:27 pm

Eric Bender shows us the Eagle, docked at the North End Coast Guard base and open for touring until 7 p.m.

North End restaurant owner with a grudge admits he tried to gun a man down right on Hanover Street

By adamg - 7/26/24 - 1:23 pm

Patrick Mendoza, the now former owner of Monica's Trattoria on Prince Street in the North End, today pleaded guilty to charges that he tried murdering a guy with whom he had beef in front of Modern Pastry on Hanover Street last July 12, Oscar Margáin reports from Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.

BPD officer seriously injured when hit by truck on North Washington Street

By adamg - 7/25/24 - 2:26 pm

A Boston Police officer was knocked to the ground when hit by a truck at North Washington and Thacher streets around 12:45 p.m.

The driver stayed at the scene.

BPS cancels last day of school for three schools on Celtics parade route

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 9:50 am

Wednesday night, BPS notified parents of kids at Snowden International High School, the Josiah Quincy (both lower and upper schools) and the Eliot School (all three schools) that the last day of classes for the year is today, because there was no way to get kids to school and have a Celtics championship parade, NorthEnd.page reports, adding that state officials signed off on the move which "left parents scrambling to find childcare and reschedule end-of-year activities."

How one BPS school went from desgregated to resegregated

By adamg - 6/18/24 - 10:57 am

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the court order that required Boston to desegregate its schools, WBUR looks at the Eliot School in the North End, which went from having racial parity to becoming mostly white once again - in a school district that is mostly Black and Hispanic.

North End restaurateur to spend summer locked up after allegedly cutting off the GPS device he was supposed to wear while awaiting trial for a failed Hanover Street murder attempt

By adamg - 6/11/24 - 10:53 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today ordered Patrick Mendoza, the now former owner of Monica's Trattoria on Prince Street, held without bail until at least Sept. 11 - with no date yet set for his trial on charges he shot at somebody outside Modern Pastry on Hanover Street last July, according to court records. Read more.

Report: North End restaurant owner who was released to home confinement on attempted-murder charge cut off his court-ordered GPS device

By adamg - 6/10/24 - 10:35 am

Update: Mendoza ordered back to jail, at least pending a pre-trial conference turned bail hearing tomorrow, per court records.

The Globe reports that Patrick Mendoza was arrested Saturday for cutting off his court-ordered ankle bracelet and allegedly told BPD officers he was tired of wearing the ankle bracelet and was thinking it was time to try to kill somebody else. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Look at that hole! Look at it!

By adamg - 6/9/24 - 1:39 pm

Hole pointers in Christopher Columbus Park

A really aggravated citizen filed a 311 complaint about two holes somebody dug in the lawn at Christopher Columbus Park, to the point of gathering three fellow citizens by one of them to point at it, just in case Parks workers doubt them or something: Read more.

did the t.d.-boston garden move downtown ?

By schneidz - 5/15/24 - 9:12 pm

anybody else upset at the t-n-t coverage of tonites cavs @ celtics game where the announcers continentally mentioned live in downtown boston ... between commercials.

Woman went on an auto rampage, driving like a maniac and smashing into the Coast Guard base and Fenway Park, police say

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 3:41 pm

State Police report a Salem woman this morning led police from the North Shore into Boston on a wild chase full of crashed cars and gates - at the Coast Guard base in the North End and at Fenway Park, both of which police say she rammed into with her 2024 Honda Accord. Read more.

Whole lotta birds downtown

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 10:45 am

The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.

North End restaurant owner who's charged with trying to shoot somebody is released from jail to await trial under home confinement

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 9:51 am

A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week concluded Patrick Mendoza, charged with trying to plug somebody on Hanover Street, was no longer an immediate threat to society and so could be released from jail to modified home release while awaiting trial - he is allowed to leave home for work or for medical or legal appointments. Read more.

Man shot in the leg in the North End

By adamg - 5/5/24 - 5:21 pm

Police officers responding to 911 calls about gunfire and shouting found a man shot in the leg at 226 North St. in the North End around 2:55 a.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.

Two cars were also hit by gunfire.

Citizen complaint of the day: Schools of dead fish washing up on the rocks along Boston Harbor

By adamg - 5/5/24 - 2:49 pm

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.