Christopher Columbus Park

Some Bluebikes are all wet

By adamg - 11/11/23 - 10:39 pm

Gary noticed what low tide exposed at Christopher Columbus Park this afternoon.

You don't just let your skateboard float off into the ocean

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 11:16 am

Man in Boston Harbor retrieving skateboard

Horseless Age chronicled one man's successful effort to retrieve his be-stickered skateboard out of the briny shallow off Christopher Columbus Park the other day - after getting down to his skivvies and slipping a time or two on the seaweed.

City, feds ponder next steps for protecting Boston from rising seas, including Providence-like flood barriers

By adamg - 2/21/23 - 2:46 pm

Proposed Fort Point Channel barrier and pedestrian bridge

Possibility for a Fort Point Channel barrier. See it larger.

A consultant hired by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission is recommending a new barrier system where Boston Harbor meets Fort Point Channel, to keep rising sea levels and more intense storms from letting the ocean reclaim what was once South Bay - a large swath of Dorchester, South Boston and Roxbury. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Marty's not the mayor anymore

By adamg - 10/30/22 - 12:08 pm

Sign in Christopher Columbus Park that still says Martin J. Walsh is mayor

A concerned citizen takes time out of a no doubt very busy schedule to file a 311 complaint about the sign in Christopher Columbus Park that still lists Martin J. Walsh as mayor and to ask that the sign be changed to reflect the name of the current mayor.

At least we got a nice rainbow or two out of all that hail and rain and thunder

By adamg - 4/9/22 - 8:40 pm

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Aegon Targaryen VI watched the post-storm rainbow over Boston Harbor from Christopher Columbus Park. Read more.

An ice start to the New Year

By adamg - 12/31/21 - 9:48 pm

Matt Conti took in the First Night ice sculptures along the Greenway and in Christopher Columbus Park tonight.

The reindeer were in the shop today

By adamg - 12/12/21 - 5:35 pm

Santa getting off a helicopter in the North End

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Lisa Young watched Santa arrive by helicopter in the North End. Adam Castiglioni watched him in the Christmas parade through the neighborhood: Read more.

Let there be trellis

By adamg - 11/22/21 - 8:53 pm

Lit trellis in Christopher Columbus Park

Matt Conti took in the 19th holiday lighting of the Christopher Columbus Park trellis tonight.

Citizen complaint of the day: Red-stained protest at Christopher Columbus Park

By adamg - 10/11/21 - 2:58 pm

Base of former Christopher Columbus statue in his epnonymous North End park

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about the protest graffiti on the base where Christopher Columbus used to stand in the North End until he was decapitated last year.

With no statue left to deface or knock down, the protester could only spray paint messages on the base and on the sign that tells you the name of the park.

Bernie does Boston

By adamg - 1/26/21 - 9:45 pm

Why, yes, you can now buy a life-sized cardboard cutout of Bernie Sanders in his mittens and folding chair. Adam Balsam got his today, just in time to let Bernie enjoy his Vermont-made jacket while touring a snowy North End.

Italian-American group might sue to force city to put Columbus statute back where it was beheaded

By adamg - 10/8/20 - 8:55 am

The Italian American Alliance is pissed at Mayor Walsh's announcement that the Christopher Columbus statue that was decapitated in June will not be returned to its pedestal in Christopher Columbus Park, but instead be sent to the senior-citizen apartment building the neighborhood Knights of Columbus is building: Read more.

Goodbye, Columbus: Decapitated statue won't be going back to waterfront park

By adamg - 10/6/20 - 8:45 am

NorthendWaterfront.com reports the city will replace the beheaded Chris with a statue representing Italian immigrants in Christopher Columbus Park. Read more.

Christopher Columbus's smashed head can be repaired, but then he'd forever be Scarface Columbus, experts tell city

By adamg - 9/8/20 - 5:18 pm

The Boston Art Commission has received reports from two statue restoration experts that while the remains of the decapitated Columbus statue from the eponymous North End park can be reassembled, the mortar used to paste his head and neck back together "would be visible" to people wanting to gaze upon him. Read more.

Mayor, state rep agree: North Enders will decide what to do with Columbus statue once his head is put back together

By adamg - 6/11/20 - 8:42 pm

Michlewitz zooms in on statue, other issues.

Mayor Walsh vowed tonight that Christopher Columbus will not stay headless. Read more.

Nothing inevitable about the name of Christopher Columbus Park; it could have been named for a downtown banker

By adamg - 6/11/20 - 2:49 pm

In his defense of Christopher Columbus Park and the Columbus statue yesterday, state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz made it sound like both projects were always meant to honor the proud "North End people" of Italian descent, and that nothing should be done to either without their consent. Read more.

North End state rep says Columbus statue a symbol of Italian heritage and North End persistence, so knock it off with the beheading

By adamg - 6/10/20 - 5:47 pm

Headless statue in windless park. Photo by Rob C.

State Rep. Aaron Michlewitz says people need to look beyond Christopher Columbus's reputation as a cruel murderer of both natives and the Spaniards he led and consider the history of the North End and how the statue represents both some of the neighborhood's original Italian immigrants and the fight to keep the North End from becoming an overbuilt district of expensive condos. Read more.