"TGIF," Trout House Comics said this morning as the sun came up over Boston Harbor.
By adamg - Sun, 01/26/2025 - 1:19pm
No, not R, but T. T Wharf used to extend out from what is now Christopher Columbus Park, as an extension to Long Wharf (which itself used to be a half mile long). Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 06/09/2024 - 1:39pm
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.
By adamg - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 10:39pm
Gary noticed what low tide exposed at Christopher Columbus Park this afternoon.
By adamg - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 11:16am
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.
By adamg - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 2:46pm
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.
By adamg - Sun, 10/30/2022 - 12:08pm
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.
By adamg - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 8:40pm
Aegon Targaryen VI watched the post-storm rainbow over Boston Harbor from Christopher Columbus Park. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 12/31/2021 - 9:48pm
Matt Conti took in the First Night ice sculptures along the Greenway and in Christopher Columbus Park tonight.
By adamg - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 5:35pm
Lisa Young watched Santa arrive by helicopter in the North End. Adam Castiglioni watched him in the Christmas parade through the neighborhood: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 11/22/2021 - 8:53pm
Matt Conti took in the 19th holiday lighting of the Christopher Columbus Park trellis tonight.
By adamg - Mon, 10/11/2021 - 2:58pm
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.
By adamg - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 9:45pm
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.
By adamg - Thu, 10/08/2020 - 8:55am
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.
By adamg - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 8:45am
NorthendWaterfront.com reports the city will replace the beheaded Chris with a statue representing Italian immigrants in Christopher Columbus Park. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/08/2020 - 5:18pm
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.
By adamg - Thu, 06/11/2020 - 8:42pm
Mayor Walsh vowed tonight that Christopher Columbus will not stay headless. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 06/11/2020 - 2:49pm
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.
By adamg - Wed, 06/10/2020 - 5:47pm
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.
By adamg - Wed, 06/10/2020 - 8:59am
Somebody lopped Columbus's head off in Christopher Columbus Park overnight. Read more.
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