The Boston Business Journal reports on a BRA hearing on the proposed $175-million One Canal project on a piece of land now owned by the state.
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By adamg - 6/20/12 - 10:04 pm
Amy Derjue captured a longest-day party at a Greenway fountain this evening.
By adamg - 5/9/12 - 6:38 am
Karen Cord Taylor considers competing proposals for Parcel 9, next to Haymarket, which include a museum about Boston, a bunch of apartments and a hotel.
By adamg - 4/8/12 - 11:16 am
Mystery Pill gives us a taste of the Banditos Misteriosos pillow fight by the North End yesterday.
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By adamg - 3/24/12 - 9:08 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com rounds up the latest offerings, all of which would include space for Haymarket vendors and three of which the state previously rejected.
By adamg - 1/2/12 - 10:09 am
They could rename it Pigsty Park.
The Globe today reports the state Department of Transportation has some ambitious plans for the land and air around the turnpike/93 interchange in Chinatown, which it hopes will eventually become a new gateway to the city, featuring new development and parks.
Parks, huh? The photo above is the latest on file with the city's Citizen Connect service from Mary Soo Hoo Park, the little plaza at the pedestrian gateway to Chinatown that is owned by the state Department of Transportation - or at least, that's what the city and the Greenway Conservancy keep telling residents in explaining why their crews can't pick up the trash that keeps getting left there. A couple of weeks ago, the city actually did dispatch a DPW crew to remove trash, but this latest complaint is marked "closed:"
Case Referred to External Agency. Mass dot jurisdiction. details forwarded.
By adamg - 12/10/11 - 11:06 am
Right, not Dewey Square but Mary Soo Hoo Park in Chinatown, where a fed-up citizen complains:
By adamg - 11/24/11 - 10:48 am
An alert citizen holds his or her nose with one hand and types with the other near the old turnpike-authority building in the North End:
2 days going now, walkway across greenway smells like something died in there .. Real bad stench
The city replies:
It has been confirmed that there is nothing decaying in the area. The odor is from the organic holly-tone fertilizer recently spread and will dissipate in the next few days.
By adamg - 11/20/11 - 4:23 pm
Mike Ball considers the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy's newfound reasons for wanting Occupy Boston off its land and finds them lacking:
The Greenway Conservancy folk apparently stifled their Brahmin impulse until they popped. They saw the courts refuse to clear Occupy's camp and the mayor deciding to hang back. At least Menino has the political savvy to understand the peril of smothering protest in the town that fomented the American Revolution.
By adamg - 11/18/11 - 7:33 pm
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy now wants the city to broom Occupy Boston from Dewey Square.
After much thought and discussion, we have come to the conclusion that, as fiduciaries for public use of the Greenway, we must request that you enforce our regulations and remove the occupiers from the Greenway.
By adamg - 10/17/11 - 10:14 am
A BPD official tries to explain to BU students why people should stop looking at police as the heavies in last week's mass arrests.
By adamg - 10/12/11 - 8:42 pm
The ACLU of Massachusetts says it's looking into how people were arrested and processed following the "heavy handed" Greenway crackdown on Tuesday.
By adamg - 10/12/11 - 1:57 pm
A mobile food festival originally planned for this Saturday has been postponed until at least this spring, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced today:
The decision is based on the fact the attendees we're anticipating for the Greenway Mobile Food Fest, when combined with the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square, would simply be too crowded to be considered safe for the public.
DA agrees to drop criminal charges against most protesters; some, however, insist on criminal trials
By adamg - 10/11/11 - 8:21 pm
Most of the protesters arrested at Occupy Boston early this morning walked out of Boston Municipal Court today after paying $50 fines. However, eight protesters insisted on criminal trials, while 4 others will get criminal trials because of past criminal records, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
The DA's office reached agreement with 49 protesters to drop criminal charges in exchange for $50 fines, which means they walked out of court with no criminal record. A judge dropped charges against an additional 14 protesters in exchange for a similar payment and over prosecutors' objections, the DA's office says.
By adamg - 10/11/11 - 6:20 am
Arrest. Photo by Jtpouliot. Copyright Jtpouliot.
Boston Police moved into the new encampment on the Greenway around 1:20 a.m., giving protesters five minutes to retreat back to the original encampment closer to South Station or get arrested. They didn't move, and the police, who had been massing around the encampment since the previous evening, kept their word. Jtpouliot was there to record the arrests. Scott Eisen also took photos. An arrest photo. Open Media Boston posted photos as well.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis says anarchists, not a harrumphing mayor, forced his hand today (Ed. historical note: Anarchists were originally blamed for the Great Molasses Disaster as well; as we now know, the tank exploded due to corporate greed - an executive ignored warnings the tank was leaking).
By adamg - 10/5/11 - 10:54 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com posts video from a Greenway Conservancy board meeting at which board members discussed the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square.
Meanwhile, it looks like Occupy Boston might be putting down some roots in Copley Square.
By adamg - 8/23/11 - 10:27 pm
Why, it's a wonder they don't propose running convoys of trucks all the way down Washington Street or Beacon Street.
The state held the first of four hearings tonight on a request from Boston city officials and North End and waterfront residents to get gasoline and diesel tankers off streets like Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue unless they're making local deliveries, and instead detour around Boston by way of Rte. 128.
By adamg - 8/9/11 - 5:10 pm
Richard St. Pierre, a tourist down from Montreal, couldn't stop grooving to the '80s covers at a lunchtime concert on the Greenway by Rowes Wharf today.
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