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Tony DeMarco, world-champion North End boxer with his own statue, dies at 89

By adamg - 10/12/21 - 1:02 pm
DeMarco statue with memorial wreath

DeMarco statue with memorial wreath today. Photo by Audrey.

The Ring reports the death on Monday of Tony DeMarco, "the wild-swinging Boston brawler who won the world welterweight championship in 1955" - at the Garden, no less. Read more.

Developer files plans for five-story hotel along Cross Street and the Greenway in the North End

By adamg - 2/12/21 - 9:29 pm
Proposed hotel on Cross Street

Rendering by the Architectural Team.

William Caulder's 6M Development of the North End today filed plans for a five-story, 134-room boutique hotel with two restaurants along Cross Street, next to where Goody Glover's used to be before it was replaced by a Chase Bank branch. Read more.

Developer proposes replacing nondescript storefront at Cross Street entrance to the North End with a boutique hotel

By adamg - 11/10/20 - 9:11 am

Developer William Caulder says he will soon file plans with the BPDA for a six-story, 135-room hotel on Cross Street between Salem and Endicott streets, along the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Read more.

Not just the Starbucks: North End residents express hate for building it would have gone into

By adamg - 9/18/18 - 9:51 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports a North End/Waterfront Residents Association meeting on the proposed modern building on Cross Street where a Starbucks was originally planned grew so heated an association member called on the sergeant at arms to restore calm. What, your neighborhood association doesn't have a sergeant at arms?

Once again, mayor wants Starbucks to leave a Boston neighborhood alone; will it listen to him this time?

By adamg - 7/6/18 - 9:37 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports Mayor Walsh is asking Starbucks to withdraw its proposal for a Venti-sized Frappuccino joint at Cross and Hanover streets as an affront to the North End's culture and history. Read more.

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North End to Starbucks: Make like an egg and beat it

By adamg - 6/29/18 - 10:47 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on a community meeting last night on the proposed Cross Street building that would include a Starbucks (and posts video of the entire meeting, should you enjoy nearly three hours of tenseness and anger).

A neighborhood under siege: North End fights Starbucks

By adamg - 6/22/18 - 9:37 am

Last Little Italy

Via NorthEndWaterfront.com comes Rocco Capano's interviews with a number of North End cafe and restaurant owners about their opposition to a proposed Starbucks on Cross Street at Hanover, at the entrance to the neighborhood. Read more.

Holocaust-denial billboard goes up in the North End

By adamg - 4/6/16 - 9:43 pm
Billboard that denies the Armenian holocaust in the North End

UPDATE: Billboard ad to be taken down.

No, not the World War II holocaust, but the World War I holocaust in which Turks slaughtered Armenians. Elizabeth Weinbloom forwarded a photo of a new billboard over Cross and Salem streets, just up Cross from the Greenway's Armenian Heritage Park, site of the annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the old Ottoman Empire. Read more.

Sal LaMattina doesn't just get hit by Segways

By adamg - 4/24/10 - 10:37 am

In an article about the mess that is Cross Street (that plaza between the Greenway and the North End at Hanover that can't decide if it's a road or an outdoor seating area), the Globe reports the city councilor has been hit by a car twice there.

Meanwhile, Matt Conti says he was misquoted in the article and explains the issues along Cross Street and what he'd do about them.

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