-By Dan Murphy The city has selected a Florida-based national chain of sandwich shops as the next tenant of the Pink Palace on the Boston Common. Earl of Sandwich of Orlando, Fla., has agreed to sign a 15-year lease to run a small takeout operation out of the octagonal, 660-square-foot structure, located near the...
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Police Briefs 03-29-2011
Assault and Battery 03/13/11 – At about 3:17 a.m., officers responded to the Pour House at 907 Boylston St. for a report of an assault and battery in progress. On arrival, police spoke with the victim, who stated that he was working as a security guard at the bar when he attempted to escort...
Waiting With the Red Wood
Soon this bench in the Public Garden will be shaded by the freshly-needled branches of the Dawn Redwood beside it. In its native China, this giant, deciduous conifer can grow taller than a 10-story building.
Come Meet Your Ancestors!
-By Penny Cherubino The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has been a Back Bay neighbor since 1964, and yet many residents have never ventured into this storehouse of information about the history of families. Others, curious about their own family, or the families who once lived in our neighborhood, have experienced how accommodating...
Five Individuals Get Pre-trial Probation for Spray-painting Obscenities in the Back Bay
-By Dan Murphy Five individuals received six months of pre-trial probation in Boston Municipal Court last Tuesday for allegedly spay-painting obscenities in the Back Bay last November. Dana Cataldo, 25, of Halifax, William Grady, 24 of Milford, Timothy O’Brien, 23, of Hanson, Daniel Craig Shannon, 24 of Plympton and Patricia Nelson, 23, of Jamaica...
New Parking Meters Cause for Rejoicing
How many occasions in a lifetime have we parked our automobiles on a Boston street at a metered space only to find that we did not have quarters to put into the meter? We would stand there searching our pockets and rummaging in our handbags for quarters. Some of us after that futile effort...
Police Briefs 03-22-2011
Threats to Do Bodily Harm 03/10/11 – A victim stated that a suspect threatened him at Borders bookstore at 511 Boylston St. after he would not left the suspect return toys that were listed as final sales and non-returnable because the store is going out of business. According to the victim, the suspect became...
The Big Clean-up
-By Penny Cherubino As neighbors come out of winter hibernation and meet on the street, the big topic of conversation is how unsightly and gritty the neighborhood looks. “I don’t think the litter we see today is intentional,” said Cathy Youngman, Co-Chair of the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay’s (NABB) City Services Committee....
Helping Japan Recover
The ongoing disaster in Japan brings home to all of us the fragile nature of everything we build and create for ourselves as a society and how quickly all of it can be reduced to a pile of rubble. The 8.9 Richter scale earthquake, followed by the 23 foot tsunami, followed by extraordinary and...
Back Bay Family Makes Play Possible for Weymouth’s Homeless Children
On March 3, Horizons for Homeless Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of homeless children in Massachusetts, rededicated a “Playspace” (educational and recreational space) for homeless children living at Friends of the Homeless family shelter in Weymouth, a program that provides housing for families and/or pregnant women in need of temporary...