Saying he was “troubled” by the findings of a Herald report citing a pattern of apparent bid splitting by the city’s Property Management Development and took issue with the department’s director Michael Galvin’s characterization of the payouts as “chump change”…
New Licensing Board Should Benefit Neighborhood
Three new members to the City of Boston’s Licensing Board have been appointed by Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The Licensing Board regulates alcohol, food, hotels/inns, lodging houses, fraternities/dormitories, billiards/pool tables/sippio, bowling alleys and fortune teller licenses. The newly-constituted Licensing Board…
Downtown View
When our children were young, they asked what their father, a lawyer, did at work. I told them, “He gives advice to people.†But that was hardly an adequate explanation. They eventually learned what lawyers do through family discussions, visits…
Rink/Restaurant/Lounge Slated for City Hall Plaza
Boston City Hall Plaza, a really barren area, could be converted it into a winter wonderland with an Olympic sized ice skating rink and a large glass restaurant and lounge overlooking the rink. Reportedly, the Frozen Harbor skating ring and…
NEWNC Supports Three Requests
During its last monthly meeting of the year, the North End/Waterfront Neighborhood Council (NEWNC) addressed three requests and heard a presentation on Faneuil Hall Market by Susan Loungo of the Faneuil Hall Market Vendors regarding possible impacts on the North…
NEWRA/Abutters Trash Battery Street Proposal
A request by the owner of 16-18 Battery Street to change the legal occupancy from nine residential units to ten residential units, construct a one-story addition and a roof deck was opposed by abutters and the North End/Waterfront Residents’ Association…