The sexual assault near Garden Court and Fleet Street of a woman returning home early Sunday morning is being investigated by the police – who have increased patrols in the neighborhood to allay rising fears. Despite being Boston’s safest neighborhood,…
Author: Josh Resnek
DiMasi Waiting to Hear His Fate
On September 8, the North End’s Sal DiMasi will stand in a Federal Courtroom and have a sentence pronounced upon him. It will be, by a wide margin the worst moment of his life. And for those of us who…
Looking at the News: The Future is Grim for DiMasi
It was a bad day for the North End last week when Sal DiMasi was convicted of seven out of nine counts in Federal Court. A Jury of his peers decided he is guilty and there really isn’t very much…
Graphic Boomer Tell All Memoir – The Evening News with Walter Cronkite
The Evening News with Walter Cronkite evokes a time, the years 1967-1971, and the shift in ideals and experience through the closely observed eyes of Jack Krivitsky. He goes off to college in 1967 straddling two worlds: the upper middle…
Remembering the way it was – The Evening News with Walter Cronkite
I first met Walter Cronkite in the early afternoon, November 22, 1963. I was 13 years old. We met briefly on the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I was a newly minted freshman at…
Grossman tours North End
State Treasurer candidate Steven Grossman made a campaign visit to the North End last week. He ate a great lunch here and then for dessert, he received the endorsements of State Senator Anthony Petruccelli, Boston City Councillor Sal LaMatinna and…
Patrick and Baker come full circle in the North End
Charlie Baker’s visit here Sunday brought him back to where the campaign began many months back. He had just hired his campaign director when he first came to the North End to meet with local people last November. Then he…
Elephants on Hanover Street
Nine elephants, and four clowns from Ringling Brothers Circus enchanted hundreds of local children and their parents as well as visitors to Hanover Street Thursday morning. At about 11:30 a.m., the elephants made their way from outside the Coast Guard…
Governor visits North End Sunday
About the only thing that could take many people away from their televisions and the New England Patriots game Sunday afternoon was Governor Deval Patrick who came to the Improv Asylum on Hanover Street for a anti-drug rally at the…
Chiofaro downsizes harbor garage towers plan
Don Chiofaro has again cut back the size of his Aquarium Place project by 200,000 square feet but more importantly has trimmed the height of the twin towers he is hoping to build to 615 feet and 471 feet respectively.…