Two East Boston residents and community heroes will be among 28 people honored for their contributions to the community at the Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) 36th Annual Community Awards Dinner on Friday, October 29 at the Seaport World…
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Heritage Apartments set for $15.7 million in upgrades
The Boston Redevelopment Authority Board has approved $15.7 million in upgrades to the existing Heritage Apartment complex in East Boston. The Heritage is a 294-unit public housing development bordered by Sumner Street, South Bremen Street, Father Jacobbe Lane, and the…
Red, White and I Do – 28 take part in naturalization ceremony at Piers Park
On a cool, crisp autumn day, twenty-eight immigrants from countries like China, Haiti, Costa Rica, Colombia raised their right hands in Piers Park in East Boston and recited the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America thus becoming…
Organizers ready to begin preliminary design study for much-anticipated project
With community and political support growing for the plan to connect Bremen Street Park to Constitution Beach thus finally connecting one end of East Boston to the other via a continuous park system, organizers of the plan say they have…
Thirteen displaced in two-alarm blaze
The vacant half of a duplex building that should have been on Boston’s new list of potentially dangerous properties was burned during a two-alarm blaze over the weekend. The fire broke out at the vacant 16 Chelsea Street early Saturday…
Will LaMattina become the next City Council president?
Will City Councilor Sal LaMattina be the Council’s next president? Maybe not during the first round of voting when the Council convenes to elect its president in January. However, LaMattina will most likely by elected during the second or third…
Waiting and wondering…
When Chris Marchi was walking along a stretch of East Boston land he and other community activists have been eying as a potential site to finally connect Eastie’s park system from Piers park to Constitution Beach he spotted a red…
Predatory lending seen as primary culprit
At the height of the real estate boom five years ago when many three-family homes were selling in the $400K range, East Boston residents under-qualified for home loans were receiving special mortgages with hidden fees and interest rates that would…
Room to grow – Massport will add plots to the Bremen Street garden
Throughout the summer and fall the Bremen Street Park’s community garden is always blossoming with ripe tomatoes, vegetables, fresh herbs and flowers. All season long residents meticulously tend to their plots but chosen by a random lottery the plots are…
BRA expands green project – Project encourages Triple Decker owners to go green
In the Northeast, specifically Boston and neighborhoods like East Boston, South Boston and Dorchester the phenomenon of triple decker construction in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s served to house the large immigrant families that were moving here from Ireland…