by Ellen Hume | Jan 11, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
Rep. Aaron Michlewitz officially announced last week that the city will spend $5 million to refurbish the Nazzaro Building and keep it in use for community programs after the new North End Waterfront community center is built. This is a great victory for our Save the...
by Ellen Hume | Nov 4, 2022 | Boston North End, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized
Nov. 4, 2022 –Great news! Rep. Aaron Micklewicz won approval yesterday for $5 million in the Massachusetts state budget to upgrade and preserve the Nazzaro building, along with $20 million funding for the new community center on the waterfront. Micklewicz said...
by Ellen Hume | Aug 1, 2021 | Boston North End, Boston Redevelopment Authority, News, Uncategorized
The Boston City Council will host a public hearing on Aug. 17 at 10 a.m. to hear how to reform the Zoning Board of Appeals. Please participate! Current problematic ZBA members will be reappointed for another term if we don’t challenge them now....
by Ellen Hume | Jan 9, 2021 | Boston North End, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized
What a week! If it weren’t enough to worry about, with the pandemic and the violent invasion of the Capitol, our local news organization, northendwaterfront.com went out of business Friday. In Boston, people are gearing up for a mayoral race, after learning...
by Ellen Hume | Mar 13, 2020 | Boston North End, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized
Hoping to forestall another cholera epidemic, Boston city fathers a century ago established the elegant North Bennet Street Bath House, to promote cleanliness and good health in the densely-populated North End. Today, we are fighting the Coronavirus pandemic, and...
by Ellen Hume | Mar 9, 2020 | Boston North End, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized
Our Save the Nazzaro movement has caught the attention of an MIT urban studies student from Italy, and also of a team of students from St. Mary’s College, London, who will be traveling here to visit us in April if the Coronavirus plague doesn’t get too...
by Ellen Hume | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston North End, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized
We invite you to a public meeting on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Nazzaro Community Center, 30 N Bennet St., Boston, to see what the future looks like for this North End cultural landmark, including proposed new interior designs by the Boston Architectural...
by Ellen Hume | Aug 5, 2019 | Boston North End, Nazzaro, News, Polcari Playground, Uncategorized, Uncertain Future
It was a shock to learn last fall that the Nazzaro Community Center–a beautiful feature of Boston’s oldest neighborhood–is no longer wanted by the city government that built it so proudly, over a century ago. We are fighting to ensure this iconic...
by Ellen Hume | Jun 2, 2019 | Boston North End, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Nazzaro, News, Uncategorized, Uncertain Future
Mayor Walsh will be in the North End on Tuesday June 4 at 9:30 a.m. to cut a ribbon at the Prado (Paul Revere statue) and this is a great time to tell him we want him to commit to protecting the Nazzaro building as a community resource! The Mayor’s chief of...
by Ellen Hume | May 3, 2019 | Boston North End, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Nazzaro, Uncategorized, Uncertain Future
Please come to a meeting May 13 at 6 pm. at the Nazzaro Center to see what the architects from Boston Architectural College are proposing to redesign the the interior of the Nazzaro building, as part of our effort to save it as as public resource. The...
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