La Alianza Hispana, una organización sin fines de lucro basada en Roxbury, que tiene un centro en Mission Hill, está al punto de cerrar su primer programa después de la decisión de Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE)…
Author: Rebeca Oliveira
One-day parklet to take new form
By Rebeca Oliveira and John Ruch/Gazette Staff A City-sponsored one-day trial of an upcoming parklet on Tremont Street will not take place next month, but community members will be encouraged to claim parking spaces as temporary parks on their own…
Adult ELL program defunded
La Alianza Hispana, a nonprofit based in Roxbury that has a center in Mission Hill, is on the brink of closing its English Language Learning program following the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) decision to cut the…
Student Welcome Guide: A Students’ Guide to Mission Hill
The following is some basic information for students who recently moved into Mission Hill. General Boston info Boston does not have a non-emergency police number. Call 911 for emergency and non-emergency police, fire and rescue. Get renter’s insurance. It might…
A Brief History of S. Huntington
How the Institutions Came to Town S. HUNTINGTON—S. Huntington Avenue, after nearly a century of heavy institutional use, is readying for fast changes: two 200-unit luxury apartment buildings are under consideration by the City, and a new boutique hotel just…
BPS: Buses will run on time
Boston Public School (BPS) Superintendent Carol Johnson discussed plans to improve busing schedules in the coming school year during a roundtable interview with reporters last week. BPS’s new transportation director, Carl Allen, and Johnson have been hard at work on…
MassArt grad is living the (alien) dream
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassART) graduate Brett Sylvia will spend his fall cramped and covered in fur—as the puppeteer inside OP the Cyclops at King Richard’s Faire in Carver. OP the Cyclops is a fantastic, alien creature that…
A look inside the EnVision Hotel
S. HUNTINGTON—The Gazette received an exclusive tour of the new boutique hotel on S. Huntington Avenue. EnVision Hotel Boston offers 39 stylish and well-proportioned rooms, including two two-bedroom suites that overlook Olmsted Park and Leverett Pond. “You want to make…
S. Huntington Ave. project draws praise, concerns
S. HUNTINGTON—A plan for luxury apartments and retail space in a 130-foot-tall building at 105A S. Huntington Ave., named “The Serenity,” was filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) last month, just after the Impact Advisory Group (IAG) had its…
NU dorm moves forward after lawsuit settlement
Northeastern University’s (NU) controversial Grandmarc dorm project will move forward after the developers settled two resident lawsuits. “Everybody’s pretty excited. It was a long slog,” said John Tobin, NU’s vice president of city and community affairs. “We still believe it’ll…