The Boston Globe recently compiled a pretty exhaustive list of New England Clam and Lobster Shacks, which we read hungrily here at Union Park Press. Like most “best of” lists, this one left off some of our all-time favorites. Instead of leaving nasty comments on Boston.com, a few of us decided to take the opportunity [...]
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Did The Boston Globe really publish a cheat sheet to hockey rules in today’s edition? In a hockey hotbed like Boston? I’d maybe expect this from the Tampa Tribune or St. Petersburg Times in preparation for the upcoming Bruins-Lightning series. But isn’t this supposed to be “the hub of hockey”? Thank Orr, Espo, Bourque, and [...]
Last week, The Boston Harbor Association released new maps of Boston’s future floodplain; you can see the worst-case scenario map in this Boston Globe blog. If you’re curious about Boston’s past floodplain, take a look at the Mapping Boston site’s Composite Map of Boston, which shows where land was filled since 1630. Actually, you don’t need [...]
The big news in outdoor Boston lately hasn’t been about any particular place — it’s been about the links between places. Harborwalk is getting 600 feet longer, thanks to a new walkway alongside Liberty Wharf in South Boston near D Street and Northern Avenue. Mind you, it won’t have a speck of green on it, [...]
Thank goodness there are still some local newspapers in this hemisphere. Otherwise, how would you ever find out that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is planning to add 4.5 MILES to the 2.5-mile Neponset River Trail? Here’s what the Quincy’s Patriot Ledger newspaper had to say about it, and two walking tours [...]
Aha! The Boston Globe has discovered the Earthworks Urban Orchards program! Earthworks, a local nonprofit with two decades of experience planting trees and tending Boston’s natural environments, has added hundreds of fruit and nut trees to Boston’s landscape over the years in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Dorchester, and beyond! If you can find a persimmon in [...]
Oh dearie me! The Rose Ftizgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy will get 25% less money from the state next year, leaving it with a budget of just $4.4 million to maintain the Greenway. Have I mentioned that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is getting less than $80 million this year to maintain all its [...]
Amidst Fourth of July celebrations, the hamburgers and hot dogs often take prominence over the history of how our country came to be. This year, why not be to true to those patriotic New England roots? Between the BBQs and fireworks, here are some UPP picks for what’s going on around historic Boston this weekend: [...]
