by Sean Roche | Jun 16, 2016 | Newton |
You know that feeling when you look forward to something, it arrives, and it’s so right it just seems like it’s always been there?Pay-by-phone parking has hit Newton. And, it just works.Took me under a minute to download the app, get set up, and buy an...
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by Sean Roche | Apr 1, 2016 | Newton
After a unanimous vote of the Historical Commission, Newton is about to get its first new landmark in fifteen years: 40 feet of railroad that crosses Needham Street. The landmark is the only remaining rail from the historic railway that once ran a mile parallel to...
by Sean Roche | Apr 1, 2016 | Newton
Could the abandoned rail yard by the Allston/Brighton toll plaza become the next Newton village? Dan Connor, special assistant to City Planner James Friese, announced this week that the City of Newton is preparing a bid to buy and annex Beacon Park Yard, the former...
by Sean Roche | Apr 1, 2016 | Newton |
At a press conference this week, Newton’s recently appointed first Environmental Commissioner, Rachel Carson, announced climate change preparation plans for Crystal Lake. “Like other forward-thinking municipal administrations, Newton is getting a head...
by Sean Roche | Dec 3, 2015 | Newton |
As you may have read in an elegantly written op-ed column in yesterday’s TAB, there’s a Complete Streets meeting tonight (7-9, City Hall basement) to gather community input on some upcoming street repaving projects*: Crafts St Hammond St between Ward and...
by Sean Roche | Nov 5, 2015 | Newton |
Question 1: Is it fair to say that the recent, contested aldermanic races constituted, in large part, a referendum on density, urbanization, and the proposed development on Austin Street? Question 2: If so, what do the results tell us about the city’s appetite...
by Sean Roche | Nov 4, 2015 | Newton |
Offered here without comment: Brook Lipsett — 4369 Rhanna Kidwell — 4310 Anne M Larner — 4244 Joshua Krintzman — 4053 Bryan P Barash — 3965 Howard M Haywood — 3742 Christopher W Steele — 3659 J. O’Connor Frantz —...
by Sean Roche | Jun 2, 2014 | Newton |
Can we agree that there’s no way to stop development of additional housing units in Newton (Chestnut Hill Square, Riverside, Manchester, Needham Street)? And, can we agree that there’s no way to prevent small people from becoming residents in those new...
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by Sean Roche | May 30, 2014 | Newton |
In discussion of house garag-i-ness, Peter introduced us to the term snout house, a house whose garage dominates the street frontage. Here are some extreme examples from Tanglewood Street Road (off Florence). After the jump, proof that I didn’t use distorting...
by Sean Roche | May 30, 2014 | Newton |
It takes a certain amount of self-absorption and myopia to genuinely believe that these suburban locales (which, I can verify after knocking on doors for campaigns in several states, all basically look identical) are somehow unique snowflakes, with incomparable...
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by Sean Roche | May 29, 2014 | Newton |
Back in the comments to Adam’s post on the Chestnut Hill Square facade, Mike Striar wrote that the developer should at least put up a plaque to remember the victims of the fatal fire. (Newton Gal thought the entire site should have been made a memorial park.)...
by Sean Roche | Nov 6, 2013 | Newton |
The outcomes of their races were pre-ordained — they ran unopposed — but congratulations are also in order to the newly elected — James Cote (at-large, ward 3), Ellen Gibson (school committee, ward 1), and Ruth Goldman (school committee, ward 6)...
