With the Massachusetts Covid-19 rate now well into spring-surge numbers, the Navy has ordered the historic ship shut to visitors, like it did in the spring, WBZ reports.
By adamg - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 6:16pm
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By adamg - Thu, 03/26/2020 - 3:21pm
Yesterday, Live Boston posted photos of an old Volvo with New York plates in the Charlestown Navy Yard that had allegedly become a coronavirusmobile.
BTD ain't got time for that and today Live Boston shows us what some parking enforcement officer thought of the handwritten coronavirus warnings on the car.
By adamg - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 3:55pm
Live Boston spotted this New Yorker's old Volvo and its notes in the Charlestown Navy Yard today.
By adamg - Sat, 08/10/2019 - 5:26pm
UPDATE: Group that says it's based in Rome takes responsibility.
Bomb squads from both Boston and Cambridge Police today recovered small metal boxes with taped "Open Me" notes on the side as the departments urged the public to be cautious and to call 911 if they found more. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:56am
William McAdoo reports from the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning.
By adamg - Fri, 03/29/2019 - 3:27pm
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports on the restaurant boat, which will be berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
By adamg - Fri, 12/14/2018 - 10:40am
The BPDA is looking for ways to spruce up the Charlestown Navy Yard and turn it into a destination for people who have already seen Old Ironsides - with more art, history and use of the water. Earlier this week, the agency released copies of presentations from several design firms with ideas on how to "activate" both the water's edge and the three-mile Harborwalk section that runs through the Navy Yard. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/14/2018 - 6:15pm
Stanley Forman reports the driver hit the gas instead of the brake and over Pier 6 he went. Driver and passenger got out OK.
By adamg - Mon, 06/04/2018 - 10:34pm
By adamg - Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:32pm
By adamg - Sat, 11/25/2017 - 10:27am
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports the BPDA has discovered that Pier 5 is in such bad shape it can't be used for anything, except as a fenced-off eyesore.
By adamg - Sun, 07/23/2017 - 11:40pm
Roving UHub photographer Melissa from Waltham watched the Constitution's drydock fill with water tonight after 26 months of repairs.
By adamg - Sat, 07/22/2017 - 9:52am
Gary Waldeck visited Old Ironsides today, its last day in drydock after 26 months of repairs.
By adamg - Fri, 06/23/2017 - 10:54am
With a two-year restoration project nearly done, Patrick Kennedy of Suffolk Construction takes a look at the one thing without which the work wouldn't be possible, at least not without hauling the ship onto a muddy embankment: The dry dock.
Undefeated in the War of 1812, Constitution was already a legend when she entered the brand-new, Quincy-granite dry dock in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1833. (That’s 184 years from this Saturday.)
By adamg - Wed, 12/07/2016 - 2:21pm
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Jocelyn watched the Pearl Harbor commemoration aboard the USS Cassin Young today.
By adamg - Mon, 08/08/2016 - 9:11am
A fed-up citizen reports that almost every day, somebody dumps "a large amount of cereal and crackers" by a tree on First Avenue between 8 and 9 streets in Charlestown.
By adamg - Mon, 05/30/2016 - 12:29pm
Chris in Boston watched the 21-gun salute at noon in the Navy Yard in honor of Memorial Day.
By adamg - Fri, 09/04/2015 - 2:57pm
In the second judicial defeat for the BRA in a week involving waterfront land, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today the developer of an apartment complex in Charlestown has to comply with a state order to set aside most of its ground floor for "public accommodation" uses under state waterfront regulations.Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 05/20/2015 - 5:26pm
Our own SwirlyGrrl captured Old Ironsides in its new home for the next couple of years: Drydock for some restoration work.
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