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February 21, 2020 Vol. 4 Issue 35 Wanna Be on The 13th Floor?

Medical Research Is

Photo: Bob Henry Nearing Kenmore Sq By Joe Walsh a bizarre ruse apparently meant to Would you think twice about save building managers from their By Joe Walsh neighborhood’s borders. Buildings LMA this year. California-based renting on the 13th floor? more superstitious clients. Boston’s largest medical research are changing hands and new lab firm IQHQ is underwriting the For high rises in the United However, the unlucky number district may eventually stretch to campuses are in the works, turning long-delayed Center States, skipping the number 13 was appears to be losing its infamy. . the streets near project, which would place a lab once a standard convention. Many Most of Boston’s 20 tallest As hospitals jockey for space into the medical industry’s next complex above the Mass Pike, and taller structures referred to their buildings do not bother skipping inside the Longwood Medical frontier. it plans to buy a nearby medical 13th floor as 14 and renumbered the 13th floor, according to a Area (LMA), some researchers and One real estate investor placed building on . The the rest of the building accordingly, Continued on Page 2 developers are looking beyond the two large bets on the fringes of the Continued on Page 2 Affordable Housing Is Paul DeLeo Is New D4 Neighborhood Liaison Bypassing Downtown By Joe Walsh The By Dan Rabb (BPD) has a new liaison to the Back Bay, South End and Fenway. Less than ten percent of Sergeant Paul DeLeo now leads affordable housing units created the Community Service Office in Boston last year were in the (CSO) for D4, a police precinct downtown neighborhoods, city covering a wide swath of the data shows. downtown neighborhoods. He The Walsh administration started in the role last Monday, after released numbers last week meant Sergeant James Freeman left the to tout its success in creating affordable housing throughout neighborhood to supervise a unit in Boston in 2019. Indeed, more . than a quarter of new housing DeLeo is a 15-year veteran units permitted last year will only with the department, working in be made available to residents precincts from Brighton to Roxbury. Sergeant Paul DeLeo earning below certain income After becoming a sergeant in 2017, thresholds. The bump in income he worked as a D4 patrol supervisor residents and businesses, to solve restricted housing comes largely as before this latest assignment. quality of life issues across the a result of the city’s Inclusionary A team of six CSO officers will district. Development Policy (IDP), which report to DeLeo. He said he is “I genuinely like helping people,” mandates that developers of large looking forward to working with he said. “It’s going to be interesting Continued on Page 2 Photo: Bob Henry this team, and with neighborhood not being tied to the radio.” The Boston Guardian 2 | February 21, 2020 13th Floor hotels also ban black cats, broken mirrors or downtown cautiously avoids both 13 take it out because it’s your choice, why even towering ladders. and 44, an unlucky number in East and deal with it?” said residential broker Kevin Continued from Page 1 Prospective hotel guests rarely fret about Southeast Asian cultures. The developers did Ahearn. “It’s just a judicious thing to do.” 13, noted Suzanne Wenz, director of not respond to requests for comment. The practice appears to be waning. The review by The Boston Guardian. Almost all of marketing for the Park Plaza Hotel and the Local real estate brokers say 13 is rarely a Moxy, a downtown hotel aimed at millenni- the city’s office skyscrapers bravely lease out Newbury. The practice probably endures in dealbreaker for condo owners. Most clients als, does not skip 13, even though its older older hotels because of tradition, she said. do not worry about the number, and 13th space on floor number 13, and some newer corporate siblings like the Park Plaza still “It’s just traditionally been that way,” Wenz floor condos are unfortunately not available residential high rises and hotels have also follow the longstanding tradition. said. “I personally have not heard of anyone at a discounted rate for daring buyers thrown away the practice. For hotels and residential buildings, this complaining about being on the 13th floor.” willing to try their luck. That being said, Hotels may be the city’s last bastion of On the residential side, most recent some condo owners are in favor of skipping change may be driven partly by consumers. construction superstition. Spots like the Park developments are fearless, offering 13th floor 13 in order to accommodate the small Superstition is not unheard of nowadays, Plaza Hotel, the and floor apartments and condos with apparent percentage of people who hold this supersti- but few people will go out of their way to the new Newbury Hotel still go directly from impunity. Still, a few new buildings remain tion thinking they may as well not miss the avoid an unlucky number. floors 12 to 14, a comfort to triskaideka- holdouts. The Viridian in the Fenway skips sale. “I don’t know that people give it a lot of phobic guests. It is unclear whether these the number, and the Millennium Tower “If you don’t have to put it in, and you can thought these days,” said Wenz.

Medical Research As a result, some researchers may move “Fenway has become an extension of “We’re scouring almost on a daily basis for to bordering areas along Brookline Avenue, Longwood, but clearly, the success of Fenway what may become available.” Continued from Page 1 Argys said. He believes investors like IQHQ as a lab [area] is the fact that it can appeal to If institutions and researchers are willing are attracted to the edges of the LMA because tenants from Cambridge,” said Nelson, who to extend their reach beyond the LMA, company claims it is not currently planning of that unending demand. was involved in IQHQ’s purchase. developers could follow. The newly renovat- to redevelop the site, but it is optimistic “You have some of the world’s best scientists Some area hospitals already view Brookline ed 401 Park already leases space to several about the neighborhood’s potential. who are right there,” explained Argys, who Ave as a convenient satellite space. Beth medical institutions. Plus, the ambitious “It has great tenants and it is an appealing also serves as Children’s Hospital’s chief Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Fenway Center project is focusing on biolabs location that is accessible by public transpor- administrative officer. “As people look to bought a medical building on the street more because the complex lies in the LMA’s tation, and in a neighborhood with a history expand and create more wet lab space, it’s no than 20 years ago, and some of its offices shadow, propping up rents and helping to of full occupancy and a bright future,” surprise to me that there are folks interested are based inside the building that IQHQ is underwrite the cost of building atop the IQHQ President Tracy A. Murphy said in a in providing space.” purchasing, according to a spokesperson. Mass Pike, according to developers. statement through a spokesperson. The LMA’s hospitals are not the only Children’s Hospital also has not ruled Proximity to nearby teaching hospitals Hospital leaders are not shocked to see drivers of lab demand, though. Researchers out a northward expansion. The hospital is key for researchers, LMA leaders note. strong interest in real estate near the LMA. are also drawn to the Fenway because of its rents office space in 401 Park, just across And as demand for space continues to soar, The area’s institutions haul in billions of transit links and newly vibrant restaurant the from the LMA, and the neighborhood could support a research dollars in federal research grants, driving an scene, making it a strong alternative to spatial constraints could eventually force it to boom just beyond its borders. insatiable need for new labs. But the LMA is Kendall Square, explained Frank Nelson, lease labs slightly outside of the area, noted “The researchers want to be close to the already so densely packed that expansion is executive managing director of real estate Vice President for Research Administration hospitals. The physicians want to be close a pricey and sometimes impossible proposi- firm Newmark Knight Frank. IQHQ’s Gus Cervini. to the researchers,” Argys said. “People want tion, explained Dick Argys, the chair of moves in the neighborhood affirm this “Space is a currency in this realm, and we to be close to the action and where their LMA cooperative group MASCO. nascent popularity, Nelson added. just don’t have enough of it,” Cervini said. colleagues are.”

Affordable Housing to build the affordable units mandated by senior policy official at the Boston Housing makes it easier for families to use housing IDP elsewhere in the city. IDP gives develop- Authority. “To me, that’s a very important vouchers in high income areas. On the city Continued from Page 1 ers the option of including income restricted policy goal, and why you’ll see me skewing level, Bok says she is encouraged by recent units in their building, or paying to build a in favor of on-site IDP.” creative efforts to leverage city owned parcels greater number of offsite units. Bok says that while offsite IDP has histor- residential projects also create a certain into the creation of affordable housing. She But, while developers and city officials ically provided more bang for the buck, the number of affordable units. points to a proposed Chinatown tower on a Yet an analysis of the city’s data shows argue that pushing IDP units offsite to changing economics of the construction former city parking lot that will include 171 that precious few of those income restricted less expensive areas is a more efficient way industry in Boston have significantly closed of creating affordable housing, there are that gap. income restricted units and a branch of the residences are being built in the Downtown concerns that the dearth of income restric- “That tradeoff is a lot less dramatic than it pubic library. neighborhoods. Of the 830 affordable units tied units in Boston’s wealthiest central used to be,” she said. “Right now construc- “IDP serves an important function, but permitted in Boston last year, only 64 were areas will further entrench the geographical tion costs are so expensive across the board in the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown or we have to really ratchet up the tools that boundaries between Boston’s haves and have that it doesn’t always cost a ton less to build we have,” she said. “That the only way we’re Fenway. That’s less than 9%, despite those nots. in the non-Downtown neighborhoods than going to tackle the problem at this scale and neighborhoods hosting nearly 23% of the “Especially in Boston, a city with such a in the Downtown neighborhoods.” city’s new residential development. segregated housing history, it’s so important Ensuring that the Downtown neighbor- achieve the kind if integration necessary for This geographical disparity reflects a choice that we have mixed income housing across all hoods are accessible to residents across a range the Downtown neighborhoods and the city by developers of condo and apartment neighborhoods,” said City Councilor Kenzie of income levels requires more than just IDP, as a whole to be a more vibrant and just complexes in the Downtown neighborhoods Bok, who prior to taking office served as a Bok says, citing a new state program that community.”

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New Lighting For Chin Park By Dan Rabb the Greenway is largely unlit and abandoned after New lighting is coming to the Chinatown dark, causing visitors and residents to steer clear section of the Greenway, a project that park but attracting open drug use. By Dan Rabb with the first cohort of Pet Care Academy officials hope will both give the area a more Now, a commercial design firm hired by the A Downtown doggy daycare is helping “interns” starting in January. Interns, all dramatic nighttime presence and make the park Conservancy has unveiled a series of dramatic some of the city’s most vulnerable currently staying at shelters, are selected safer for families after dark. lighting changes they say will allow the park to be a residents get back on their feet. after an extensive screening process. The Greenway Conservancy is in the final destination after dark. After collecting feedback on With crystal chandeliers, air sweetened A paid six month program, Pet Care phases of a year long study of how to use lighting the design options from residents and neighbor- with aromatherapy and walls painted Academy interns spend fifteen hours each to address night time problems that have long hood stakeholders over the next two months, floor to ceiling with tranquil scenery, the week getting on the job experience and plagued the southernmost edge of the park. park officials hope to finalize a plan that can be Urban Hound on seems training at the Boylston Street daycare Stretching from Essex Street past the Chinatown implemented by 2021. designed for Boston’s most pampered and the more full service Urban Hound Gate to Mary Soo Hoo Park, the narrow strip of pooches. But the upscale dog care center Continued on Page 8 location in the South End. Five hours has a mission beyond giving Fido a five star place to romp. A joint venture with each week are spent in lectures or career homeless social service organization St. development training at St. Francis. Francis House, the heart of the Urban “They’re touching all of my business Hound is its Pet Care Academy, an lines: daycare, grooming, training, intensive six month job training program walking and eventually they’ll get to the for men and women experiencing front of the house,” said Wilson. “They’re homelessness. involved in every part of the business that The idea of Pet Care Academy grew we do.” from St. Francis House’s redevelopment While the Urban Hound and St. Francis of the Boston Young Men’s Christian have hired a full time employee to develop Union building into affordable housing. and manage the Pet Care Academy curric- The building had a single retail space, and ulum, most of the workplace training is St. Francis House CEO Karen LaFrazia carried out by the store’s regular staff. And hoped to bring in a business that could although stable employment remains the double as a job training program for her organization’s clients while also filling program’s primary goal, both LaFrazia a need in the increasingly residential and Wilson say seeing these relationships Downtown neighborhood. grow has been one of the most rewarding “We wanted to add some skill based aspects of the program so far. For the training to our existing workforce staff members, they’re shedding precon- programming,” she said. “It’s always been ceived notions about what it means to be one of our strongest program areas, but homeless. For the interns, they’re finding we didn’t do anything where we actually professional peers. taught someone a marketable skill.” “Homelessness is an experience, it’s not LaFrazia identified dog care as an ideal an identity; but when your day to day industry for the nascent social enterprise, experience is surrounded by people who with a variety of stable career paths and are struggling and without a permanent few educational requirements but specific place to live, you do take on that identi- skillsets that put experience at a premium for employers. And through a chance ty,” said LaFrazia. “For the interns, their encounter she found a willing part-ner peer group is now the employees of the in Rebecca Wilson, owner of the Urban Urban Hound, who they interact with Hound dog care center in the South End. as equals and mentors, and that’s really The Urban Hound’s Downtown helping folks see themselves in a different location opened its doors in October, way.” The Boston Guardian 4 | February 21, 2020

Clean walked off to, but he is well fires, and a singed porta potty, but known to the mall security as he has have not yet been able to pin down a stolen from various other stores as well. perpetrator.

Crime & Bad Case of the Mondays Boozy Brunch While working the front desk of Around 12:06 pm on February 15, two District 4 on January 10, an officer officers patrolling the area of the Boston received a report for a stolen vehicle at unishment Public Library noticed suspects pouring P 650 Harrison Avenue. The victim explained that he parked alcohol into a coffee mug. Simply a laid his car during the early morning hours back, weekend brunch sans the eggs, By Christine Lavosky in a metered spot at 1341 Boylston toast and access to a restaurant. District 4: 650 Harrison Avenue, 617-343-4457 Street on February 8 since he had to Upon seeing the police, one of the District A-1: 40 New Sudbury Street, 617-343-4627 be at work at 6 am. At 12 pm when he suspects urgently fled the scene. He Hypocrisy at the Safe House evidence suggested that he had left the returned to his car to feed the meter, dashed into the Huntington Hotel, On February 10, around 10 am, an property before the officers’ arrival. he was shocked to find it missing. the police chasing him in hot pursuit. officer took a call from a tenant at Our Police forces later learned that this Upon calling Boston’s Transportation He cleverly snuck down an escalator Department he found himself in a Lady’s Guild House, a safe house for suspect had instigated similar incidents far away from the officers, but they women located at 20 Charlesgate West strange predicament. The BTD told with other residents in the past and had broadcasted a description of his clothing requesting an investigation. been advised to contact the police if him that his car had not been towed, to two other officers working in the She stated that an earlier report made they continued. but was given a ticket. Faced with a by the building administrator accusing double whammy on what he thought area of Stuart St. and Dartmouth St. her of threatening other residents was Lettuce In was probably just going to be an average who were able to locate him and tackle incorrect. In her opinion, his report At 3:26 am, two officers responded to a Monday, the victim could only assume him from behind. The suspect put up was an intimidation tactic intended to break in at the 800 Boylston St. location his car had been stolen. a worthy fight against him, but they curtail her efforts at tenant activism, of trendy salad chain Sweetgreen. were eventually able to restrain him and specifically her assisting of Attorney The officers discovered a broken glass Fry Owe You put him in handcuffs. When will our General in an investigation for discrim- door on the Belvidere Street side of the On February 12 around 4:50 pm, two country let go of this puritanical law ination. Results as to who wins the title building. Clearly the intruder had failed officers responded to a radio call about and allow police to focus on real issues? a man using counterfeit money at the of resident drama queen are unclear. his lock picking class. After doing a Such as the suspect’s long list of past McDonald’s on 540 Commonwealth There could even be two crowns this thorough investigation of the shop, the crimes… year. officers found two broken cash boxes Ave. and cabinets in the rear office but were At 4:36 pm, an anonymous man slid Hungry for More Mountains out of Molehills left to scratch their heads about what the cashier $20 as payment for his Around 9:30 am on February 10, two was taken from the business. Security meal. After the sale was made, while On February 16 around 4:30 pm, an officers followed up on a radio call camera footage showed a man in a white the suspect was sitting at his table officer responded to a radio call for a about a disturbance at Pine Street Inn, sweatshirt and red backpack leaving the eating, the manager realized the bill was personal theft from the Georgetown 459 . business and walking towards Belvidere counterfeit. He approached the man Cupcakes at 83 Newbury St. After arriving at the homeless Street and . at his table, asking him to pay for his Earlier that day, at 11:45 am, an shelter, the police realized they’d been meal with real legal tender. The suspect unknown person walked into the summoned for a petty dispute between Prepster on the Loose shirked him off saying that he would cutesy, pink accented bakery wanting neighbors. Well, it beats sitting in an Around 10:51 am on February 12, an “pay back the money later,” and made more than cupcakes. He snuck into a run for it down Commonwealth Ave. office munching on stale doughnuts, officer responded to a radio call for a the employee locker room and stole right? The victim, a resident at the Officers searched the surrounding area robbery at J. Crew’s Huntington Street cash totaling $200 from two employees shelter, was talking on the telephone location. for him, but were unable to find this bags. Unbeknownst to him, it was all when another resident came barreling After arriving at this overpriced yuppy curious character who went to all the caught on the shop’s surveillance video in causing a disruption. The victim haven, the officer was informed by the trouble of acquiring counter-feit bills asked him to quiet down. The suspect store manager that just twenty minutes only to spend them on greasy fries and cameras. Officers were able to gather threatened to physically assault him, earlier a tall, muscular man with a clean an Egg McMuffin. from the footage that he was wearing puffing out his chest in an attempt to shaven bald head robbed the store. He a black leather jacket, a black hat and look menacing. But, his tough guy act stole about ten cashmere sweaters all Arsonist, Dumpster Diver or Both? glasses and was 35-50 years old. Quite a did not last long. He quickly retreated navy in color amounting to a total of Around 9:53 pm on February 12, large age range… fuzzy cameras? back to his room. $980. Apparently, Mr. Clean doesn’t two officers responded to a radio call Upon knocking on the suspect’s door, want to be cold while golfing. regarding an arson incident at 1 Public Polo Shirts as Valentines Day Gift? Alley No. 432. the officers received no answer and No one caught which direction Mr. Around 4:06 pm on February 14, two This incident was the most recent officers received a call about a man of a series of fires set in the alleyway Don’t Be Left Out in the Snow being investigated by the Boston Fire shoplifting from the Polo store at 93 Department Arson Unit. The only as it was happening. person the Arson Unit found in the alley Once the officers had arrived on Stay Warm way after the fires was a man looking the scene, the manger stated that This Winter in through trash barrels and dumpsters. the suspect had strategically lingered Suspiciously enough, the man ran off around a certain area of the store, Motor Mart to his car when the officers approached pretending to browse while waiting him for questioning. for the sales associates to move to a Garage The officers followed the man to his different area. Once they were out of car where he explained to them that he sight, he grabbed a navy sweater, three was simply making his rounds of the green polo shirts and ran out the doors Overnight monthly parking pass 24/7 access monthly parking area, dumpster diving for valuables. He $173/month $394/month then subtly accused a “Red Truck” of towards Back Bay station. Apparently, starting the fires. the manager noticed the shoplifter as Motor Mart Garage he was stealing, yet did not do anything 201 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116 After conducting a thorough investi- gation of Back Bay’s Public Alleys, about it himself, relying fully on the www.motormartgarage.com 617-482-8380 officers found two extinguished trash police for help. February 21, 2020 | 5 The Boston Guardian On Beacon Hill Book Stores Just May Not Be Dead

From Desolation To Green Space By Joe Walsh business aesthetically pleasing. A café will serve By Joe Walsh stop drivers from slamming into it, making Print is not dead, apparently. coffee, tea and meals on the ground floor and in a the space less unsightly in the process. Beacon Hill resident Melissa Fetter plans to small garden, and the rest of the space will feature A Hill resident hopes to transform a “It’s something that’s always caught my open a bookstore and café on Charles Street by bookshelves punctuated by fireplaces and seats. desolate concrete patch into a tiny neighbor- eye,” Walton said. “It’s definitely an eyesore.” early 2021, bringing a bookseller back to the Hill At the top floor, Fetter plans to build out a robust hood green space. First, Walton is encouraging the city to for the first time in years. Even though “Beacon children’s section. Sandwiched between Ashburton Park’s Hill Books” will go up against an army of cheap Beyond selling books, Fetter is aiming to ornate gardens and Beacon Hill’s historic rebuild the island’s cracked masonry. He digital sellers like Amazon, Fetter is confident that use the store as an anchor for community architecture, the decrepit traffic island on suggested raising the structure’s curbs, the store will work as both a source of literature and programs. She envisions hosting author Derne Street sticks out like a sore thumb. making it harder to miss as drivers turn onto a community gathering space. talks, speaking engagements and other The structure is covered in spray paint or speed toward Ashburton The shop will fill three stories of the building events that feed the neighborhood’s needs. and visibly crumbling, the result of drivers Place. A Public Works Department spokes- previously occupied by the Hungry I restaurant, a And the kids’ section could play host to story jumping over its curbs. But resident Nate person confirmed that Walton reached out historic structure that Fetter hopes will make the Continued on Page 8 Walton is aiming to rebuild the island and Continued on Page 8

One island. Fourteen homes. Infinite memories.

Nantucket houses are available to rent by the week in the summer time. Shorter term rentals are available throughout the year. In the Fenway The Boston Guardian 6 | February 21, 2020 Phil Cresta Was A Prolific Mobster By Joe Walsh For much of the 1960s, Phil Cresta was the Fenway’s most prolific mobster. But the average resident might not have known it. Cresta was allegedly at the center of the neighborhood’s underworld, launching a brazen series of robberies and jewelry heists from his home at the Fenway Motor Inn. However, unlike made for Hollywood gangsters like Whitey Bulger, Cresta’s story has remained largely untold. That enduring ability to stay under the radar may have been the secret to Cresta’s success. Photo: Mike Diskin The clearest portrait of Cresta’s life comes from Final Confession, a 2000 true crime near impunity, evading scrutiny from the Skating Thru book written by locals Brian Wallace and police and the local mafia’s infamous Angiulo Bill Crowley. The book’s stories are largely Brothers, Wallace and Crowley wrote. gleaned from interviews with Cresta, so He pulled off this spree, the authors The Winter some may be half truth, half self-aggrandiz- explain, because he avoided gangster bragga- ing tall tale. By Joe Walsh around the city enjoying themselves,” docio, ostentatious displays of wealth or any According to the authors, Cresta settled in The Fenway’s newest winter attraction Sougarides wrote. “Our creative team is other behaviors that could draw the wrong the Fenway by around 1963 following a stint earned a warm welcome this season. constantly hard at work to conceptualize kind of attention. Plus, he was a thorough in prison. The North End native chose the The newly renovated 401 Park building unique, engaging programming that sets planner, spending hours studying his targets area because it was far away from the Boston hosted an outdoor winter skating rink, The Fenway apart.” and devising airtight plots. Even relatively mafia’s seat of operations, and he lived in the giving neighborhood residents and visitors This flurry of activity is a striking low key crimes like thefts from neighbor- Motor Inn on Boylston Street, a spot owned access to a seasonal New staple transformation for 401 Park, a 92-year-old by gangster Harry “Doc” Sagansky. hood parking meters were the result of over the last few months. 401 Park owner building that sat abandoned until two Cresta allegedly spent his time stealing weeks of preparation. Samuels & Associates plans to melt the decades ago. Sears, Roebuck and Company cars and armored trucks, robbing private “In today’s jargon, Phil would be called a ice within a few weeks, but the rink is still originally constructed the building to homes, along with lifting jewelry and other control freak,” wrote Wallace and Crowley. open for this month. operate as a store and a warehouse for valuables from retailers. He worked with Continued on Page 9 “Thanks to a cooperative and mild the company’s popular mail order catalog winter, visitors have really been able to business. The building served a generation enjoy The Rink,” company Principal Peter of Bostonians, until a suburban exodus and Sougarides told The Boston Guardian in an a changing retail landscape drew customers emailed statement. “We originally planned away. on closing out the season at the end of Sears finally shuttered the site in the February, though nothing is completely set 1980s, foreshadowing strong headwinds in stone.” that led to the once dominant megaretail- A robust weekly event schedule drove er’s decline and eventual bankruptcy last scores of residents and nearby employees year. Meanwhile, twelve years of graffiti to the rink. Organizers opened the season and neighborhood irritation followed the with a winter carnival, performing artists store’s closure, as a succession of developers stopped by the rink to entertain visitors tried and failed at turning an inflexible, throughout the winter, and several DJs cantankerous old building into a viable hosted Friday night themed skates. The mixed use campus. special programming continues Friday The Abbey Group eventually bought the night, with a performance featuring property in the 1990s and named it the Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner. , filling its ground floor In between those events, the rink remains with big box stores. But when developer open for skating on weekday afternoons Samuels & Associates acquired the and evenings, and for much of the day on building, the company chose to overhaul weekends. Plus, skating lessons are offered it yet again. The building was rechristened on Saturday mornings. as 401 Park, and it now hosts a food hall The rink also brought new cold weather and modern office spaces alongside historic foot traffic to 401 Park. The building’s Sears artifacts and an original brick façade. ground floor contains the Time Out food Samuels & Associates has characterized hall, and the Trillium Brewing taproom 401 Park as a centerpiece of the Fenway, serves beer next to the rink. bookended by new residential high rises Residents can expect another full slate built by Samuels and other developers. The of special events next season, according to ice rink is key to that mission, company Samuels & Associates. Company staff say staffers explained, driving residents and they are happy with the nascent neighbor- office workers out of their winter morass. hood rink’s popularity, and they look “401 Park was developed to be an all-sea- forward to further wintery programming sons destination and gathering space for before it is turned back into a grassy park residents and visitors alike,” Sougarides this spring. said. The Rink gives us the opportunity “It was great to see Fenway residents, to celebrate New England winters with a office workers, and people of all ages from quintessential activity everyone can enjoy.” February 21, 2020 | 7 The Boston Guardian In the South End ‘Methadone Mile’ Has a New Czarina By Dan Rabb confidant stepped down from the position in Mayor Marty Walsh has appointed former September in the wake of a City Hall bribery Inspectional Services Department (ISD) investigation. Assistant Commissioner Kim Thai to oversee Although the Walsh administration has not Mass and Cass 2.0 , the city’s strategy to address officially announced her appointment, Thai the enduring impact of the opioid crisis in appeared Tuesday at the South End Forum’s Newmarket and throughout the South End. Working Group on Addiction, Recovery Thai, whose formal title will be Special and Homelessness. She told the group that Assistant to the Mayor, will serve as the focal the city is making progress on a long-await- point of communication for the tangle of ed public information and data website city agencies, non-profits and neighborhood stakeholders involved in the plan. Health and promised as part of the administration’s plan. Human Services Chief Marty Martinez has But she acknowledged that certain statistics unofficially handled these coordination duties demanded by South End neighborhood since the strategy’s much-hyped rollout in groups, such as EMS data, will likely not be October. included at first. Developed last summer in the aftermath of “We’re looking at crime stats, looking at the controversial “Operation Clean Sweep” needle pickups, looking at all the different law enforcement crackdown, the Mass and facets of data that we have access to and Another Old Church Cass 2.0 aims to take a more coordinated and funneling it into one place that makes it open data driven approach to tackling the rampant and transparent for everyone to see it,” Thai homelessness, drug use and criminal activity in said. “One of the big questions that came May Sell Its Building the areas surrounding Avenue up was, who is our target audience for this By Dan Rabb Yet, it now appears the church is looking to and . The plan focuses platform, and what are the types of resources leave the West Springfield Street building it on creating closer collaboration between An historic black church in the South and information that people want to see?” has called home since 1887. While church city departments and developing metrics to End is up for sale, sources tell The Boston leaders did not respond to requests for measure the effectiveness of certain programs. A mandated Mass and Cass 2.0 progress Guardian. comment on Ebenezer Baptist’s future, the The idea of creating a czar position for Mass report is due out next month. Yet the first real Founded by freed slaves shortly after the and Cass is not a new one. Former ISD Chief test of the plan’s impact will come this spring Civil War, the Ebenezer Baptist Church is property’s sale to a commercial developer William “Buddy” Christopher was given a with the annual uptick in activity around one of the city’s most historically significant could spark heated opposition. similar role in June prior to the creation of Mass and Cass that comes with the warmer black congregations, a surviving landmark Ebenezer Baptist’s roots trace back to Mass and Cass 2.0, but the long time Walsh months. of what was once the hub of black Boston. Continued on Page 8 The Boston Guardian 8 | February 21, 2020 Legal Notice Classifieds Call (857) 265-3022 CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific Custom Flooring PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF authority. GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED You have the right to object to this proceeding. & Millwork The Boston PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 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Blake of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or com- island easier for drivers to spot, Walton To the named Respondent and all other interested pletely take away the above-named person’s right Derne Street persons, a petition has been filed by Department to make decisions about personal affairs or finan- said. The structure is almost invisible of Children and Families of Boston, MA in the cial affairs or both. The above-named person has Continued from Page 5 on snowy winter days, he noted, and above captioned matter alleging that Kassandra A. the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make Blake is in need of a Guardian and requesting that this request on behalf of the above-named person. a planter would be more visible than a ______(or some other suitable person) be If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. one may be appointed at State expense. to the city, though the agency still has not nonde-script slab. The petition asks the court to determine that the Witness: Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court scheduled any work or committed to the “It doesn’t have a high profile,” he said. Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment Date: March 21, 2019 “Trucks just drive up over it and crush the of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Felix D. Arroyo, Register of Probate project. After that work takes place, Walton stone.” Chin Park Lighting neighborhood parents. hopes to add a planter on top of the island, Neighborhood leaders are eager to see “Chinatown residents rely heavily on this park, allowing flowers to grow seasonally. The the traffic island upgraded, improving the Continued from Page 3 especially during the summertime, because a lot of Beacon Hill Civic Association (BHCA) road’s safety and the area’s appearance. us don’t have living rooms or space for our kids to may fund that portion of the project. BHCA could underwrite the cost of “This is in a rather schematic phase right now,” play,” she said. “On any given night of the summer Walton says the project’s goals are planters, and nearby neighbors and other said Greenway Conservancy Executive Director there are probably fifty kids out on the Plaza, so twofold: aesthetic and functional. On Hill civic groups may also assist with Jesse Brackenbury. “We’ll eventually be able to drill that’s where the most activity happens. There’s stuff the aesthetic side, it would add bright upkeep, according to BHCA Streets and down deeper on the ideas that have resonance to we can’t see or know we don’t want our kids near in plantings to the middle of the street, Sidewalks Chair Rajan Nanda. people.” the other parts of the park.” improving a barren slice of cement. The Nanda hopes to support other beautifi- Among the proposed lighting installations Yet not all the proposed lighting changes were neighborhood made a similar choice cation projects in the future, especially in presented to Chinatown residents were directional strictly about security. Some of the ideas floated more than 30 years ago when it added visible corners of the Hill. LED’s mounted on posts throughout pedestrian to residents were purely aesthetic, intended to give trees and bushes to Codman Island, an “That little area is almost a mini-gate- areas like Chin Park and the Serpentine Path. the Chinatown section of the Greenway unique accident prone median at the intersection way to Beacon Hill,” he said. “We think it These would have the effect of highlighting the landmarks at night. Designers suggested placing of Beacon and Charles Streets. makes a lot of sense for that area to look a landscape architecture while also creating brighter, glowing sculptures in the shape of plants and The plantings would also make the little more professional.” more consistent ambient light throughout the boulders in the park’s Viewing Garden, giving it an park. Designers also suggested lighting the bamboo otherworldly nighttime ambiance. Church choosing to sell off their historic homes, along the Serpentine Path, ringing the Chinatown “We could introduce some sort of a lighting with gentrification and demographic Continued from Page 7 Arch with lights, and replacing the string of lights element at night that you don’t necessarily see change at its root. As the neighborhood that runs above Chin Park. during the daytime that looks like bamboo or grass becomes less black, membership at legacy The expanded lighting has been welcomed by during the day but at night transforms the area and 1871, when a group of ex-slaves from churches like Concord Street Baptist Chinatown residents, for whom the Greenway gives it visual interest,” explained Lukas Sturm, Virginia moved to the South End and declines. With fewer parishioners, the serves as a back yard. Linda See, a Chinatown Principal at Lumen Studios, which de-signed the began meeting for worship in a local cost of maintaining a historic structure resident who regularly takes her Children to Chin new lighting proposal. “You could also light some home. A decade and a half later the becomes less and less tenable. Park on summer evenings, says the Greenway’s of the beautiful plantings so as you pass by at night church moved into its current building, “Keeping up a historic building is really dark patches have been a significant concern for they catch your interest.” originally constructed as a Presbyterian complicated and expensive, and these church in 1860. The congregation has congregations are dwindling,” said South Book Stores profit margins for book sales, events will build met there continuously for more than a End development consultant Randi neighborhood support, and the store will stock century since, officially recognized by the Lathrop. “To be successful and survive, Continued from Page 5 up on unique titles and help residents curate their city as a Black Heritage Site. they probably have to sell it.” choices, she said. Despite Ebenezer Baptist’s roots in According to Lathrop, the South End is readings and other interactive offerings. “It’s not just about selling products. It’s about the South End’s past, the sale of similar also particularly inconvenient for church- “The programming will be something that matching individuals to books, and a website churches throughout the neighborhood es where the majority of parishioners no evolves over time,” Fetter said. “We’ll try lots of cannot do that,” she said. “The customer is relying indicates its future may be condos. longer live nearby and have to commute things, and we’ll see what sticks and what doesn’t.” on the bookstore to introduce them to new Historic houses of worship have proven by car. In an age of online sales, opening a brick and genres.” to be popular templates for developers “The congregation used to live in the mortar bookstore may seem like a quixotic uphill Meanwhile, the bookstore will rely on the looking to build luxury residences in the neighborhood and walk there, but now when they come to church they need to battle. Amazon now controls more than 40% loyalty of its customers, Fetter added. If Beacon restrictive South End Landmarks District. park,” she said. “Obviously parking is of print book sales according to some industry Hill Books is successful, she believes neighbors Among these projects was the nearby Concord Street Baptist Church which difficult in the South End.” researchers, and large chains like Barnes & Noble will view the shop as a community fixture worth was converted to luxury condos in 2011 Should Ebenezer Baptist decide to have faced years of pressure from the online supporting. by Triad Alpha Development, with the sell to a commercial developer, the loss juggernaut. And that formula is especially promising on the congregation relocating out to Milton. of a historic black institution to luxury However, the business model for independent Hill, Fetter argued. The neighborhood has young Developer New Boston Ventures turned development could become a political booksellers is surprisingly solid, Fetter notes. families, avid readers and a tradition of supporting the German Trinity Church on Shawmut flashpoint. A sense that the legacy of the Hundreds of new shops opened nationwide over local businesses. With a strong local customer base, Avenue into The Lucas residences in South End’s black community is being the last decade, and experts claim that sales figures Fetter said a small shop like Beacon Hill Books 2016. Ebenezer Baptist could be next. erased by development came to a head in have grown modestly in recent years, buoyed could thrive in the ecommerce era. Church leaders have yet to publicly recent months as activists and protestors by stores’ efforts to rebrand themselves as local “It’s a well educated group of people who are discuss their decision to sell the property attempted to block the redevelopment of a gathering spots. interested in reading,” she said. “I’m moving or their plans for the congregation’s 40 year old community center named after As a result, Fetter is optimistic that a bookstore forward with this project with the conviction that future. But longtime observers of Harriet Tubman. The sale of a century old can survive on the Hill. The café will draw in Beacon Hill and the environs will support this development in the South End point to organization founded by former slaves new customers and supplement paper thin bookstore.” a pattern of traditionally black churches could spark similar sentiment. February 21, 2020 | 9 The Boston Guardian Thursdays Free Chair Yoga. Gentle form of yoga while sitting in a chair or using a chair for On the Town support, a part of The Boston Parks Winter Now-March 8 Fitness Series. Morville House at Symphony 351 Boylston Street 12-6:30 pm. Hannah Barrett: Transitions. Park, 100 Norway St. 10 am. Black Owned Business Fest. Celebrate Retrospective display of the artist’s various Black History Month at this gorgeous South series that conveys Barrett’s development End bookstore turned local gift market. as she progresses from collage to reaching Peruse artisanal wares made by wonderful, further into her imagination through eerie black entrepreneurs in Boston and support portraits. Free. Childs Gallery, 169 Newbury More Than Words, a non-profit social St. Tuesday-Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturday- enterprise empowering vulnerable youths Sunday, 11 am-5 pm. through their job training program. Free. 242 East Berkeley Street. 11 am-4 pm. Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION show. 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As a result, Cresta doled Jung’s “Wolf Play” is a deeply theatrical hunt A walking tour of Boston’s most gruesome Continued from Page 6 out payments to most of the neighborhood’s for familial connection in the wilds of 21st murder sites and unexplained phenomena barbershops and bars, which secured their century America. Pay what you can. Rabb during the Victorian era. From $29/person. Hall at the BPL, 700 Boylston St. Thursdays, Sign up through Airbnb Experiences. Meet “Back then he was often called a taskmaster.” silence and enlisted them as sources of Saturdays and Sundays, 7 pm. at Mass. Ave T stop, South End. 2 pm-4pm. Cresta maintained the same level of intelligence. control over the neighborhood, buying the “Every bartender and barber who worked Now-Sunday, March 1 Saturday, February 22 loyalty of local spots like McGrail’s, a shady in Kenmore Square was on our payroll,” Etching Revival: Whistler and His MassArt Art Museum’s Grand Opening. Kilmarnock Street dive where he regularly Cresta told the authors. Circle. Presenting etched prints from James The museum’s inaugural exhibitions will feature took meetings with his associates. This scheme reached its zenith in 1968, Abbott McNeill Whistler and fellow artists. Joana Vasconcelos’ fabric sculptures, a group show Loyal businesses like McGrail’s, known when Cresta robbed a Brink’s armored Childs Gallery, 169 Newbury St. inspired by video games and an archival piece on as “ears” in mob parlance, were useful allies truck. He quickly fled to Chicago and lived the ephemera people create in pursuit of their because they fed Cresta information about as “Tony Zito,” a workable disguise until the Now through Friday, March 6 aspirations by artist duo, Ghost of a Dream. Free, his targets. He hatched at least one burglary police arrested him five years later. With his Bloodlust: Mysteries of Victorian Boston. but online registration is encouraged. MassArt plot because of details leaked by a Kenmore career decisively over, he headed to federal Learn about the gruesome murders and Art Museum, 621 Huntington Ave. 12-6 pm. Square barber, according to Wallace and prison and was eventually released, dying in unexplained phenomena in what used to be Crowley. 1995. the country’s largest Victorian neighborhood, Live Reading of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest “A friendly bartender or barber was one of Since then, Cresta has drawn little the South End. From $24/person. Sign up Eye. Multiple artists will read the author’s Pulitzer the best kind of ears,” the duo wrote. “People attention, aside from a few shuttered through Airbnb Experiences. Meet at Mass. prize winning novel aloud with a panel discussion told them things without being aware they attempts to turn his life into a movie. For Ave T stop, South End. 2 pm- 4 pm. led by writer and Arts Engagement Producer for were doing so.” most residents, he remains the most success- the ARTery, Arielle Gray. Free. CROMA @ ASC, These businesses also stayed quiet about ful gangster they’ve never heard of. The Boston Guardian February 21, 2020 | 10 Our Local Real Estate

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