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Nov 1

Media Update: Parking and transportation, City Hall hours, services

City Hall will be open today until 6:00 p.m. for members of the public. On Sunday, City Hall will remain open while Mayor Thomas M. Menino lies in state, for the duration of the public event. Mayor...

Oct 30

Statement from Mayor Walsh On the Loss of Former Mayor Menino

"Today the City of Boston mourns together. "To any who had come to know him, it is no surprise that more than half of Boston had a direct interaction with Tom Menino. No man possessed a greater love...

Oct 29

Back Bay Traffic Signal Retiming Project Underway

Traffic signals at 62 locations in Boston’s Back Bay are in the process of being retimed as part of a Boston Transportation Department program designed to ensure that equipment settings at the city’s...

Oct 29

City Council Passes Truck Side Guard Ordinance

Today the Boston City Council voted unanimously to pass a Truck Side Guard Ordinance, filed by Mayor Martin J. Walsh in conjunction with At-Large Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley and the Boston...

Oct 29

Mayor Walsh launches regional climate preparedness effort

Today, on the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the City of Boston will be convening a regional summit to better prepare Greater Boston for the impacts of...

Oct 28

November Literary Events at Boston Public Library Locations

Boston Public Library locations will host a variety of events for reading enthusiasts, including children’s book club meetings and author talks on a range of subjects from the Salem witch trials and...

Oct 28

Mayor Martin J. Walsh Lends His Support to BCYF HubNob

Mayor Martin J. Walsh will be on hand on Monday, November 10th at the House of Blues Boston to Co-Chair “HubNob,” an annual fundraiser for Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) the City of Boston...

Oct 28

Tips for a Successful Voting Experience on November 4

With the State Election fast approaching, the Boston Election Department offers the following tips to help ease the process for both voters and poll workers alike. Voters with any questions or...

Oct 27

Boston Parks Records Dating Back To 1875 Now Online

Historians, scholars, friends groups, and open space advocates are among these who now have a window into the past as the records of the Boston Parks Commission have been digitized and put online...

Oct 27

Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture Features Exhibit of International Labor Movement Posters in The…

The Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture will feature an exhibition of international labor movement posters from Stephen Lewis’ collection ( https://www.facebook.com/Lewisposters) in the Mayor’s...

Oct 24

East Boston Resident Parking Program Expanded to Horace, Homer, Byron and Moore Streets

At the request of East Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina and neighborhood residents, the Boston Transportation Department is expanding the East Boston Resident Parking Program to include Horace...

Oct 24

Mayor Walsh Issues Wage Theft Executive Order

Yesterday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh signed an Executive Order establishing payment certification requirements for vendors with city contracts. The measure seeks to prevent wage theft, which is the...

Oct 24

Boston Receives $25,000 for Urban Agriculture Visioning Project

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives announced today the receipt of a $25,000 planning grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food...

Oct 21

Mayor Walsh Accelerates City's LED Streetlight Retrofit Program

Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced that the Public Works Department (PWD) has retrofitted 38,838 of its 64,000 streetlights to Light-emitting Diode (LED) technology, which use less energy, last...

Oct 21

Mayor Walsh Announces Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in Boston

Mayor Martin J. Walsh will recognize National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week the week of October 20th. The Mayor’s Office of Fair Housing and Equity, the Boston Public Health Commission, the...

Oct 20

Mayor Walsh Celebrates Re-Opening of Renovated BCYF Draper Pool

Mayor Martin J. Walsh today officially reopened Boston Centers for Youth and Families’ (BCYF) Draper Pool in West Roxbury. The $3.5 million dollar renovation took just over a year to complete and was...

Oct 15

Mayor Walsh Launches Office of Financial Empowerment to Address Poverty and Income Inequality

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Vice Chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Cities of Opportunity Task Force, launched a wide-ranging effort to address poverty and income inequality in Boston with the...

Oct 12

Mayor Walsh Releases Draft Climate Action Plan for Public Comment

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the release of the draft 2014 Climate Action Plan for public comment. The City also released the latest municipal greenhouse gas emissions report for fiscal year...

Oct 12

Statement of Mayor Walsh on suspected Ebola case

"The City and our partners at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health were in constant contact today as news of an Ebola scare began to break. Today's...

Oct 10

Mayor Walsh Announces the Taxi Advisory Committee

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the appointment of 24 members to the “Taxi Advisory Committee” to examine policy and regulatory frameworks to support the taxi industry throughout the City of...

Oct 10

BCYF Mayor's Cup Youth Soccer Tournament To Be Held This Weekend

October is the month for great Boston youth soccer as the 2014 Mayor’s Cup Soccer Tournament takes place this weekend. Sponsored by Comcast, teams throughout Boston participate in this citywide...

Oct 9

Purloined Letters Exhibition Opens, Edgar Allan Poe Bust Revealed at Boston Public Library

The exhibition Purloined Letters: Literary Correspondence and its Unintended Recipients opens in the Special Collections Lobby at the Central Library in Copley Square on Wednesday, October 15...

Oct 9

Mayor Walsh releases "Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030"

Mayor Martin J. Walsh today released “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030,” the administration’s housing plan. The plan, which aims to create housing across demographics and neighborhoods, outlines...

Oct 8

Mayor Walsh Announces Fall Leaf Collection

Boston’s Fall Leaf collection will begin on Monday, October 13, and take place through Saturday, November 29. Boston Public Works Department (PWD) will collect and compost residents’ leaves and yard...

Oct 7

Mayor Walsh Announces Call for Applications to Fill Open Boston School Committee Position

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a call for applications to fill an open position on the Boston School Committee. The School Committee Nominating Panel is accepting applications to fill the...

Oct 6

Mayor Walsh Announces City has helped secure $3.8 million to help homeless and at-risk veterans

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the City of Boston has helped secure $3.8 million in resources towards housing and preventing homelessness for veterans. The resources come in the form of a...

Oct 6

Last Day for Voter Registration is October 15

Boston’s Board of Election Commissioners reminds all voters that the last day to register to vote, change one’s voting address, or party affiliation for the November 4 state election is OCTOBER 15...

Oct 6

Renovation of the Central Library in Copley Square Progressing

As renovations continue at Boston Public Library’s Copley Square location, library users and other interested members of the public are invited to a roundtable meeting for an update on the project and...

Oct 2

Statement of Mayor Walsh on Today's Indictments

"From the start of this process, I have been up front about my serious concerns related to the Everett parcel. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission and their investigatory body clearly failed the...

Sep 30

East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library Awarded Prestigious LEED® Green Building…

Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library earned LEED Gold certification. Established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green...

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