Where Are The Swans?
Their successors, also a same sex couple with the same names, have become too aggressive to be in public this year and are being confined at their Franklin Park Zoo winter residence. Like many of us after Covid confinement, social skills have to be relearned.

Potential Ayer Mansion Sale Puts Preservation in Doubt
The Mansion was built in 1899 and 1900, a collaboration between designer Louis Comfort Tiffany and architect Alfred J. Manning. Tiffany, a great popularizer of stained glass in home decor, designed the Mansion’s private chapel and its large colored windows, among other elements.

Rodents Taking on Our Neighborhoods
On trash night in neighborhoods across Boston, you’re likely to see furry long-tailed creatures looking for a meal. Rats, who thrive on food scraps and small amounts of water, are alive and well in the city’s streets..

Back Bay’s Grande Dame Is Reborn
rehabilitated and and with a new name, The Newbury. In December, Architectural Digest had ranked The Newbury as the world’s third most anticipated new hotel in 2021 after the Pendry in West Hollywood, California and the Xigeria Safari Lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

TIME OUT
Time Out Market at 401 Park Drive has reopened. Guess it’s time for food, libation and a return to normalcy, whatever that is..

New Lights For Chin Park
The Commonwealth Places Grant was created in 2016, backed by the idea that improving public spaces leads to economic development and a cycle of investment. Grants are available to communities below 120% of the median household income in Massachusetts..

CRIME & PUNISHMENT
They were devises used to listen to music by our grandparents. Who knew they are still being made? On May 10 around 2pm a 40 something year old man wearing a blue wind breaker and black pants stole not one, but three Crosley Cruiser record players from Urban Outfitters at 361 Newbury Street worth $99 each (plus tax).

Strolling into Spring Is This Weekend
Duffield is a long time Beacon Hill resident and former co-owner of Blackstone’s of Beacon Hill. In 2009 and 2010, Duffield had helped organize similar events to support local business. The past year has been difficult for shops everywhere and Beacon Hill has been no exception.

BHCA Looks Back At Its Perseverance
“We have reached out to neighbors with our mask initiative, and clothing and food drives,” she said. “We have also taken the time to make improvements to our donor management database by migrating to a rolling membership system, which I think will be much easier for everyone.

Bridge Patched But Remains in Limbo
The bridge’s foundations were laid in 1880. It opened in 1884. And was built of rough-cut granite. “It was so well built, and so overbuilt, that you can neglect it for half a century, and it will retain its structural integrity,” said Heyward Parker James, founding board member of the Charlesgate Alliance.

Community Advisory Committee Examines 109 Brookline Project
The lot at 109 Brookline Avenue, adjacent to the Marriott Residence Inn, would be rebuilt into a 10-story lab and office space with ground floor retail and a building height of 150 feet. The adjacent building at 20 Overland Street would be kept at 78 feet tall.

STROLLING THE SOUTH END
Last weekend’s Stroll involved neighborhood businesses and restaurants and residents cleaning up Peters Park and just having fun. The events were sponsored by the South End Business Alliance..

Remember When?
Anyone remember the first game played at Fenway Park? It was only 109 years ago..