City Crowdsourcing Data on Flooding
The City of Boston is asking the public to submit reports of flooding events through a survey to better determine where it occurs..

Wu Won’t Discuss Bike Lane Study
Although announced last week, Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration has not been able to answer specific questions about a 30-day study of bike and bus lanes..

There is Some Logic To Our Chaotic Streets
Compared to the streets of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., conveniently organized by numbers and letters, Boston’s spiral of streets may appear chaotic and random to first-time residents. But there is a method to Boston’s geographic madness, at least to a degree.

Group Restructures To Deal with Drugs
A near decade old grassroots committee intended to address the drug addiction and violence at Massachusetts Avenue, Melnea Cass Boulevard (Mass and Cass) and surrounding neighborhoods is restructuring into what the groups calls a partnership between neighborhood stakeholders and city, state and private representatives.

New Comment Period For PLAN: Downtown
The department has also had several meetings with the mayor’s office, other city department heads, and a group of Downtown community leaders to address the overwhelming response to PLAN: Downtown and find a way to move forward..

Wu Wants Downtown To Be “Creative Hub”
Mayor Michelle Wu wants to build a new creative hub in Downtown Crossing.

MUSEUM MAGIC
The West End Museum hosted “Magical Artist” Joe Ledoux on February 8 for an evening of magic and art inspired by the historic West End..

West End Library Plan Moves Forward
Co-developers Preservation of Affordable Housing and Caste Capital are planning to redevelop the existing one-story West End library branch into a 165-foot-tall mixed-use building containing two bottom floors for the library and 12 stories containing 119 income-restricted apartment units.

City Publishes Transit Action Plan “StoryMap”
The project, known as the Fenway Transportation Action Plan (TAP), will redesign three core areas in the neighborhood which are Kenmore Square, Van Ness Street and Ipswich Street around Fenway Park, and nearly the full length of Brookline Avenue.

A RED (SOX) VALENTINE’S
The Red Sox hosted a Valentine’s Dance on February 14 for guests from the Peterborough Senior Center and eight other local seniors centers..

South End Permits Will Expire in April
According to the Office of the Parking Clerk (OPC), if you have no change of address and no unpaid parking tickets, your existing permit will be renewed automatically at no charge and with no need to replace the existing sticker on your vehicle..

COMING TO CITY HALL
South End City Councilor Ed Flynn hosted members of the Saint Steven’s Youth Group at City Hall to discuss their program to support at-risk students on February 12..