Description: Kevin White and Harry 'Lewis' Spence hold press conference to announce redevelopment of Columbia Point public housing. Columbia Point exteriors. BAYSIDE EXPOSITION CENTER, ENVIRONS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1983
Description: BETTY WASHINGTON OF COLUMBIA POINT PROJECT FIGHTS POVERTY PROBLEMS — DRUGS, HOUSING
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1987
Description: BostonGas tanks in Dorchester. Corita Kent tank. Tanker trucks. Man attaches hose to liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck. Wide of painted rainbow and centennial logo tanks. Outdoor maze of pipes, gauges, valves. UMass Boston Columbia Point modern campus seen hazily across bay.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/06/1977
Description: PRESS CONFERENCE, ENVIRONS OF COLUMBIA POINT BUILDINGS, KEVIN WHITE, ROBERT RYAN, BAYSIDE EXPO **MISSING**
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1983
Description: Columbia Point history. Tenant Task Force takes on redevelopment. Wrecking ball, drum roll, demolition of buildings. Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Stephen Coyle, Harry Spence, Joseph Mullins, Roger Taylor. Helicopter aerial of site.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1987
Description: Inside Cambridge Trust Company bank customers write checks and present them to tellers to be cashed. Wide shot of UMass Boston contemporary brick buildings along Dorchester Bay. Planes fly low over campus on approach to airport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1977
Description: Columbia Point environmentals. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1982
Description: Distant view of Columbia Point from top of Hancock building on hazy day. Public housing project is dense cluster of brick buildings on land jutting into Boston Harbor. Adjacent modern campus of UMass. Pan to BostonGas tanks in Dorchester. No sound.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Columbia Point public housing exteriors.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1982
Description: Exteriors of Columbia Point housing project. Some buildings have boarded up windows. Graffiti, trash all around. Interview with resident Joe Lacey; says biggest problem is rampant drug dealing, especially at 2 Brandon. Dark, filthy, dilapidated interior of hallway and vacant apartment. Interview with female resident with ten children plus grandchildren who says no one cares about atrocious conditions at the development; reputation of the residents is undeservedly tainted by crime and neglect there. Calls it a dumping ground from which no one can afford to move.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1977