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Back of the Hill development

Description: Interview with June Howe of Back of the Hill Community Development Association (BOTHCDA) about Mission Hill neighborhood development and revitalization. Calls it “the country in the city.” Memorandum of Agreement to buy vacant land from Lahey Clinic to build owner occupied mixed income family housing, elderly and handicapped housing, and/or subsidized rental housing. Environs of undeveloped parcel of interest. Ellingwood Street site. New England Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill Avenue in background. Tilt down to abandoned lot with construction materials left behind. Brief view of Harvard Medical Area Power Plant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1979

Boston City Council meeting

Description: Boston City Council meeting. Louise Day Hicks, Chistopher Iannella, Ray Flynn, Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, Lawrence DiCara, Rosemarie Sansone. O'Neil kisses Hicks on her last day on council. Tributes paid to Hicks. Fred Langone smokes cigar. DiCara questions Boston corporation counsel Joseph Alviani on rent control ordinance, vacancy decontrol, condominium conversion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/26/1979

Brookline condominiums

Description: Brookline condominium complex exteriors -- Courts on Washington Street, Tappan Gardens, Corey Hill and Winchester-Fuller condos. Sign in window "Buyers beware, we are not moving" from tenants who would be displaced by conversions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/10/1979

Chelsea redevelopment

Description: Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge seen from Main Street, Chelsea. Two military statues. City Hall exterior with clock tower. Wide of Mystic Bridge spanning water. Pan to Bunker Hill Monument. Zoom in to steel girders of bridge. Power plant with smokestacks. Exterior Chelsea Naval Hospital and Enlisted Men's Club with broken windows. Soldier's Home, marina. Everett LNG tanks. Interview with Robert Kenney about revitalization of Naval Hospital and fire site into housing and amenities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1979

Energy audit

Description: Putty-like rope caulk, tube of caulking, fiberglass batting insulation. BostonGas bills. Interview with homeowners in Dorchester about why they are having an energy audit. Inspector shows form to note data about heating system, structure, and energy saving improvements. Honeywell thermostat. Printout of recommendations. House exterior. Weatherization.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979

Hyde Park housing

Description: Interview on changing demographics, housing values, racial conflict in Hyde Park. Little City Hall in municipal building, Cooperative Bank, billboards, Kevin White poster, district 5 police station. MDC Doyle Playground with racist graffiti "niggers go home KKK." Single family houses. Black lawn jockey on lantern post damaged by stoning.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1979