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
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