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Bob Haas and Monadnock Street

Description: After his home burns, neighbors support Bob Haas, who has worked to revitalize Monadnock Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1988

Boston Garden revitalization

Description: Raymond Flynn announces city's agreement with Delaware North to build new arena to replace Boston Garden and to develop area around North Station. Drawings and model.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1989

City Year teens

Description: Teens from various backgrounds join in City Year program to revitalize urban playgrounds and participate in other community rehabilitation projects in return for small stipend and scholarship.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1988

Codman Square

Description: Street environs of Codman Square Dorchester. Hardware store, First National Bank, Woolworth, Grant Building. Abandoned building plastered with posters. Branch library, small business storefronts. Interview with merchant Joe Katz who is optimistic about future of area, particularly as new grocery store opens. Female police officer on mounted (horse) patrol in rain. Mayor Kevin White on scene to inaugurate opening of Our Market (tape ends before he speaks). Timmy Clegg of Codman Square Community Development Corp tells of rejuvenation of closed supermarket with neighbor involvement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1979

Gus Newport and Dudley Street

Description: Former Berkeley mayor Gus Newport comes to Roxbury to lead the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in rebuilding the community by attracting developers. Empty lot.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1989

Howard Street cleanup

Description: Dudley neighborhood group reclaims Howard Street from drug dealers and dumping by sealing it off with locked fence and removing abandoned cars. Jackhammer, concrete, cement in wheelbarrow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/04/1988

North End and South End

Description: Whittier Place sign and high-rise buildings of Charles River Park. Brick buildings in North End. Laundry hangs from clothesline out window. Drago's Italian Bakery storefront and pizza sign. Prince building near waterfront. Environs near Commercial Street. Lobsters sign. All-day parking $2.25. Victorian houses on Ashmont Hill. Complex roof with eyebrow window, turret, balustrade on widow's walk. Mansards. Decrepit facades in Codman Square. Liquor store on Washington Street. “We Can” Neighborhood Improvement Association. Blackstone Park in South End. Housing project. Elevated orange line structure (no trains) runs down middle of street. Attached brick townhouses on Union Park. Rehabilitation in progress; building permit displayed in window. Ornate dormer, white iron balcony. St. Germain street sign. Gentrification, condominium development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/14/1979

Park Plaza revitalization

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis at press conference to inaugurate the Park Plaza revitalization project - construction of the transportation building surrounded by commercial and cultural development. Outside Dukakis dons hard hat, wields sledgehammer to ceremonially initiate demolition. Architect Marvin Goody follows. Crowd at intersection of Stuart and Tremont Streets observes crane beginning to knock down the Attic Lounge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/22/1978

Water & sewer

Description: Boston Water & Sewer fixes leaks, curb flooding, cracked pavement, underground pipes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/12/1986