Bolton Hill

Bolton Hill

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WELCOME TO BOLTON HILL

A Historic Neighborhood
in Baltimore

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BECOME A BHCA MEMBER TODAY! It’s easy to become a BHCA member by paying your dues here to support BHCA events and activities that enhance the Bolton Hill community.

Streetsweeping in Bolton Hill and the need to move parked vehicles from certain streets will not resume until further notice. If you see streetsweepers driving down streets, they are testing routes and training new drivers.

Curbside recycling is on a biweekly schedule throughout Baltimore until further notice. Bolton Hill recycling collection will take place on alternating Fridays starting January 28. Through May, the next collection dates are April 8, April 22, May 6, and May 20.

BHCA Monthly Meeting


June 7, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

No Boundaries Coalition Block Party


June 18, 2022
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Older Residents Task Force


June 28, 2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Arts in the Parks: Jimmy Wilson & Ricardo Marlow


July 7, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Bolton Hill Bulletin

Will Belle Hardware close after nearly 45 years in Bolton Hill?

May 2022

The family-run hardware store on McMechen Street survived the economic collapse of 2008, the Freddy Gray uprising and two years of COVID shutdowns and supply shortages, but Micky Fried, who runs the place, has posted going-out-of-business signs and said the store would close sometime in June.

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Nyweide: BHCA stokes loyalties that matter – if you participate

May 2022

In my remarks at the May BHCA membership meeting, I referred to the “ring theory,” coined by Marc Dunkelman in a book called The Vanishing Neighbor.

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The squeegee people at the Mt. Royal Ave I-83 exit: fishers and the fished

May 2022

“My car and I just got attacked by squeegee kids after I politely declined their services when pulling into exit six off JFX coming home, so they surrounded my car and lifted up my windshield wipers and sprayed the car down while banging on my glass with their squeegees and cussing me out. I already called the police to inform them…. I can only imagine how I would feel if I had kids or other passengers in my car and how terrifying it would be. These people are menaces and must be stopped firmly or things could end very badly the next time.”

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Photo of the Month by Zhee Chatmon

May 2022

Barefoot weather is coming. A new neighbor from Afghanistan was ahead of the rest of us.

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Attention Bolton Hill renters: city doubles homebuying incentives

May 2022

The city increased incentives for first-time homebuyers to $10,000 in down-payment help and closing cost support for eligible households, as of May 1.

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Volunteers trim Park Avenue shrubs for safety and plant health

May 2022

A major pruning of shrubs on the Park Avenue median parks has left the parks cleaner and safer, if for a time a little naked.

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Arts in the Parks gets bigger and better

May 2022

The Arts on the Parks 2022 Program now includes two additional concerts. The picnic
concerts and the F. Scott Fitzgerald birthday will be held at 6:30 pm in parks throughout the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill, Madison Park and Historic Marble Hill.

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Waxter Center offers a high-quality gym for older Bolton Hill residents

May 2022

The Waxter Senior Center has a gem of a gym waiting to be discovered at 1000 Cathedral Street in Mt. Vernon (410-396-1324).

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Older residents also can catch a break on taxi fares

May 2022

The director of city’s office of services for the aging, Jim Macgill, met with the BHCA Older Residents Task Force last month and reviewed a surprising array of programs and services that the city or state make available to older residents.

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Bolton Hill Notes

May 2022

The next BHCA board meeting, which is open to everyone, will take place in-person at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, at Memorial Episcopal Church, 1407 Bolton Street, unless announced otherwise.

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