A citizen’s guide: ‘Traffic calming’ demands patience, persistence
The February BHCA meeting included a brief overview of the traffic situation in Bolton Hill.
February 2021
Volume XLIX • Number 2
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After a COVID delay, talks of renovating 1700 Eutaw building renew
In March 2020, the attorney and architect representing the New York-based investors who own 1700 Eutaw Place—the large and longtime vacant apartment building just to the north of Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary School—introduced plans to renovate the building.
New zoning bill can mean cutting up more single-family houses
The City Department of Planning hosted a “public information” meeting Feb. 10 about a bill (#21-0009) in the city council that affects most row houses in Bolton Hill and in other neighborhoods with large single-unit residential properties.
The life and times of John Street Park
“As a park, it’s an impertinence. Who ever heard of a park seven row houses wide, enclosed rather sketchily by low brick walls?” That is how Sara Azrael in 1958, writing for the Roland Park Company’s Gardens, Houses and People magazine, characterized the little Bolton Hill garden now known as John Street Park.
Neighbors
James Craigen Sr. is hoping that maybe, finally, just possibly, the stars are aligning and in the coming months and years we may begin to see a serious effort in the country, and particularly in Baltimore, to tackle the very old roadblocks that have kept the city divided and so many Black Baltimoreans in poverty.
Unicorns with a Cause planning March 3 community event
Every spring for the past 10+ years, several Bolton Hillers have been participating in the annual Ride for the Feast as part of the Rebels with a Cause team.
Diary of a Cat Lady
When she moved to Baltimore in 1995, Luz Damron probably was ill-prepared for the rough-and-tumble ways of central west Baltimore.
Linden Park Apartments provide seniors independent living
The renovated, attractive building now known as Linden Park Apartments at 301 McMechen Street (between Jordan Street and Eutaw Place) is a contemporary reminder, if anyone needs one, of a time when pragmatic politicians of different parties worked together to do things that had a lasting, positive impact.
A second Bolton Hill physician dies of COVID-19
Dr. Hubert Taylor Gurley II, medical director of Health Care for the Homeless and a longtime resident of Bolton Hill, died of complications of COVID-19 Jan. 30.
Snow day noodle soup recipe
Snow days are meant for staying in and warming up with something comforting and delicious.