A citizen’s guide: ‘Traffic calming’ demands patience, persistence
The February BHCA meeting included a brief overview of the traffic situation in Bolton Hill.
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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.
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.
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.
Looking past COVID, put these events on your calendar
With a great burst of new year optimism, the BHCA Greening Committee is calling attention to a wide array of 2021 outdoor activities for neighborhood parks, along with a new map that pinpoints where each park is located.
Marlon Amprey is the new delegate for Bolton Hill
Bolton Hill’s Legislative District 40 residents have a new delegate to the Maryland General Assembly, ritually named by the state’s Republican governor with the support of only four members of the city’s Democratic Central Committee.