Only six months after it was declared a “disallowed zone” in which harassing drivers and squeegeeing car windows would be no longer tolerated, a cadre of young men, squeegees in hand, are back working the traffic regularly at the I-83 south exit ramp to Mt. Royal Avenue.
A rash of carjackings across the city and disproportionately in Bolton Hill has caused city police to step up security in the neighborhood.
The State of Maryland has awarded $62,767 to BHCA and two adjacent community associations to start work on renovating Mounds Park – a kickoff to the Green Street Concept Plan for the 1400-1500 blocks of the Eutaw Place Median, Mosher Plaza and Mounds Park on the west side of Eutaw.
Reginald Scott, 48, has for years delivered the Sun, New York Times, Washington Post and other print publications in Bolton Hill early each morning. On Dec. 7, he was attacked by two armed young men.
The mayor has approved a proposed city police redistricting map that will transfer Bolton Hill from the BPD Central District, which stretches south from the neighborhood and includes most of the Midtown benefits district and Downtown/Inner Harbor, to the BPD Western District.
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.
Neighborhood residents may be unaware of safety and security information that is easily available.
Midtown Community Benefits District has a new executive director who is garrulous and enthusiastic about the job.
Bolton Hill has had a long history of Citizens on Patrol.
