Breaking news -- Pastoral ARTisan Pizza + Kitchen + Bar in Boston's Fort Point is closing. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/01/pastoral-artisan-pizza-kitchen-bar-in.html

#boston #fortpoint #southboston #restaurant #pizza

With new manager, landlord, once troublesome Andrew Square #pizza place gets OK for late-night delivery pickups
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/new-manager-landlord-once-troublesome-andrew-square-pizza-place-gets

#Boston #SouthBoston #licensing

September 2014

South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

#iphoneography #iphonephotography #southboston #boston #bostonphotography #massachusetts #newengland #newenglandphotography

Dorchester Heights Monument (8.28 mi), Boston National Historical Park, 95R G St, Dorchester MA photographed from Buck Hill. Fighting a bit of turbulance in this one. Hopefully, one day I can catch it on a day when the air is more still.

The house visible directly in front is, 56 Thomas Pk, Dorchester MA

The buildings in the background are the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport (9.28 mi), 450 Summer St and Gables Seaport (apartments), 501 Congress St, both in South Boston MA.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #Dorchester #DorchesterMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

Opening alert -- Si Cara is now open in South Boston, joining its original location in Cambridge. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/01/si-cara-opens-in-south-boston.html

#restaurant #pizza #southboston #boston

Preble Street is not the highway to hell
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/preble-street-not-highway-hell
#Boston #SouthBoston

🏷️ #southboston #virginia #factory #workers

🎁 🔗 https://www.wsj.com/business/the-factory-workers-who-build-the-power-grid-by-hand-4a846658?st=PcLT1x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#OTD (Dec 09) in 1999, #NewEngland #Mafia leader 'Cadillac Frank' #Salemme pleads guilty to federal #racketeering charges, admits conspiring with #SouthBoston racketeer 'Whitey' #Bulger (shown) in the #extortion of bookmakers, loan sharks and drug dealers.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

News -- Hamersley's Pantry to open in South Boston (and yes, the name should ring a bell). https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/11/hamersleys-pantry-to-open-in-south.html

#southboston #boston

Two war memorials photographed from Buck Hill.

With the white pillars and gold dome, is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Clock Tower (6.26 mi), Victory Rd, Quincy MA

Above and to the left is a peninsula with two flagpoles at the tip. This is the South Boston Korean War Memorial (9.06 mi), Castle Island, South Boston MA

To the right of the South Boston memorial there is some kind of man-made structure on the water that I cannot find any name for. I suspect it is some kind of navigational beacon. It can be seen in Google 360 photos from Castle Island. The large beige shed like structure in front of the Clock Tower is a film studio and sound stage. Marina Studios, 260 Victory Rd, Quincy MA.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #Quincy #QuincyMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

Opening alert -- Agavero Guac & Margs is now open in South Boston. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/11/agavero-guac-margs-opens-in-south-boston.html

#restaurant #southboston #boston

News -- Mother's East Tavern is planning to open in South Boston, and the person behind it comes from several dining/drinking spots in California and the New Orleans area. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/11/mothers-east-tavern-plans-to-open-in.html

#southboston #boston #restaurant #bar

The newly completed South Station Tower, 711 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA, photographed from Buck Hill. This tower was already under construction when I started to bring my camera up on the hill, so I went through and found the earliest photo I could find. The recent photo was taken in Nov 2025 and the older photo is from Dec 2023. At that point, only about half of the tower was built and none of the glass panels were yet attached. The bright white building to the right is the The Federal Reserve Bank Building, 600 Atlantic Ave, Boston MA, which I featured in an earlier post.

#buckhill #bluehills #bluehillsreservation #boston #BostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #landscape #LandscapePhotography #photography #LongDistanceObservations

Opening alert -- Brick Street Bagels is now open in South Boston. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/10/brick-street-bagels-opens-in-south.html

#bagels #boston #southboston

St Joseph's Church, 115 Union St, Lynn MA photographed from Buck Hill. The olive green spire is a little hard to pick out against the brown background and the tip of the spire only just rises above the land behind it.

In front of the church is the Harbor Loft Apartments, 7 Liberty Square, Lynn MA. To the left of that is a fuel storage tank, National Grid, 277-399 Blossom Street Ext, Lynn MA. To the right of the church on the horizon is a water tower, 15 Colby St, Salem MA.

This photo is a great example of the stripes of land and water that form Boston Harbor. The first strip of land below has several houses visible, inclusing several on Lorean Terrace that are in Winthrop MA. The next strip of land is part of the runway for Logan Internation Airport, East Boston MA and to the left of frame a Jet Blue airliner can be seen. Below that is Castle Island, with a view of parts of Fort Independence. While most of the fort is behind trees, the structure can be made out through the bare branches. Below that is Head Island which has what looks like a lookout tower at the tip.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Lynn #LynnMA #Salem #SalemMA #Winthrop #WinthropMA #EastBoston #EastBostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #CastleIsland #FortIndependence #HeadIsland #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

News -- GrandTen Distilling to leave its home in South Boston, plans to reopen elsewhere. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/09/grandten-distilling-to-leave-its-home.html

#southboston #boston

There's seriously no bike lanes in South Boston? Like there's literally no way to get to Castle Island from downtown boston without mixing with cars???

Wanted to take the kiddo to Ft Independence for Girl Scouts Love State Parks 2025, but looks like I'm gonna have to drive???

#mapoli #southBoston #bikeBoston #girlscouts

Update -- Brick Street Bagels is opening a brick-and-mortar store in South Boston, and we now have an exact address. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/02/brick-street-bagels-to-open-brick-and.html

#bagels #southboston #boston

Neptune Towers apartments, 130 Neptune Blvd, Lynn MA photographed from Buck Hill.

I was going through some of my past photo shoots and came across this photo of this pair of apartment buildings reflecting the late day sun. I had not previously identified these buildings or much of the detail seen in this image. This particular day (Nov 2024) was marred by wildfire smoke and air turbulence, but with some corrections, I was able to get a decent resulting image.

As I am looking at the two apartment buildings, I noticed what appeared to be the faint outline of a tower, exactly between the two buildings. At first I thought my eyes were playing a trick on me, but it turns out this is the steeple of Saint Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church, 74 S Common St, Lynn MA.

To the right of the aparment building is the former Mary T Ronan School, 154 Bradstreet Ave, Revere MA. This building now serves as housing for the elderly. Below the apartments and school building there are many houses that can be seen, most of which are on Pearl Ave, Revere MA.

Below the houses and above the water there is a bridge that spans between Saratoga St, East Boston and Main St Winthrop MA.

Below the bridge is a portion of Logan Airport with a couple of jets on the runways. Below the airport is part of Conley Terminal, 700 Summer St, South Boston MA. These look like they are adjoined in the photo, but they are on different pennisulas.

A the very bottom of the frame is an apartment building at 171 Walnut St, Dorchester MA and the spire of the Community Church of Neponset, 51 Walnut St, Dorchester MA.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Lynn #LynnMA #Revere #RevereMA #EastBoston #EastBostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #Dorchester #DorchesterMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

Okay Boston is Dorchester Heights open again? Not according to the NPS (https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/gaoa-dorchester-heights-monument.htm) but it’s supposed to be finished summer 2025 and they had a “neighborhood first look” on August 17. So maybe the website is not up to date.

#Boston #NPS #SouthBoston