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Canceled:
City Hall On The Go: Charlestown

Reason for cancellation: This stop has been canceled due to the City Hall on the Go truck undergoing maintenance.
August 6, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Charlestown Winthrop Square (Training Field)
    55 Winthrop Street
    Boston, MA 02129
  • Contact:
    Office Civic Organizing
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Charlestown
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-06T12:30:59 - 2025-08-06T14:00:59

Our vibrant City Hall On The Go truck has a scheduled stop near your neighborhood, bringing essential municipal services right to you.

Please note: We do not accept cash payments on the truck.

August 6, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Charlestown Winthrop Square (Training Field)
    55 Winthrop Street
    Boston, MA 02129
  • Contact:
    Office Civic Organizing
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Charlestown
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-06T12:30:59 - 2025-08-06T14:00:59

CITY HALL ON THE GO SERVICES

  • Absentee ballot request
  • Affidavit resident sticker
  • Appeal parking ticket
  • Basic Inspectional Services
  • Business Certificate (Check or Money Order Only) 
  • Census registration
  • File housing discrimination claim
  • File domestic partnership
  • Handicap parking
  • Medicaid and health insurance applications
  • Pay delinquent excise
  • Pay excise tax
  • Pay parking ticket
  • Pay real estate tax
  • Referrals for ASAP services
  • Register dog license
  • Register to vote

  • Request birth certificate

  • Request death certificate

  • Request marriage certificate

  • Resident parking sticker

  • SNAP applications

  • Farmers market coupons (Seasonal)

  • Income Eligible Reduced Fare T Program

  • Yard Waste Stickers 

Canceled:
City Hall On The Go: East Boston

Reason for cancellation: This stop has been canceled due to the City Hall on the Go truck undergoing maintenance.
August 6, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:30am
  • Paris Street BCYF
    113 Paris Street
    Boston, MA 02128
  • Contact:
    Office Civic Organizing
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    East Boston
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-06T10:00:59 - 2025-08-06T11:30:59

Our vibrant City Hall On The Go truck has a scheduled stop near your neighborhood, bringing essential municipal services right to you.

Please note: We do not accept cash payments on the truck.

August 6, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:30am
  • Paris Street BCYF
    113 Paris Street
    Boston, MA 02128
  • Contact:
    Office Civic Organizing
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    East Boston
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Other
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-06T10:00:59 - 2025-08-06T11:30:59

CITY HALL ON THE GO SERVICES

  • Absentee ballot request
  • Affidavit resident sticker
  • Appeal parking ticket
  • Basic Inspectional Services
  • Business Certificate (Check or Money Order Only) 
  • Census registration
  • File housing discrimination claim
  • File domestic partnership
  • Handicap parking
  • Medicaid and health insurance applications
  • Pay delinquent excise
  • Pay excise tax
  • Pay parking ticket
  • Pay real estate tax
  • Referrals for ASAP services
  • Register dog license
  • Register to vote

  • Request birth certificate

  • Request death certificate

  • Request marriage certificate

  • Resident parking sticker

  • SNAP applications

  • Farmers market coupons (Seasonal)

  • Income Eligible Reduced Fare T Program

  • Yard Waste Stickers 

Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution - SPARK Boston Tour

Join SPARK Boston and Boston by Foot to learn about Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Family friendly
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33

Come along with Spark Boston and Boston By Foot for an exploration of civic engagement and history!

Learn about the mark Black thinkers and writers made on literary and political history: David Walker and his sentinel work, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World; novelist, playwright and editor Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins; Dorothy West and her biting satire on racial tensions, and many others.

Walk Beacon Hill as you explore where they worked, raised their families, fought injustice, and wrote. Join us Sunday, August 3 from 4 – 6 p.m. as we explore the stories of Black writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries who shaped 19th-century Boston—and American history. You can meet us at the Museum of African American History – 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
    Family friendly
    Outdoor
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33

West Roxbury: 128 Gardner Street Abutters Meeting

Change of occupancy from single-family to two-family to include renovations per plans attached. Two and a half story front and rear unit as per plans.

August 20, 2025
Event Date2025-08-20T19:00:30 - 2025-08-20T20:00:30

The purpose of this meeting is to get community input and listen to the resident's positions on this proposal. This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. 

Meeting ID: 879 9639 0267

Please note, the City does not represent the occupant(s)/developer(s)/attorney(s)/applicant(s). 

 

August 20, 2025
Event Date2025-08-20T19:00:30 - 2025-08-20T20:00:30

Allston: 27-29 Everett Street Abutters Meeting

Change of occupancy from a three-unit building to a six-unit building by way of rear/vertical addition with minor interior changes to the existing structure.

August 19, 2025
Event Date2025-08-19T19:00:58 - 2025-08-19T20:00:58

The purpose of this meeting is to get community input and listen to the resident's positions on this proposal. This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. 

Meeting ID: 810 5777 6508

Please note, the City does not represent the occupant(s)/developer(s)/attorney(s)/applicant(s).

 

August 19, 2025
Event Date2025-08-19T19:00:58 - 2025-08-19T20:00:58

Canceled:
Jamaica Plain: 546 Centre Street Abutters Meeting

Reason for cancellation: Please contact organizer.
August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T19:00:57 - 2025-08-12T20:00:57

The purpose of this meeting is to get community input and listen to the resident's positions on this proposal. This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. 

Meeting ID: 899 5004 8614

Please note, the City does not represent the occupant(s)/developer(s)/attorney(s)/applicant(s). 

 

August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T19:00:57 - 2025-08-12T20:00:57

250th Anniversary Celebration of Prince Hall Freemasonry

August 8 - August 9, 2025
Event Date2025-08-08T18:00:52 - 2025-08-09T00:00:52

Thursday, March 6, 2025 marked the 250th Anniversary of Prince Hall Freemasonry. This year, Prince Hall Freemasons all around the world will be celebrating the initiation of Prince Hall and fourteen other men of color into the oldest fraternity in the world on Castle William Island in Boston Harbor, on March 6, 1775, exactly 250 years ago on this date. Prince Hall was a former slave who later became a prominent member of the African American community in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an advocate for education rights and the abolition of slavery.

The 250th Anniversary Celebration Banquet will be held on the weekend of August 8-9. The distinguished speaker for the evening is RW Brother Dr. Oscar Alleyne, Past Junior Grand Warden of New York. Brother Alleyne is an internationally respected Masonic speaker and practical thought leader having presented over 200 lectures covering multiple areas of interest to over 8000 Freemasons and has published in several widely distributed Masonic journals, research bodies and educational conferences on Freemasonry.

The reception on August 8 will be held at the Dedham Boston Hilton Hotel from 6pm-10pm and the banquet on the 9th will be held at the William E. Reed Auditorium, 24 Washington Street Dorchester, MA from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. (cocktail hour), 7:30 (dinner) and the program to begin by 9 p.m.. The attire for this event is semi-formal. 

August 8 - August 9, 2025
Event Date2025-08-08T18:00:52 - 2025-08-09T00:00:52

Fidelis Way/Overlook Park

Please join us as the BPRD and design team present site analysis findings. Afterward, participants will be invited to a listening and discussion session to share their experiences in the park and offer ideas for potential improvements.

July 31, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Virtual
    Zoom,
  • Contact:
    Max Sell
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-07-31T18:00:00 - 2025-07-31T19:30:00
July 31, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Virtual
    Zoom,
  • Contact:
    Max Sell
  • send an email
  • Price:
    Price
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Neighborhood
    Brighton
  • Event Type:
    Civic Engagement
  • Published Date
Event Date2025-07-31T18:00:00 - 2025-07-31T19:30:00

Charlestown: 16 Chestnut Street Abutters Meeting

Complete gut renovation of single-family home.

August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T19:00:08 - 2025-08-12T20:00:08

The purpose of this meeting is to get community input and listen to the resident's positions on this proposal. This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. 

Meeting ID: 861 7746 3901

Please note, the City does not represent the occupant(s)/developer(s)/attorney(s)/applicant(s). 

 

August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T19:00:08 - 2025-08-12T20:00:08

Back Bay: 158, 162, 164, 177 St Botolph Street Abutters Meeting

Lodging house licenses for separate parcels.

August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T18:00:26 - 2025-08-12T19:00:26

The purpose of this meeting is to get community input and listen to the resident's positions on this proposal. This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. 

Meeting ID: 815 2592 2977

Please note, the City does not represent the occupant(s)/developer(s)/attorney(s)/applicant(s). 

 

August 12, 2025
Event Date2025-08-12T18:00:26 - 2025-08-12T19:00:26
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