Fenway Civic Association

Dear Members and Friends:

Please see the following message from the Red Sox regarding new measures for 2017 concerts. You may continue to log issues with concert noise with the City via 311, but also contact the Red Sox via dfriedman@redsox.com so that they can be notified and work with sound engineers. We look forward to these improvements and will continue working with the Red Sox and the City to address concert and event-related impacts in our neighborhood.

Fenway Park Neighbors:

As our first concert series of the season begins, I want to share with you of some the new measures we are taking to mitigate the impact of concerts on the neighborhood.  Over the last few months, we have worked closely with neighbors and the City of Boston to implement some new changes that we are very excited about.  For example, our awesome cleaning crew, Project Place, will now clean the Victory Gardens after each concert.   Additionally, we will install sound absorption panels in certain areas of the park to lessen the sound that escapes into the neighborhood.  Furthermore, as many neighbors have requested, we will arrange for supervised portable bathrooms to be placed close to the gardens and Fenway Park in an effort to prevent unmentionable events from occurring in the Victory Gardens.  As always, we will work with the Boston Police Department to ensure there is adequate security present throughout the neighborhood.

Finally, we will increase our social media posts, display messages on the park’s media screens and hang signs around the park reminding concert goers that Fenway Park is located in a residential neighborhood and request that patrons conduct themselves in an orderly fashion when traveling to and leaving the area.  Our initiative toB Respectful and B Kind during baseball games applies to our concert patrons too.  We will actively remind concert goers to B Respectful and B Kind to our Fenway Park Neighbors.

Through these and additional measures, we hope to address the various concerns presented to us by you, our neighbors.  Please feel free to reach out to me or Dave (dfriedman@redsox.com) if you have questions or comments.