The Week Ahead – starting Monday 9/19
Dear Members and Friends:
City Hall ‘on the go’ truck visits East and West Fenway Monday afternoon/eve – get your business done! The Station is officially open and running programs throughout the week. Hungry? Check out Taste of Fenway Thursday eve. Still time to get your yoga fix, or join the neighborhood block clean up. ORANGE line reopens, but soon the GREEN LINE D TRAINS will be offline. Mark your calendar: Berklee will be discussing their Institutional Master Plan end of month.
For this and more, see below:
1. Monday, Sept. 19 ORANGE LINE reopens (see transport links below)
2. Monday, Sept. 19 The City Hall on the Go Truck will be stopping in Fenway-Kenmore at Symphony Community Park (39 Edgerly Rd.) from 3:30-5PM and the Fenway Victory Gardens (1200 Boylston St.) from 5:30-7PM
The Truck saves residents the trip and hassle of getting to City Hall and provides a number of services such as applying for resident parking permits or dog licenses, requesting birth, death, or marriage certificates, paying or appealing parking tickets, registering to vote, and filing claims with the City or business certificates, inter alia. Use this link to request services ahead of time: bit.ly/CityHallOTG. Visit www.boston.gov/departments/civic-organizing/city-hall-go-truck for more information.
3. Thursday, Sept. 22, 10-11am – Chair Yoga – Symphony Park 39 Edgerly Road
Chair Yoga https://www.boston.gov/calendar/parks-summer-fitness-chair-yoga Participate in FREE fitness classes offered by a certified instructor. Offered in partnership by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Boston Public Health Commission. The series is sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Repeats weekly, until Sept 29.
4. Thursday, Sept. 22, 5-7 PM “Taste of The Fenway” Van Ness St
Van Ness Street (Kilmarnock St. to Richard B. Ross Way—event entrance is behind Fenway’s Target)
This outdoor street festival will feature Fenway’s restaurants, food & drink tastings, live music, and art. Give your taste buds a treat – your $50 ticket gets you all you can eat/drink from 28 different food & beverage purveyors. Kids under 12 eat for free! https://www.tasteofthefenway.org
5. Saturday, Sept 24, 9am – Noon LOVE YOUR BLOCK CLEANUP – Fenway
Mayor Wu’s Office of Civic Organizing is hosting their annual Love Your Block Cleanuphttps://www.boston.gov/civic-engagement/love-your-block-2022
ONGOING
6. The Station at Park Dr & Boylston by Star Market
Check The Station website for events and activity info.
7. Boston Cultural Council accepting grant applications through October 17,2022.
For local nonprofits arts and cultural programming:boston.gov/arts-grants.
8. TRANSPORT:
• MBTA alerts and info https://www.mbta.com/alerts/subway
• GREEN LINE D – Replaced by Shuttle Service UPCOMING
Shuttle buses replace D Branch service between Riverside and Kenmore from Sat, Sep 24, through Sun, Oct 2, for track and infrastructure upgrades. Additional work is scheduled for Oct 8 – 16 and Oct 22 – 30. MBTA.com/GLTrack
• #55 BUS: the fall schedule was released, with no changes planned for the #55. People are encouraged to ask the T for a return to full service hours and route; send comments to publicengagement@mbta.com
FOR FALL 2022 ROUTE CHANGE INFO: https://www.mbta.com/service-changes/fall-2022-service-changes
UPCOMING
9. Thursday, Sept. 29 6-8 pm; The BPDA is hosting a Task Force Meeting for the proposedInstitutional Master Plan (IMP) for Berklee College of Music, located in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the overall IMP and the potential impacts. The meeting will include a presentation followed by questions and comments from the Task Force and the public. For more detail visit: http://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2022/09/29/berklee-institutional-master-plan-task-force-meeti
Fenway Civic Association 