Former SWAT Truck refurbished into Nation’s first-ever Mobile City Hall.
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Map the Downtown Area with the MyNeighborhood Census Viewer
Join Director of the Research Division of the Boston Redevelopment Authority Friday December 14, 2020, at Suffolk University to learn how to:
-Create customizable maps of the Downtown area
-View existing social, demographic, and economic data on who lives and works Downtown
-See other map-able data related to the Downtown area
-Download data for selected Census blocks and tracts.
Interested in learning about your block, or moving and curious about a prospective neighborhood? Want to know where the most ONEin3′ers live? Use the MyNeighborhood Census Viewer http://hubmaps.cityofboston.gov/MyNeighborhood/ to learn about the total population breakdown by age, gender, house hold type, race and ethnicity, and more!
Ask not only what you can do for Boston…
…ask what Boston can do for you!!! From the ONEin3 Advisory Council’s Civic Engagement Engineers:
When I moved to Boston in January 2010, I had to lay the ground work and put in the effort to meet people and become familiar with my surroundings. I would show up to Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association and Livable Street Alliance events by myself; went to the Waterfront, Four Winds, Bell in Hand and other bars and tried to strike up conversation with people in order to meet new friends; read NorthEndWaterfront.com and signed up for Bob O’Brien’s Downtown North Association listserv to find out what events were happing around me; emailed Nicole Leo, my Neighborhood Coordinator; attended the North End/Waterfront Neighborhood Council and North End/Waterfront Residents’ Association meetings to get involved in neighborhood; went skating at the Steriti Memorial Rink and swimming at the Mirabella Pool; volunteered at the polls in Charlestown during the mid-term election…But, I was still frustrated because I was still unemployed, I wasn’t able to break
into pre-existing cliques, and I didn’t feel like I could call Boston home.
This led me to write an unsolicited email to Mayor Menino and Chief of Staff Weiss asking what the City of Boston offered for young professionals and proposing what I thought I could do to help. I had my fingers crossed that this would help me find a job (we have all been there and tried it!). While I did not get a job offer, I did get a reply from the Mayor’s Correspondence Staff and personal reply from Chief of Staff Weiss, who put me in touch with ONEin3 Boston. I started to help out with the ONEin3 North End Neighborhood Group, began to feel like less of an outsider in my own neighborhood, and applied to join the ONEin3 Boston Mayor’s Advisory Council.
It took about one year from when I moved here for everything to click. I have heard that not everybody would wait that long, especially if you do not have a full-time job. There are many great aspects to the City of Boston, but even for someone extroverted like me, it can be hard to find exactly what you want.
Hopefully my experience can provide some useful tips for how someone new to Boston can get involved. But even more importantly, I hope it gets you thinking of what I failed to mention and what would make your experience in Boston even better, sooner. We are all individuals and are all looking for different things. So if you have advice for others whose interests I have failed to identify, let us know about that as well. The ONEin3 Boston Mayor’s Advisory Council and I look forward to reading your comments below. Thanks.
Boston Neighborhood Slogans…Let’s Hear Em!
After the HUGE success of David Bernstein’s Massachusetts Town Slogans hashtag on Twitter (#MATownSlogans), I thought it only appropriate for ONEin3 readers to weigh in on their own slogans for Boston’s many neighborhoods – officially recognized or not. So, join the conversation at #BosHoodSlogans. Don’t have Twitter? Post in the comments below.
Here’s one or two for each to get the conversation going:
- East Boston – Free to enter… $3.50 to leave.
- South Boston – If you’re Irish, you’re family. Wait, you probably already were family.
- South End – Giving Boston its sense of style since 1728.
- Beacon Hill – You’re welcome for Patriot’s Day. And Bunker Hill Day. And Evacuation Day.
- Fenway/Kenmore – New England’s heart and soul since 1903.
- Bay Village – Where? Oh. I thought that was (South End/Back Bay/Theatre District/Chinatown)
- Chinatown – Yum!
- Financial District – All of the jobs, none of the T route.
- Downtown Crossing – Secretly hoping we don’t fall in the Filene’s pit since 2007.
- Back Bay – See, you CAN trick wealthy people into living on landfill!
- West Roxbury – No matter how much we make, you still confuse us with Roxbury.
- Mattapan – Native American for ‘A Good Place to Be’
- Hyde Park – Our golf course is named after a Cincinnati Reds player. Wait, what?
- Mission Hill – Trendy when called ‘The Hill.’ Not-so-trendy when you realize it’s not Beacon Hill.
- Allston/Brighton – In by 22, out by 24.
- West End – If you lived here, you’d be home by now. You’re not home yet.
- Charlestown – HEY! That flower shop in The Town is NOT in Charlestown!
- JP – Come to visit the Sam Brewery, but leave before building a Whole Foods!
- Dorchester – See Southie.
- Roslindale – Sorry, Dot, but Rozzie is the best nickname in town.
- Roxbury – We have a zoo!
- North End – Testing how much people will pay to live in a closet that smells like Italian food.
- Bay Village – Boston’s smallest officially recognized neighborhood. Yes, its actual official! No, I’m not lying.
