South End News

South End Tenants Houses I and II are opening opportunities for applicants seeking placement on waiting lists for future affordable housing vacancies, including studio through five-bedroom apartments. The waiting list for South End Tenants Houses I, or SETH I, will open for a limited time beginning Sept. 21. The SETH II waiting list will remain open.

Tai Tung Village in Boston’s Chinatown is reopening its Project-Based Section 8 waiting lists for 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments, with a two-week application period beginning at the end of August. The income-restricted rental development, located at 232 Harrison Avenue, will accept applications for a lottery that determines placement on its waiting lists.

Boston is changing fast — new housing, transit projects, and neighborhood plans are shaping what the city looks like for decades to come. The Boston Planning Department wants residents to have a voice in that process, and they're making it easy to get started. The department is inviting community members to take part in planning efforts that will help determine the city's future.

State Sen. Nick Collins is highlighting a string of recent legislative victories, neighborhood investments and high-profile endorsements as his re‑election campaign intensifies across the First Suffolk District, with a particular focus on Boston’s South End. In a campaign update released this week, Collins, a Democrat, pointed to his role in several statewide policy measures dealing with student mental health, digital privacy, reproductive rights and protections for transgender residents.

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Festival Betances, New England's longest-running Latino cultural festival, returns to Plaza Betances this Saturday, July 18, for its 53rd year — a free, full-day celebration running 12:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 100 West Dedham St. This year's theme, "Boricua Legacy: Shaping America's Story," ties the festival to the America 250 commemoration.

The city has selected a design for the new South End Branch Library that leaves Library Park untouched while reconfiguring the alley behind the building. What that means for how neighbors drive through Alley 510 is not yet settled. The $32 million project will replace the shuttered one-story branch at 685 Tremont St. with a two-story building, nearly doubling it from about 9,000 to 16,000 square feet. The branch has been closed since April 2022 due to flooding.

BOSTON, July 8, 2026 - This week Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn filed a hearing order to discuss the status of the Blackstone Pool and an independent engineering study on repairs. The Blackstone Community Center and Boston Public Schools (BPS) pool has historically served communities of color in the South End and Roxbury, including the residents of Villa Victoria and BHA Ruth Barkley apartments.

A Navy veteran, entrepreneur, HIV/AIDS fundraiser and hospitality visionary, Ribaudo turned a Columbus Avenue venue into a home base for generations of Boston’s LGBTQ+ community By Bay Windows Staff Frank Alfred Ribaudo, beloved husband, brother, uncle, veteran, entrepreneur, and visionary community builder, died after a courageous two-and-a-half-year battle with glioblastoma. Born on December 30, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, Frank was the son of Caroline and Frank Ribaudo.

Father Christopher K. O’Connor, the new rector of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and Father Rodrigo A. Martinez, the Cathedral’s new parochial vicar, pose outside the Cathedral on Sunday, June 28, after celebrating Masses with the parish community. The two priests began their new ministries at the Cathedral that weekend, greeting parishioners and introducing themselves following Mass. Father O’Connor succeeds Msgr.