Downtown Deals

Downtown crossing has a holiday web site in place that has some coupons and discounts available for your holiday shopping.   Check out their web site.

Another reason for clean Streets & Sidewalks

New Scientist reports that people are more likely to commit street crime if graffiti and litter are present. Another example of the Broken WIndow theory??? Read the complete article.

Franklin Cafe 3

The Restaurant Talk blog posts that the Franklin Cafe's new South Boston location is now open. Franklin-Southie is on Dot Ave between 4th and Broadway. With another location effectively 'down the street' and with more parking, I wonder if the car traffic for our Shawmut Franklin Cafe will reduce??

For the ESNA Foodies out there, aside from Restaurant Talk, there is also the Boston Globe Dishing blog, and of course the food and restaurant forum Chowhound.

Mayor's Holiday Specials

We may not like it, but the holidays are coming at us like a freight train.   They Mayor's Office has set up a special web site with show, dinner and shopping discounts.

For details, visit the Mayor's Holiday Specials web site.

Election results

A reminder the "live" election results can be found on the city election web site. 

November meeting

Welcome to Fall everyone. And only 2 days of election ads left.
Don't forget to head over to Cathedral Gym on Tuesday to cast your
votes!

Our next meeting will be this Wednesday, November 5th, 6:30-8:30 at
the Boston ballet school (Clarendon & Warren)
6:30-7 - Neighborhood networking
7-8:30 - Business meeting.

Agenda will include
- Voting on a request for deck approval on 24 Hanson
- Social events - we need some!!! What do members want to do, and
volunteers to get the ball rolling!
- ESNA re-org. We talked about moving to a board based
organization. I'd like to continue that discussion

See you all on Wednesday!

ESNA Web changes

Eight Streets is happy to announce we finally have our own home on the web.  The ESNA web pages are now on our own domain at eightstreets.org.   Now that the web pages are ad-free, they'll look a lot less cluttered.  So, for example, our web page and blog directly linked from the 'intro spash' page.   Some of the out-dated sections have been removed from the web page.   Well also be adding more information in the coming months, including more Eightstreets/Google maps like this.  

Also new is the ability to renew/pay your dues on line.   On our Membership page you can now renew your ESNA membership.   Just select your membership and use paypal to renew your membership with your credit card.   It's easy for you to renew, and it saves us time and postage US Mailing the neighborhood.   

So check out the new web location!  And let us know if there's a neighborhood resource you'd like to see on the web in the future.