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East Providence may be synonymous with traffic jams in these days of Bridgegate. In spite of the chaos, however, the sometimes-perceived ugly stepsister to East Side Providence’s Cinderella is reinventing itself in incremental ways that will pay long-term
The Providence Preservation Society has a new home, or rather an old home that has been made new. While only a domestically-scaled 3500-square-foot building, the transformative renovation to the Old Brick School on Meeting Street is a noteworthy example o
Saturday, June 05, 2021 From Hope High School to Lippitt Park, this thoroughfare demonstrates how a street can form a vibrant town within a city. Carolyn, and I pondered this question dining at Avenue N, as we celebrated the lifting of covid restrictions. As we ate, we watched our town opening up along Hope Street, the spine of Providence's East Side. Avenue N, with views of Hope Street, Chez Pascal, and Lippitt Park. PHOTO: Will Morgan Streets are more than just traffic arteries. Streets are basic units of city planning. The pandemic reinforced this, as people were force...
Gina Raimondo. PHOTO: Will Morgan The State of Rhode Island is going to spend fifty thousand dollars on an official portrait of former governor Gina Raimondo. Really? There is nothing wrong with honoring our past chief executives with an image in the State House. It is honorable, too, to actually pay a too often underappreciated and undervalued artist for their work. The current Secretary of Commerce deserves her place in the pantheon of Governors of Rhode Island. The problem is the word "official." Given the nature of such paintings, plus the dreadful lack of quality of the existing gubernat...
Rhode Island's fifth-largest city, East Providence stretches from Rumford to Riverside, from piedmont to bay, with remarkably varied topography and several "village" centers. While historic and affordable (all the access and half the taxes), it is terra incognita to most East Siders. When the wealthy come to Providence in search of a home, can you imagine a broker from one of the prestige real estate firms saying, Have you thought of East Providence? Perception and prejudice aside, East Providence may be the best remedy for the East Side pricing paradigm. As Brown aggressively grows and in...