Several Fox Point residents have approached FPNA with questions about construction and development activities on Gano Street. They’ve asked us to describe what is underway in the area, to explain future projects currently being debated, and to clarify how various initi...

As Fox Point neighbors may know, local developer and landlord Bahman Jalili appeared before the Providence City Plan Commission in late October to request approvals for a new development project on Wickenden Street. Jalili has since demolished the century-old, muraled...

In early September, a large group of Fox Point neighbors met to discuss plans by the State of RI to demolish the Crook Point Bascule Bridge, the 100+ year-old railroad bridge that has been frozen in the “up” position since the 1970s and which many East Siders consider...

FPNA has received a stream of positive responses from neighbors over the last two months about the completion and grand opening of the Providence Pedestrian Bridge, the structure that spans from Water and James streets at the east to Dyer Street near the Wexford buildi...

As East Side neighbors and daily commuters are likely well aware, the RI Department of Transportation has performed construction work since the Spring of this year to upgrade the roadways, sidewalks, and bike path at lower Gano Street near the entrance to India Point P...

As many Rhode Islanders know, Senate President Dominick Ruggerio introduced a bill in the late spring to remove local control over building proposals designated for state-owned land. The legislation, which eventually passed, allows proposals for 195 land to bypass the...

In late April, Fox Point neighbors pruned, weeded, raked, hauled, and otherwise beautified the exterior of the former Fox Point Bathhouse (now the library at Vartan Gregorian School) as part of the annual FPNA Earth Day Cleanup.

Why the Fox Point bathhouse? The building...

After years of negotiation and debate among neighborhood groups and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation about the clogged, dangerous, and decrepit roadways on lower Gano Street at India Point Park, FPNA is thrilled to see RIDOT perform construction work to im...

Fox Point neighbors spent the late Winter learning about Mayor Elorza’s proposal to privatize the City’s water, first by hearing arguments from a local advocacy group and then by attending the Mayor’s Community Conversations to hear his ideas and  ask questions.

Gillian...

If you visited India Point Park this past winter, you may have noticed wooden scaffolding surrounding trees in the park as well as fenced-off areas near the playground and soccer fields. According to the neighborhood group Friends of India Point Park (FIPP), the struct...