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At the July meeting of the Fox Point Neighborhood Association, neighbors engaged in a heated discussion about historic preservation in the heart of the Local Historic District. At issue was an 1880s Victorian cottage that, unlike other home...

A few months after Providence Public Schools received a scathing review from Johns Hopkins University and amidst a tense hiring search for a suitable “turnaround” superintendent (a process that has since been completed), school principal Matthew Russo visited the FPNA...

In mid-December, the City Council Committee on Ordinances held a public hearing regarding a proposed change to our zoning ordinance. The proposed amendment would permit highway billboards within the city of Providence to be converted to digital screens.

Several resident...

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...