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BOSTON (WBZNewsRadio) - The end of August will bring a number of parking restrictions and road closures throughout the city, as Boston celebrates the Caribbean Carnival and the Saint Anthony - Saint Lucy Festival in the North End.
Boston Police is out with an advisory, asking the public planning on attending these events to opt to walk, bike or use public transportation.
Starting today, August 23rd, and running through Sunday, August 27th, the North End will come alive with the Saint Anthony - Saint Lucy Festival.
The following parking restrictions and road closures will be in effect:
- Cooper Street, both sides, from Endicott to North Washington Streets
- Endicott Street, both sides, from Cooper to North Washington Streets.
- Thacher Street, both sides, from North Washington to Prince Streets.
- North Margin Street, both sides, from Cooper Street to Lafayette Avenue.
- North Washington Street, northside (odd side), from Thacher to Causeway Streets.
- Medford Street, southwest, from North Washington to Causeway Streets, on parking meters only.
Tomorrow on August 24th, there will be an Immigration and Naturalization Service swearing-in ceremony at Faneuil Hall. Parking restrictions will be in place starting at 9:00 a.m. through 3:00 p.m.
And this weekend, on Saturday, August 26th, Dorchester and Roxbury will see not one, but two separate parades celebrating the annual Caribbean Carnival.
The Jouvert Parade kicks off at 6:30 a.m. on Talbot Ave. and Kerwin Street. Participants will head up Blue Hill Avenue towards Circuit Drive Entrance, before heading to Franklin Park. The large parade, the Caribbean Carnival is set for 1:00 p.m. at Warren Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Parking restrictions in place from Friday, August 25th, at 4:00 p.m. through Midnight on Saturday on Talbot Avenue, from Bernard Street to Blue Hill Avenue.
Parking restrictions and road closures in place on Saturday, August 26th:
- Talbot Avenue, both sides, from Kerwin Street to Blue Hill Avenue.
- American Legion Highway, northside (odd side) from Blue Hill Avenue to Angell Street.
- Blue Hill Avenue, both sides, from Harvard to Warren Streets.
- Martin Luther King Boulevard, both sides, from Warren to Washington Streets.
- Warren Street, both sides, from Martin Luther King Boulevard to Blue Hill Avenue.
- Columbia Road, both sides, from Blue Hill Avenue to Seaver Street.
- Old Road, both sides, from Glenway Street to Columbia Road.
- Glenway Street, both sides, from Blue Hill Avenue past Old Road to #11 Glenway Street
- Seaver Street, both sides, from Blue Hill Avenue to a point three (300') hundred feet westerly, approx. at #280 Seaver Street.
- Walnut Avenue, southeast (Franklin park side), from Seaver to Sigourney Streets, both sides, from Seaver Street to Park Lane.
- Sigourney Street, southeast (Franklin park side) from Walnut Avenue to Glen Road.
- Circuit Drive, both sides, from Blue Hill Avenue to Morton Street.
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