Neily was a transportation planner for the Baltimore City Department of Planning from 1977 to 1996, and a consultant before and since. He was born in Chicago, but his family moved to Baltimore when he was a seven-year-old transportation geek, so he got to see the Beltway being built in the early 1960s and got to ride the streetcars during their final creaky years. He also wondered why the Baltimore waterfront was so deserted, when Chicago’s was a showplace. After many years of developing alternative plans in sandboxes, chalked-up sidewalks and the basement floor, he graduated from Penn State (BS) and Northwestern University (MS), where he majored in (you guessed it) Transportation Planning. Since 2005, he has written Baltimore InnerSpace which was named “Best Urban Planning Blog” of 2008 by Baltimore City Paper.
September 9, 2010
Landmark Fells Point church, closed for townhome project, now up for sale
Ten years after a developer bought the St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in Fells Point and closed it down, angering the local Polish community, he has now now dropped the price on the upscale townhomes and is trying to unload the church, The Baltimore Business Journal reports. Apparently, the shuttered landmark building is a [...]
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New York Times on Maryland wineries
The Times travel section’s most recent destination? Maryland wineries — 39 of them, to be exact. The Times’ recent piece explores how Boordy Vineyards, Maryland’s first winery (It opened in Hydes in 1945 after spending 200 years as a dairy and cattle farm) became the first of what has grown to become an eclectic mix [...]
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September 8, 2010
Director Leslie Shepard will resign from Baltimore School for the Arts, leaving a record of success and praise – and a huge principal turnover rate – in her wake.
This will be the last academic school year for Leslie Shepard, who has worked at Baltimore’s acclaimed School for the Arts since it opened 32 years ago and has served as it’s director since 2001, WBALTV.com reported on Wednesday. “The School for the Arts was my life,” Shepard said. “It’s time for Act Two. What [...]
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Hopkins confirms off-campus assault on student
A Johns Hopkins University student was sexually assaulted in an elevator at he Northway Apartment building located at 3700 North Charles Street, according to university Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs Dennis O’Shea, confirming a report by Investigative Voice. According to information O’Shea provided from the incident report, the student entered through the front [...]
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City paper endorses Bernstein over Jessamy
Endorsements are out and Baltimore City Paper likes Gregg Bernstein over Patricia Jessamy, for Baltimore City State’s Attorney. “He appears to be a smart, passionate attorney, and he is running on the need to get serious about making good cases against violent offenders and making them stick, increasingly urgent and challenging tasks in Baltimore City,” [...]
