The Week in Review: Boston Pedicab, South End Baseball and SoWa Vintage Market

This week, Patch featured , South End Baseball, and the SoWa Vintage Market along with Mexican newcomer El Centro, which will be opening its doors later this month. Those stories and more are below (just click the link to see the full story):

Late last summer, just before the birth of his first son Colt, Luke Overshiner pulled his tricycle into the Boston Pedicab shop in the South End. Once inside, Overshiner found reason to stick around the shop a bit longer. His colleagues, clad in the company's distinctive neon green, had just handed him a hefty cash donation for his, Sophie's, and Colt's benefit.

South End Baseball kicked off its 24th season on Saturday with a parade, pony rides, a home run derby, and of course, hot dogs. 

The owner of at 560 Tremont has been making the Neighborhood Association rounds for a few months in relation to his bid for extended hours. Last week, to 1 a.m., seemingly in any format.

Mexican restaurant El Centro will be opening its doors soon at the corner of Shawmut and West Concord Street, serving authentic cuisine at affordable prices, chef/owner Allan Rodriguez said.

The Boston Landmark Commission decided not to elevate the significance standing of the Huntington Avenue YMCA, while denying further study of a petition that would designate the Y as a Boston Landmark.

All 13 Boston city councilors are up for re-election this year, and not one of them lives in any of the downtown Boston neighborhoods. The nine district councilors and four at-large councilors are elected for two-year terms.

It’d seem there are two types of us: those of us that prefer ‘new, shiny, state-of-the-art’ and those that favor ‘old, trusty, rusty.’ Twenty years ago in the pre-digital age, there was a great deal less disparity between new and old. Now there’s a world of difference… which has made folks like those that frequent SoWa’s Vintage Market that much more passionate about what they do.

These days, it’s tough to keep track of the dozens of festivals, markets and celebrations taking place in SoWa. There’s SoWa Sundays and First Fridays, a and a Farmers Market, artist studios and art galleries. And then there’s Art Walk – an annual event that brings it all together while celebrating the neighborhood’s heart and soul: art.