Dorchester Heights National Park Site Awaiting Repairs: Neighbors Complain Park is Going to the Dogs.
By Richard Campbell The issue on hand is the deteriorating condition of the Dorchester Heights monument, which has been closed for some time. Although the lawn is nice, the park is also badly in need of repairs to its stairs, and wall infrastructure. In the last deferred maintenance report for 2016, the Boston branch of NPS had deferred maintenance costs of $106,603,602, and we assume some part of that would belong to Dorchester Heights. It must be understood that the Heights is within the same NPS Boston branch that includes the Charlestown Navy Yard, and Bunker Hill Monument- both of which have received very expensive renovations. The USS Constitution’s restoration was just completed for 12 million, and Bunker Hill was done in 2007 for 3.7 [...]