I would love to know who decided to have street sweeping on the exact same morning of trash pick…read moreup. Our streets look like S-curve signs. Tax $$ well spent. ​​​

Pay my taxes, license my dog, pull a permit, whatever my reason for coming to town hall I have…read morealways found the service to be fast and friendly. Residents can recycle mattresses and electronics once a month in the parking lot across from town hall. See trash and recycling tab for dates.

Very nice, clean and pleasant people working there. Officer was polite and greeted me I came into…read morethe door. I didn't have to wait long, the representative was nice and helpful.

I recently had an interaction with Wendy from this office. She was so helpful, patient, couteous…read moreand professional; while worker during the government shut down. You would never know that Wendy was working during such a chaotic time. She even called me back to tell me something else about my husband's account. I didn't recognize the number and I did not answer it because it came up as a "Public Service". She called me 5 times and the fifth time from her personal phone to be sure I had all the information. Thank you Wendy!

It's great that they have a flag depository right outside at City Hall. It makes disposing of our…read moreAmerican flag properly so easy!

Every year I have to go down to city hall to get my pup re-licensed. No big deal, especially…read morebecause no matter how busy I've seen the offices, I've always been in and out of there quickly- like within 10 minutes at the MOST! And the staff have been friendly and helpful every time. I've also had to go in person to take care of a ticket, and the woman at that particular desk was kind and helpful, too. My only complaint was that the ticket said to go to one location, but when I got there, I was redirected back to where I had started off. No big deal, just a bit annoying. Even on the phone, the city staff are helpful and kind. In one instance, I had forgotten to pay something (can't remember what now), but the woman on the phone very kindly helped me get the information I needed, and made sure I knew I had to call her back with the payment confirmation by a certain time (well before closing) to make sure I wouldn't be penalized. I was so grateful for the heads up! There's a ton of info on the city website, but if you have to go down in person, it's not an unpleasant experience. :-)

Benefit Street is a nice little walk and The Shunned House is a sweet little surprise. What I like…read moreabout The Shunned House is that you would have NO CLUE that this house was significant amongst the others in the surrounding areas. The armory down the street stands out a lot more than the lil house that HPLovecraft wrote about. Still it's a great side trip that will only take seconds out of your day if you are in or around the colleges in the area. This is obviously a residence and they have since named the house after someone but you can see the wall that used to be used as the front of the house and the descriptions stand strong in Lovecraft's writing. No big deal but I liked being there and seeing it.

I was going to write about this curiousity, but I realized I couldn't do any better than what…read morebrought me in the first place: "The house was--and for that matter still is--of a kind to attract the attention of the curious. Originally a farm or semi-farm building, it followed the average New England colonial lines of the middle eighteenth century--the prosperous peaked-roof sort, with two stories and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian doorway and interior panelling dictated by the progress of taste at that time. It faced south, with one gable end buried to the lower windows in the eastward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street. Its construction, over a century and a half ago, had followed the grading and straightening of the road in that especial vicinity; for Benefit Street--at first called Back Street--was laid out as a lane winding amongst the graveyards of the first settlers, and straightened only when the removal of the bodies to the North Burial Ground made it decently possible to cut through the old family plots. "At the start, the western wall had lain some twenty feet up a precipitous lawn from the roadway; but a widening of the street at about the time of the Revolution sheared off most of the intervening space, exposing the foundations so that a brick basement wall had to be made, giving the deep cellar a street frontage with door and two windows above ground, close to the new line of public travel. When the sidewalk was laid out a century ago the last of the intervening space was removed; and Poe in his walks must have seen only a sheer ascent of dull grey brick flush with the sidewalk and surmounted at a height of ten feet by the antique shingled bulk of the house proper. "The farm-like grounds extended back very deeply up the hill, almost to Wheaton Street. The space south of the house, abutting on Benefit Street, was of course greatly above the existing sidewalk level, forming a terrace bounded by a high bank wall of damp, mossy stone pierced by a steep flight of narrow steps which led inward between canyon-like surfaces to the upper region of mangy lawn, rheumy brick walls, and neglected gardens whose dismantled cement urns, rusted kettles fallen from tripods of knotty sticks, and similar paraphernalia set off the weather-beaten front door with its broken fanlight, rotting Ionic pilasters, and wormy triangular pediment. "What I heard in my youth about the shunned house was merely that people died there in alarmingly great numbers. That, I was told, was why the original owners had moved out some twenty years after building the place. It was plainly unhealthy, perhaps because of the dampness and fungous growth in the cellar, the general sickish smell, the draughts of the hallways, or the quality of the well and pump water. These things were bad enough, and these were all that gained belief among the persons whom I knew. Only the notebooks of my antiquarian uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, revealed to me at length the darker, vaguer surmises which formed an undercurrent of folklore among old-time servants and humble folk; surmises which never travelled far, and which were largely forgotten when Providence grew to be a metropolis with a shifting modern population." H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House Be mindful that this is a private residence. Please be respectful.

I didn't have to wait on hold for nearly as long as I thought I would. It was probably about 10…read moreminutes. She was very nice and gave me advice on how to proceed.

RI Division of Taxation…read more I see the such little Positive reviews. Especially Mike my favorite but they are always pleasant and ready to help. They take their time with you. I'm not new, our business has been here 58 years. Listen, I don't like paying taxes anymore than anyone else. But, it not the employees!!!! Remember that when you review. They are great but I always hope to get Mike. 10 star for him.

they keep lying about packages saying that I requested my packages to be held several times when I…read morenaver have. they should investigate whoever is in charge of this ,this is just terrible and illegal

If it's possible to give this zero stars I absolutely would. Not sure if the post office abandoned…read moreship and shut down the whole week for one snow day, but not receiving mail delivery for four straight days is highly unusual. A regular business-hours delivery to my work, a no-show for four straight days. One day I could understand but riding around nearby streets, no mail trucks in sight morning and afternoon. Oh, Pawtucket post office, have you taken away the wheels from your delivery people and forced them on foot?

Absolutely gorgeous architecture that makes me think of the Musee D' Orsay in Paris and the Grand…read moreCentral Station in New York. The interior design for study books and desks are very creative, as expected of a prestigious design school such as RISD. I also enjoyed the mini free exhibit they have of Snow White pop up fairy tale books.

I feel so blessed to be kissin' on someone who works for RISD and it kind enough to max out his…read morecard with me. I mean, I don't know what the limit is actually. I just know that each time I enter the building I hold my breath and touch those amazing ornate doors that are just background to the hallway where students eat cafeteria food. As one would guess, this library is amazingly curated. I am a huge Maurice Sendak fan and I found copies of works by him that I didn't know existed. Like the first translated version of a famous Czechoslovakian fairy tale that he illustrated. I always grab a comic too. They have two sections, one for typically sized comics and one for over sized comic books. Also, the student work they showcase is always interesting. As a bibliophile I feel genuinely lucky to have this library in my home state. And I'll totally marry someone who has tenure there so I can sneakily read their books till they die.

Everybody in here is so nice, never have any problem shipping anything out and they answer all my…read morequestions. I'm here pretty frequently and I'm lucky to have such a well run and helpful office close by!!

This post office located right on Thayer St is small but convenient if you live in the area or if…read moreyou are one of the many college students that frequent the neighborhood. The staff is nice and efficient. The main thing that I wish they had is dedicated parking. Parking in this area is tough and hard to find. Like many post offices, you can get supplies for shipping packages. The only thing to know is that if you use their Express Package supplies, you will have to pay the express package rate, which is usually $4-5 more than if you would had wrapped your box in a brown generic paper or plain box.