Allston
Transit Police report they are looking for a man who maced numerous passengers on a Green Line trolley at Lechmere around 2:25 p.m. yesterday and a woman who sprayed Lysol into the eyes of a driver of a Green Line shuttle bus at Babcock Street around 11 p.m. on Feb. 21.
If either look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.
The MBTA switched back to bustitution between Copley and Babcock Street on the B Line this morning after a trolley derailed near Kenmore Square shortly before 9 a.m. Also:
Cleveland Circle and Riverside trains will terminate at Kenmore. Westbound service will be rerouted to the E Branch at Copley. Riders can also use local bus route 57 for service between Babcock St and Copley.
Tyler Finney reports, in the Allston/Brighton Community Discussion group on Facebook, that she and other residents of 65 Ashford St. in Allston were sound asleep early Saturday when the house caught fire. She says he is likely only alive because of two strangers who noticed the fire, broke into the house and woke everybody up - because her apartment's smoke detectors didn't go off: Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire reported at 65 Ashford St. around 2 a.m. on Saturday injured one resident and caused an estimated $2 million in damage. Read more.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let City Smoke Shop, 957 Commonwealth Ave., add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
The FBI yesterday arrested a Roslindale man they say paid for an expensive shopping trip to the Walgreens on Centre Street in West Roxbury earlier this month by first robbing the Rockland Trust branch down the street - a week after he tried and failed to rob a Bank of America branch in Allston. Read more.
The MBTA reported delays on the B Line at 12:36 p.m after a trolley died at Packard's Corner.
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the mattress mishegas behind 69 Empire St. in Allston: Read more.
Streetsblog Massachusetts reports that for the second year in a row, the federal government has turned down a state request to help pay for the major reconstruction of the Massachusetts Turnpike near where the toll plazas used to be in Allston.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant liquor and food-serving licenses to Jongro BBQ of New York for the space where the White Horse Tavern used to be at 116-120 Brighton Ave. in Allston. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a California chain called Baby Cafe Kitchen is opening outlets on Brighton Avenue in Allston - in that spot where the laundry place used to be - and on Beacon Street in Brookline.
For more than a year now, Stephen Rosenberg, Lukas McCarthy and Jhayson Hardy have been building a novel kind of Boston club: A place that would play hi-fidelity music, but at low enough volumes where you could still have a conversation, through hand-built and vintage sound components in a venue that would be a "safe space" for everybody from members of the LGBTQ+ community to people with mobility issues to just people who want a place to hang out or even do school work during the day. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to raze the current unused post office on Harvard Avenue, a repair garage and some parking lots to put up a six-story, 170-unit apartment complex that would have ground-floor room for the Postal Service to return to Allston. Read more.
The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:
Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.
The Boston Cyclists Union reports the death of Samuel Alvarado, 21, hit by a garbage truck at Cambridge and Hano streets in Allston Tuesday morning. Read more.
The owner of the closed Garage club on Linden Street - shut since 2022 because of yet more gunfire out front - wants the Boston Licensing Board to revoke its "indefinite suspension" of his liquor license so he can explore leasing the space to new operators who would, one of his lawyers says, convert it into a music-focused "LGBTQ+ safe space in the community." Read more.
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