Allston
Allston bar gets permission to stay open until 2, just like the other bars
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 3:12 pmThe Boston Licensing Board today gave the Avenue Bar and Grill on Comm. Ave. permission to extend its closing time from 1 to 2 a.m.
Some residents of a neighboring condo building objected, as did the offices of the mayor and City Councilor Mark Ciommo, but the board agreed with owner Douglas Bacon that he's run a fine operation with no problems since he bought the place a year ago and that he deserves to offer service as late as other nearby establishments for customers getting off late shifts. Bacon told the board he would serve food right until closing.
The battle to keep Boston sleepy is joined in Allston
By adamg - 5/23/12 - 3:47 pmRepresentatives of both the mayor's office and City Councilor Mark Ciommo agreed that Douglas Bacon is a fine restaurateur who runs quality restaurants. And yet both told the Boston Licensing Board today they oppose Bacon's request to extend the hours of his Avenue Bar and Grill in Allston an hour, to 2 a.m.
Why? Because they always oppose requests in Allston to extend liquor-serving hours to 2 a.m., no matter the number of existing 2 a.m. closing times or the fact that Bacon has racked up no violations in the year since he bought the place and turned it into an upscale establishment with a tough code of conduct for patrons.. In a later hearing, the mayor's office supported a 2 a.m. closing for a restaurant proposed for the area on top of the existing Hillstone restaurant next to Faneuil Hall.
The licensing board votes tomorrow on whether to grant Bacon's request for the Avenue, 1249 Commonwealth Ave.
Hey, buddy, I think you dropped something!
By adamg - 5/22/12 - 11:23 pmFor the second time in three days, Robinite reports a bad crash at Allston's demon intersection - Comm. Ave. and Allston Street, shortly before 11 p.m.
Looks like there was just a hit & run at Comm & Allston... Where the Jeep running left his front bumper w/ plate behind!
Earlier:
Car, cab collide, close Green Line.
Perched on the Green Line
By adamg - 5/20/12 - 12:50 am
Zach Tucker spotted the Bird Man of the Green Line Saturday night.
Car, cab collide, close Green Line
By adamg - 5/19/12 - 9:44 pmRobinite reports the two vehicles collided pretty much on top of the Green Line at Comm. Ave. and Allston Street around 9:30 p.m. That shut the inbound tracks; arriving emergency vehicles shut the outbound tracks as well.
Ed. question: Is that intersection cursed, or what?
AT&T more like Out T&T right now
By adamg - 5/10/12 - 7:08 pmUPDATE, 7:47 p.m. Sounds like service is coming back.
Reports coming in from across the area of problems with AT&T service. As in, it doesn't work. Young Skywalker must've made it to the thermal exhaust port.
Some Green Line riders to get a taste of the Red Line life this weekend
By adamg - 5/3/12 - 2:12 pmThe MBTA reports it will be running buses between Blandford and Babcock streets on the B line on Saturday to allow for track work near the BU Bridge.
Alleged dumbass doesn't get far when he tries to steal a car - inside an Allston car showroom
By adamg - 5/2/12 - 1:57 pmA man already facing charges of leading police from four towns on a high-speed chase down Rte. 9 was arrested today on charges he started up a car on the floor of a car dealership and smashed it into another car.
Ender Durgut, 39, was charged with willful and malicious destruction of property, larceny of a motor vehicle and assault by means of a dangerous weapon (a motor vehicle) following the 10:20 a.m. incident at Herb Chambers Toyota, 32 Brighton Ave., police report. Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office say Durgut walked into the showroom and said he wanted to buy a Venza to replace the one he crashed in March, got into one, started it up, then drove it into a Prius.
Officers noted that both cars sustained what appeared to be minor damage. After an employee reached into the car and turned the off engine, the suspect exited the car and walked out of the dealership.
Police say they found Durgut around the corner on Comm. Ave.
Scott Eisen photographed the aftermath.
BU announces new plans to deal with sexual assault two days after latest attack
By adamg - 4/30/12 - 11:34 amThe BU Bell Tower that never was
By adamg - 4/30/12 - 7:55 amThe Quad takes a look at Boston University's original plans for the land it bought along the Charles River in the 1920s - centered on a skyscraper in honor of local inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Today, if you know where to look at the School of Theology, you can see an echo of the plan - a metal engraving above a doorway of what the tower would have looked like.
