Back Bay

Suspicious backpack shuts Back Bay intersection

By adamg - 4/15/15 - 2:37 pm

First responders at Berkeley and St. James in the Back Bay

First responders ready for possible action. Photo by Jason Wells.

Police shut the intersection of Berkeley Street and St. James Avenue around 1:50 .m. to let the bomb squad take a look at. Around 2:15 p.m., the bomb squad determined it was harmless.

Wage protesters march through Back Bay, downtown

By adamg - 4/14/15 - 5:48 pm

Photo by Kelsea Hanks.

Protesters marching in support of a $15 minimum wage in Massachusetts are marching down Boylston Street and in the Chinatown area this rush hour.

Before they got to Boylston, the Back Bay protesters shut down Huntington at Mass. Ave., as URNotInvisible shows us:

Spring is, dare we say it, busting out all over

By adamg - 4/11/15 - 9:21 pm

Spring volleyball at Carson Beach in South Boston

Across the city today, winter-weary Bostonians shed their coats, or, at least, unzipped them a bit as they marveled at temperatures that approached 60.

On Carson Beach in South Boston, Eileen Murphy watched a game of volleyball (a brisk wind aided the windsurfers in Pleasure Bay).

In the Public Garden, as 617 Images shows us, a couple actually had a picnic:

Who takes care of the small Boston Marathon victim memorial?

By ECG - 4/10/15 - 4:50 pm

There was a larger version of this memorial around (I've only seen it in photos) as well as this smaller version which is or was usually out on Boylston St. Does anyone know who takes care of it--I understand that it's taken in at night. It hasn't been around in a while.

Now comes the second phase of the trial: A sentence

By adamg - 4/9/15 - 7:37 am

WBUR explains what happens after yesterday's verdict in the Tsarnaev case.

Kevin Cullen wonders:

Do we, or in this case the jurors acting as our surrogates, serve justice and honor the memory of Tsarnaev’s victims more by killing him or by putting him in prison for the rest of his sorry life?

Guilty

By adamg - 4/8/15 - 2:13 pm

On all 30 counts. Adam Reilly is livetweeting the Tsarnaev verdict.

Skiffing along an ice-free Charles River

By adamg - 4/7/15 - 9:43 am

JB Parrett enjoyed the return of above-freezing temperatures to the Charles last night.

Suspicious duffle bag shuts Back Bay intersection

By adamg - 4/6/15 - 10:24 am

UPDATE, 10:49 a.m. Suspicious bag no longer suspicious, roads re-opened.

The bomb squad is on the way to Dartmouth Street and Stuart Street to investigate a duffle bag just sitting on the sidewalk.

Dartmouth is shut at Columbus, State Police have been asked to block the Back Bay ramp from the turnpike.

Canadian copter causes concern, questions

By adamg - 4/5/15 - 11:02 am

Weissy wondered why a Canadian-flagged helicopter was flying low over the Back Bay this morning - Advance scout for the long feared Canadian invasion?

James H. sets our fears of incoming Dudley Do-Rights to rest: Our very own US Coast Guard is running some exercises with their counterparts from the Great White North.

Pikachu has a secret

By adamg - 4/4/15 - 5:41 pm

The kidlet and I made our annual trek to the Pru to check out the costumes for Anime Boston. As always, it didn't disappoint, except for maybe the fact there were no Tron characters.

Thousands of costumed con goers flitted through both the Hynes and the Pru, where they mixed with bemused tourists and a few little kids, who found themselves watching an impromptu parade.

It's hammer time at the Hynes and Pru

By adamg - 4/4/15 - 1:13 pm

League of Legends cosplayers at the Prudential Center in Boston

See it larger.

The John Lee is photographing Anime Boston folks at the Pru today, including this pair of League of Legends cosplayers.

Small track fire briefly halts commuter rail through Back Bay

By adamg - 4/3/15 - 11:43 pm

Firetrucks and police cruisers outside Back Bay station

The scene outside Back Bay station. Photo by Jennifer Covey.

Firefighters responded to Back Bay station around 11 p.m. for what turned out to be a small trash fire on Track 7.

Meanwhile, Transit Police went in search of somebody spotted traipsing down the tracks around the same time.

Ice never sleeps

By adamg - 4/3/15 - 9:51 am

For the past couple of days, people have been working to break up the ice in the Charles River basin. As Michele Connors shows us, the ice was all stuck together again this morning.

Now his lawyer gets chance to show he was only a murdering dupe

By adamg - 3/31/15 - 8:23 am

The prosecution rested yesterday after its final witness against Dzokhar Tsarnaev, a medical examiner, detailed what happened to Martin Richard. Now Tsarnaev's lawyers try to save his life by building a case that he was just a little puppy dog following his brother's lead.

Imagine a bookstore in the Copley Square library

By adamg - 3/30/15 - 11:19 pm

Space for lease in the BPL main library in Copley Square

J. Patience was startled by the retail-lease sign on the side of the new wing of the under-renovation BPL main library in Copley Square.

Earlier this month, BPL trustees issued an RFP for companies interested in leasing the space, at the corner of Boylston and Exeter in the under-renovation Johnson wing.