Brighton

Electricity solicitors in Brighton

By anon - 5/27/16 - 2:04 pm

Anyone else encounter door-to-door solicitors for electricity service in Brighton? Talked to them yesterday. I don't know if they're legitimate, but they were pretty keen on seeing my electric bill and left once it was established that it's online and I couldn't remember my password. They left me with a business card with no business name or website, a gmail address, and an address that didn't appear on GMaps to be a permanent office. No website, pamphlets or info to review. Heads up, could be one of those scams where they want to see your bill to get enough info to switch you over.

Brighton synagogue, ritual bath center propose replacement buildings - and residential units

By adamg - 5/17/16 - 11:33 pm

Two longstanding Jewish facilities on Washington Street are working with a developer to raze and replace their existing buildings and add a 73-unit residential building. Read more.

Board approves new apartments on current site of old appliance-repair shop in Brighton

By adamg - 5/13/16 - 7:08 am

The BRA board yesterday approved a proposed 132-apartment building at 530 Western Ave., the current home of a long unused Dewalt/Black & Decker repair shop.

Six BC students tackle guy they think is a potential burglar

By adamg - 5/9/16 - 10:22 pm

Then Boston Police arrive and release him because they didn't have probable cause for arrest, the Heights reports. And they took him to the hospital for the injuries he suffered when tackled.

Green Line in Brighton stopped due to car; Sorry, BC students, you won't get far

By adamg - 5/9/16 - 10:40 am

Car smashed into pole on trolley tracks in Brighton

Mike shows us what it looks like when a car hits a pole on the Green Line along Comm. Ave. at Sutherland Road.

Students at four BPS schools may have been exposed to lead due to BPS miscommunication

By adamg - 5/5/16 - 7:42 am

WBZ reports workers turned on fountains at the Lee and Mather schools in Dorchester, the Curley school in Jamaica Plain and Another Course to College in Brighton by mistake and that students may have drunk from them before they were shut off again because of elevated lead levels.

Parents are not amused:

[A BPS administrator] met with staff on January 29th to discuss the water situation. But didn’t notify school families until February 12th. In addition, the families were told not to worry, there were no health risks associated with the elevated levels. BPS was just being proactive by turning off those fountains. If she knew about the issues at the Mather, why did she not include it in last week’s count of schools impacted by elevated levels of lead.

Cleveland Circle burrito place closes; no, not the Chipotle

By adamg - 4/28/16 - 4:54 pm

The Boloco outlet at 1940 Beacon St. sent mail to customers today that today's its last day ever, more than 18 years after it opened and despite the continued patronage of singer James Taylor and the sale of an estimated 2 million burritos: Read more.

Car taken at gunpoint in Brighton

By adamg - 4/26/16 - 9:35 pm

A white 2014 Chevy Sonic, carjacked around 8:50 p.m. at N. Beacon and Market streets.

What a difference a few decades makes in Cleveland Circle

By adamg - 4/25/16 - 5:21 pm

Old and new Circle Cinema in Cleveland Circle

See it larger.

Rick shows us the Circle Cinema - when it opened and during its present demolition to make way for senior apartments and a hotel.

Police make no arrests along Boston stretch of the Marathon

By adamg - 4/19/16 - 11:07 am

"Fan behavior could not have been better," Boston Police report.

Ready

By adamg - 4/18/16 - 8:35 am

Tracey Staedter inspected the barricades along the Marathon route this morning.

Meanwhile, the city alerts us:

Meters are free and time limits are not in effect, but all other parking rules remain in effect.

BRA approves Brighton Center building that will bring housing, Roche Bros. supermarket

By adamg - 4/15/16 - 7:47 am

The BRA board yesterday approved a mixed-use building at Washington and Parsons streets that will include 54 housing units, a small Roche Bros. and 125 parking spaces.

More bomb threats to area schools reported

By adamg - 4/11/16 - 10:16 am

WCVB reports police were checking out threats - many made by robocalls - to a series of area schools, including BPS high schools in Charlestown and Brighton.

Bill would force suburbs to zone for apartment and condo buildings

By adamg - 4/7/16 - 7:38 am

Vox reports on a bill by state Rep. Kevin Honan (D-Brighton) that would require the state's sprawlburgs to set aside at least 1.5% of their buildable land for multi-family buildings.

Honan wants to amend the law that developers can use for projects denser than allowed by local zoning if less than 10% of a town's housing stock is not considered affordable. Towns would be compensated for the added costs of schoolrooms for extra kids such buildings could mean.

Note to Vox: We have a House of Representatives, not a General Assembly.

Law student convicted of theft now charged with altering court record to make it look like he was acquitted, DA says

By adamg - 3/29/16 - 6:21 pm

A Suffolk University Law School student who got a suspended sentence in 2014 for stealing a laptop from the school now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of charges he replaced the "guilty" verdict slip in his court records with one reading "not guilty," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Proposed Brighton apartment building would come with free bikes for initial renters

By adamg - 3/26/16 - 10:20 am

Proposed mixed use building at 530 Western Ave. in Brighton

Architect's rendering.

A developer wants to tear down the long unused Dewalt/Black & Decker repair shop where Western Avenue meets Birmingham Parkway near Soldiers Field Road and replace it with a six-story apartment building. Read more.

Brighton bar beating result of spillover from Jamaica Plain gang beef, police say

By adamg - 3/22/16 - 12:26 pm

Police aren't saying just what it was that ticked off members of the Bromley-Heath gang, but whatever their problem, the result was a brutal attack that sent a 20-year-old man inside the Green Briar Pub to nearby St. Elizabeth's Hospital on Jan. 24. Read more.

New MBTA announcement already making riders wish they were somewhere else

By adamg - 3/20/16 - 11:54 am

The T is running new announcements on the Green Line, at least at above-ground stops: "Pay your fare! It's only fair!"

As Boston Dog kvetches:

Oh my God. The "Pay your Fare!" announcements on the Green Line got obnoxious after three stops.

Pict Liberation Army adds:

Particularly when its playing over drivers flagging people past farebox.

Ten arrested, more sought for vicious beating at Brighton Center bar that sent man to the hospital

By adamg - 3/15/16 - 4:38 pm

A horde of guys from across Boston and the South Shore face assault-and-battery charges for their alleged roles in a beatdown at the Green Briar Pub on Washington Street on Jan. 24 that sent a 20-year-old man to nearby St. Elizabeth's Hospital in serious condition, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Would-be Brighton break-in guy caught on camera

By adamg - 3/15/16 - 11:06 am

Theresa Gallagher forwards this photo from her home surveillance system:

At almost 7 Sunday morning on Faneuil Street, this man was looking into my first floor window and tried to open 2 of my basement windows.

If he looks familiar, of course, you know the three digits to hit on your phone.