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By adamg - 2/28/24 - 3:38 pm
Smashed window bits lying on Washington Street

Carina Flynn reports she was walking down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing shortly before 3:15 p.m. when she heard a loud crashing sound and turned to see the remains of a second-floor window from HomeGoods, 350 Washington St. lying all over the sidewalk. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 9:54 pm

At 8:51 p.m., the MBTA reported a Red Line train pulled up lame at Downtown Crossing, causing delays of up to 20 minutes.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 3:59 pm

A New York developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace offices in three adjoining buildings it owns on Washington, Water and Washington, Water and Devonshire streets in Downtown Crossing with apartments, under a city pilot aimed at giving tax breaks to building owners who do just that. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/24 - 12:00 pm

Boston Police report officers assigned specifically to Downtown Crossing to deal with "community complaints of drug use, trespassing and quality of life issues" arrested a man they say was exactly the sort of person they were looking for, shortly before 7 p.m. on Saturday: Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 11:25 am
Trash on fire on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing

Tim Lawrence looked out his window on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing to see a line of flaming trash outside the DSW store on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing shortly after 7 p.m. He reports BFD quickly arrived and doused the burning rubbish.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 9:31 am
Photos of man wanted for Washington Street hold up

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say held up BNC Market, 226 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing, around 1:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 2:07 pm
Three light cycles that play music as you pedal

The Fort Pointer reports coming across these three lightcycles that play music as you pedal: Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:09 pm
Giant head stuck in alley off Washington Street in Downtown Crossing

Walking down Washington Street this morning, Antonio Caban couldn't help but notice the giant head wedged into the alley (technically, Harlem Place) next to where Felt used to be.

"Boston, what is going on here?" he naturally wondered.

By adamg - 12/16/23 - 4:58 pm
Whale sculpture in Downtown Crossing

Boston Pilot had a bird's eye view of construction of artist Mathias Gmachl's "Echoes - A Voice from Uncharted Waters," which is an 11,000-pound, 56-foot long statue that asks us to ponder our affect on nature and the environment, at the Downtown Crossing Steps at Washington and Franklin streets.

Echoes is the first of a series of sculptures to be installed by mid-January as part of a Downtown Boston Business Improvement District public-art show that will then run through March.

By adamg - 11/30/23 - 5:48 pm

Boston Police report an angry drug dealer with a machete in one hand and an axe in the other advanced on a group of teens on Temple Place as he challenged them to fight late Monday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 11/26/23 - 9:54 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say went on a spree of destruction in Chinatown and downtown Saturday into Sunday before retiring to the city shelter on Southampton Street. Read more.

By adamg - 11/22/23 - 11:52 am

Boston Police report arresting a woman they say punched and kicked a dog - and smashed it with a glass bottle - on Tremont Street Tuesday night. Read more.

By adamg - 11/3/23 - 9:43 am

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester teenager they say broke into a shop at 449 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing early Thursday, rifled through the cash registers, then made his getaway on a Bluebike. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 11:16 am
Babak Bina

Update: Expansion approved.

The owner of jm Curley's and the Wig Store Lounge on Temple Place hopes to expand down the street by opening a new "fast casual" Korean place and a "fine dining" sushi restaurant where diners would be serenaded with music from actual records on a record player - hi-fi records, "so it would be a hi-fi lounge," Curley's attorney, Stephen Miller, specified at a Boston Licensing Board hearing this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 10/3/23 - 9:35 am

Roche Bros. agreed to measures to reduce the way Blacks were "disproportionately subjected to stops" for alleged shoplifting and then permanently banned in higher numbers than similarly stopped whites to settle an investigation by the state Attorney General's office. Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 10:19 pm
Benjamin

Benjamin on security footage at Downtown Crossing and at the phone store.

A Cambridge man who was arrested in March by Boston and Cambridge police for robbing the JP Wireless store, 319 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, was charged again today, this time by the FBI after he was charged with violating the federal Hobbs Act for interfering with interstate commerce through threats or violence. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 9:52 am

Hours after Boston and State Police broke up a huge brawl at the South Bay AMC complex, police broke up another brawl that erupted outside the AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street, then moved down Avery Street towards the Ritz-Carlton, around 11 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 9:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds on charges they jumped and stomped a man in front of the Steps on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing and left him bruised and bleeding as they and their pals ran away - except for the one who pedaled away on a Bluebike - around 8:15 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 1:37 pm

Update: Licensing board says Estella's not to blame for what happened.

Boston Police say that when officers responded to a report of a large fight outside Estella's on Temple Place, they found a crowd of people on the street, up to 50 people, many of them shoving and yelling at each other, around 9:20 p.m. on June 18. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 2:34 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a teen they say punched a man in the mouth on an Orange Line car at Downtown Crossing around 9 p.m. on Friday after he asked the kid and his pals to stop threatening other passengers and blocking the train's doors with their Bluebikes. Read more.

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