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By adamg - 11/22/23 - 10:10 am
The remains of the old Govermment Center Garage - basically just the ground level and a sign advertising 24/7 parking

Adam Castiglioni looked down Congress Street yesterday at what's left of a demolition project that has taken seemingly forever (because it has taken forever), forced the shutdown of the Haymarket T stop on countless weekends and left one worker dead.
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By adamg - 11/21/23 - 1:59 pm
Graffiti covered trolley at Boylston station

A roving UHub photographer reports somebody got past the fences at Boylston and tagged up the PCC trolley sitting there - just like somebody did back in 2014.

By adamg - 11/21/23 - 11:37 am
Christmas tree from Nova Scotia in Boston

Adam Castiglioni captured this year's Nova Scotia Christmas tree arriving in Boston this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 11/21/23 - 9:14 am

The MBTA announced this morning it's eliminated nine speed restrictions between JFK/UMass and Downtown Crossing that had limited trains to as slow as 10 m.p.h. at some points, after replacing 2,000 feet of rail and 115 ties in overnight and weekend repair work. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 3:26 pm
Desk, suitcase on the Green Line

Theodore Hook couldn't help but notice this traveling desk on the E Line inbound from North Station today.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 1:00 pm

No, not City Hall or the Government Services building a few blocks away. The Boston Landmarks Commission is considering granting landmark status to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Building, 133 Federal St. downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 9:06 pm
Sunset over the Fens

Ryan took some awesome photos of this evening's sunset in the Fens.

Mango Matt, meanwhile, got a great shot of the sun going down over the Back Bay, the Common and downtown: Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 9:33 am

The MBTA reports Blue Line bollixing due to a train that sighed and died at Aquarium.

Today's headline courtesy of Rob A.

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 11:45 am
Webcam on Little Brewster Island with a view towards downtown Boston

Boston ahoy! See it larger.

The Coast Guard reports that Boston Light is now equipped with four Webcams, letting people see the view from the entrance to Boston Harbor. Read more.

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 2:35 pm

A Weymouth woman was ordered held without bail at her arraignment today on second-degree murder charges for the fatal stabbing of Jazreanna Sheppard outside the Park Street T stop July 20, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/23 - 5:33 pm
What looks like a parking ticket is really a 'positive affirmation'

One of three photos posted with the complaint via Boston Reddit.

A perplexed citizen filed a 311 complaint today about the fake BTD parking ticket he or she got on Bromfield Street downtown today: Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/23 - 10:59 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester woman for the stabbing murder of Jazreanna Sheppard of South Boston outside the Park Street T stop shortly after 11:30 p.m. on July 20. Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/23 - 11:00 am

It sounds like a charming children's story, but this is the T we're talking about, so it's probably chewing through the wires that keep the Blue Line running or something: A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the trash panda at State Street: Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/23 - 10:21 am

The locals said they dumped 342 chests of tea overboard in ye olde tea party, but the owner of the ships only put in for compensation for 340. What happened to those other two chests? J.L. Bell ponders.

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 - 11/1/23 - 10:23 am

Boston's Map, Explained

Daniel Steiner comes up to Boston and talks to a couple of local experts on the way roads in olde Boston got laid out.

H/t Brendan.

By adamg - 10/30/23 - 11:24 am

The Boston Public Health Commission reports that starting Wednesday, the city will offer free Covid19 vaccinations noon to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday at the Bolling Building, 2300 Washington St. in Nubian Square and in the 2nd-floor Haymarket room at City Hall, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mondays and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Although free, the city requests people register for the shots.

By adamg - 10/29/23 - 10:06 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man in Downtown Crossing this afternoon on charges he stabbed Jean Casseus, 78, to death on Rugby Road in Mattapan around 11 a.m. on Oct. 19. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 3:03 pm

The Boston City Council today approved a resolution that calls on the city to change the name of Faneuil Hall because Peter Fanueil was a slave owner. 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.

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