This photo shows the scene outside a Downtown Crossing Citizens Bank yesterday afternoon not long after police arrived to arrest the guy on the ground - who didn't get far after he robbed a woman of her money and phone at the ATM, thanks to the bearded guy on the left, who grabbed him and held him for police.
Jeff, the man who stepped in, reports:
I just did what I hope someone else would've done had it been one of my loved ones.
Dan O'Brien thought of Disneyworld when he saw the line of people waiting to get into the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. on its opening day today.
The store is also accessible via the subway stop.
The Globe reports on Related Beal's proposal for a 14-story tower across Causeway from the ramps to the Zakim with " rents well below the going market rates."
Adam Castiglioni reports the developers of the old Filene's building have uncovered the old marker designating the exact center of all creation, right at the corner of Washington and Summer Streets, where it had lain covered up after Filene's went out of business in an era we'd just as soon prefer to forget.
The Boston Licensing Board considers a proposal for a coffee shop at 108 Lincoln St. at a hearing next week.
Gracenote Coffee, which already roasts beans, plans to open an eponymous coffee bar in the front half of an office there. It'll be staffed by the guy who now pedals the Coffee Trike around Dewey Square.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
On Thursday, Greg MacKay took what he thinks might be the first night photograph of the Zakim Bridge from the newly re-opened Lovejoy Wharf.
Copyright Greg MacKay. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
NorthEndWaterfront.com photographed the commemoration on the Greenway yesterday, attended by several thousand people.
Roche Bros. reports its new Downtown Crossing store, opening next Wednesday, will have entrances/exits onto the concourse of the Downtown Crossing T stop.
Neal Gaffey spotted a newly Denver-booted Sports Hub SUV on Canal Street today.
Downtown's getting so upscale they've started carpeting the side streets, apparently, as Jed Hresko shows us.
Finn reports:
The MBTA is playing a message at N Station this morning about how Shawn Thornton takes the T to work.
Alex Jafarzadeh shows us a darkened Maverick station on the Blue Line around 6 p.m.; reports trains were still running despite the lack of light.
Shortly after 5 p.m., riders began reporting issues on the other side of the harbor on the Blue Line.
The E Line, meanwhile, got shut between Northeastern and Heath due to a power problem.
Jamie Walsh reports this turkey was just ambling about Temple Place around 7:50 p.m.
Craig Caplan reports she spent some time hanging out next to jm Curley - fortunately for her, wild turkey was not on the menu tonight.
In 2013:
Mumbles the Turkey tours downtown Boston.
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers a proposal to open a Japanese coffee shop at 10 Milk St.
Ogawa Coffee, based in Kyoto, would be the latest specialty coffee shop in an area once known mainly for its plethora of Dunkin' Donuts:
What we seek is not only good-tasting coffee. It is discovering and providing the coffee’s value that leads humans, nature and the whole environment in a positive direction. This is our dream.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
Rocco Collella, 30, of the South End, was released on personal recognizance yesterday on a charge of videotaping an unsuspecting person in the nude for a February incident in the men's room at the Marshalls store in Downtown Crossing, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Spiderman turned on Tremont, only to find he was already surrounded. Craig Caplan couldn't bear to stick around to see what happened.
Transit Police report they are looking for this yegg for a safe-cracking job in the basement of South Station on March 16.
After breaking into an office in the station basement and opening the safe - police did not say how - he took money and fled in a cab, which dropped him off on Decatur Street in Charlestown.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.
Ania Wronski asks:
Any ideas on where to take a group of ~10 people to brunch on a friday near the financial district/Chinatown?
WBUR takes a look at the history of 26 Court St.:
The building, on a busy side street in the Financial District, sits on what city records say is "believed to be the oldest plot of land continuously owned by the City of Boston."
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