An East Boston resident files a 311 complaint imploring the city to do something about the influx of l'll stinkers in the neighborhood: Read more.
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By adamg - 9/15/24 - 2:08 pm
As close as the complainer was willing to get (lower left), in garage at Border and White.
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By adamg - 9/11/24 - 10:32 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state energy board properly approved Eversource's plans for a substation on Condor Street in East Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/24 - 9:51 am
A developer that won approval in 2016 for a 36-unit condo building with 33 parking spaces at 151 Liverpool St. in East Boston says it's still chugging along on the project but that it wants to reduce the amount of parking to just 13 ground-floor spaces - by eliminating a proposed one-level basement garage with an expensive "vehicle elevator." Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/24 - 2:00 pm
Update: Board found no violations for either incident.
A downtown bar and one in East Boston had to explain fights that erupted when off-duty workers from other joints violently acted out at closing time, at hearings before the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 9/1/24 - 9:23 am
Some 900 members of UNITE HERE Local 26 went on strike this morning at the Hilton Park Plaza, Hilton Logan Airport, Hilton-Hampton Inn Boston Seaport, and Fairmont Copley Plaza over wages and against staffing and service cuts.
By adamg - 8/24/24 - 11:08 am
Boston Restaurant Talk report that Caffe dello Sport on Hanover Street in the North End is opening a second location at 973 Saratoga St. in East Boston's Orient Heights.
By adamg - 8/13/24 - 10:33 pm
A man was stabbed in the back on the Jacobbe Road side of the Maverick Square MBTA station shortly after 9:20 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital.
By adamg - 8/12/24 - 10:44 pm
Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.
By adamg - 8/11/24 - 1:17 pm
A man was stabbed in the shoulder at the Shaw's at 246 Border St. in East Boston around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
By adamg - 8/9/24 - 3:26 pm
A Boston man with a history of whipping it out in public was ordered held without bail for at least 90 days his arrest for outbound masturbating at Beachmont on the Blue Line in full view of a woman heading inbound Tuesday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 11:42 am
Transit Police report arresting a 56-year-old man they say "committed a lewd act" in the direction of women at both Beachmont and Maverick on the Blue Line yesterday morning - and that he's been pulling the same stunt since at least 2016.
East Boston Municipal Court records show that Francis Costa, Jr. was scheduled for arraignment today on a charge of open and gross lewdness, subsequent offense.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 12:51 pm
WBUR reports the Sumner Tunnel is slated to re-open on Monday, but notes that weekend closings will continue through the fall.
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:04 pm
Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.
FedEx worker ordered held without bail on charges he flew ten pounds of meth from Las Vegas to Logan
By adamg - 7/31/24 - 12:58 pm
A federal magistrate judge last week ordered a former Quincy man facing drug-distribution charges ordered held without bail pending his trial, ruling his pending charges and his past criminal record show he would prove a risk to society were he allowed to remain free. Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/24 - 5:37 pm
Eric Bender spotted this oil barge tied up at a dock near the Eddy and LoPresti Park on the East Boston waterfront today, along with its pusher tug, the Haggerty Girls (the orangish, red and white tower at the rear of the barge) - rather than at a petroleum depot on Chelsea Creek. He reports the Haggerty Girls crew told him they were waiting for divers to inspect the hull before continuing on their journey.
By adamg - 7/17/24 - 9:44 pm
A line of blue people waiting for the Blue Line at Government Center. Photo by Boston's Leslie Knopes.
A transformer at Orient Heights on the Blue Line blew this afternoon, bringing firefighters running and trains to a halt.
Boston firefighters responded around 5:50 p.m. and the MBTA shut down power in both directions. Firefighters then doused the flames. But delays due to problems related to the transformer continued through the evening; the T only announced at 9:15 p.m. that things were back to normal.
By adamg - 7/11/24 - 12:11 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave La Union Market, 105 Chelsea St. in East Boston, to expand its alcohol selection from beers and wine to harder drinks, such as aguardiente from Colombia and flor de fuego from El Salvador. Read more.
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