If it's not the trains or the tracks, what else could go wrong on the T? Try the platforms. The MBTA reports outbound Blue Line trains are bypassing Suffolk Downs because of "a platform maintenance issue," which probably means something on the platform is no longer safe. Riders can take the train to Beachmont, then head over to the other side to get off at the inbound side of Suffolk Downs.
A peeved, yet still somehow not completely outraged, citizen files a 311 complaint about a car that has long been parked on Leyden Street in East Boston: Read more.
A gagging citizen files a 311 complaint about the nighttime smell of Byron Street in East Boston: Read more.
Suffolk County prosecutors will not be able to use audio and video from a police officer's phone against the man he arrested for drug distribution on an East Boston street in 2019, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.
The MBTA announced today that ferry service to and from East Boston and Winthrop will run until Nov. 30.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides whether to grant a food-serving licensing to Holly Mulone for her proposed Painted Plover Provisions, which would serve "fresh sodas and seltzers," made to order with fresh fruits and herbs, as well as offering up salads and gelato, and sell hand-made gifts and other items from across New England at 152-154 Liverpool St. in East Boston. Read more.
WBUR reports that Eastie Farm has gotten a $1-million grant from the National Science Foundation tohelp local teens get into "urban farming, coastal restoration and social science-driven community involvement to create a vibrant green economy with improved resilience to climate change."
Proposed new billboard and landscaping.
A billboard company that has a deal with the Sons of Divine Providence to replace its current old-fashioned billboards outside the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on Rte. 1A in East Boston with a single, larger electronic signboard yesterday sued the Zoning Board of Appeals, which twice rejected the proposal earlier this year. Read more.
WFXT reports the FAA is looking into reports of two JetBlue airliners getting tagged by green lasers early Thursday morning.
Boston firefighters responded to 861 Saratoga St. for what turned into a three-alarm fire that jumped to a neighboring building, around 6:30 a.m.
The Boston Fire Department reports 24 adults, 9 children and several cats were made homeless.
An East Boston resident reports strolling by the now infamous locked East Boston Harborwalk gate at Jeffries Point today with the two tykelings when the older one started fiddling with the lock: Read more.
Rendering on one of those weird sunshower days by Zephyr Architects.
A developer who's built in East Boston before has filed plans for a four-story, 20-unit condo building to replace the current warehouse and parking lot at 141 Addison St., off Saratoga Street, in East Boston. Read more.
Rendering by Adam Glassman (fourth floor not shown).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today put off any action on a proposal to add apartments to a building at 6 Brooks St., off Bremen Street in East Boston, so that attorneys for the owner and the Delicious Market can work out a lease that will let the bodega stay. Read more.
The locked gate in question, as seen from the Porzio Park side.
An irritated citizen files a 311 complaint about an unneighborly neighbor in East Boston's Jeffries Point: Read more.
Updated with news about its possible disposal one of these days.
Lazygal reports on this thing's annual visit and wonders: Read more.
Incipient Lake Maverick.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the sinkole of unusual size forming at Maverick and Orleans streets in East Boston: Read more.
Zsa Zsa Gabor gets "Golden Filene's Key to Boston" on arrival at Logan on Jan. 18, 1954.
Jordan Frias spotted this big stuffed cat head on Webster Street in East Boston today.
Police responded to the area of Shore Plaza East, Border and Falcon streets, after somebody in a car took several shots at somebody around 9:55 p.m. Nobody hit; at least three shell casings recovered. Read more.
Maravilla's flight across the United States as a child. Photo by Sasha Patkin. See it larger.
Our experience of art doesn't solely consist of the impression we get in the moment as we stand in front of a painting or sit in the audience of a performance. It's also infused with all of the prior experiences, traumas, and memories we carry with us everywhere; they continue to reverberate through our mind and inform the way we see the world well after we've left a museum or theater. Read more.
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