Around 11:15 p.m. on Monmouth Street near Marion. Two black men, dressed in black, one brandishing a large knife, drove off with the man's brown, 2005 Chrysler Sebring, Mass. registration 1AF 243.
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By adamg - 7/16/15 - 6:39 pm
The BRA today approved a 492-unit apartment and condo project at Clippership Wharf in East Boston - some 25 years after the first proposal for the long vacant 12-acre parcel. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/15 - 1:20 pm
Firefighters at the scene. Photo by BFD.
A composting barrel got hot enough to start a two-alarm fire that did an estimated $150,000 in damage to an East Boston house today, the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/15 - 9:33 am
Yesterday evening, Steve spotted a guy who knows how to watch the sunset over downtown Boston - from a bucket truck at the end of Bremen Street in East Boston.
Copyright Steve. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 7/3/15 - 12:07 am
did the south rise again and find itself in the East Boston Shaw's? pic.twitter.com/LyyLvtApiG
— Megan Johnson (@megansarahj) July 3, 2015
By adamg - 6/30/15 - 5:00 pm
One of the first of East Boston's waterfront luxury buildings is going up. Today, the white crane lifted up a segment of red framing to the top of the red crane, where workers bolted it to the boom to make it longer.
By adamg - 6/29/15 - 3:25 pm
A Phoenix man who may have been a repeat meth trafficker was arrested yesterday in a Logan Airport men's room with a pound of meth in a checked bag, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
State Police already had their eye on alleged meth dealer Micah Gibson, 38, when he arrived on a Delta flight at Terminal A yesterday morning, the DA's office reports: Read more.
By adamg - 6/23/15 - 8:50 pm
Curt Nickisch watched the sunset at Fenway tonight.
Of course, it wasn't just over Fenway that the sunset was amazing.
Rachel Anne Miller took in the sunset over Kendall Square: Read more.
By adamg - 6/23/15 - 6:10 pm
The Forward's Martyna Starosta visited the New England Casket Co. in East Boston for a look at how Jewish caskets are changing. They're still all wood - workers go over caskets with a metal detector to make sure - but they're not all plain pine boxes anymore.
By adamg - 6/22/15 - 8:26 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports what turned into a two-alarm fire at 195 Condor St. sent one resident to the hospital with smoke inhalation and one firefighter with heat exhaustion.
The department says seven residents were displaced by the fire, reported around 5 p.m. Damage was estimated at $100,000. The cause is under investigation.
By adamg - 6/11/15 - 2:20 pm
Somebody is not going to be very happy when they get home to Trenton Street in East Boston today, Josh Deering shows us.
By adamg - 5/16/15 - 7:35 am
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that broke out around 12:25 a.m. and spread in the walls of 184 Marion St. displaced two adults and three children.
There were no injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
By adamg - 5/14/15 - 10:50 pm
An East Boston resident reports:
This dog was found today around 6 p.m. wandering on Marion Street in East Boston, on the block between Princeton/Saratoga Street.
By adamg - 4/26/15 - 5:46 pm
Dan Santry snapped Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plane after it had landed at Logan. Abe starts a three-day US tour with dinner tonight at John and Teresa's place at Louisburg Square. His itinerary also includes a speech at the Kennedy School across the river and a trip down to DC for a speech before Congress.
By adamg - 4/22/15 - 9:03 am
Megan Johnson has set up a Tumblr site to chronicle and snark on some of the tweets coming out of East Boston (note to self: Set up Facebook page to chronicle and snark on some of the Tumblr sites coming out of Eastie).
By adamg - 4/20/15 - 6:13 pm
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.
By adamg - 4/17/15 - 5:17 pm
UPDATE, 5:25 p.m. BFD gave the MBTA the OK to resume service.
Boston firefighters are currently investigating what caused smoke in the Maverick Blue Line station shortly before 5 p.m. Trains in both directions are halted - except for one empty train that firefighters are riding from Maverick to Aquarium to look for the source of the smoke, possibly the third rail.
By adamg - 4/17/15 - 12:31 pm
Architect's rendering of 151 Liverpool project.
The BRA board yesterday approved two new residential buildings in East Boston, and changes to a waterfront tower already under way.
The board approved a converting and expanding 151 Liverpool St from its current use as commercial space (which had a fire earlier this week) into 24 residential units, 4 of them affordable. The building will have 35 parking spaces.
By adamg - 4/15/15 - 10:13 am
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded around 3:05 a.m. to 151 Liverpool St. for a fire on the first floor of a three-story commecial building.
The fire went to two alarms before it was knocked down. One firefighter was taken to Mass. General after he got some debris in his eye.
The department estimates $500,000 in damages, including to several cars in the garage at the time.
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