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Part of BU Barnes & Noble falls onto sidewalk
By Ron Newman on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 8:36am
The Boston Fire Department tweeted last night:
Incident Response: Tech Rescue response for Barnes & Noble bookstore at 660 Beacon St. Kenmore Square. at 11:22pm.
Incident Update: Small one foot square piece of morter fell to sidewalk. No injuries. Turned building over to BU (owner) to secure. 12:30 am
Final Incident Update: Six story building. Morter fell from top. BU will have engineer check further in the morning. Sidewalk closed for now
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Comments
run away
When was the old Peerless (B&N) built? When was the Northeastern dorm built?
I know when I replace my light bulbs at about the same time, they all burn out at about the same time.
and all this rain can't have been good for the masonry around here.
It's cool that BFD is beginning to tweet actively
But so far, BPD still has them beat in the dry-humor department:
BOSTON UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE IN NEED OF REPAIR