The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved former newsman Phil Balboni's plans to replace the North Coast squid-processing plant at West 2nd and D streets with a five-story, 81-unit apartment building. Read more.
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By adamg - 8/8/22 - 10:41 pm
What South Boston looks like in the dark. Photo by Schneids.
Updated 9:10 am., Tuesday.
Wednesday's expected temperature drop can't come soon enough for Eversource's groaning Boston power grid - and the people who keep losing their AC and lights because of it. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/22 - 9:17 am
A trio of developers say they will soon file detailed plans for a seven-story life-sciences R&D building in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park that will include space for a non-profit aimed at better living through the study of the DNA of marine creatures. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/22 - 11:28 pm
Our local brigade of basement-dwelling Nazis got out of their clown cars somewhere in the Seaport today and succeeded in shutting down a drag-queen story hour. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/22 - 12:44 pm
Paul Nutting Jr. watched one of those humpback whales that have been cruising the coast of late having some fun in Boston Harbor this morning - like right off Castle Island: Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/22 - 9:05 pm
State Police report two men were found dead at Carson Beach in South Boston today. The first, around 1:30 p.m., appears to have drowned. State Police say the second man, found near H Street around 3:30 p.m. did not appear to have drowned; his cause of death is under investigation.
By adamg - 8/3/22 - 7:20 pm
A Gaelic football star from Northern Ireland who moved to South Boston earlier this year was arraigned today on charges he punched and then kicked a man outside the Lincoln Tavern so hard the man could lose a kidney. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/22 - 9:59 pm
Roving UHub photographer Kevin Wolf reports he walked back to Southie via Broadway tonight, and just look at the signs he found: Menino AND Patrick.
By adamg - 7/28/22 - 10:13 pm
From Supreme House of Pizza to Simplicity Dispensary?
A North Grafton man's proposal to turn the decrepit and now closed Supreme House of Pizza at 313 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston into a modern recreational-marijuana shop met with heavy opposition at a community meeting this evening - just a day after the owner of the pizza place withdrew his application to deliver pizza until 2:45 a.m. on weekends. Read more.
By adamg - 7/28/22 - 9:41 am
In the face of overwhelming neighborhood opposition, the owner of an Old Colony Avenue pizza place yesterday withdrew his request to extend its weekend delivery hours from 11 p.m. to 2:45 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/25/22 - 9:18 pm
Pfizer, which has research and vaccine manufacturing facilities in Cambridge and Andover, and BioNTech, a German drug company with an office in Cambridge, are asking a federal judge to declare the recipe for their Covid-19 vaccine doesn't infringe on any patents held by CureVac, a German company with an office on Fort Point Channel that tried and failed to develop a marketable Covid-19 vaccine. Read more.
By adamg - 7/25/22 - 9:27 am
Eversource now says it could be around 11:15 a.m. before some 745 customers between L Street and Farragut Road get back the power they lost around 7:45 p.m. yesterday - although a few might not be able to turn their AC back on until 12:30. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/22 - 8:25 pm
Ole Uncle Schneids captured a South Boston street around 9:30 p.m.
Update: Eversource predicting 3:45 a.m. restoration for roughly 1,500 South Boston customers.
It's the night the lights went out in Southie, around 7:45 p.m. to be exact. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/22 - 3:40 pm
Then: Engine 3182 stuck on and in the Expressway.
On Aug. 21, 1969, three locomotives being readied to haul freight to Albany, NY escaped what is now the Cabot Yard in South Boston and barreled right into the Southeast Expressway, carving deep grooves in the roadway before they came to a halt and blocking northbound traffic.
Michael William Sullivan reports that the lead locomotive in the runaway express remains on the rails and doing hard work, now down in New Jersey. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/22 - 11:55 am
Organizers of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments Boston Triathlon today announced they've postponed the three-event competition until Aug. 20-21. Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/22 - 12:55 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Boston Licensing Board will hold a hearing next Wednesday on whether to let B.K.'s Pub on Washington Street in Roslindale sell its liquor license to Borrachito and the Garret Bar at The Superette on Seaport Boulevard, with Borrachito being your basic New York-style taco place and the Garret Bar a "speakeasy" behind that that those in the know will enter by opening what appears to be the door to a walk-in freezer, but, oops, we've said too much.
By adamg - 7/18/22 - 11:50 am
Lemon Genesis: Citrus Awakening watched workers remove streetcar tracks that had long lain dormant under West Broadway in South Boston.
By adamg - 7/16/22 - 10:38 am
Erica Mattison was among the scores of bicyclists yesterday evening in Copley Square who set off for the first Boston Bike Party in a long time.
The Fort Pointer captured the procession through the Seaport (and, yes, one of the Seaport's Lambo drivers making the rounds): Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/22 - 9:32 pm
Shamus Moynihan watched Jill Biden's motorcade come down Congress Street this evening. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/22 - 10:05 pm
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston man, not for beating somebody up on Costello Way in the West Broadway development around 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, but for the "Springfield Armory model XDM-9 firearm with one round in the chamber and eighteen rounds in the magazine" officers say they found him with shortly after over at B Street and Flaherty Way. Read more.
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