Tremont Street
Pro-gentrification forces score victory in South End: Dunkin' Donuts withdraws plans for Tremont Street outlet
By adamg - 12/14/11 - 9:16 amHidden Boston tweets the irresistible force known as Dunkin' Donuts has folded up in the face of the immovable object known as South Enders opposed to coffee fiends.
Man stabbed on Tremont Street downtown
By adamg - 11/11/11 - 10:25 pmBoston Police tweet a man was stabbed tonight at Tremont and Temple Place; taken away in unknown condition.
Student robbed, sliced with knife down street from Boston Police headquarters
By adamg - 10/6/11 - 9:08 pmA student was robbed of cash and then sliced in the hand around 9:10 p.m. at Ruggles and Tremont streets, the latest violent incident within a quick walk of the Boston Police headquarters building.
Police are looking for a black man with a goatee in a dark hoodie, who wielded the knife and who may also be packing a gun, and a black woman, also in a dark hoodie.
There was another two-on-one knifepoint robbery in the lower busway at the Ruggles T stop Sunday night.
Three-alarm fire in Tremont Street apartment building
By adamg - 4/24/11 - 11:45 am
Shattered window at Tremont Street fire scene. Photo by BFD.
UPDATE: The Fire Department reports investigators have determined the cause to be - you are sitting down: Careless disposal of a cigarette.
A fire in a 25th-floor apartment at Tremont on the Common, 151 Tremont St., sparked a three-alarm response as firefighters raced upstairs to evacuate residents, some of whom took refuge on their balconies.
Two-alarm trash fire forces evacuation of South End building
By adamg - 2/28/11 - 7:44 pmThe Boston Fire Department reports a fire in second-floor trash chute at 474 Tremont St. shortly before 7 p.m. went to two alarms before being extinguished. Damage was estimated at $50,000.
Snazzy South End snowman seemed super stylish Sunday
By adamg - 2/27/11 - 5:47 pm
The City that Always Sleeps begins to awaken
By adamg - 2/25/11 - 9:57 amThe Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Sal's Pizza on Tremont Street to stay open until midnight.
Residents of a neighboring condo building objected to the extension from the current 10 p.m. closing time, claiming the new hours would attract the wrong element to the downtown street. The longer hours had the support of other downtown residents and neighboring businesses and institutions.
Liquor-license merry-go-round could mean new restaurant at once neglected South End corner
By adamg - 9/22/10 - 2:36 pmThe Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to grant a series of liquor license transfers that would begin with a bar in the Alley off Boylston Street giving up its liquor license and end with a new "eclectic" pub opening at the intersection of Tremont Street and Mass. Ave.
Under the deal, the Lyons Group would sell its all-alcohol license for Suite to the owners of the Parish Cafe II at Tremont and Mass. Ave., who in turn would sell their current beer, wine and liqueurs license to the operator of a new restaurant, called Poe's Pub, across the street.
Man critically wounded in shooting at Roxbury barbershop
By adamg - 9/10/10 - 7:25 pmUPDATE: Man arrested, but not for the shooting.
Boston Police tweet somebody was shot at 1029 Tremont St. shortly after 7 p.m. tonight, and that the homicide unit is now investigating, which means the victim was seriously wounded.
Beth Freeman reports she heard three shots. Police arrived "within seconds" and then chased a man down Sussex Street, she said.
Wanted for attempted murder on a bus right by Boston Police HQ
By adamg - 9/1/10 - 8:58 am
MBTA Transit Police say this is the guy who repeatedly stabbed somebody on a 23 bus at Ruggles and Tremont streets yesterday evening, then fled toward the Whittier Street project. He's described as 25 to 30, 5'7" and weighing between 185 and 220 lbs, with dreadlocks.
UPDATE: MBTA Transit Police tweet they've caught the guy.
