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By adamg - 9/17/24 - 1:58 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say approached a food-delivery guy in Downtown Crossing early Saturday morning, robbed him as his pals surrounded the guy, then punched him before the victim got in his car - only to be chased by the suspect. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/24 - 11:11 am

Earlier this month, the operator of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1852, sued the foundation now building a Holocaust museum at the corner of Tremont Street and Hamilton Place - the alley that leads to the Orpheum's main entrance - for the right to continue blocking the ally on performance nights for use by entertainers' equipment trucks and patrons waiting to go inside. Read more.

By adamg - 8/25/24 - 9:08 pm

Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/24 - 11:54 pm
Mystery train that's just crossed Massachusetts Avenue

Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 1:32 pm

The Berkeley Beacon reports Emerson College has reached a deal to house some Boston Architectural College students in its Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets this fall.

BAC will continue to provide all academic and student support for its students, but those living on Emerson’s campus must abide by Emerson’s policies, the announcement said.

By adamg - 7/3/24 - 12:43 pm
Proposed building at St. Alphonsus and Tremont streets

Rendering of proposed building by Embarc.

Monty Gold, a Brookline landlord who has gone to court to try to stop apartment buildings from going up near buildings he owns in Jamaica Plain and Salem, yesterday sued to try to block a six-story apartment building from going up at St. Alphonsus Street and Tremont Street in Mission Hill, in between two buildings he owns. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 12:51 pm
Rendering of 76 Ashford St

BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.

Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.

By adamg - 6/18/24 - 9:02 am

The city announced our five-year Duck Boat parade drought will end Friday at 11 a.m., when the Celtics head on out for a triumphal procession from Causeway Street in front of the Garden. The parade will go by City Hall Plaza and the Common via Tremont Street, turn onto Boylston and end at the Hynes.

By adamg - 6/14/24 - 9:34 am

A fight turned into a double stabbing near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/24 - 11:23 am
Guy in pickup pulling trailer illustrating how horrible Donald Trump is

A roving UHub photographer spotted this guy slowly driving around the Common this morning, reports the guy has been circling Beacon Hill for a couple months now.

By adamg - 5/4/24 - 11:54 am
Seized gun

Photo of seized gun and bullets by BPD.

Boston Police report a detail cop at Tremont and Northampton streets who went to investigate when he heard two teens arguing arrested one for the gun loaded with two bullets police say he had in his hoodie pocket. Read more.

By adamg - 4/29/24 - 10:23 am
Tremont and School Street in 1800

Some things don't change much: The steepleless King's Chapel at Tremont and School streets today looks pretty much like it did back in 1800, when this engraving was made (click that link to see Tremont Street from Court Street to the long gone Carver Street).

Compare to the view from last year: Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 2:54 pm

Streetsblog Massachusetts reports on the cruiser crash Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street, taking out a traffic light and damaging a hydrant, but not hitting anybody. The officer was on his way down Tremont to the Burger King, where other officers managed to arrest a man while he was still trying to hold the place up at gunpoint.

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 1:05 pm

A man was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was trying to rob the Burger King, 128 Tremont St. downtown, Boston Police report. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 2:04 pm
The Cave

Photo between 1955 and 1959 by Nishan Bichajian. See it larger.

What's now a little used alley across Tremont Street from Lagrange Street (so obscure the Google Street Views car has never been down it) was once an entrance to a nightclub that was part of a restaurant complex where Boston's elite would meet to greet and eat - and until 3 a.m., if you can imagine. Read more.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 11:43 am

A Dorchester man faces federal drug charges after, investigators say, he used a scooter to ferry 30,000 fentanyl pills and more than four pounds of other narcotics from his Dorchester apartment to a Mission Hill parking lot on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/18/24 - 5:49 pm
Crosbie

A Dublin man was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail after he was charged with raping a woman at the Omni Parker House, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 1:08 pm
Ad for the Tremont Turkish Bath

1899 ad (source).

Long, long before the AMC Boston Common went up at the corner of Tremont and Avery streets, the site was the home of the Tremont Theatre, where an enterprising Swedish immigrant put in a swimming pool and a Turkish bath in the basement - open all night, at least for men. Read more.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 11:26 am

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the two bodies found yesterday in a room on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St., were those of a man, 43, and a woman, 24.

Both victims sustained bullet wounds. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The incident remains under investigation by Boston police and the Suffolk DA’s office.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 2:57 pm

WCVB reports on two bodies found on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St. shortly after noon.

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