Charles Circle

Smashup under Charles/MGH

adamg — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:24:54 +0000

Nick Sanchez, who took this photo underneath the Red Line stop around 1:30 p.m., reports the driver was removed and put on a stretcher - no doubt for the short trip across the street to MGH.

Masshole mayhem on Cambridge Street: Motorists vs. bicyclists, again

adamg — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:06:32 +0000

Marjorie Arons-Barron reports on an incident near Charles Circle yesterday involving ten kids on bicycles riding abreast on Cambridge Street, and an increasingly impatient driver who finally had enough:

It didn't work out too well. The white car sideswiped a weaving cyclist, who flew in one direction, his bike in the other. The car never stopped or pulled over. Fortunately, the bicycle rider picked himself up, retrieved his bike and his helmet and, somewhat shakily, rode to rejoin the other riders in the pack, who had stopped not far from the Liberty Hotel.

Beacon Hill residents don't see eye to ear over hospital expansion plan

adamg — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:03:01 +0000

Karen Cord Taylor considers opposition to a plan by Mass. Eye and Ear to replace its Charles Circle parking lot with a four-story office building:

The BHCA opposes this change of use, but it has not spoken out when the hospitals have RENTED space on Beacon Hill. MGH moved into the whole second floor above Harvard Gardens less than ten years ago. MEEI recently moved out of the two-story building at West Cedar Street and Charles Circle, which it occupied for ten years. One could consider a new building at Charles Circle simply a replacement for their rental space at the end of West Cedar.

Hey, let's go down to Buzzy's, buy some sandwiches and throw 'em to the prisoners!

adamg — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:43:36 +0000

On the Web, nothing ever dies. Take, for example, this page advertising Buzzy's Roast Beef, more than eight years after it was demolished to make way for a hotel where people pay good money to eat behind bars:

We're more than just Roast Beef.

Stop by and check out our menu of sandwiches, salads, and more. We even serve breakfast.

Buzzy's Fabulous Roast Beef is practically a Boston tradition. It was first opened at Charles Circle during the 1960's, and was re-opened September 27, 1996 - and has not been closed a minute since! You will find an extensive menu of sandwiches, salads, sides, breakfast, and of course, the best Roast Beef sandwiches in Boston.

Indoor and Outdoor seating available.

Spatch, who found the page, sighs:

The fact that this webpage for Buzzy's Roast Beef still exists is both amazing and depressing.

Christina recalls the last day we ate at Buzzy's.

Yes, of course there's a Facebook page for Buzzy's fans.

Court rules that merely sitting next to a gun doesn't mean you own it

adamg — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:08:42 +0000

The Massachusetts Court of Appeals today reversed a Boston man's gun-possession conviction because prosecutors failed to prove he owned the gun in the friend's car he was driving at the time - or that he even knew the weapon was there.

One of the worst places in Boston to be a pedestrian

adamg — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:27:20 +0000

Shirley explains why it's the stretch from the Liberty Hotel to the Longfellow Bridge, where pedestrians have to battle with drivers coming out of Charles Circle, in particular, motorists coming off Cambridge and Charles streets:

... These people are hitting their gas pedal to accelerate on the on ramp onto any of the Storrow Drive entrances and being already frustrated by the long red lights, they are not letting any measly pedestrians stop them from where they need to be going. It is scary because most of them do not use their signals, or even if they do, a pedestrian cannot really tell which way the vehicle is heading. I urge Boston to please, reconsider pedestrianizing this intersection. ...

Wishful Charles Circle thinking

adamg — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:34:22 +0000

John Daley reads that the new hotel on the site of the old Charles Street jail will be called the Liberty Hotel (get it? jail? liberty? Oh, those wacky marketers!). But he wonders:

Is there any chance they'll call the hotel restaurant Buzzy's?