Universal Hub - Washington Street

What a gas: Leaking carbon-dioxide tank shuts Chinatown McDonald's, nearby streets

adamg — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:17:13 +0000

Firefighters are at Washington and Kneeland streets, where CO₂ is leaking from a 100-gallon tank in the basement of the McDonald's at the corner. Police are diverting traffic away from the area.

Oh, the yarns people have told on this phone

adamg — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:50:49 +0000

Guerilla knitting shows up in the most unlikely places sometimes, such as on this old pay phone at old Stan Hatoff's gas station ("Stan says: Gas is gas!") on Washington Street in Forest Hills.

Illusion and reality on the Freedom Trail

adamg — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:28:33 +0000

Ed Hatfield came upon this scene downtown.

Copyright Ed Hatfield. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Massive raid in Downtown Crossing after man arrested on charges he ran a stolen-property, ID theft and counterfeiting operation

adamg — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:37:43 +0000

3/14/13 - 2:00 pm

Downtown Crossing store taped off. Photo by Kim Janey.

Large numbers of Boston cops , state troopers and Secret Service agents swarmed Time Products, 449 Washington St. this afternoon as they arrested the alleged mastermind of a ring dealing in stolen phones and fake cash, credit cards and identities.

The raid came after State Police arrested Shahab "David" Yousheei, 36, of Brighton, on the Common after he allegedly purchased counterfeit money from an undercover trooper, the state Attorney General's office reports:

Board felt enough was enough - declined to give troubled downtown club its liquor license back

adamg — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:23:39 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from the owners of the troubled Felt nightclub to restore its liquor license so they can sell it to the proposed operator of a supper club in the Washington Street location.

Troubled downtown club tries to briefly rise from the dead, but residents, businesses and police want to stuff it back in grave

adamg — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:18:20 +0000

The owners of Felt, closed for the past 18 months due to licensing, tax and business issues, today asked the Boston Licensing Board to reinstate its liquor license.

Attorney Mark Zuroff, who represents the last known group of owners, said the sole reason would be so that they could sell the license to a new operator who wants to convert the Washington Street space into a fancy supper club called the Adams House - an homage to a restaurant that once operated there. "None of the prior management or ownership will be involved," he pledged. "We're not trying to resurrect the current operation."

Residents, neighboring businesses, Suffolk University and Boston Police, however, were having none of it, saying the neighborhood is changing, that they have enjoyed 18 months of violence- and noise-free weekend nights, rather than being awakened at 2 a.m. by hundreds of people exiting the club and that they did not buy Zuroff's promises of a troublefree new restaurant.

So you think you can shriek?

adamg — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:56:41 +0000

Kelly reports from Downtown Crossing this morning:

Line of shrieking teens all down Washington St in DTX for So You Think You Can Dance auditions.

Woman hit in face with pellet in same area T bus was shot at last night

adamg — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:25:46 +0000

12/30/12 - 1:45 pm

MBTA and Boston police are investigating whether a woman struck by some sort of pellet around 1:45 p.m. today on Washington Street near Arboretum Road was shot by the same people who shot at an inbound 35 bus in the same area last night.

MBTA Transit Police report the driver of the bus last night "observed two individuals standing in a driveway who appeared to be holding a firearm," as the bus passed Archdale Road on its way to Forest Hills.

Police say two of the buses windows were "intact but completely fractured" after apparently being shot at with "an air powered BB gun."