Harvard Avenue

Free the Rock!

adamg — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:17:44 +0000

Allston Rat City posts a photo of a flier circulating around Allston (why the marker is fenced in).

More music, dancing at Common Ground in Allston?

adamg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:27:47 +0000

Common Ground, 85 Harvard Ave., goes before the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing on Monday for permission to expand its music and dancing hours.

Common Ground wants to be able to offer a DJ and dancing until 2 a.m. seven days a week and to have up to five live performers in the same hours. Its current license only allows a DJ and dancing on Thursdays, Friday and Saturdays and limits it to three live performers and only until 6 p.m.

The hearing starts at 10 a.m. in the office's eighth-floor hearing room at City Hall.

Fed up with leering men on Harvard Avenue, woman punches one

adamg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:13:44 +0000

Allison Francis explains her need to punch the stranger after enduring leers and "oooohs" and solicitations on a walk between Comm. Ave. and Brighton with her girlfriend:

I'm not exactly a placid person, but I'd never punched someone before and I believe in the merits of peace over violence. Whatever that guy said wasn't the worst thing that's been said to me by any means. I just snapped. After 23 years as a woman and ~2 years being 'out' in Allston, after having been forced to tolerate my relationships and humanity degraded on a regular basis with no option other than to keep walking, I wasn't going to take it. It's not okay how so many men behave as though they have the right to aggressively address strangers on the street because we're women, and it's not okay that we are expected to take it with a smile.

Via the Phlog.

Toto, I don't think we're on Newbury Street anymore

adamg — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:35:58 +0000

Softcoeur could hardly believe what was parked on Harvard Ave. in gritty Allston this evening.

Brookline teens learn the true meaning of Allston Christmas

adamg — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:03:17 +0000

'Tis better to receive from the curb than to smash into somebody's car and steal their GPS, especially if it's 4:40 a.m. on Harvard Avenue and there are cops there wondering what you're up to.

'I heard the roaring of the engine and turned around to see this homicidal maniac zig-zag ...'

adamg — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:31:11 +0000

Jonathan was among the bicyclists the driver of a gray Civic took aim at during last night's Critical Mass cork-up in Allston. He reports on the incident, notes he has the guy's license-plate number.

Goodness, why would anybody get upset with bicyclists?

adamg — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:53:49 +0000

BostonTweet captured a little corking or something this evening at Harvard and Brighton in Allston.

Via Allston Rat City, who wonders:

Was anyone there at the corner of Comm and Harvard when some dude in a Honda got pissed off at the people on bikes blocking traffic and literally drove through them?

UPDATE: JC tweets:

Yep, gray Civic plowed right through them. Don't think anyone was seriously hurt.

She rarely returns to restaurants, but will make an exception for Garlic and Lemons in Allston

adamg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:03:12 +0000

A Small Boston Kitchen reviews the Middle Eastern hole in the wall on Harvard Ave., can't stop thinking about the food:

[N]ot to be missed is the spicy chicken. A neat pile of delicately slivered meat with spiced up ends makes it hard for you to want to try anything else. But please do.

Allston bicyclist beaten with own bike lock in two-fight road-rage incident

adamg — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:47:56 +0000

6/3/11 - 6:12 pm

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports on a June 3 incident outside 74 Harvard Ave.

Pair charged with threatening to kill man at crowded Allston intersection - with a BB gun

adamg — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:29:21 +0000

5/25/11 - 10:46 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men for assault with a dangerous weapon following an incident last night at Harvard and Comm. avenues.

According to police, Aram Barseghyan, 28, of Brighton and Aleksandr Yeghiyan, 22, of Watertown, were in a silver BMW when they got into an argument with somebody on the sidewalk around 10:45 p.m.:

During the course of the verbal argument, the victim states that the individual sitting in the front passenger seat produced a firearm, pointed it at him and stated, "Next time. Bang. You're dead."

Officers found the pair not long after. According to police, an officer asked if they had any weapons:

[T]he operator stated, "No. You can check if you like." A search of the car enabled officers to see and take possession of a black firearm found under the front passenger seat. Upon further inspection, it was determined that the black firearm was, in fact, a replica style BB gun.

Innocent, etc.

Fire on Harvard Avenue tonight

adamg — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:40:01 +0000

Brian Smith shot this tonight.

UPDATE: It was "a large brush and trash fire" in the lot next to Blanchard's. See the comments for more.

Not packed powder, but it'll do

adamg — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:58:32 +0000

There was a little snowboard (and ski) hill at the annual Allston Village Street Fair on Harvard Avenue today. The less adventurous could try hula-hooping down the street - or drawing on the road with Sidewalk Sam.

Harvard Avenue McDonald's saved: Licensing board to let it stay open until 2 a.m.

adamg — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:17:02 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let the franchisee of the McDonald's at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues stay open until 2 a.m.

The board overturned its decision five years ago to limit the restaurant to an 11 p.m. closing time after a hearing yesterday at which franchise owner Bob King said he would have to shut the outlet without additional revenue from the extra hours. He also pleaded for fairness because the board had voted last year to let a rival Kelly's open until 2 a.m. in the old Marty's right across the street from his outlet.

The move was opposed by the Allston Civic Association, which does not like bars and restaurants open that late.

McDonald's says it will close Allston restaurant if city doesn't grant later closing time

adamg — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:53:59 +0000

The McDonald's at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues has became the latest battleground in a rapidly escalating war over restaurant closing hours in Allston.

Bob King, owner of the franchise, told the Boston Licensing Board today that McDonald's will make him shut the outlet unless he can increase sales - and the only way for him to do that, especially with a competing Kelly's opening up across the street, is to extend the current 11 p.m. closing time to 2 a.m.

The board decides tomorrow whether to grant the request. King originally sought 3 a.m.; over the past year, a number of Allston restaurants have sought board permission to open until 3 a.m.; the board has scaled all back.

Allston kabob place: Muslim cab drivers need a place to eat late at night

adamg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:27:53 +0000

Web site might need revising tomorrow.Azama Grill on Harvard Avenue today sought city permission to extend its closing time to 3 a.m., citing the dietary needs of the area's growing Muslim population in general and Muslim cab drivers in particular.

"There are no other halal establishments in the Allston/Brighton area," restaurant lawyer Stephen Greenbaum told the Boston Licensing Board, referring to the kosher-like dietary laws devout Muslims follow.

But board Chairman Daniel Pokaski was having none of it, asking what would stop somebody from coming in next week and demanding a late-night license because "the Italians want to come in and they want a slice of pizza?"