The Brookline Transportation Division reports both the Select Board and the Transportation Board have approved an "open streets" plan to reallocate some of the asphalt along Harvard Street, Longwood and Brookline avenues and part of Beacon Street for use by people not in cars so that they can get around while maintaining social distance, at least during the current Covid-19 emergency. Read more.
The folks at the Boston City Archives have been going through a collection of photos from the Flynn administration and are asking for help to identify these three men, photographed in front of the Robert Gould Shaw memorial on Beacon Street in the 1980s.
The MBTA is reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the C Line inbound because of a trolley with a door problem.
New England Folklore recounts the story of the two elms that flank the Robert Gould Shaw memorial at Beacon and Park streets - planted by John Hancock himself before the Revolution. Turns out the memorial sits on a vault designed to protect the roots of the trees.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about Postal Service rubber bands strewn all over Beacon Street: Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint over what appears to be a crash early on New Year's Day at the intersection of Beacon and Berkeley streets: Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposed new roof deck as part of an overall rehab of a Beacon Street frat house after a neighbor worried about noise and the neighborhood association groused about the dangerous precedent the deck could set. Read more.
The Emerald Neclace Conservancy posted this photo, taken from Beacon Hill in 1857, that shows Beacon Street extending across the Back Bay to the rest of the continental United States. To the left of the street is a spit of land, then called Gravelly Point, that eventually became the Fenway.
A roving UHub photographer stopped to take in the sunset this evening on Beacon Street along the Common.
One of the boxes on a Cambridge bench yesterday while guarded by Bronson.
UPDATE: Group that says it's based in Rome takes responsibility.
Bomb squads from both Boston and Cambridge Police today recovered small metal boxes with taped "Open Me" notes on the side as the departments urged the public to be cautious and to call 911 if they found more. Read more.
Matt Wunderlich spotted a scooter-powered postal worker on Beacon Street in Brookline this morning.
The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the C Line due to "a disabled train with a mechanical problem" at Dean Road.
Developer Robert Korff has filed detailed plans for a 27-story hotel in Kenmore Square that would feature a new plaza in the middle of what is now one of the city's busiest intersections - with his hotel and a half-acre of public outdoor space in the middle. Read more.
Pat Tomaino and friend showed some Boston-area love for runners on Beacon Street today.
But are you surprised? The Green Line riders lost whatever chance they might have had when, naturally, their train was taken out of service at Kenmore.
Danielle Jones shows us some of the carnage in Cleveland Circle where a trolley and several cars had a rather sharp disagreement over who should go where shortly before 8 p.m. Read more.
Henry Wong shows us the SUV whose driver somehow managed to get the vehicle's wheels ensnared on the inbound tracks of the C Line near Englewood Avenue sometime after 6:30 p.m. The T reports it had to stop trains at Coolidge Corner and bring in some buses to get riders between there and Cleveland Circle.
Patrick Maguire watched a turkey gang in action on Beacon Street this morning.
Feisty Brookline turkeys waiting for their yoga class pic.twitter.com/MFZ2ommqqg
— Patrick Maguire (@PatrickMBoston) January 2, 2019
168 Beacon St. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage to 168 Beacon St., between Berkeley and Clarendon streets. Read mroe.
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