David Schachner photographed a multi-colored South Station on Nov. 15. The station was lit up like this again tonight.
Copyright David Schachner. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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By adamg - 11/18/13 - 1:09 pm
So the Boston Business Journal informs us. Can those of us of the wrong gender, who still have to put up with "train station grade" facilities, get a report from those of the lucky gender?
By adamg - 11/14/13 - 3:35 pm
Transit Police have released this video of a guy stealing a bicycle from the bike cage at South Station around 10:40 p.m. on Oct. 24.
Contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text tip to 873873
By adamg - 10/18/13 - 3:20 pm
MassDOT today released a drawing with one idea of what the interior of the new South Station could look like when the postal annex is moved somewhere else.
The llighter, airier feel envisioned by the rendering would seem to rule out the mixed-use tower once proposed to be built atop the station. In a post to go with the rendering, MassDOT's Klark Jessen writes:
By adamg - 10/16/13 - 9:06 am
Also in the works: A two-story CVS with floors connected by an escalator and a Starbucks, the MBTA and the company that handles retail leasing in the station announced today.
Work should begin next month on the two-story, 30,000-square-foot CVS, which will also sell convenience foods and a full-service pharmacy, the T and Equity Office say. Tavern in the Square should open late fall with a 40-seat restaurant/bar. Barbara's Books will make its triumphant return. Also:
By adamg - 8/14/13 - 8:03 pm
Grease on tracks just outbound from South Station ignited in four separate spots shortly before 8 p.m.
The T shut Red Line service in both directions. Firefighters at first responded to Broadway due to heavy smoke. After evacuating the station, however, they discovered the smoke had been blown into that station through the tunnel from South Station.
By adamg - 8/11/13 - 12:36 pm
The Cape Flyer weekend service between South Station and Hyannis was originally going to end Labor Day weekend, but MBTA and Cape officials say it's proven popular enough to warrant the extra weekends:
The long awaited return of weekend rail service to Cape Cod has proven successful, attracting a total of 11,031 customers for the period from the beginning of service on Memorial Day weekend through this morning, August 11th.
By adamg - 7/25/13 - 11:55 am
Hayes and Ruiz. Transit Police photos.Transit Police report arresting two men on charges they broke another man's nose - and stole his phone - during a brutal attack early Saturday.
Colin Hayes, 21, and Derek Ruiz, 28, are scheduled for arraignment in Boston Municipal Court today on charges of unarmed robbery, aggravated assault and battery and civil-rights violations with injuries.
According to police, a man in the commuter-rail lobby was charging his phone while waiting for his train around 5:40 a.m.:
By adamg - 7/16/13 - 1:51 pm
The Tavern in the Square chain wants to set up shop in South Station, where thirsty commuters have had to content themselves with soft drinks and yogurt-based concoctions ever since Clarke's closed to make way for another drugstore.
Tavern in the Square goes before the Boston Licensing Board on July 31 for permission to buy a liquor license from United Airline's lounge in Terminal C at Logan Airport (don't fret, liquor-mad United fliers - this probably has to do with the new liquor licenses the state assigned to Logan, not United shutting you off).
Tavern in the Square is also seeking permission to stay open until 2 a.m.
By adamg - 6/9/13 - 8:21 am
Eric Kaminsky reports T workers are telling people to walk over to Downtown Crossing if they want to get anywhere.
By adamg - 6/6/13 - 12:12 am
WBZ reports Lucky Star, which provides bus service between South Station and New York's Chinatown, shut down Wednesday night after some bad inspections.
By adamg - 5/22/13 - 12:18 pm
A German magazine takes note of the MBTA's rebooted train service to Cape Cod, or, as it's called in German, Cape Cod.
Die Züge starten von der South Station in Boston und sind damit gut ans MBTA-Netz, den öffentlichen Nahverkehr der Hauptstadt, angebunden. Nach Zwischenhalt in Buzzards Bay erreicht der Zug nach zweieinhalb Stunden Hyannis auf Cape Cod.
By adamg - 5/5/13 - 12:31 pm
The BPL has posted more train photos by Leslie Jones, including this one of a steam engine pulling out of South Station in 1937, and another one of a train leaving North Station sometime in the 1940s:
By adamg - 4/28/13 - 10:03 pm
It's hard to imagine how many miles of train tracks used to exist within Boston city limits (let alone how few will be left once Harvard gets around to ripping out the Allston yard). Here we see the train yard in front of Commonwealth Pier in South Boston, sometime shortly after World War I. Today, the pier is better known as the World Trade Center and the tracks have mostly been replaced by highway ramps, parking lots and surface roads. Nearby is Fan Pier, named for the way the train tracks there fanned out toward the water.
By adamg - 4/26/13 - 2:04 pm
A South Boston man getting off a bus from New York at South Station earlier this month allegedly left behind a Skittles bag filled with 3,200 Oxycodone pills when he saw a police dog sniffing luggage being taken off the bus, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Gregory Horne, 31, was arraigned on a charge of trafficking in a Class B substance following the April 3 incident, the DA's office says, adding he is free on $3,000 bail.
By adamg - 4/25/13 - 7:54 am
The Boston Business Journal reports Barbara's Bestsellers is talking to the company that controls commercial space in the station about re-opening in another space at the commuter-rail station.
By adamg - 4/20/13 - 11:21 am
Around 11:10 a.m. after a bomb sniffing dog pointed to a suspicious package on the fourth floor ramp. The all clear was sounded around 11:25 a.m. after it was determined it was a bag that was not explosive.
By adamg - 4/10/13 - 10:17 am
A Chinese immigrant from Flushing, NY, will spend five years in federal prison this week as a plea agreement for her role in a prostitution ring that used ads in Chinese-language newspapers to get women to work as prostitutes whose services advertised on Craigslist and in the Boston Phoenix's "Female Escort" section, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.
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