Vinod Johnson watched the Bandaloop dance troupe help the Fallon Co. inaugurate its new 12-story office building at 100 Northern Ave yesterday.
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By adamg - 6/10/16 - 9:37 am
The Providence Journal reports on the discovery of the remains of Steven DiSarro, who disappeared in 1993, his car still parked outside the Channel, the venue he managed.
By adamg - 6/2/16 - 11:09 am
Jen Richard watched construction workers install a cross atop the new Our Lady of the Good Voyage chapel in the Seaport this morning. The chapel was moved from its original location on Northern Avenue to make way for one of the many fine luxoprojects going up along the South Boston waterfront.
Krista Easterly also watched the work.
By adamg - 6/2/16 - 10:05 am
Becky watched workers installing colored panels on the side of the Congress Street bridge yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 5/31/16 - 3:56 pm
A relieved South Boston citizen is loving the moth balls scattered around outside on G Street by the high school:
Kudos to whomever put the moth balls around the area of 95 G Street. I actually enjoy the scent of the moth balls. It is not toxic, unlike the dog excrement that these moth balls are preventing. Please keep up the good work!
By adamg - 5/27/16 - 10:13 pm
Nick Cosky took photos of a guy who'd strung up a wire in Moakley Park to do various feats of acrobatic derring-do today.
By adamg - 5/27/16 - 8:17 am
The Pave the Earth movement wins a victory in South Boston (pre-painting photo).
City officials have had the asphalt islands recently installed at Emerson and East 3 Streets painted to look like cobblestones.
Officials had to step in this week to try to calm a burgeoning text war being fought over the city's 311 system over the new raised islands that has pitted people who don't understand the preference for asphalt over trees and bushes and people who love how asphalt acts as a dog and addict repellent. Read more.
By adamg - 5/27/16 - 7:36 am
WBUR reports on the new obelisk near District Hall, which honors American service people who have died since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
By adamg - 5/26/16 - 2:38 pm
Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley is posting photos of the 19th-century stuff he and other folks are finding today at the site of the shipwreck uncovered during construction of a new building on Seaport Boulevard.
By adamg - 5/26/16 - 1:43 pm
Proposed Northern Avenue Botanical Bridge.
A proposal to enclose the Northern Avenue Bridge and turn it into a year-round botanical garden was among the top entrants in a competition to help the city figure out what to do with the bridge after it's floated to East Boston and repaired. Read more.
By adamg - 5/23/16 - 4:40 pm
Thomas Mann reports workers excavating at 121 Seaport Blvd for the waterfront's latest luxostructure today discovered they'd driven a pile right through an old wooden boat that had lain there for God knows how long.
By adamg - 5/23/16 - 12:07 pm
Firefighters making sure the fire is out. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports "careless disposal of smoking material" sparked a fire around 11:45 a.m. on the roof of 57 W. 7 St. that jumped to the siding at 55 and 59 W. 7 St. - "specifically using a rooftop planter as an ashtray."
The department reports no injures; six residents of 57 W. 7, however, were displaced.
By adamg - 5/23/16 - 10:35 am
Dan Feidt is none too happy to see this sign in the window of Sleeper Street Cafe, which will close Friday, less than a month after the nearby Yada Yada closed to make way for a craft-beer place:
I just want a basic sandwich not microwaved blah.
By adamg - 5/20/16 - 11:02 pm
Lauren Demarco discovered today that the pay toilet that used to sit in front of the new wing of the Copley Square library has been relocated to a lot on Dot Ave. in South Boston.
By adamg - 5/19/16 - 2:46 pm
Dwarfing the terminal. Photo by Eileen Murphy.
Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas is the largest cruise ship to ever dock in Boston.
By adamg - 5/19/16 - 7:27 am
Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina says he sometimes gets frustrated with the otherwise beautiful view from Piers Park in East Boston: He can see the Seaport in South Boston, but knows the only way to get there by public transportation is via three subway lines and a bus. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/16 - 3:30 pm
Earlier this year, the Boston Licensing Board didn't grant a liquor license to developer Michael Norton's proposed Italian restaurant at L Street and Broadway in South Boston (and then rejected a Starbucks there).
Tomorrow, though, the board considers a request from the owner of Mirisola's, 200 L St., to serve beer and wine with his Italian food. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/16 - 9:24 pm
Two South Boston brothers today admitted they attacked a man sleeping near the JFK/UMass T stop with a metal pole and their urine on their way home from a Sox game last August because he was too Mexican for their tastes. Read more.
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