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By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:39 am
Woman in car refuses to back up from Silver Line Tunnel

Roman the roving UHub photographer was on a Silver Line bus that had just hurtled through the route's tunnel this morning when he noticed a woman in a vehicle that was definitely not a bus. He reports: Read more

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 2:28 pm
Dog on a uniwheel

Josh Bittker reported yesterday spotting his favorite Seaport commuter: A guy on an battery-powered one-wheel thing, this time accompanied by a fuzzy little dog throwing down major McKayla Maroney vibes.

By adamg - 2/11/24 - 1:52 pm
Dunlin at Castle Island

Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.

They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.

By adamg - 2/8/24 - 1:34 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from a chain called Museum of Ice Cream to open at 121 Seaport Blvd. and to buy the beer and wine license from Dig on Boylston Street in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 11:29 am

On the Channel considers and reviews the Summer Street Steps and wonders how, with all the billions of public and private dollars poured onto the blank slate that used to be the Seaport, that's what we wound up with - complete with loudspeakers pumping out pop music like some mall in the 1990s. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am

City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 1:16 pm

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to allow a New York restaurant that serves cheeseburgers with a kimchi-infused topping and other "Korean fusion" dishes open an outlet in the Seaport, with a bar that will serve what its lawyer said would be an extensive list of soju and other Korean liquors. Read more.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 6:04 pm

Around 5:30 p.m., the MBTA announced Red Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to an "unauthorized person" on the tracks. Said person is no longer on the tracks and service has resumed, the T says.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 11:53 am

Transit Police report that around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, a man broke into one of the operator cabs on a Red Line train - but not the one the train's driver was using - and "hung his head out the window" while the train was in motion towards Andrew. Read more.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 2:29 pm

On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is shirking its duties but because of the street's oddball status as a private way. With a detailed history of why the street remains a private way, going back to the turn of the 20th century.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:40 am

The MBTA first reported problems on the Red Line due to some vague track problem at Broadway, but now says you can blame the current delays on signal problems at Broadway.

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 12:53 pm

Around 12:45 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays while "personnel inspect the tracks at Andrew." Amy Clark reports the driver on their train was a bit more specific: Read more.

By adamg - 1/15/24 - 2:56 pm
Catholicism for Dummies on sale at the South Boston Walgreens

Eileen Murphy had to do a double take today when she saw what you can buy at the East Broadway Walgreens these days:

Can't say I ever expected to see "Catholicism for Dummies" at the Southie Walgreens.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 9:34 am
Birds at dusk over Wormwood Park

The Fort Pointer watched starlings doing some synchronized flying over Wormwood Park in Fort Point at dusk the other day.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
Dark and stormy on the Charles

It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.

Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 12:43 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara Lynch has abruptly closed her Menton, Sportello and Drink outlets in Fort Point, blaming her landlord. Her other restaurants, all outside Fort Point, remain open.

Via Boston Restaurant Talk.

By adamg - 1/3/24 - 11:31 am
Josh Weinstein

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, where Backyard Betty's was meant to go. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 9:47 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men they say broke into the former St. Vincent Church on E Street last night in search of copper wiring and a man who broke into St. Monica Church on Old Colony Avenue early this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 10:39 pm

Live Boston has video of one of the two sheep that went on the lam in South Boston today, captured following "a short pursuit involving Boston Police officers and a 3-legged dog" on Preble Street.

Earlier:
Chicken on the grass, alas in Dorchester.

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