Universal Hub - Downtown

Menino to developer: Keep your $50 million

adamg — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:10:03 +0000

Interesting: Even as the city looks to give one developer a $16-million tax break, it rejects a $50 million offer from another. Of course, one is longtime local stalwart Liberty Mutual, which wants to build its new headquarters in the Back Bay, while the other is Menino foe Don Chiofaro, who wants to put a 59-story tower (and a tinier 40-story one) right on the waterfront. The BRA says it will deign to let him put a 16-story building on what is now the aquarium parking garage.

Flaming shish-carbob on Pearl Street

adamg — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:41 +0000

Enderbean21 passes along this video of a car on fire on Pearl Street downtown this evening.

Giant Inflatable Census Form knows where you live

adamg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:38:38 +0000

So don't even think of not filling your census form out.

Hat tip to Dan Wilets for reminding me to post this photo.

Will Manny Ramirez strike out again with his Ritz condo?

adamg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:41:27 +0000

John Keith reports he's put his condo at the Ritz Carlton back on the market, for $7.9 million, or $1 million less than the first time he tried offloading it - in 2002. Maybe he should sweeten the deal by throwing in a grill.

Before and after

adamg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:41 +0000

Laura Scannell watched a raging stream at the Arnold Arboretum yesterday. Later, David Schachner took in the view from East Boston. Look at that sky.

Copyright Laura Scannell and David Schachner, respectively. Both posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

It wasn't all gray today

adamg — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:17:28 +0000

Jeff Tamagini managed to find quite a bit of color downtown during the storm today.

Copyright Jeff Tamagini.

They've seen fire and they've seen rain

adamg — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:02:57 +0000

Amid all the flooded-basement and accident calls this morning, the Boston Fire Department also had to send crews out to manhole fires at State Street and Surface Road and Allston Street and Comm. Ave.

Soggy hat tip to Prairie Rose Clayton for the headline.

There's daylight saving time and then there's MBTA saving time

adamg — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:13:25 +0000

Blake Wexler reports the T set the clocks at Park Street ahead two hours this morning, but adds:

Even with that standard trains are STILL running late.

In stop-and-go traffic, sometimes you have to stop

adamg — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:10:59 +0000

Matthew Cote snapped this photo of I-93 southbound by the Garden around 4:21 p.m. today - showing the bus that had just rear-ended a car, causing some serious stall-and-crawl activity.

Ideal apartment for Celtics, Bruins fans

adamg — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:01:52 +0000

Given all that's happpened over the past five decades between Leverett Circle and Causeway Street, it's kind of amazing that this West End holdover on 900 square feet of land at 42 Lomasney Way behind the Garden is not only still standing but still occupied. And it's mere steps away from the West End memorial wall that few people see, given how it forms part of the ramp from 93 to the circle (the engraving was so big I couldn't fit it all into a single shot - it ends "... of heaven"):