Downtown Crossing

Truth in advertising

adamg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:41:28 -0400

John Greiner-Ferris reports it seemed to be working for one Downtown Crossing panhandler today.

Oh, noes, not the Wendy's!

adamg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:19:12 -0400

New York developer unwraps plans for a Downtown Crossing project that would involve three stories of retail and 260 rental units where the Wendy's and Payless are now.

A question: So when does Downtown Crossing get its own supermarket?

Ed. colliding worlds note: The company's name is Midwood Management Corp. Midwood represents! When I lived there, it was sort of the Roslindale of Brooklyn: Great place to live that nobody outside the area had ever heard of, unless they were either way too familiar with the life of Woody Allen or they knew me, or both (bonus Midwood props if you also realize Erich Segal is from there, hmm, or should that be demerits?).

The demolition of Filene's makes her sad

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:53:19 -0400

Colleen responds in the only sensible way: She buys some shoes.

Good buskers in Boston

adamg — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:56:19 -0400

John Greiner-Ferris reports on the spring reappearance of one of his favorite busking duos, Coco and Lafe, outside the Downtown Crossing Borders:

... Nice fun people who love their music and love performing. They play a lot of folksy covers--Bob Dylan, John Prine, Lyle Lovett--plus their own tunes. ...

Fire in the Downtown Crossing hole

adamg — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:10:20 -0400

Red Line service disrupted by fire at Downtown Crossing this afternoon rush hour (Orange Line, too, but not for as long).

Firetruck on Washington Street.

How do you tell the fake cops on the T?

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:55:12 -0400

They're the ones going after litterbugs.

Demolition at old Filene's halted as facade falls off

adamg — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:50:51 -0400

Lori Magno reports on the 11:30 a.m. incident, posts annotated photos.

Filene's Basement to move back to old location after all - next year

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:55:16 -0400

The Boston Business Journal reports, says the store will even still be in the basement in the new One Franklin.

Oh, those? Those are just the fire alarms, going off for no good reason

adamg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:12:40 -0400

One of these days, alarms will start blaring at a T stop and people will actually pay attention. But not today, and not at Downtown Crossing, Jenny Frazier reports:

... It took me my entire walk up to the Orange Line to realize that not a single person, including myself, batted an eyelash at the heinously loud alarms. Instead we all just continued on our merry Bostonian way. ...

However, there's good news at State Street, where Fabulously Out There reports on how the MBTA has fixed the ankle-twisting stairs between the Orange and Blue lines.

Stout-hearted

adamg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:17:23 -0500

Husky boys grow into stout men. And then they go shop around the corner in Downtown Crossing.