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By adamg - 7/27/15 - 6:40 pm
Sarah Connors captured this kid dancing in the rain in Downtown Crossing this afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/15 - 4:07 pm
On the outbound Orange Line platform at Downtown Crossing this afternoon.
By adamg - 7/13/15 - 6:26 pm
Felt in better days
The Boston Business Journal reports a developer has filed a preliminary plan with the BRA to stick 26 floors of residential space above the facade of the existing four-story building at 533 Washington St. that had housed nightclubs for more than 50 years until the state shut Felt in 2012.
The developer bought the building from the Baldekas family last year.
By adamg - 6/30/15 - 3:09 pm
The other night, a roving UHub photographer managed to rove himself right up to the current top of the Millennium Tower under construction where Filene's used to be and shares some of the views from up there - in a building where at least one top-level condo is being marketed at $37 million.
The view towards Back Bay and the other towers put up by Millennium Partners - the Ritz Carlton down Washington Street: Read more.
By adamg - 6/24/15 - 7:51 am
School Street was blocked overnight after a water main burst near Washington, but Tom Griffiths, who works right there, reports that around 7:30 a.m.
It's fine. All cleaned up, no traffic block.
By adamg - 6/11/15 - 8:20 am
The Voice of Downtown Boston introduces us to PABU, a San Francisco Japanese restaurant that will open on two floors of the Millennium Tower next fall.
The modern izakaya and sushi bar will feature market-fresh menu with fish sourced locally from New England and flown in fresh from Japan’s famous Tsukiji market.
By adamg - 6/9/15 - 8:27 pm
MiniatureBuddha watched a portable toilet soaring majestically over Downtown Crossing on its way to some top floor at the Millennium Tower this afternoon.
By Shelagh Dolan - 6/2/15 - 11:08 am
At the request of the applicant, the Zoning Board of Appeals today deferred hearing the case for and against a medical-marijuana dispensary on Milk Street downtown until July 7. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/15 - 11:57 am
Transit Police report arresting a man on charges he groped a woman in the tunnel between the Orange and Red Lines at Downtown Crossing Thursday morning - and after he tried to fight off arriving officers. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/15 - 10:33 am
AlistonTBoston shows us the line this morning outside the newly open Ogawa Coffee on Milk Street, which features the Japanese take on coffee, which includes extra fancy foam designs and stadium seating so you can watch the baristas - and this morning, free four-ounce bags of beans for the first 100 people.
By adamg - 5/15/15 - 3:37 pm
Around 3:30 p.m. on the Forest Hills side, near the fare gates at the front of the platform. The victim's injuries are not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 5/13/15 - 10:41 pm
Even with just three members, His Majesty's regiment of foot so impressed the rebellious townspeople of Boston this afternoon that they declared the land reclaimed for the king without having to exchange a single volley.
By adamg - 4/29/15 - 4:14 pm
Dan O'Brien thought of Disneyworld when he saw the line of people waiting to get into the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. on its opening day today.
The store is also accessible via the subway stop.
By adamg - 4/26/15 - 1:45 pm
Adam Castiglioni reports the developers of the old Filene's building have uncovered the old marker designating the exact center of all creation, right at the corner of Washington and Summer Streets, where it had lain covered up after Filene's went out of business in an era we'd just as soon prefer to forget.
By adamg - 4/24/15 - 11:29 am
Roche Bros. reports its new Downtown Crossing store, opening next Wednesday, will have entrances/exits onto the concourse of the Downtown Crossing T stop.
By adamg - 4/18/15 - 8:31 pm
Jamie Walsh reports this turkey was just ambling about Temple Place around 7:50 p.m.
Craig Caplan reports she spent some time hanging out next to jm Curley - fortunately for her, wild turkey was not on the menu tonight.
In 2013:
Mumbles the Turkey tours downtown Boston.
By adamg - 4/17/15 - 2:48 pm
Rocco Collella, 30, of the South End, was released on personal recognizance yesterday on a charge of videotaping an unsuspecting person in the nude for a February incident in the men's room at the Marshalls store in Downtown Crossing, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
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