South End

Two stabbings around the corner from each other in South End

adamg — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:01:41 -0500

One at 17 Hammond St., the other at 13 Kendall St., Boston Police tweet.

Myers+Chang is from Venus

adamg — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:32:53 -0500

Richard Auffrey considers the fact that 85% of the South End restaurant's patrons are women. Basically, most men don't like sharing their food.

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BRA approves five-story condo project in the South End

adamg — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:54:38 -0500

The Boston Business Journal reports the 40-unit Urbanica 691 proposal on Mass. Ave. near Harrison Avenue next goes to the Zoning Board of Appeals in December.

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SoWa tagu Siam

adamg — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:46:02 -0500

Jay Fitzgerald reminds us that just because a Trader Joe's is moving into that old power plant/trolley barn off Harrison Avenue doesn't mean you can now call that area SoWa.

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Columbus Avenue bike lane: Easy come, easy go

adamg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:53 -0500

Matthew Anderson snapped this shot of how quickly the brand-new Columbus Avenue bike lanes (installed just this past August) can disappear, thanks to some BWSC work.

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Pine Street Inn, neighbors, agree to South End project

adamg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:14 -0500

John Keith reports the Upton Street agreement means the Inn will only turn two of the three buildings it owns there into housing for previously homeless people and sell of the third building at market rates.

Some residents objected to the plan as too large, even though it would have meant fewer residents in the buildings than under the previous non-profit that owned the buildings.

Flood victims in the South End

adamg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:43:37 -0500

The South End News reports on a couple and their three children, routed from their 36 Claremont Park basement apartment by five feet of water from a burst BWSC pipe "thrashing almost everything in its path" and leaving them homeless - and, they say, with no help from the city.

Livery driver beaten, carjacked

adamg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:50:37 -0500

Boston Police tweet a "gypsy cab driver" was pistol whipped and his Lincoln stolen at the intersection of Columbus and Mass. avenues last night. Massachusetts plates: Livery 50862.

Campaign notes: The cult of Chuck Turner, a guide for undecided progvoters and more

adamg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:04:16 -0500

WBUR declares Chuck Turner kind of a cult leader, says that helps explain why the Innocent Until Proven Guilty Councilor will win tomorrow.

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Two to face trial for alleged South End gay bashing

adamg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:04:58 -0400

Two men charged with first taunting and then attacking a man they thought was gay will go on trial on assault and battery and civil-rights charges on Dec. 10, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Darren Morgan, 46, and Howard Rice, 50, were initially charged with assault and battery after the June 15 incident, but an investigation resulted in the civil-rights charge. According to prosecutors, the two, standing near Myers and Chang, 1145 Washington St., hurled homophobic insults at two men who walked by them, and then escalated their attack:

Even as the men tried to avoid the defendants, Rice allegedly placed one victim in a headlock. When he broke free and the victims entered a nearby restaurant, both assailants followed them in and continued to assault them before Boston Police responded and took them into custody.

Innocent, etc.