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By adamg - 3/28/24 - 11:06 am

The Boston Licensing Board voted today for a three-day license suspension at the Silhouette Lounge, 200 Brighton Ave. in Allston, but to hold that in abeyance for six months, after BPD licensing cops found five people under 21 drinking - three of them just 19. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:39 pm

Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:50 am

The Daily Free Press reports that the BU Graduate Workers Union, affiliated with the SEIU, will start their strike today with a rally at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue following unsuccessful negotiations over wage increases, better working conditions and funding for childcare for grad students with young children.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 12:22 pm

State Police report they are investigating what might have caused the driver of a cab to crash on Soldiers Field Road outbound near the Weeks Footbridge while he was driving a woman home from Logan around 10:30 p.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/24 - 9:38 am

The Daily Free Press provides an update on the graffiti-covered eyesore of three storefronts on Brighton Avenue at Quint Avenue, boarded up since a fire in September, 2022.

The Free Press reports the owner of Amelia's Taqueria continues to pay his rent - which has actually gone up $300 since the fire, and when an ISD inspector showed up earlier this year, "the lone individual working on site fled from the inspector when questioned."

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:32 pm

Sen. Ed Markey announced today that the US Department of Transportation will kick in $335.4 million for the Allston I-90 Multimodal Project after all. Read more.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 10:29 pm
Mace man and Lysol lady on the Green Line

Mace man and Lysol lady, surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man who maced numerous passengers on a Green Line trolley at Lechmere around 2:25 p.m. yesterday and a woman who sprayed Lysol into the eyes of a driver of a Green Line shuttle bus at Babcock Street around 11 p.m. on Feb. 21.

If either look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:40 am

The MBTA switched back to bustitution between Copley and Babcock Street on the B Line this morning after a trolley derailed near Kenmore Square shortly before 9 a.m. Also:

Cleveland Circle and Riverside trains will terminate at Kenmore. Westbound service will be rerouted to the E Branch at Copley. Riders can also use local bus route 57 for service between Babcock St and Copley.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 9:38 am

Tyler Finney reports, in the Allston/Brighton Community Discussion group on Facebook, that she and other residents of 65 Ashford St. in Allston were sound asleep early Saturday when the house caught fire. She says he is likely only alive because of two strangers who noticed the fire, broke into the house and woke everybody up - because her apartment's smoke detectors didn't go off: Read more.

By adamg - 3/3/24 - 1:39 pm
67 Ashford St. on fire

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire reported at 65 Ashford St. around 2 a.m. on Saturday injured one resident and caused an estimated $2 million in damage. Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 12:20 pm

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let City Smoke Shop, 957 Commonwealth Ave., add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 12:03 am
Suspect in Rockland Trust

Surveillance of suspect in Rockland Trust branch via FBI.

Suspect at Cooperative Bank

The FBI yesterday arrested a Roslindale man they say paid for an expensive shopping trip to the Walgreens on Centre Street in West Roxbury earlier this month by first robbing the Rockland Trust branch down the street - a week after he tried and failed to rob a Bank of America branch in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/24 - 1:25 pm

The MBTA reported delays on the B Line at 12:36 p.m after a trolley died at Packard's Corner.

By adamg - 2/10/24 - 12:38 pm
Multiplying mattresses

Multiplying mattresses

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the mattress mishegas behind 69 Empire St. in Allston: Read more.

By adamg - 2/6/24 - 9:08 am

Streetsblog Massachusetts reports that for the second year in a row, the federal government has turned down a state request to help pay for the major reconstruction of the Massachusetts Turnpike near where the toll plazas used to be in Allston.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 11:25 am

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant liquor and food-serving licenses to Jongro BBQ of New York for the space where the White Horse Tavern used to be at 116-120 Brighton Ave. in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 4:50 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports a California chain called Baby Cafe Kitchen is opening outlets on Brighton Avenue in Allston - in that spot where the laundry place used to be - and on Beacon Street in Brookline.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 10:09 am

At 8:46 a.m., the MBTA reported 25-minute delays on the B Line due to a trolley approaching rigor mortis near Warren Street. The trolley was shoved out of the way and service resumed about a half hour later, the T updated.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 1:53 pm
Hardy, Rosenberg and McCarthy

Hardy, McCarthy and Rosenberg.

For more than a year now, Stephen Rosenberg, Lukas McCarthy and Jhayson Hardy have been building a novel kind of Boston club: A place that would play hi-fidelity music, but at low enough volumes where you could still have a conversation, through hand-built and vintage sound components in a venue that would be a "safe space" for everybody from members of the LGBTQ+ community to people with mobility issues to just people who want a place to hang out or even do school work during the day. Read more.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 1:41 pm

Fields West on Glenville Avenue in Allston announced today it's closing down, possibly only temporarily. Read more.

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