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By adamg - 8/8/23 - 7:09 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Taco Bell is looking to put one of its liquor-infused Taco Bell Cantinas into the space at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues where Great Scott used to be.

By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:28 am
Townhomes rendering

Rendering by Choo & Company.

The Zoning Board today approved a developer's plans to build four attached condos with front entrances that would face a new driveway at 108 Allston St., across from the West End House, in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 9:10 pm

Stingray Body Art on Harvard Avenue announced yesterday it is no more.

By adamg - 8/6/23 - 12:14 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Newton man after a sergeant checking in with local merchants spotted him tagging up the rear of the Happy Lamb building at Harvard and Brighton avenues around 1:45 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 10:03 am
Turkey and firetruck on Brighton Avenue in Allston

Teddy Kokoros watched this turkey who had obviously gotten up early to get some boba on Brighton Avenue near Harvard Avenue in Allston this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/23 - 11:54 am

The MBTA reports that after 12 days of work replacing track the Green Line will re-open for service tomorrow morning in Brighton and Allston.

The T says workers put in some 2,800 feed of track at Blandford Street, Packards Corner, and between Harvard Avenue and Griggs Street, as well as replaced worn out wooden ties and the like.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:09 am

The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them "wait comfortably at their bus stops and board the bus safely." Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 9:39 am
Backup on Soldiers Field Road

Ari Ofsevit was on hand for an almost-storrowing that turned into a backup of shame on the inbound side of Soldiers Field Road by Cambridge Street in Allston this morning. He reports the effort to get the 18-wheeler off the road led to a more than 15-minute road shutdown that, of course, resulted in a massive backup. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 1:16 pm

The MBTA reports it will shut down the entire B Line between July 17 and 28 for repairs on top of the repairs it performed for 12 days last summer. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 12:08 pm

The Crimson reports Tishman Speyer is set to break ground this week on the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus off Western Avenue after the company landed a $750-million financing package, which it claims is the largest such deal in the US this year. Harvard currently owns about a third of Allston, with much of its newest holdings secretly acquired in the late 1980s.

By adamg - 6/17/23 - 6:44 pm
Wanted for dump-truck robbery

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police have released photos of the guy they say stole a bright-red dump truck trailer and excavator in Allston, then drove it to Westwood, where he dumped them outside the Wegmans on University Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 6/12/23 - 3:15 pm
Derailed wheels at Packards Corner

Photo by Lipistickey.

It's buses all the way down as the T replaces B Line trolleys after one came off the rails at Packards Corner around 2:10 p.m. Lipistickey surveyed the damage, can only marvel: Whoops.

The trolley was still there at 5 p.m: Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/23 - 5:56 pm

A developer will soon file detailed plans to replace a warehouse and Boston EMS garage at 287 Western Ave., behind Jessie and Katey's Art House, in Allston with a 90,000-square-foot lab building aimed at smaller start-up firms in life sciences. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/23 - 10:16 am

A Florida developer says it will soon file plans to replace what it calls a "little used commercial building at 250 Everett St. in Allston with a six-story, 250-unit apartment building with about 117 parking spaces in an underground garage. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/23 - 10:15 am

A federal judge last week sentenced Jamaine Howell, 36, of Everett, to nine years in prison for robbing the TD Bank at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues on Feb. 7, 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 2:03 pm

Transit Police report a woman eating lunch onboard a Green Line trolley didn't just fret that she might get hair in her food from another woman fixing her hair near her, she took action: Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/23 - 1:49 pm
Street chess in Jamaica Plain

Some street chess during last year's JP Open Streets.

Mayor Wu today announced an expanded "Open Streets" program in which Newbury Street in the Back Bay will be closed to motor vehicles every Sunday between July 2 and Oct. 15 and five streets in other neighborhoods will be shut to cars and trucks for one-day celebrations. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:29 am

A federal judge earlier this month dismissed a lawsuit by six Boston University students over what they claimed was the inferior education they got after the school shifted to online classes as the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020, in part because there was no way that BU could have foreseen a global pandemic would effectively shut down the entire state. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 10:27 pm

The mayor's office and the BAA report Vinny Castronuovo, who finished the race in 2:25:56, and Shannon Lamarre, who finished the race in 2:54:34, will get Boston's first honors for the fastest Bostonian runners in the Marathon. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 9:55 am
Crushed box truck after getting storrowed

A roving UHub photographer ran across this freshly shorn box truck sitting on North Harvard Street after a little run in with a bridge on nearby Soldiers Field Drive this morning. Read more.

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