Cleveland Circle
Brewing battle for Cleveland Circle as Starbucks gets ready to open up shop
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 4:48 pmThe Boston Licensing Board today approved a license for a Starbucks at 1944 Beacon St., across the street from a Dunkin' Donuts.
An engaging museum
By adamg - 5/26/11 - 8:37 am
Photographynatalya takes us on an online tour of the new Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill.
Copyright Photographynatalya. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Police: Man grabbed wheel of T bus from driver and tried to ram oncoming traffic
By adamg - 5/18/11 - 8:55 am
UPDATE: Lyons was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail in Brighton District Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Police charge an Everett man who had trouble keeping his pants up had no problems wresting control of an 86 bus and trying to crash it - but was foiled by a fast-thinking rookie driver who managed to apply the emergency brake.
MBTA Transit Police say Donald Lyons, 52, reached across the 24-year-old driver - on the job for just 2 1/2 months - around 7:30 last night and grabbed the bus's steering wheel as it approached Commonwealth Avenue on Chestnut Hill Avenue:
No, not the Applebee's!
By adamg - 3/3/11 - 7:15 pmResidents from Brighton, Brookline and Newton are trying to organize a task force to watch over a proposed hotel and retail development that would demolish not only the vacant Cleveland Circle Cinema but the Applebee's next door, on land split by the Boston/Brookline line just down the street from Newton.
The first meeting of the Cleveland Circle Task Force is Tuesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the basement of Roggie's, 356 Chestnut Hill Ave.
New Brighton museum will get you pumped up
By adamg - 2/24/11 - 5:14 pmThe Waterworks Museum holds its grand opening on March 27 at one of the former Chestnut Hill pump stations (the brown and beige one).
This is an exciting new Museum celebrating the history, architecture, public health, and aesthetic beauty of 3 glorious Turbine Engines that have been hidden away for so long.
Squirrel die-off around Chestnut Hill Reservoir not natural, resident says
By adamg - 2/21/11 - 2:33 pmSomebody's going around shooting squirrels with a BB gun, Brookline Patch reports.
Police charge BC student as caffeine-mad robber who pistol whipped Cleveland Circle store clerk
By adamg - 9/13/10 - 8:02 pm
Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports police charge Kevin Michael McCarthy robbed the Beacon Street Tedeschi store in August, then attempted to throw investigators off his trail by changing his photo in the BC imaging system.
According to police, McCarthy robbed the store around 5 a.m. on Aug. 13, four hours after he went in and inquired whether the store was open 24 hours and if the coffee was fresh. After beating the clerk and forcing him to empty two registers, police say, McCarthy demanded to know where the coffee was before fleeing.
Innocent, etc.
Developer proposes replacing Circle Cinemas with hotel
By adamg - 9/7/10 - 8:39 amThe Herald reports (bottom of article) that Boston Development Group of Newton wants to replace the vacant movie complex with a 150-room hotel and retail space. No word if guests will be required to watch a short video with blinking arrows showing the best way to exit onto Beacon Street.
Smoked pizza not on the menu at Cleveland Circle pizza place
By adamg - 6/16/10 - 9:48 pm
Matthew Cote was among the onlookers who watched Boston firefighters extinguish a fire in the alley behind Pino's Pizza on Beacon Street tonight. Don't worry: He reports the fire did not involve Pino's.
The pros of cons in Cleveland Circle
By adamg - 1/3/10 - 11:58 pmMichael Pahre discovers the secret to the good job DCR is doing cleaning up its sidewalks in Cleveland Circle after years of not giving a flying fig about pedestrians: Shovel-wielding prisoners from the state Department of Corrections:
... Nobody was shackled hand and foot to each other. But they were wearing orange jumpsuits with big, black letters "DOC" on the back, and there were two vehicles -- one from DCR with equipment, the other a van from DOC for the passengers -- slowly following the shoveling men as they worked their way around the ice rink and reservoir. ... Sounds to me like a good solution to address something that used to be a big problem.
