The owner of the parking lot at 17 West St. in Downtown Crossing has filed plans to build a 15-story, 94-room hotel on the less than 1/10th acre parcel. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/21/23 - 10:28 pm
Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports at least two road ragers managed to make it nearly 3 miles from Ukraine Way and Hyde Park Avenue in Forest Hills to Hyde Park without killing anyone before crashing in front of the block of stores that includes Asian-Thai Eatery on River Street near West Street in Hyde Park around 7 p.m. - possibly reaching speeds of up to 90 m.p.h. along the way. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/21 - 4:03 pm
Boston Police report officers responding to a fight at 123 West St. in Hyde Park around 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday arrived just in time to spot one of the combatants reaching under the passenger seat of the car he was in for what turned out to be a gun loaded with ten rounds. Read more.
By adamg - 6/5/20 - 2:54 pm
Among those kneeling: Metco CEO Milly Arbaje-Thomas and Bedford School Superintendent John Sills.
Suburban school superintendents and Metco officials gathered in McGann Playground on West Street in Hyde Park this afternoon to decry the continued extrajudicial killings of black men and women and to call on educators to work even harder to ensure that black students can grow up to their full potential and that white students learn to not be racists. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/19 - 4:29 pm
Hyde Park residents living on either side of the George Wright Golf Course are increasingly reporting small marauding packs of overstuffed turkeys are making life increasingly difficult. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/19 - 11:02 am
Around 10:30 a.m. where the Fairmount Line crosses the Neponset River between West Street and Truman Parkway. Read more.
By adamg - 12/29/18 - 1:57 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about an overactive writer on a utility box at West and Tremont streets downtown.
By adamg - 8/6/18 - 8:48 am
Sometime overnight or early this morning, a tree fell at West and Austin streets, causing problems for motorists and riders of the 50 bus. Photo by Sean Flynn.
By adamg - 11/16/17 - 9:20 am
WBZ reports a new Dunkin' Donuts at Tremont and West streets is just Dunkin' - because the chain thinks people need to be slapped in the face with a reminder that it serves more than just donuts. Of course, it also serves more than just things that can be dunked, too, so maybe the next step is to just call it Apostrophe.
By adamg - 9/8/17 - 2:23 pm
Matthew Cody, 31, of Arlington received the sentence today following his conviction yesterday on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon for a 2015 incident on West Street after he got off work at a downtown restaurant. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/17 - 5:53 pm
A man driving a pickup truck with a large propane tank in the bed plowed into the house at 102 West St. in Hyde Park shortly after 5 p.m. today.
Witnesses, who included Weaverson Ulyesse and David Pierre, said the driver seemed to have floored it when turning left onto the narrow West from the even narrower Hilton Street. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/17 - 10:04 am
The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved a plan by a Dunkin' Donuts franchisee to fill in an empty storefront on Tremont Street at West Street with a new Dunks.
When open, the location means people needing a Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee while standing at Tremont and West will no longer have to walk an entire two blocks to the Dunkin' Donuts at Tremont and Park or Washington near Winter and Summer.
By adamg - 12/24/16 - 4:26 pm
This ad, printed sometime between 1875 and 1900, is from the Library of Congress collection.
By adamg - 6/27/16 - 5:36 pm
An Arlington man had bail set at $30,000 at his arraignment today on charges of arson and attempted murder for an incident last October on West Street downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Matthew Cody, 30, was so intent on setting two sleeping homeless men on fire that he set a second fire when the first one went out, Assistant District Attorney David McGowan said in court today. Read more.
By adamg - 3/3/16 - 12:01 pm
The crane after it tipped over. Photo by ChinatownKicks.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld a nearly $10-million verdict for the death of James Williamson when the boom-lift crane from which he was inspecting a the roof of a Suffolk University building downtown tipped over, hurtling him into the wall of a neighboring building. Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/15 - 8:40 am
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which provides services for homeless youth, is suing a Chicago-based chain of tea shops, which it says simply abandoned the space it had agreed to rent in the non-profit group's downtown building. Read more.
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