Newbury Street

Before the lights came back on

adamg — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:17:41 +0000

Move toward the light.

Myron Freeman captured Newbury Street in the dark last night, before power came back around 11 p.m.

Copyright Myron Freeman. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.

Newbury Street to get a food trolley by the Green Line

adamg — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:31:41 +0000

Rendering via MBTA.

Clover, best known for its vegetarian food trucks, will be setting up shop this spring in an MBTA-owned spot on Newbury Street near Mass. Ave., around the corner from the entrance to Hynes station.

The T says Clover will pay $1,000 a month - and utilities - for the right to occupy the space for one year.

Never leave a towel next to a coffeepot

adamg — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:08:43 +0000

Inside 271 Dartmouth. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire on Dartmouth Street started when a hot coffeepot ignited a towel shortly after midnight.

The fire was confined to a single fifth-floor condo at 271 Dartmouth St., but other residences sustained significant smoke and water damage, the department reports. Residents who couldn't find another place to stay were able to stay warm in one of two MBTA buses kept running outside the BPL main library on Boylston Street. The Red Cross was called in to help 25 residents find alternate housing until repairs can be made.

Damage was estimated at $1 million.

Man robbed at gunpoint on Newbury Street

adamg — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:17:30 +0000

2/17/12 - 9:45 pm

Stanley Staco reports two guys with a gun stuck somebody up around 9:45 p.m. at Newbury and Exeter streets, then ran toward Arlington Street.

Fur wearers and people with sensitive eardrums might want to avoid Newbury Street at lunchtime tomorrow

adamg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:38:34 +0000

Apparently naked women have lost their appeal, so PETA instead plans to station people with whistles along Newbury Street at noon tomorrow:

Blowing high-decibel whistles, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with anti-fur slogans, and shouting "Shame!" every time they spot someone dressed in fur, PETA members will congregate at busy intersections in Boston's upscale shopping district on Wednesday.

State orders Newbury Street sneaker store shut for lack of access for the disabled

adamg — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:48:28 +0000

The state Architectural Access Board has ordered Converse to close its year-old store at 348 Newbury St. because the entrance does not comply with state accessibility regulations.

In a cease-and-desist order issued yesterday, the board said the sneaker vendor has repeatedly refused to do anything about the lack of access and said the store can only reopen after an inspection shows the store is actually handicap accessible. The store says it has been unable to do the work because of more pressing problems fixing leaks from the neighboring Hynes Green Line station.

How do you even get on that thing?

adamg — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:35:42 +0000

Leslee watched bicyclists on some sort of protest ride down Newbury Street on Saturday (she wonders who they were).

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

We each have our own way to express patriotism

adamg — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:22:24 +0000

Leslee spotted this man and dogs rolling down Newbury Street yesterday.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Man arrested behind Newbury Street store linked to robbery spree along the swank street

adamg — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:12:26 +0000

Suspect at work at 179 Newbury on July 7.

Boston Police report a man arrested as he appeared to be getting ready to break into a Newbury Street shop early this morning will be charged with a series of other heists along the street.

Officers on routine patrol around 1:45 a.m. today spotted a guy jumping down from an air-conditioning unit in an alley behind BLVD Boston, 251 Newbury St. They asked him what he was doing there. He said he was just using the alley as a restroom, but their attention was drawn to a backpack up on the AC unit, police say:

Menino to Nike: Drop dope

adamg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:22:05 +0000

The Herald reports the mayor is outraged about T-shirts at Niketown he says promote drug use.

John Carroll suggests the mayor leave Newbury Street fashion policing to the Back Bay Hysterical Society.

Half-naked Bostonians and the people who love them

adamg — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:48:49 +0000

The annual Santas in Speedos run (now formally known as SSRun for some no doubt perfectly good reason that I just can't figure out at 6:46 a.m.) starts at 1 p.m. this Saturday at Lir on Boylston Street.

The annual No Pants Subway Ride comes up on Jan. 9, between 2 and 4 p.m., at an exact location to be named later.

Freakiest Santa of the year, on Newbury Street

adamg — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:36:27 +0000

Hide the kids' eyes when you walk past the demonically possessed spirit of Marilyn Monroe in a Santa suit.

Cheap on-street parking for scooters starts today on Newbury, Boylston streets

adamg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:29:59 +0000

The Globe reports on the 25-cents-an-hour spaces.

The chicken that wants to kill you on Newbury Street

adamg — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:07:23 +0000

Watch your step while passing the Ted Baker store, 201 Newbury.

Via.

Three sure signs of spring

adamg — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:08:50 +0000

The Singing Spare Change Guy (not the Grating Spare Change Guy) is back; he was outside DeLuca's on Newbury Street today.

The birds inside the Forest Hills T station were singing up a storm.

The "seasonal special" on sandwiches at the new bagel place in Quincy Market is now $6.96, compared to the $4.94 "seasonal special" for the same exact sandwiches two weeks ago.