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By adamg - 7/7/22 - 9:17 pm

Northeastern University Police sent out an alert today that a person was robbed at gunpoint outside Smith Hall, a Northeastern dorm at 129 Hemenway St. this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/22 - 9:58 pm

A taqueria owner who has been trying to get later hours for his Boston restaurants finally won a battle today when the Boston Licensing Board agreed to extend the closing time of one of the outlets from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 6/25/22 - 11:42 am
Bladeless fan in Kenmore Green Line station

Glenn Whidden reports this fan in the Kenmore Square Green Line station isn't plugged in, although he adds:

No point, it has no blades. Never change MBTA.

By adamg - 6/14/22 - 9:31 am
Fenway gun suspect

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police are looking for a man they say opened fire on Brookline Avenue outside Fenway Park and Game On around 10:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/6/22 - 10:15 pm
Rendeirng of new Boylston Street building and park

Rendering by Elkus Manfredi, looking across from 401 Park to where the Star and gas station used to be.

Samuels & Associates, which has been building in the Fenway for a couple decades now, today filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposal to replace the Boylston Street Star Market and the neighboring abandoned gas station with an 11-story life-sciences building, new parkland and bike lanes along Park Drive and a "cultural pavilion." Read more.

By adamg - 6/3/22 - 4:04 pm
Proposed Huntington Avenue apartment building

Rendering imagines the view as seen by a bird, or maybe a drone, hovering over Symphony Hall.

A developer that specializes in luxury subdivisions says it has secured a $226-million loan to build its first luxury apartment building in Boston - at 252-264 Huntington Ave., at Mass. Ave. Read more.

By adamg - 5/29/22 - 12:45 pm

Boston 311 this morning is chock full of complaints from people living nowhere near Boston Calling about all the noise, noise, noise: Read more.

By adamg - 5/28/22 - 8:55 pm
Rainbow over Kenmore Square

Thebostonlol looked inbound on Comm. Ave. after the storm had passed this afternoon.

By adamg - 5/26/22 - 2:22 pm
Ryder truck and Storrow Drive pedestrian bridge

Clare captured the near storrowing on Storrow Drive inbound this afternoon.

By adamg - 5/12/22 - 9:57 am

The owner of a chain of local taquerias is hoping the third time's a charm with an attempt to keep one of his Boston outlets open past 2 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/22 - 11:34 pm

Live Boston reports a man in a car on Hemenway Street at Burbank Street was shot shortly after 5 p.m.

By adamg - 5/6/22 - 9:13 am

Nothing does a storrowing quite like the Fenway/Kenmore exit off Storrow Drive - the curve means trucks catch the bottom of the upper ramp at an angle, so not only are they peeled open, they're left at quite the jaunty angle. The truck in those photos belongs to Gourmet Catering in Forest Hills, so you'd think the driver would be familiar with the reason to stay off Storrow, but maybe he's new.

By adamg - 5/4/22 - 10:33 pm
Three of the photos from the Building Safety celebration

Thumbnail versions of some of the images from the Flickr RSS feed.

Mayor Wu, ISD officials and various local construction-industry panjandrums and workers put on hard hats and celebrated International Building Safety Month today by going on a tour of Boston University's still unfinished Jenga Building, um, Center for Computing and Data Sciences in Kenmore Square. Read more.

By adamg - 5/1/22 - 9:04 pm
$30,000 wanted guy

Surveillance photos of the suspects via BPD.

Boston Police reports two people having trouble transferring money to relatives in China got hooked up with a guy who said he could take care of it, but after they handed over $30,000 in a meeting in Kenmore Square, the guy ran away. Read more.

By adamg - 4/27/22 - 9:50 am

CityLab talks to architects who are just so frickin' sick of brick that they are practically doubled over in joy over BU's new Jenga building on Comm. Ave. just outside Kenmore Square, Harvard's shiny new building in Allston "that evokes an M.C. Escher print" and HYM's sexily curved tower where the Government Center garage is coming down.

By adamg - 4/26/22 - 11:02 am

A married couple who got off a party bus to enjoy the House of Blues one January night wound up getting the venue hauled before the Boston Licensing Board today because after they became separated, he began rummaging through a women's room - slamming a stall door into another woman's head when he kicked it open in his search for his wife. Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/22 - 10:45 pm
Hemenway Street fire

Photo by Brian C.

Update: Two residents and a firefighter injured.

Firefighters responded to 26 Hemenway St., near Haviland, for a fire around 10:15 p.m. Was declared knocked down around 10:40 p.m.

By adamg - 3/1/22 - 1:43 pm

Update: Northeastern goes even further.

BU announced today that starting March 7:

Face masks will no longer be required in most areas on campus, including dining halls, residential housing common areas, offices, libraries, food courts, and common areas in buildings and colleges. Masks will continue to be required indoors for instructional purposes and lectures in classrooms, the BU Shuttle, all healthcare facilities, and in those venues which are open to the public and host ticketed events.

By adamg - 2/21/22 - 8:50 pm

The Huntington News reports on the impending closing of the Blick Art store at Huntington Avenue and Mass Ave. The other Blick stores, in the Landmark Center and Cambridge, will remain open.

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