Eric Bender spent some time this morning observing the Ever Fair, berthed in the Reserved Channel at the Conley Terminal. He noted it's 1,095 feet long - longer than the container ship that took out the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (although we don't have any bridges to takeout between the Reserved Channel and the open ocean). It also appears to be a reverse mullet: Party in the front, business in the back: Read more.
Rendering by Stantec.
The BPDA board yesterday approved Core Development's plans for three life-sciences lab and office buildings - two 13 stories, one 12 - as part of its massive On the Dot project to remake a stretch of Dorchester Avenue from Andrew Square north along the Southampton train yard. Read more.
Ballistics dog on D Street sniffing out evidence. Photo by Spookybirch.
A woman was shot in the leg on D Street at West 7th Street around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
Rejected rendering by 686 Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans to expand a two-family house at 847 East 5th St. into a five-unit condo building, saying it was completely out of character with the triple deckers on the rest of the block and had too much parking. Read more.
GBH takes a look at the health woes of giant ships belching diesel smoke from the cheapest possible grade of fuel that now routinely ply Boston Harbor.
Crash scene. The F150 is on the other side of the cruiser. Photo by On the Channel.
Drew Karedes reports a 4-year-old died at Congress and Sleeper streets after being hit by the driver of a Ford F150. Read more.
State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) is now offering his support for the proposed Small Victories tavern on Dorchester Street in South Boston, two days after he angrily denounced it as a potential home of date-apping "vidiots" being pushed by buttinsky East Bostonians. Read more.
The MBTA reports a Red Line train derailed at Broadway at the start of service and that it's now running buses between Park Street and points south. The T says no passengers were on the train.
The entire hearing. See below for Collins's statement.
Update: Collins offers conditional support.
State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) unleashed a barrage of invective yesterday against plans by the owner of the Quiet Few tavern in East Boston's Jeffries Point to open a similar tavern at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, calling it a potential hellhole catering to the very sort of losers the neighborhood doesn't need - despite testimony from people in Andrew Square they can't wait for it to open. Read more.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about the situation at D and Bolton streets in South Boston at 4:34 p.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a teenager Thursday for the armed holdup of a delivery person at 40 West 7th St. in the West Broadway development around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 25. Read more.
Republicans in the First Suffolk district yesterday voted to keep their incumbent Republican State Committeewoman, Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick, rather than put a Nazi into office. Read more.
An alarmed citizen files a 311 complaint about the signs that are popping up at Medal of Honor Park in South Boston, no matter how many times said citizen removes them: Read more.
WBZ reports on the incident involving a special-needs child who was first put in restraints, which were then duct-taped to a chair at the Condon School in South Boston. The teacher and other staffers have been put on administrative leave as BPS investigates.
A roving UHub photographer reports about 30 pickups and SUVs and one Army-surplus truck made their way along Day Boulevard today as part of the most special Magachusetts Trump's America First Get Out the Vote caravan, which wended its way from the USS Constitution in Charlestown to Castle Island, just in time for the annual re-opening of Sullivan's.
Boston Police report a bystander who noticed red smoke pouring out of a woman's hoodie pocket held her in place until police could arrive to arrest her on charges she had just held up the Rockland Trust branch at 501 Southampton St. in South Boston around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
A put-out citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation at Courthouse on the Silver Line:
City of Boston or MBTA, please do something: 3 people smoking weed INSIDE the entrance to the Silver Line Courthouse station, top of escalator. At the same station, one person blasting music at the lobby practicing skate boarding for the Olympics. 5:45 pm, Thursday February 29, 2024.
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