Neil couldn't help but notice the Mexican ARM Cuauhtémoc docked at Fan Pier this morning. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/1/23 - 5:00 pm
A high-school student from Jamaica Plain was confined to his home - except to be allowed out to attend school - for his alleged role in a grocery attack on a woman at the Broadway Red Line station on Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 5/1/23 - 1:39 pm
The owner of industrial buildings along West 1st Street and Pappas Way has teamed up with a Toronto developer on a proposal for an eight-acre, seven-building development that would include "a variety of commercial and employment-based opportunities" as well as some new housing - in a complex that would be nearly as large as the one now underway to replace the old Edison plant a few blocks away. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/23 - 11:38 am
Transit Police report they are looking for five juveniles they say jumped a woman at Broadway station around 4 p.m. yesterday, stole her bag of groceries, then began throwing items from it at her head. They ran out of the station, the woman had to be transported to a local hospital for facial injuries, police say.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 1:06 pm
Rendering of proposed Blank Street Coffee.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by a Brooklyn-based coffeehouse chain that specializes in cold brews to turn a former real-estate office at 489 East Broadway in South Boston into a place where baristas can ply their trade - right around the corner from the more old-school PS Gourmet, which sells giant-sized "buckets" of flavored iced coffee. Read more.
By adamg - 4/18/23 - 4:21 pm
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority announced today it plans to start over with plans to develop six acres it owns near the South Boston convention center, rather than going forward with either of the two mixed-use development proposals it had received. Read more.
By adamg - 4/18/23 - 10:04 am
Bird-enriched view from across Summer and East 1st, rendered by Elkus Manfredi.
Plans for a proposed life-sciences building off Summer and East 1st street in South Boston show large first-floor picture windows so passersby can gaze in and feel some of the miracle of science happening right in their neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 4/13/23 - 3:39 pm
A man was shot in the leg at 188 Orton Marotta Way in the West Broadway development around 2:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 4/12/23 - 9:11 am
The MBTA announced this morning it's completed its $255-million purchase of the 24-acre Widett Circle to store and maintain trains on South Station routes - both current and planned future routes to Fall River, New Bedford and Pittsfield. Read more.
By adamg - 4/6/23 - 9:15 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 690 Dorchester Ave. for a fire on the first and second floors around 1 p.m.
No injuries, but three residents were displaced, the department says.
By adamg - 3/31/23 - 1:01 pm
David Doyle's Zoom background shows his new restaurant.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans for a new Seaport restaurant that will sit on the water where Whiskey Priest used to be back when the area consisted mainly of parking lots. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 12:48 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered Coquette, inside the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, shut for two days as punishment for incident in which two BPD detectives found a table of six teenagers - one just 16 - at a table with drinks in front of them around midnight on Nov. 25. Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/23 - 1:26 pm
The Coast Guard announced today it will investigate what caused the Spirit of Boston to catch on fire as it was docked at Commonwealth Pier Friday night. Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/23 - 12:27 pm
Boston Licensing Board members reacted with shock on hearing that police on a surprise inspection found a 16-year-old at a table - with five other underage people - drinking alcohol at midnight in a Seaport hotel last November. Read more.
By adamg - 3/27/23 - 10:29 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on M Street near East 6th Street in South Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 3/24/23 - 9:21 pm
Seized guns and ammo.
An Arkansas man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail after he was arrested on Day Boulevard in South Boston early Sunday for driving around with a loaded gun under his leg, three other loaded guns and a total of 230 bullets, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 3/24/23 - 3:42 pm
Hugmajesty stopped to watch a worker put up a new sign at the Barking Crab.
By adamg - 3/19/23 - 9:45 pm
Michael Spicher watched a guy walking an Irish wolfhound in the St. Patrick's parade today.
By adamg - 3/18/23 - 10:53 pm
Chris Lovett posts a collection of his parade photos through the years.
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