Harry's All American, 1420 Centre St. in Roslindale, formally asked the Boston Licensing Board today for one of the 02131-specific alcohol licenses it has to dole out, both because customers keep asking for adult accompaniments for their meals and so it can expand into dinner service. Read more.
The city announced today that Joanne Chang's Flour has won a lease to re-open the former Earl of Sandwich kiosk on Boston Common this coming spring. Read more.
The building, photo from owner's filing.
A New York real-estate investment firm has filed plans to convert the seven-story and currently mostly vacant 4 Liberty Sq. at Water and Batterymarch streets into 36 apartments - and for a tax break under Boston's downtown office-to-residences pilot program. Read more.
Ryan Hatcher went for a walk along the Fenway and Park Drive stretch of the Muddy River between 1 and 1:30 p.m. today, took some photos and reports on the headache-inducing smell: Read more.
A man was fatally shot in the head around 10:25 p.m. on Monday at 114 Devon St. in Dorchester, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more.
Rendering of the view from Humboldt Avenue by COEverything.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a four-story building with 26 affordable apartments to wrap around the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at Humboldt Avenue and Waumbeck Street in Dorchester. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today un-did its denial last week of an investor's request to let him sell eight condos on Webster Street in East Boston because the "public notice" for that hearing referred to supposed violations of article 68 of the Boston zoning code, which covers South Boston, rather than article 53, which covers East Boston....
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Rendering by Embarc of the new building between two existing buildings..
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Fenway Community Development Corp. to replace a long closed laundromat at 112 Queensberry St. with an apartment building with 24 affordable units. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by landlord City Realty to convert the former local home of the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross - the Rosicrucians - at 13 Clevemont Ave., off Everett Street in Allston, into four apartments. Read more.
Mona Xia and Erin Ramirez take us into the kitchen and the history of the largest Chinese restaurant in the country, which serves 100,000 pounds of spare ribs and 55,000 orders of crab rangoon a year.
Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.
Along with all the ducks and geese, a bald eagle perched up in a tree along the Muddy River today, surveying the geese paddling down below in the oil-infused water, near the pedestrian bridge over the Green Line to Carlton Street.
The Brookline Select Board said tonight that state environmental experts have taken the lead in figuring out where the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River downstream from Leverett Pond and that the source has yet to be identified. Read more.
Edit: Corrected to reflect that Harry's never had any plans to expand into the Kelleher's space.
Boston Restaurant Talk serves up the news that the Boston Licensing Board this week considers a request by Kelleher's Bar and Grille on Centre Street near Weld Street in Roslindale to sell its liquor license to some joint in the Hancock Building, um, 200 Clarendon St., in the Back Bay. Read more...
The US Supreme Court today formally declined to consider a lawsuit by White and Asian-American parents against the way BPS now uses Zip codes as part of its algorithm for determining who gets offered admission to Boston's three exam schools. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to the house next to the KFC on Columbia Road in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester around 6:50 a.m. for what was quickly announced as a two-alarm fire. Read more.
Oil-covered goose near Longwood.
Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond this afternoon on reports of oil - and a heavy petroleum odor, spreading from Leverett Pond at the rear of the Brook House at 33 Pond Ave. in Brookline and at least as far north as the Longwood Green Line stop. Read more.
An Amesbury woman who suffered a fractured skull and pelvis and had to have part of her leg amputated due after falling under a Green Line trolley in 2023 that had begun pulling out of BU Central last week sued the MBTA for negligence, saying the operators of the two-car train failed to check to make sure the outside of the train was clear before starting to leave the stop. Read more.
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