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By adamg - 10/23/24 - 1:52 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports that under a compromise with city business organizations, the city will seek state approval to raise the tax levy from commercial properties higher than otherwise allowed for three years to help shield residential property owners from some of the shock of upcoming property re-assessments, expected to show a significant drop in commercial tax revenue due to continuing effects of fewer people returning to work downtown.

Under the proposal, the city would set aside $15 million a year for tax breaks for smaller...

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By adamg - 10/23/24 - 1:42 pm
Councilors with UNITE HERE 26 members in Council chambers

Councilors with UNITE HERE 26 members in Council chambers.

The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.

By adamg - 10/23/24 - 11:59 am
Demosthene running away from Mattapan robbery

Demosthene running away from Mattapan robbery in distinctive hoodie that helped investigators ID him.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Stoughton man to 36 months in federal prison for robbing letter carriers in two Boston neighborhoods to get their "arrow" keys, which would let him and his accomplice open on-street postal boxes to search for checks and other valuables. Read more.

By adamg - 10/23/24 - 10:03 am

A Commonwealth Avenue resident whose condo backs up to the Newbury Street location of yet another proposed dispensary says the idea goes against city zoning codes and would help diminish the neighborhood and his property in so many ways, including through the generation of "noxious odors." Read more.

By adamg - 10/23/24 - 9:27 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports several hundred people gathered Sunday at the Old Dorchester North Burial Ground in Uphams Corner to learn more about the historic cemetery, one of the oldest in Boston, but rarely open to the public.

By adamg - 10/23/24 - 9:15 am

Jamaica Plain News lobs the story over the net: Three new pickleball courts are now available at English High School, possibly ending the crisis at the South Street courts, which had seen pickleballers take over space from both tennis and basketball players.

By adamg - 10/22/24 - 4:19 pm
Domingos DaRosa makes a point

Domingos DaRosa makes a point.

In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.

By adamg - 10/22/24 - 12:09 pm

A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint today about "adult toys and other garbage left on sidewalk" at Warren Avenue and Clarendon Street in the South End. With a photo of said adult toys, in case you're unfamiliar with what they look like.

Earlier:
Citizen complaint of the day: Is that a traffic sign on your pole or are you just glad to see me?

By adamg - 10/22/24 - 10:10 am

NBC Boston reports on the stabbing, around 9:45 p.m. on Monday outside the Allstate Road restaurant.

By adamg - 10/22/24 - 10:04 am

Guira & Tambora, 4014 Washington St. in Roslindale, is seeking to extend its closing time from 1130 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends to 1 a.m. - and to build an addition to its front to provide takeout.

The city Office of Neighborhood Services is holding a Zoom meeting for nearby residents, staring at 7 p.m., tonight. The proposed changes will need the approval of the Zoning Board of Appeal and the Boston Licensing Board.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:47 pm
Vigil participants on Tower Street

Eric Esteves was among those calling for immediate action tonight to prevent more pedestrian fatalities around the Forest Hills MBTA station, following the Oct. 12 death of Glenn Inghram as he crossed Washington Street and was hit by an MBTA bus.

The vigil was held on Tower Street at Washington, near where Ingrahm was fatally hit.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:33 pm

An Indian national is in federal custody after his arrest at Logan Airport this morning on a charge that he kept exposing himself to other passengers as he attempted to get some personal loving in on a flight from Abu Dhabi - after first failing to get a woman passenger whose hair and breast he touched to spend the night with him in Boston in exchange for a $5,000 "gift," according to documents unsealed in federal court tonight. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 2:10 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that what was once a two-mile road from Carlisle down towards the center of Concord is still legally open to the public and property owners need to stop blocking it with the locked gates and warning signs they first put up in the early days of the pandemic to try to bar hikers out for fresh air. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:33 am
Rendering of proposed hotel at 246-248 Dorchester Ave.

Rendering by Utile.

A downtown developer is asking the Boston Planning Department for permission to modify and revive its dormant plans for a hotel at 246-248 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston - in a change request that says the revised plans would make it easier to re-develop a neighboring lot. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 10:35 am
Giant, lit up grasshopper

Greta Gaffin (yes, the kidlet) took in Boston Lights at the Franklin Park Zoo last night. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 9:58 am
Rendering of proposed new building at Washington and Tower streets

Rendering by Helicon Design Group.

A developer is circulating plans to replace the one-story building that now houses Forest Hills Pizza at Washington and Tower streets in Jamaica Plain with a six-story, 35-unit residential building with retail space on the ground floor. Read more.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 11:04 pm

Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 10:00 pm

Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.

The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 7:19 pm

British A380 Takes the WRONG TAXIWAY and Gets Stuck | Construction Ahead!

Audio from the wrong turn with re-enactment graphics (via Aviation Librarian).

Aviation for Aviators reports the pilots of a British Airways Airbus A380 - one of the world's largest jets - got lost on the way to Terminal E after landing at Logan on Friday and wound up stuck for nearly an hour on a taxiway that was supposed to be closed for construction. Massport had to bring in a "pushback tug" to haul the jumbo jet to the right taxiway so that it could then, well, taxi, to the terminal.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 7:08 pm

UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that unionized workers at the Omni Parker House and Omni Boston Seaport hotels today ratified new contracts and voted to return to work tomorrow. Read more.