Cornelia Vrel shows us the flaming car on Cambridge Street in Allston, on the bridge over the Massachusetts Turnpike ramps, around 2:15 p.m., moments before the first Boston firetruck arrived.
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By adamg - 9/1/23 - 12:36 pm
Complaints to 311 about mattresses on Boston Move-In Day. Allston/Brighton and Mission Hill, of course, but a fair number of complaints from South Boston, too. Also see: Allston Christmas Bingo - North End edition.
By adamg - 8/30/23 - 9:05 am
Photos of the stolen viola and its case via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a viola stolen from an address on Glenville Avenue in Allston sometime between 2 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/23 - 9:44 am
Photo of new signs going up by DCR.
DCR announced yesterday it's replacing the dark CARS ONLY signs at ramps to Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive with glaring yellow in-your-face CARS ONLY signs. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 2:19 pm
DCR is out with an online ad spot that urges newcomers to Boston to keep their rental trucks off the river roads - set to just the sort of plaintive music you'd expect on a late-night ASPCA ad:
For just zero dollars a day you can not hit a bridge or overpass on Storrow Drive and and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge. ... The bridges, and the trucks, will thank you.
By adamg - 8/15/23 - 2:01 pm
The city today launched a pilot program in Allston in which eight local businesses will use battery-powered cargo bikes to make deliveries in Allston and nearby locations. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 7:09 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Taco Bell is looking to put one of its liquor-infused Taco Bell Cantinas into the space at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues where Great Scott used to be.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:28 am
Rendering by Choo & Company.
The Zoning Board today approved a developer's plans to build four attached condos with front entrances that would face a new driveway at 108 Allston St., across from the West End House, in Allston. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/23 - 10:03 am
Teddy Kokoros watched this turkey who had obviously gotten up early to get some boba on Brighton Avenue near Harvard Avenue in Allston this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 7/28/23 - 11:54 am
The MBTA reports that after 12 days of work replacing track the Green Line will re-open for service tomorrow morning in Brighton and Allston.
The T says workers put in some 2,800 feed of track at Blandford Street, Packards Corner, and between Harvard Avenue and Griggs Street, as well as replaced worn out wooden ties and the like.
By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:09 am
The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them "wait comfortably at their bus stops and board the bus safely." Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 9:39 am
See it larger for full effect. Photo by Ari Ofsevit.
Ari Ofsevit was on hand for an almost-storrowing that turned into a backup of shame on the inbound side of Soldiers Field Road by Cambridge Street in Allston this morning. He reports the effort to get the 18-wheeler off the road led to a more than 15-minute road shutdown that, of course, resulted in a massive backup. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/23 - 1:16 pm
The MBTA reports it will shut down the entire B Line between July 17 and 28 for repairs on top of the repairs it performed for 12 days last summer. Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/23 - 12:08 pm
The Crimson reports Tishman Speyer is set to break ground this week on the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus off Western Avenue after the company landed a $750-million financing package, which it claims is the largest such deal in the US this year. Harvard currently owns about a third of Allston, with much of its newest holdings secretly acquired in the late 1980s.
By adamg - 6/17/23 - 6:44 pm
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police have released photos of the guy they say stole a bright-red dump truck trailer and excavator in Allston, then drove it to Westwood, where he dumped them outside the Wegmans on University Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 6/8/23 - 5:56 pm
A developer will soon file detailed plans to replace a warehouse and Boston EMS garage at 287 Western Ave., behind Jessie and Katey's Art House, in Allston with a 90,000-square-foot lab building aimed at smaller start-up firms in life sciences. Read more.
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