By adamg - 2/6/25 - 4:21 pm

The city of Quincy today moved its battle against a new Long Island Bridge into court, asking a judge to overturn the state's approval of Boston's proposed bridge reconstruction, which would let Boston rebuild the addiction-treatment facilities it used to run on the island. Read more.

Sunset over the Atlantic as seen from Black Falcon Pier
By adamg - 2/6/25 - 9:10 am

Butternugz enjoyed the sunrise this morning from the tip of the Black Falcon Pier before the snow started.

By adamg - 2/5/25 - 7:13 pm

Boston Police report the man found dead on his houseboat at the Charlestown Marina Sunday night was Joseph Donohue, 65. Read more.

By adamg - 1/26/25 - 1:19 pm

No, not R, but T. T Wharf used to extend out from what is now Christopher Columbus Park, as an extension to Long Wharf (which itself used to be a half mile long). Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/24 - 12:11 pm
Sullivan

The Boston Public Facilities Commission voted today to rename the Moon Island academy that all Boston firefighters have to pass through as the Capt. Leo T. Sullivan Training Academy, after its long-time leader, who retired in 1996 and died this year. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/24 - 12:53 pm

Boston Police report arresting two of the three men they say were piloting a drone dangerously close to Logan Airport Saturday night. Read more.

USS Nantucket
By adamg - 11/9/24 - 3:44 pm

Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems. Read more.

Slipped dock, damaged boat
By adamg - 11/7/24 - 3:44 pm

Rigging on a crane being used to lower a floating dock or "barge" into the water at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal St. in East Boston, failed at 11:08 a.m., sending the dock slamming into the water - and a boat that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Boston Fire Department and the shipyard report.

Nobody was injured, but the shipyard reports it shut for the day, to await a second crane to help right things.

By adamg - 11/1/24 - 9:12 am

WBUR reports a group at UMass Boston is experimenting with adding honeycomb-like structures to seawalls along Chelsea Creek in East Boston and on Boston Harbor in the Seaport to see if they will become refuges for both plants and shellfish, turning what are now basically barren stone walls into greener spaces full of life.

Clearer skies, but with smoke still rising north of Boston
By adamg - 10/28/24 - 3:02 pm

As promised in the morning by the National Weather Service, the smelly haze that settled in over the Boston area from brush fires along the North Shore lifted early this afternoon. But when Josh Bittker looked out of his Seaport window this afternoon, he could still see smoke rising from north of the city.

By adamg - 9/26/24 - 1:32 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports the city is working with downtown and Seaport landlords to have them put up their temporary flood barriers on Boston's first Deployables Day to get building personnel used to using one of the cheaper technologies city planners hope to use to ward off rising sea levels and more severe storms. Read more.

The Lonian in Boston Harbor
By adamg - 9/17/24 - 11:15 pm

Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, couldn't help but notice the Lonian docked at Commercial Wharf today, because the thing is enormous: It's a 285-foot-long superyacht. Read more.

Two Osprey helicopters
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 12:06 pm

Erikk Hokenson shows us the two Osprey VTOL thingees that flew over the inner harbor this morning. Read more.

Clouds form a giant white bird
By adamg - 9/1/24 - 5:28 pm

SwirlyGrrl looked up while on the 5:10 p.m. ferry from George's Island.

Some appropriate music to contemplate the photo by.

US Coast Guard's Eagle docked in Boston
By adamg - 8/11/24 - 1:27 pm

Eric Bender shows us the Eagle, docked at the North End Coast Guard base and open for touring until 7 p.m.

By adamg - 8/8/24 - 5:07 pm

Mark Garfinkle has been chronicling the breaching exploits of Shambhu, the juvenile humpback, who has been enjoying the outer harbor, between Deer Island and Castle Island, the past few days.

Sun setting over Charlestown as seen from the East Boston waterfront
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:04 pm

Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.

Oil barge
By adamg - 7/27/24 - 5:37 pm

Eric Bender spotted this oil barge tied up at a dock near the Eddy and LoPresti Park on the East Boston waterfront today, along with its pusher tug, the Haggerty Girls (the orangish, red and white tower at the rear of the barge) - rather than at a petroleum depot on Chelsea Creek. He reports the Haggerty Girls crew told him they were waiting for divers to inspect the hull before continuing on their journey.

By adamg - 7/5/24 - 11:46 am

The Globe reports that after raising $30 million and hiring a design team to build a third Piers Park on the site of an old Massport pier in East Boston, one that would more fully connect people to the water, the Trustees of Reservations canceled the plans because of concerns over possible climate-related flooding in the future. Read more.