Both Red Auerbach and, across Cambridge Street, Bill Russell, were observing Boston's new outside masks policy today, Greg Cook discovered. Mayors Curley and White are also now masked.
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City Hall Plaza
By adamg - 3/21/20 - 10:47 pm
So a videographer walked through the Common, the Public Garden and downtown today.
By adamg - 2/4/20 - 7:16 pm
A federal judge today tossed Hal Shurtleff's suit alleging religious discrimination because city officials wouldn't let him fly an explicitly Christian flag from one of the three flagpoles that rise over City Hall Plaza. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/20 - 3:10 pm
Seems we're getting one of those traveling displays of stuff from King Tut's tomb, Boston Magazine explains.
By adamg - 9/20/19 - 2:17 pm
Thousands of high-school students and more than a few adults from across the Boston area jammed City Hall Plaza today as part of global climate-strike protests. Read more.
By adamg - 6/28/19 - 8:48 am
Crime scene. Photo by conman0321.
Live Boston reports a man was stabbed outside City Hall early this morning. A crime scene was taped off outside the City Hall entrance on the side heading towards the Old State House.
By adamg - 6/27/19 - 10:15 pm
A federal appeals court today upheld a judge's decision not to force Boston to let a right-wing activist from West Roxbury fly an explicitly Christian flag from one of the three flagpoles outside City Hall while his suit over the issue remains open. Read more.
By adamg - 6/4/19 - 9:28 am
Mayor Marty Walsh today announced a $70-million re-do of the seven-acre brick desert known as City Hall Plaza that will include "21st century civic amenities like shady seating and gathering areas, a destination play space, public art space and an iconic water feature." Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/19 - 8:03 pm
A federal court today reinstated extortion charges against two City Hall officials who allegedly leaned on the company that runs the Boston Calling festival to hire members of a particular union. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/19 - 1:51 pm
Local Dominican Organizations celebrate Dominican Independence Day pic.twitter.com/SujutDS1J2
— Rosabri Mejia (@Rosam84) February 27, 2019
By adamg - 2/5/19 - 8:23 am
Sarah Bourne shows us the Patriots fans already lining up at City Hall Plaza at 7:15 a.m. for the Patriots parade.
And that means problems for people trying to get to work on public transit: Read more.
By adamg - 10/12/18 - 9:45 am
Last night, Redsox223 wandered around City Hall Plaza, let up in various colors for Hubweek.
Copyright Redsox223. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 10/1/18 - 1:01 pm
Future Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks on steps of City Hall as another future rep, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, listens.
From elected officials to rape victims and their supporters, several thousand people gathered on City Hall Plaza to send a message to Sen. Jeff Flake to vote no on Brett Cavanaugh - a message he may not have heard since his scheduled 10:30 a.m. talk on another part of the plaza was pushed back to this afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/18 - 9:44 am
A federal judge today rejected a West Roxbury right winger's demand that the city be forced to fly a flag with a prominent cross over an event he says he wants to hold on City Hall Plaza next month. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/18 - 2:02 pm
Tony Ursillo reports spotting Batman getting into a Subaru Outback after dropping somebody off on Court Street by City Hall Plaza yesterday
By adamg - 8/22/18 - 1:33 pm
From Shurtleff's request to the city.
Hal Shurtleff, a West Roxbury resident and former John Birch Society member, is suing the city for refusing to let him fly a flag with a prominent cross on on one of the three flagpoles at City Hall Plaza for a pro-Christian event he wants to hold on City Hall Plaza on Sept. 17. Read more.
By adamg - 8/14/18 - 1:15 pm
These are only placeholder seats.
As officials from the MBTA and CRRC, the company building our new Red and Orange Line cars, awaited a visit from the governor this afternoon, they explained the mock up on display on City Hall Plaza has something the actual cars won't: Shiny, slippery fiberglass seats that make riders feel like they're going to get closer than they want to to their neighbors on curves and coming into stations. Read more.
By adamg - 7/3/18 - 11:38 am
The National Archives has a collection of photos, taken in 1973, of the waterfall and fountain that once gurgled on City Hall Plaza, in a sunken area off Cambridge Street, near the JFK federal building. Read more.
By adamg - 7/3/18 - 9:56 am
The mayor's office says it finally has a plan to permanently convert the vast field of bricks outside City Hall into a place that can support even more festivals and become a place where people will want to come for more than just special events, but that the work to achieve the seemingly impossible will require it to cancel the annual winter festival that had brought hundreds of thousands of people to the plaza over the past two winters, and don't you dare think the timing might have had to do with increasing friction between the city, the festival's operator and its subcontractors. Read more.
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