Downtown

Not much shrinkage at the annual running of the Santas

By adamg - 12/14/19 - 11:01 pm

Photographynatalia watched the annual raun of the Santas in skimpy suits through the Back Bay in today's balmy climes.

Later, Gary C watched Santas by the boatload getting ready for some old-school bar hopping along Union Street: Read more.

One of our food robot overlords on the move

By adamg - 12/13/19 - 7:05 pm

Roving UHub photographer Ted S. spotted one of the meal-making robots outside Spyce, the robo-take-out place on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, which is undergoing renovations. Tough to tell whether it's coming or going or has gone on strike for more oil or something.

In a city stricken by gridlock, the hero we need

By adamg - 12/12/19 - 7:01 pm

Ed Lyons reports:

During a truly epic traffic meltdown near MGH today, everything was gridlocked until some homeless guy put down his cup, walked into it, and started quite aggressively managing the traffic, unclogging the intersection. He succeeded. People were waving and thanking him.

Clogged arteries: Leverett Circle construction gridlocks downtown traffic

By adamg - 12/12/19 - 5:44 pm

WHDH reports this afternoon is not a good time to be anywhere near downtown, Beacon Hill, the West End, etc., at least, in a car. Read more.

Things changed overnight

By adamg - 12/11/19 - 9:00 am

MattGrobo worked an overnight shift and reports that when he got to work last night, it was 55 degrees.

Bus riders' commute goes down the drain; now they're just stuck standing in the rain

By adamg - 12/10/19 - 7:04 pm

Corey Dinopoulos was among the growing horde trying to get on a 7 bus at South Station this evening:

Our system is failing us daily. 6pm on a Tues; dozens of people wait in the rain as two full 7 buses pass them by. This doesn’t include dozens of people waiting at Melcher St and the BCEC outbound stops.

Probably not good that wires are exploding in a Green Line tunnel

By adamg - 12/10/19 - 12:06 pm

LT captured the fireworks in the tunnel between Boylston and Park, suggests Green Line riders find another way to get around [Video].

Park Street filled with smoke: Read more.

By the tree, by the tree, by the beautiful tree

By adamg - 12/8/19 - 12:49 pm

Nova Scotia Christmas tree on Boston Common

Msmariamad took in the Nova Scotia Christmas tree on the Common.

Copyright Msmariamad. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Just a typical day on Franklin Street

By adamg - 12/7/19 - 9:19 pm

Free Guy scene set on Franklin Street, with flames, helicopters and missiles

The trailer for "Free Guy," in which Ryan Reynolds plays a bank teller who begins to realize he's a character in a shoot-em-up video game, dropped today, and it features lots and lots of scenes in downtown Boston (and one under the Zakim in Charlestown) - although oddly it starts with somebody skydiving over what looks like Pittsburgh. Read more.

Blue and orange over Fort Point Channel

By adamg - 12/7/19 - 5:05 pm

See it larger.

Steve Klise watched the sunset from the South Boston side of the channel:

Damn, Boston, winter evenings look good on you.

A Park Street riddle: A man falls on the subway tracks and his leg comes into contact with the third rail, but he lives - how?

By adamg - 12/6/19 - 9:48 am

A. He has a wooden leg. The Globe's Emily Sweeney reports on the 1955 fall her grandfather took onto the tracks at what was then Park Street Under. Afterwards, he made the news around the world.

To boldly deliver packages where no packages have been delivered before

By adamg - 12/6/19 - 9:41 am

Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko spotted this late-model Enterprise shuttlecraft in the Financial District last night.

South Station issue raises a question: Can you die of terminal congestion?

By adamg - 12/2/19 - 9:07 am

A train that died right outside South Station jammed up the tracks and meant delays of up to 20 minutes both inbound and outbound this morning, even after crews managed to push the beast into Fort Point Channel, or whatever it is they do in these more enlightened times with dead trains. Read more.

First little snow

By damaskin - 12/1/19 - 5:55 pm

MBTA starts new rodent-control program at Haymarket

By adamg - 11/30/19 - 2:46 pm

Hawk at Haymarket station on the Green Line

A roving UHub photographer looked up at the Haymarket Green Line station this morning and spotted this hawk flitting about from perch to perch.

Cantonese/Peruvian place opens downtown

By adamg - 11/25/19 - 12:23 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk alerts us to the opening of Machu Chifa, which specializes in chifa, "Cantonese-Peruvian style fried rice bowls that can be ordered with steak, pork, shrimp, or chicken."

After the downpour, a nice sunset

By adamg - 11/22/19 - 4:54 pm

Flea looked up while crossing Dewey Square near South Station as the sun went down.

Meanwhile, traffic getting onto 128 north at the split was at a complete standstill, allowing the UHub mobile unit to snap this photo of the sunset: Read more.

Irish, like real Irish, pubs in or near Fort Point

By adamg - 11/21/19 - 6:54 pm

Trish Fontanilla asks:

Irish pub vibe in or closest to the Seaport? For whatever reason (that's a lie, I know I have a baby face), I always get approached by folks from Ireland (hi to the couple from Cork that stopped me today!) and asked where the closest pub is.

Icy start to the morning

By adamg - 11/21/19 - 9:17 am

Alexis Deise reported shortly before 8 a.m. that "all that glitters is... ice," along Fort Point Channel.

NBC Boston reports multiple car crashes in the Boston area due to black ice.

Tower at Aquarium-garage site might actually happen

By adamg - 11/20/19 - 4:42 pm

The Chiofaro Co. told the BPDA today it will soon file detailed plans for a 600-foot-tall tower to replace the garage in front of the New England Aquarium - a garage Donald Chiofaro has been trying to replace for more than a decade now, at first under the specter of a feud with then Mayor Tom Menino. Read more.