Downtown
By adamg - 2/16/20 - 1:31 pm
WCVB reports a woman expecting a ride from a Union Street bar to her Allston home instead wound up kidnapped and taken someplace north of the city early this morning - she escaped when the guy stopped at a gas station for some snacks and she kicked out a window.
By adamg - 2/12/20 - 6:22 pm
A federal judge today tossed the conspiracy convictions of Kenneth Brissette and Timothy Sullivan in the Boston Calling case, because federal prosecutors failed to show either man received any personal benefit from convincing the music-festival's organizers to hire member of a local union to work the event. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/20 - 4:45 pm
The BPDA board on Thursday will consider letting Cape Air dock seaplanes at Long Wharf to fly people to and from New York. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/20 - 9:53 am
The fog rolling over downtown Boston this morning, as seen from the eighth floor of City Hall.
By adamg - 2/8/20 - 1:18 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday sentenced Imer Soto, 33, of Dorchester, to 9 to 10 years in state prison for raping a woman who got into a car she thought was her Uber ride home from the Black Rose on State Street in 2016, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/20 - 11:12 am
The conversion of the Government Center garage into a large mixed-use complex will require the temporary relocation of the Haymarket bus terminal and might require the shutdown of the Green and Orange Line stations underneath that, state transportation planners say. But HYM, the company that has started tearing down the garage for a six-building complex with 800 residential units, a 200-room hotel, 1 million square feet of office space and 82,000 square feet of retail space, says it is not expecting any complete shutdown of the subway station: Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/20 - 9:30 am
Michael Jonas reports on what happened after he tweeted at the T about some dangerous stairs from the Red Line at Downtown Crossing: Not only did the T dispatch a crew to fix them sooner than it had planned to, other riders responded with reports of rotting stairways at other stations.
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 - 1/30/20 - 10:07 pm
People watching firefighters in action. Photo by Emily Borque via Kristin MacDougall.
Boston firefighters responded to School Street for a large trash fire in an alley next to the Omni Parker House shortly before 10 p.m.
By adamg - 1/28/20 - 11:57 pm
A trolley with a brake problem between Park and Arlington outbound is gumming up the Green Line right now.
By adamg - 1/27/20 - 11:30 pm
Adam Castiglioni reports One Financial Center - the tower across the street from South Station, was lit up in Lakers purple and gold tonight.
The Garden was also lit up: Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/20 - 8:32 pm
Architect's rendering. Note birds in right view. See larger.
The Chiofaro Co. today filed formal plans with the BPDA for its proposed Pinnacle at Central Wharf, a 42-story, 600-foot-high office and residential tower that would replace the Aquarium garage - 12 years after it bought the garage and after years of an infamous feud between Don Chiofaro and then Mayor Tom Menino. Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/20 - 8:06 am
Around 6:30 a.m., an Orange Line train headed for Forest Hills joined the choir eternal at State Street, causing delays.
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