Earlier this month, the operator of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1852, sued the foundation now building a Holocaust museum at the corner of Tremont Street and Hamilton Place - the alley that leads to the Orpheum's main entrance - for the right to continue blocking the ally on performance nights for use by entertainers' equipment trucks and patrons waiting to go inside. Read more.
Specifically: The Prudential Tower, Center Plaza, Atlantic Wharf, 100 Causeway, 100 Federal St., 1 Lincoln St., the amphitheater at 40 Water St. and the UMass Boston Integrated Science Center.
The Conservation Law Foundation today sued Greyhound Lines, saying the company is letting its drivers idle their diesel-powered buses - and spew out noxious chemicals - for more than the five minutes allowed by state law. Read more.
Update: Board found no violations for either incident.
A downtown bar and one in East Boston had to explain fights that erupted when off-duty workers from other joints violently acted out at closing time, at hearings before the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.
You can't tell from a photo, of course, but Sebastian Stockman checked in from Downtown Crossing this morning: "Downtown Crossing smells…clean?!?"
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police have released photos of a guy they say vandalized the Holocaust Memorial along Union Street downtown around 8:50 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today thew out a state law barring people from going out in public with a switchblade, concluding the knives are "arms" under the Second Amendment and that means people can legally pack them for self protection. Read more.
Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board this week heard dramatically different versions of an incident in the basement office of Loyal Nine's manager early on May 14 that led to the bar's owners deciding to shut the place for good: Either the guy was spotted attempting to suffocate his girlfriend or he was simply trying to help her up from the floor after the latest of her drunken benders at nearby bars. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was chasing people around the area of the Transportation Building on Park Plaza with a hunting knife around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
For the past couple of days, at-large Councilor Henry Santana has been listing interesting and fun stuff to do in Downtown Crossing and across Tremont on Boston Common. Read more.
NBC Boston reports on the fatality which happened after the man fell on the tracks and came into contact with the third rail on the southbound tracks shortly before noon.
Roving UHub photographer Patrick Snyder couldn't help but noticing all the dorm fridge/microwave combos being unloaded on Boylston Street by Emerson College today.
A man was ordered locked up today when he couldn't make $2,500 bail on charges he sent one Transit Police officer to the hospital with a "serious bite wound" and attacked another when awoken on the floor of a Red Line train at Park Street yesterday morning, according to Transit Police and court records. Read more.
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
Turkey. Grass. Sidewalk.
Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).
A man was stabbed on Winter Place off Winter Street in Downtown Crossing around 8:15 a.m.
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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved the conversion of offices in buildings on Washington, Water and Devonshire streets downtown into 95 apartments, under a city tax-abatement program aimed at encouraging that. Read more.
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