The Herald reports Star Market has agreed to build a mega-market in the $1-billion mixed-use development planned for that vacant space in front of the Garden and the train station.
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By adamg - 1/16/15 - 9:49 am
Proposed new entrance to the Garden from developer's BRA filing.
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By adamg - 1/14/15 - 6:14 pm
Singh leads prayer as councilors Linehan and Yancey listen.
City councilors take turns inviting a local clergy member to start regular council sessions with a prayer. Over the years, the council has been led in prayer by priests, ministers, rabbis and imams. Today, Councilor Charles Yancey invited a member of a local Hindu congregation to lead the council - for the the first time that Yancey said he could remember in his 31 years on the council.
Padma Singh began with "Om" and ended with "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti."
By adamg - 1/12/15 - 5:44 pm
File this under: Kids, don't try this at home - or when Transit Police are around, or, at all:
Via Rick.
By adamg - 1/12/15 - 9:59 am
With several thousand people now living in Downtown Crossing and nearby blocks, the Midtown Cultural District Residents Association has sprung up.
By adamg - 1/11/15 - 1:01 pm
Photo by Christine Espino. Used under this Creative Commons license.
David Phillips, who sculpted six frog statues at Frog Pond, says Macy's violated his copyright when it used a replica of one of them in a Christmas display at its Downtown Crossing store.
In a ribbeting lawsuit filed last week in US District Court in Boston, Phillips, whose studio is in Medford, charges:
By adamg - 1/7/15 - 7:24 pm
A pigeon tried to huddle into itself today on Court Street. One can only imagine what it'll look like tomorrow.
By adamg - 1/5/15 - 7:49 pm
Current and proposed. See larger.
Developers have submitted plans to the BRA for a 12-story condo building on Broad Street that would completely demolish the building the Times pub is now in and turn the historic Bulfinch building that houses the Littlest Bar into a lobby for the new building and some residential units.
The Littlest Bar moved to 102 Broad St. after its longtime tiny space on Province Street was taken over by the 45 Province luxury project next door.
By adamg - 1/4/15 - 6:28 pm
WCVB reports two well dressed men hid in a men's room until after the Red Hat on Bowdoin Street closed early this morning and then stole several thousand dollars worth of liquor and vandalized the bar.
The Red Hat itself posted video of the two guys figuring out what to take:
By adamg - 1/2/15 - 4:05 pm
A steamed citizen calls into the Mayor's Hotline:
Caller reporting there is a solid covered manhole in the street on Tremont St at School, in front of church, with extremely hot steam coming out. The steam burned her foot and she is concerned for people's safety.
By adamg - 1/2/15 - 9:49 am
UPDATE: Judge dismisses case.
An Emerson student who says school officials dismissed her story of being raped by a fellow Emerson student and an MIT student in October has filed a federal lawsuit against the college. Read more.
By adamg - 12/31/14 - 9:03 am
Some switch seized up this morning, causing delays on both inbound and outbound trains at South Station.
By adamg - 12/30/14 - 10:20 am
The Boston Business Journal reports a newish, but painfully short office building at 171 Tremont, across Avery from the Loews complex, could be replaced by a luxury tower. In completely unshocking news, the architect will be Elkus Manfredi.
No word if the developers plan on calling it something like Tremont on the Park.
By adamg - 12/29/14 - 9:03 am
Craig Caplan's compiled the definitive guide to the watering holes of Downtown Crossing.
By adamg - 12/27/14 - 10:00 pm
Updated with info from BFD.
An annual event that lets car enthusiasts show off their modified rides at the Post Office Square garage ended a bit early when the Boston Fire Department arrived to figure out why smoke detectors went off and wound up evacuating the garage due to elevated carbon-monoxide levels.
More than 200 Masstuning enthusiasts had gathered on level 3 of the six-floor garage when the alarms went off around 8 p.m. A Fire Department spokesman reports:
By adamg - 12/24/14 - 1:41 pm
"That can't be good," Claire says of the new sinkhole she photographed outside the Tip O'Neill Building around noon.
By adamg - 12/23/14 - 6:12 pm
City health officials and police are trying to figure out what's causing a sharp increase in drug overdoses in Boston this year.
The Boston Public Health Commission said today the city had 32 suspected overdoses this past weekend - concentrated downtown and in East Boston and Dorchester. The same period last year saw just 8 overdoses.
In a statement, the commission said samples from street purchases by Boston Police "have not indicated more potency or drugs laced with particular potentially-fatal substances."
By adamg - 12/19/14 - 9:31 am
Photo by TPD.
Transit Police report they are looking for these three guys on charges they beat and "verbally abused" a man at State Street on the Orange Line around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The three are in their early to mid-20s.
The first subject was wearing a black and white horizontal sweater, blue jeans and blue sneakers. The second subject was wearing a dark colored jacket with a white hooded sweatshirt underneath, dark jeans and brown boots. The third subject was wearing, dark colored zip-up sweater, dark jeans and dark boots.
By adamg - 12/18/14 - 6:39 pm
The city has shut the old Northern Avenue Bridge "indefinitely" following a safety inspection that showed it was no longer even safe for pedestrians and bicyclists, according to a memo sent around today to local employers by the Seaport Transportation Management Association.
Walkers and bicyclists now need to take the Moakley Bridge - which was supposed to completely replace the Northern Avenue span - or Summer Street.
By adamg - 12/16/14 - 6:37 am
Boston Police report they are investigating two incidents involving rideshare drivers indecently assaulting female passengers early Sunday - and a third incident involving a woman picked up by somebody she thought was a rideshare driver but who turned out not to be one.
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