Boston Police report arresting four people - one a teen too young to be named - on a variety of charges after, they say, one resident of a group home at 64 Brooks St. in Brighton fired a gun inside on Tuesday morning. Read more.
Rendering by Adam Glassman; fourth floor is recessed from the street.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved plans by the owners of 6 Brooks St. in East Boston to add three floors of apartments to the one-story building after they and the owner of the Delicious Market said they'd reached an agreement to have the market stay for at least five years, with an option to extend that for another five years. Read more.
Rendering by Adam Glassman (fourth floor not shown).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today put off any action on a proposal to add apartments to a building at 6 Brooks St., off Bremen Street in East Boston, so that attorneys for the owner and the Delicious Market can work out a lease that will let the bodega stay. Read more.
Sisters Ilona and Irina Znakharchuk this week opened Solodko Boston, a Ukrainian bakery and patisserie, at 38 Brooks St. in Brighton, where the Boston Crust pizza place used to be. Read more.
An East Boston resident walking to the T this morning noticed somebody had thrown a rock through one of the stained-glass windows at Sacred Heart Parish on Brooks Street. Read more.
Architect's rendering.
A Charlestown developer has filed plans to replace an auto garage and parking lot at 101 Condor St., at Brooks Street, with a four-story, 18-unit residential building with 18 parking spaces. Read more.
The Boston City Council and Boston Police yesterday honored a Brighton resident who thought there was something funny going on at the house across the street, so he contacted City Councilor Mark Ciommo - a call that sparked a police investigation that led to the arrests of ten people on prostitution charges in late July - and saving several young women who'd been forced into prostitution. Read more.
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