Rendering by J. Garland Enterprises/Moody Noland/MVRDV.
The Community Builders has filed plans with the BPDA to replace the 1940s barracks-like apartment buildings at Faneuil Gardens, off Faneuil and North Beacon streets, with five taller buildings that would have apartments for current residents and 183 apartments for new tenants - as well as a new community center and a tree-lined pedestrian "boulevard." Read more.
The Boston Housing Authority and the Community Builders say they will soon file detailed plans to replace all 258 subsidized units at the Faneuil Gardens development in Brighton with new apartments and to add 212 additional units on top of that. Read more.
Update, 1/15: Judge Indira Talwani approved the settlement.
A Faneuil Street couple today formally signed off on a settlement in their suit against Boston and several BPD officers who smashed their door down with a battering ram in the middle of the night and then cuffed them and their 15-year-old daughter as their other two children - 4 and 5 - watched, in a raid that was supposed to be aimed at somebody who lived in the apartment next door. Read more.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a Brighton couple can continue their suit against the city over the way a BPD drug unit with a no-knock warrant smashed into their apartment with a battering ram at 4:30 a.m., and kept them handcuffed and lying on the floor in front of their young children for 20 minutes until the officers realized they had the wrong apartment. Read more.
Resisidents of proposed Faneuil Street building won't have far to go to get their cars washed or to see birds.
City Realty wants to replace a Meineke muffler shop and the Bagman on Faneuil Street in Brighton with a five-story, 41-condo building. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about this sign on Faneuil Street in Brighton:
Not damaged ...JUST DANGEROUS! Bike lane sign is Dangerously SHORT!! Someone is going to lose an eye or their head!! West bound side of Faneuil!!
Nicholas Antoine, 20, of the South End, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on an indictment charging him with the shooting deaths of Wilfred Peters and Jeffrey Montaque on Faneuil Street in Brighton on June 30.
Boston Police report tracking the man wanted for the June double murder of Wilfred Peters and Jeffrey Montaque on Fanueil Street to a Jonesboro, GA trailer home.
Police report they arrested Nicholas Antoine of Roxbury with the help of the US Marshals and Jonesboro police on Friday.
Innocent, etc.
Boston Police report the two men shot to death on Faneuil Street early Saturday were Wilfred Peters, 26, of Brighton and Jeffrey Montaque, 27, of Cambridge.
Boston Police report a tip led them to a plastic bag near the baseball field at McKinney Playground, 74 Faneuil St. in Brighton that contained "a .44 caliber F.LLI Pietta revolver along with 100 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition."
Officers recovered the bag around 11:45 a.m. yesterday, police say.
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