Tremont Street

Man beaten to the ground in Boston Common phone robbery; three teens arrested, two more sought, police say

By adamg - 2/17/20 - 1:47 pm

Boston Police report arresting three of the five teens they say attacked a man as he walked through the Common near the Tremont Street visitor center around 7 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

John Wilkes Booth knew Tremont Street well - and so did the man who killed him

By adamg - 2/17/20 - 12:45 pm

Booth and Corbett.

Before he became Abe Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a well known actor who so liked performing in Boston - at the Boston Museum theater on Tremont Street, next to the King's Chapel Burying Ground - that he bought a parcel on Commonwealth Avenue in the newly emerging Back Bay to build a home. Read more.

Three women charged as aggro Downtown Crossing stompers

By adamg - 2/16/20 - 3:39 pm

Boston Police report arresting women from Malden and East Boston outside the 7-Eleven on Tremont Street downtown early this morning after they allegedly wreaked havoc inside the store and then went outside to stomp a man unfortunate enough to ask them if they might have a smoke. Read more.

Maybe next up is Ranching in the Mariana Trench

By adamg - 1/27/20 - 11:07 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Whaling in Oklahoma on Tremont Street in the South End seems to have shut down.

Tremont and School streets not where you'd want a flaming manhole Monday morning

By adamg - 1/13/20 - 8:45 am

Intersection of School and Tremont streets blocked off

Smoke-belching aftermath. Photo by Kelley Duff.

But Susan Tran reports that's where a manhole burst into flames and began to smoke this morning. Firefighters in action.

Woman stabbed in the chest in Chinatown

By adamg - 1/11/20 - 7:36 am

Around 2:30 a.m. in Eliot Norton Park at Tremont Street and Charles Street South, Stacos and Live Boston report. Live Boston reports at least one in custody.

Big dining news at Little Building

By adamg - 1/10/20 - 4:18 pm

Emerson College announced today that a bakery and a taqueria will be moving into space in its newly renovated Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets, and that it is currently negotiating leases with an Asian noodle place and a juice bar for the building. Read more.

Man charged with using snow shovel and box cutter on another man's face in Roxbury

By adamg - 12/4/19 - 7:43 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used two weapons to attack another man Tuesday morning at Tremont and Prentiss streets in Roxbury. Read more.

New Mission Hill bar will feature board games with sound effects

By adamg - 11/26/19 - 9:39 am

The BU News Service sounds a klaxon for Tavern of Tales, 1478 Tremont St., which will have rooms dedicated to specific board games, but with sound effects to make them more like video games:

When you play Monopoly, you pass go and collect $200. In our experience you would pass go, collect $200 and you’ll hear the sound of money rolling into your bank account.

Bullet shot into Boston Police headquarters

By adamg - 11/19/19 - 12:04 am

WBZ reports the shot missed an officer sitting at a desk Monday night.

Pipe company and owner guilty of manslaughter for drowning deaths of two workers in South End trench

By adamg - 10/31/19 - 12:23 pm

Mattocks and Higgins. Photos from Suffolk County DA.

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today found Atlantic Drain Service of Roslindale and owner Kevin Otto guilty of two counts of manslaughter for the 2016 deaths of two of his workers in a trench at Dartmouth and Tremont streets in the South End, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Fed-up BPDA to yank development rights to Roxbury parcel from local group that's failed to break ground on large project after 12 years

By adamg - 10/19/19 - 3:52 pm

If a mall gets built, somebody else will build it, BPDA says.

The Bay State Banner gets the scoop: BPDA Director Brian Golden says his agency won't renew a Roxbury group's development rights to a seven-acre parcel on Tremont Street when they expire at the end of the month, 12 years after it first proposed a large multi-use complex with residential towers, a mall, office space and a museum. Read more.

Finally, that Middle Eastern/Mexican fusion you've been hankering for

By adamg - 10/16/19 - 12:59 pm

Falafel King on Tremont Street downtown will soon be sharing space with Taccos Arabas, which will offer such dishes as shawarma tacos, Boston Restaurant Talk reports.

Gas leak forces evacuation of building on Tremont Street in Roxbury; all clear sounded

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 11:40 am

Workers fixing gas leak outside 1065 Tremont St.

Leak fixers. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a gas leak in the street outside 1065 Tremont St., near Melnea Cass Boulevard, forced the evacuation of the building after readings showed elevated gas levels inside the building. Read more.

South End going to the dogs: Failed pressed-smoothie joint on Tremont Street to be replaced by dog-grooming and pet-supply place

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 10:57 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal this week gave a wag of approval to plans by a pair of dog walkers and groomers to open a brick-and-mortar grooming and pet-supply store at 643A Tremont St., where a previous tenant learned the South End had a limited appetite for pressed smoothies. Read more.

Little Building has big history

By adamg - 9/6/19 - 9:55 am

Emerson Today recounts the history of the landmark building at Boylston and Tremont streets - and tells us who Little was.

Historian Walter Muir Whitehill said the Little Building was “the most glamorous office building of the era of World War I.” It was later dubbed the “The City Under One Roof,” as it housed 600 offices, 37 stores, a post office, a restaurant, and underground passageways connecting to the Boylston Street T station and the neighboring Majestic and Plymouth theaters.

White supremacists, gay haters march down Boylston, outnumbered by protesters; police pepper spray protesters, arrest them

By adamg - 8/31/19 - 6:53 pm

He only looks like a spotted dick from behind; he's really a Trump dinosaur. Photo by Kris Haight.

A couple of hundred Trump-supporting racists and bigots marched down Boylston and Tremont streets today, vastly outnumbered by both police and by protesters. Read more.