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By Oliver Blake - 5/24/23 - 11:03 am
Speed hump on Evans Street in Mattapan

Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:26 pm

Correction: The 11 p.m. closing time originally listed here was for the restaurant space Black Seed is moving into. Its current location, next door, lists a 2 a.m. closing time.

Black Seed, 140 Tremont St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek permission to extend its closing time from the current 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/23 - 5:07 pm

A man already facing six open cases involving robbery and assaults was arraigned yesterday on charges he robbed somebody leaving New York Pizza on Tremont Street in December and then, when the man resisted, punched him in the face. Read more.

By adamg - 5/9/23 - 12:54 pm
Rendering of front of 75 Tremont St. proposal

Rendering by PCA.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by two developers to replace 1.3 acres of weeds and mostly invasive trees with a 70-unit condo project rising four to six stories at 75 Tremont St. in Brighton's Oak Square neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 12:09 pm
Rendering of front of townhouse building

Rendering by Choo & Company.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a row of five townhouses at 143 Tremont St., just one door down from the Newton line in Brighton's Oak Square neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/23 - 9:07 am
Outside Slade's after the shooting

Outside Slade's after the shooting. Photo by Live Boston.

Victim identified as Terrelle Banks, 37.

Boston Police report two men were shot at Tremont Street at Hammond Street around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/23 - 12:55 pm

Update: Emerson sent e-mail saying a student died, that police say there are "no security concerns" and that counselors will be available.

The Berkeley Beacon reports police responded to the Little Building, at the corner of Boylston and Tremont streets, after a body was discovered around 10 a.m.

The building houses dorm rooms for first-year Emerson College students.

By adamg - 1/20/23 - 1:18 pm
Rendering of proposed new complex

Bird-infused rendering by DREAM Collaborative.

A development group headed by HYM and My City at Peace yesterday won preliminary BPDA approval to build 466 apartments and condos, life-sciences space and a civil-rights museum on the long-vacant P-3 parcel on Tremont Street in Roxbury, under a plan that would include an acre of public space with a layout aimed at stitching the empty land back into the surrounding neighborhood - and creating wealth-building opportunities for its residents. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 12:46 pm

The Archdiocese of Boston's housing-development wing recently told the BPDA it will soon file detailed plans for a three-building residential complex at the intersection of Tremont Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard that will include 217 residential units and the renovation of St. Katharine Church's ministry space. Read more.

By adamg - 12/20/22 - 11:09 pm

Boston Police report a man shot outside Moxy, 240 Tremont St. in the Theater District, on Dec. 11 has died. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/22 - 10:45 pm

Update: The shooting victim, Branden Barrett, 34, of South Weymouth, died several days later. Police are looking for his killer.

One person was shot outside Moxy on Tremont Street at Stuart Street around 9:10 p.m. The homicide unit and the DA's office were called in due to the seriousness of the shooting victim's injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 11/23/22 - 10:55 am
Guy wanted for assault and battery

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police have released photos of a man wanted for a closing-time attack in the Theater District they say sent his victim to the hospital for emergency brain surgery earlier this month. Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/22 - 12:58 pm

Boston Police report officers responding to a robbery at the Bank of America branch at 6 Tremont St. yesterday afternoon found the doors locked. So they waited until Gary Trecartin, 55, walked out and promptly arrested him for the robbery. Read more.

By adamg - 10/18/22 - 1:11 pm

BosGuy reports the Kartal has a soft launch on Thursday in the Tremont Street space where the Boston Eagle used to be. He reports the new place is brimming with homages to its predecessor, right down to its name, which means "Eagle" in Turkish.

By adamg - 10/16/22 - 1:34 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on charges he stabbed four men at Tremont and Stuart streets around 2:10 a.m. - leaving one with injuries so bad the homicide unit was called in just in case. Read more.

By adamg - 9/29/22 - 10:19 am

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a proposal by El Jefe's Taqueria to extend the closing time at its Emerson location, at Boylston and Tremont streets, to 2 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/28/22 - 11:54 am

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let El Jefe's Taqueria extend the closing time of its outlet in Emerson College's Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets from midnight to 2 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/22 - 2:26 pm
Scammer

Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say convinced one grandparent he was a public defender who needed several thousand dollars in cash to spring his grandson from a reckless-endangerment charge. Read more.

By adamg - 8/17/22 - 1:04 pm
Bicyclists wanted for attack

Surveillance photo via BPD.

The Boston Police Department reports it is looking for a group of bicyclists it says attacked a motorist on Tremont Street near Union Park Street - one with a fist to the driver's face - shortly before 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/22 - 2:04 pm

WCVB reports on Boston's latest ruptured water main this time at Northampton Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

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