Developer Robert Korff has filed detailed plans for a 27-story hotel in Kenmore Square that would feature a new plaza in the middle of what is now one of the city's busiest intersections - with his hotel and a half-acre of public outdoor space in the middle. Read more.
Beacon Street
By adamg - 4/15/19 - 3:14 pm
Pat Tomaino and friend showed some Boston-area love for runners on Beacon Street today.
By adamg - 4/15/19 - 8:52 am
But are you surprised? The Green Line riders lost whatever chance they might have had when, naturally, their train was taken out of service at Kenmore.
By adamg - 3/29/19 - 8:30 pm
Danielle Jones shows us some of the carnage in Cleveland Circle where a trolley and several cars had a rather sharp disagreement over who should go where shortly before 8 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 1/3/19 - 7:30 pm
Henry Wong shows us the SUV whose driver somehow managed to get the vehicle's wheels ensnared on the inbound tracks of the C Line near Englewood Avenue sometime after 6:30 p.m. The T reports it had to stop trains at Coolidge Corner and bring in some buses to get riders between there and Cleveland Circle.
By adamg - 1/2/19 - 9:36 am
Patrick Maguire watched a turkey gang in action on Beacon Street this morning.
Feisty Brookline turkeys waiting for their yoga class pic.twitter.com/MFZ2ommqqg
— Patrick Maguire (@PatrickMBoston) January 2, 2019
By adamg - 12/15/18 - 9:19 pm
168 Beacon St. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage to 168 Beacon St., between Berkeley and Clarendon streets. Read mroe.
By adamg - 11/11/18 - 9:26 am
Kenmore Square was shut this morning for something found at 656 Beacon St., but was reopened after police determined the contents were not dangeous, WBUR reports.
By adamg - 11/8/18 - 5:29 pm
Brad Squirrels reports from the Common:
Pretty impressive turnout on the Common with just 24 hours notice.
Lily Goldman is at a protest in Gloucester: Read more.
By adamg - 11/4/18 - 10:24 am
CarCarll captured the helicopter lowering a new HVAC unit onto 1 Beacon St. this morning, in an operation that went long enough to make people ask/kvetch why they couldn't do it on a weekday instead of Sunday morning.
A closer view: Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/18 - 12:06 am
Reardon shows off plans on screen near the bar at the Brighton Elks.
A company that is opening a medical-marijuana dispensary in East Boston said it has a purchase-and-sale agreement to buy BC dive Mary Ann's on Beacon Street and rebuild the decrepit place into a contemporary pot shop serving both recreational and medical marijuana users. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/18 - 10:11 pm
The T is reporting delays of up to 25 minutes on the Green Line to and from Cleveland Circle due to a trolley there that remains stubbornly dead.
By adamg - 7/31/18 - 9:51 pm
Seems Northeastern President Joseph Aoun lives on Beacon Street at Joy and protesters are trying to occupy it to protest a research contract ICE has with Northeastern.
Beacon is currently shut between Joy and Park.
By adamg - 7/18/18 - 11:18 am
Handmaids against Kavanagh will hold a vigil on Beacon Street outside the State House at 6:45 p.m. That'll then morph into an Everyone against Treason protest until 10 p.m.
By adamg - 6/19/18 - 8:59 am
There's probably a good reason a Bay State Taxi cab wound up on the Green Line tracks on Beacon Street near Coolidge Corner, as Jason Kashdan shows us. Whatever the reason, the line is now dead.
By adamg - 6/8/18 - 10:42 am
The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force has posted photos of the man it says robbed the Santander Bank branch on Tremont Street at Beacon. Read more.
By adamg - 5/15/18 - 8:06 am
The MBTA reports delays on the Green Line outbound along Beacon Street due to a trolley that gave up the ghost.
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