Cambridge Street
By adamg - 5/11/20 - 6:31 pm
Boston Police report they're looking for this guy on charges he busted into the apartment building at 446 Cambridge St., near Rugg Road, around 11:30 p.m. on April 23 and stole a bicycle out of the building bike storage room and then used it to make a getaway with several packages he also took from the building. Read more.
By adamg - 4/6/20 - 9:02 am
Kelley Duff noticed this morning that the 7-Eleven in Center Plaza downtown is not messing around.
Ed. note: Boston issued an advisory, not an order, to wear masks.
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By adamg - 2/24/20 - 3:28 pm
Chris captured the flickering quintessence of Allston in Union Square the other night.
By adamg - 2/4/20 - 3:58 pm
Architect's rendering of the new corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street, with birds.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved City Realty's plans to put up four new buildings and renovate two others on either side of Cambridge Street at Harvard Avenue to add 344 apartments and condos and more than 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/20 - 1:32 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans by Helping Hands to expand its facility on Cambridge Street in Allston to provide a place for service monkeys who have gotten too old to help clients enjoy their golden years in peace. Read more.
By adamg - 10/18/19 - 5:08 pm
Proposed view from Cambridge Street and Emery Road.
A developer best known for converting old commercial buildings off major highways into new office space has filed plans to make Cambridge Street in Allston more fun, at least architecturally, via two buildings with 166 new condos. Read more.
By adamg - 8/9/19 - 12:15 pm
Anchor Line Partners, which until now has specialized in redeveloping old commercial buildings off major highways into new office space, has filed plans to build two six-story apartment buildings on Cambridge Street at Emery Road in Allston's Union Square. Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/19 - 1:47 pm
Neal Gaffey watched this pair try to figure out what to do about the charter bus with the wheel that came off on Court Street at the turn to Tremont Street by City Hall today.
DD808 took a longer view of the situation: Read more.
New Mass. General buildings would be designed to survive battering from a superstorm - or terrorists
By adamg - 2/21/19 - 11:43 am
Where the new buildings would go.
Massachusetts General Hospital this week filed its plans for a $1-billion project that would not only provide "21st century care in a 21st century environment" but create "a place of refuge" where hospital staffers and patients could shelter for up to four days in the face of the worst nature - or man - could throw at Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/18 - 11:38 am
Architect's rendering of Jack Young replacement.
UPDATE: City Realty says the murals in Allston Hall can be moved and that it's talking to Allston Main Streets about how to relocate them.
City Realty wants to replace a series of buildings around the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street with five new buildings and a gut rehab of a sixth that would include a total of 334 apartments and condos as well as new first-floor retail space. Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/17 - 6:40 pm
Harry Mattison snapped the gray wall where, only yesterday, an artist painted a mural of Koko the Gorilla, only a day after he painted a mural of a woman petting her pussy. The artist himself blames the city graffiti-buster program for the battleship gray.
By adamg - 10/18/17 - 7:13 pm
Ron Newman trekked over to Allston tonight to see the controversial new mural at Cambridge and Linden streets, only to find it's already been replaced by a new gorilla mural.
By adamg - 10/18/17 - 9:30 am
Before and after.
UPDATE: Mural replaced.
There's a bit of an uproar in Allston today, the day after two artists painted a mural featuring a black woman petting her pussy at Cambridge and Linden streets. Read more.
By adamg - 4/2/17 - 12:18 pm
By adamg - 3/30/17 - 11:00 am
In response, Boston raised transgender flag at City Hall. Photo by Swirlygrrl.
Abbi Matheson is livetweeting the appearance - two days late - of the anti-trans hate bus to Boston. They started on Cambridge Street in front of City Hall, plan to navigate to the State House and then hope to rile up Harvard students - assuming they can get around the protesters.
UPDATE: Mayor Walsh responds by raising the transgender flag above City Hall Plaza at 12:30 p.m.
By adamg - 8/15/16 - 12:49 am
Around 12:30 a.m. at Brighton Avenue and Cambridge Street. The suspect was described as white, with dark, curly hair, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans. He had a bicycle with him and a black backpack.
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