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.
Cambridge Street
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over to Allston tonight to see the controversial new mural at Cambridge and Linden streets, only to find it's already been replaced by a new gorilla mural.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.
By adamg - 7/5/16 - 11:49 am
The mortar shell in question. Photo by BFD.
Union Square and the Jackson-Mann School were shut this morning when somebody drove up to the Union Square firehouse with "what appeared to be an old military mortar" in the back of his car around 11 a.m., the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/8/16 - 12:08 pm
UPDATE: Restaurant passed a re-inspection on June 10.
A city health inspector yesterday ordered Hulun Beir, 326 Cambridge St., shut until it fixes a long list of violations, including cooks not washing their hands at all - not that it would matter, since their sink had no hot water - containers in use despite caked-on food and evidence a sink supposedly being set aside for hand washing was being used to rinse food. Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/16 - 8:55 pm
Not long after we reported on the graffiti battle on the Franklin Street footbridge, the state got rid of the graffiti (no doubt just a coincidence). As Rose shows us, that didn't last long.
By adamg - 5/30/16 - 10:09 am
Bradley photographically preserved a copy of a note posted to the Franklin Street footbridge over the turnpike and train tracks in Allston. Turlach MacDonagh shows us some of the more literate of the graffiti.
By adamg - 5/20/16 - 11:32 pm
A concerned citizen complains about the pedestrian crossing where Cambridge Street turns into Tremont downtown:
The walk signal here is chirping birds. The problem is that there are nests of real birds above the Center3Plaza signage. A walker can't differentiate between the chirping signal and the real birds. Someone's gonna get killed here.
By adamg - 4/24/16 - 8:08 pm
Nicole Levay noticed this sign outside Old West Church on Cambridge Street today.
By adamg - 3/10/16 - 4:23 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Rock City Pizza, 568 Cambridge St., permission to stay open until 2 a.m. - and deliver until 3 a.m.
The pizza place had previously had to close at 1 a.m.
At a hearing yesterday, the pizza place's owner said the public need for the later hours comes from the repeated requests he's been getting from customers for later food - especially from people wandering by from nearby bars that have later closing times. He noted he's also right down the street from St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
By adamg - 9/5/15 - 11:32 am
An agonized citizen files a 311 complaint about the ludicrous spotlights at St. Joseph Preparatory High School on Cambridge Street:
St Josephs has spot lights that are so bright that shades and blackout curtains don't block them out. Please force them to put blinders on them that point the light down at their driveways and parking lot's instead of peoples windows.
By adamg - 1/9/15 - 8:44 am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday granted a license to a wine store proposed for Charles River Plaza off Cambridge Street.
At a hearing Wednesday, nearby liquor stores and some residents opposed the VinodiVino outlet, saying it would prove unfair competition for locally owned shops and that the eight liquor stores within a half-mile radius could already meet residents' wine needs. VinodiVino attorney Dennis Quilty, however, countered market considerations should not be part of the board's calculus on deciding on a license.
By adamg - 1/7/15 - 11:48 am
An upscale wine store that wants to move into a Cambridge Street mall uncorked opposition from neighboring liquor stores and some residents at a Boston Licensing Board hearing today.
VinodiVino, which already has stores in Brookline, Newton and Needham, wants a license to open in Charles River Plaza, within feet of the existing Simmons Liquor and Jobi Liquors.
VinodiVino attorney Dennis Quilty said the area needs an all wine store that can provide the sort of service an area such as Beacon Hill and the West End deserves.
By adamg - 12/4/14 - 5:21 pm
Kate Donaghy photographed buses full of cops on Cambridge Street around 5:10 p.m. - nearly two hours before Tremont Street is shut down for the Nova Scotia tree lighting and protests over that New York grand-jury decision.
By adamg - 8/16/14 - 10:19 am
A car wound up sideways on Cambridge Street shortly before 7 a.m. Maria Elena Cruz captured the scene around 7:20.
By adamg - 8/8/14 - 10:53 am
Phil captured the rainbow over Cambridge Street and the turnpike in Allston yesterday - from the same storm that gave us that giant cloud.
Copyright Phil. Posted in on Flickr.
Jed Hresko, meanwhile, spotted the rainbow downtown:
By adamg - 7/29/14 - 11:24 pm
Chris Rich attended the Cambridge Street safety rally in Allston this morning.
Copyright Chris Rich. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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