Boston Police report arresting eight people - and issuing summons to two more - for last night's attempt to cover at least one side of the Citgo sign with a climate-change banner. Read more.
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Somebody went to some lengths - and heights - to put up a climate-justice banner over Kenmore Square
By adamg - 8/10/20 - 8:13 pm
Update: Ten charged.
TJ Connelly got a photo of the Citgo Sign refinished as the Climate Change Sign this evening. Unfortunately for them, they forgot to put holes in the banner to account for the wind, so ... Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/20 - 1:37 pm
NPR taks us inside Cornwall's, which had been serving up pints since 1983 in Kenmore Square and which is now trying to adjust to stay afloat.
That includes learning how to make breakfast. Billy's wife, Lauren Moran, who opened a café in the suburbs a few years ago, has been teaching John and J.R. to make blueberry muffins and breakfast burritos.
H/t Kenny Jervis.
By adamg - 6/25/20 - 2:41 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Kenmore Square Uno, the last of its kind in all of Boston, has served its last deep dish. Fans of whatever the chain keeps trying to push now instead of deep dish will have to just head on down to the Dedham Mall now (even their corporate HQ has moved out of town - from West Roxbury to Norwood). The chain has been in financial trouble for years, long before Covid-19.
By adamg - 4/3/20 - 9:11 am
The Atlantic takes a look on the coronavirus pandemic on air and noise pollution, and talks to a public-health researcher at Boston University, who now gets her exercise while carrying a decibel meter:
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the acoustic environment in Kenmore Square, a busy intersection near campus, is usually about 90 decibels during rush hour. Yesterday, Walker’s rush-hour readings were just under 68 decibels.
H/t Brad N.
By adamg - 3/28/20 - 4:53 pm
The Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square says it will close tomorrow with the hopes of re-opening May 2, "though this is subject to change."
At least six other Boston hotels have closed due to a Covid-19 health issues and the related collapse of the travel business.
By adamg - 3/24/20 - 4:05 pm
It was pretty easy for Max Grinnell to keep some distance between himself and the rest of the world in Kenmore Square this afternoon.
By adamg - 12/9/19 - 9:00 am
Michelle Juralewicz reports:
Found this blast from Kenmore Square past at my parents' house.
They closed in December, 2001, a victim of Kenmore's BUification.
By adamg - 9/30/19 - 11:02 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that even as work continues on a new Popeyes in West Roxbury, the outlet in Kenmore Square has apparently flown the coop.
Obligatory Red Sox reference here.
By adamg - 8/1/19 - 5:24 pm
The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the Green Line outbound due to a train with "a mechanical problem" near Kenmore.
By adamg - 6/30/19 - 10:24 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Lower Depths shuts down for good tonight.
By adamg - 6/14/19 - 9:01 am
A concerned citizen filed a 311 request shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday about this micro-Harvey down on the platform at Kenmore: Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/19 - 11:51 am
BU Today details some of the next steps in Related Beal's plans to remake the BU-owned block with the building that supports the Citgo Sign (don't worry, that stays).
By adamg - 4/25/19 - 8:39 am
An almost bucolic Kenmore Square, sometime before 1921. Photo from the Boston City Archives.
A developer's plans to remake Kenmore Square won't be the first time the Boston crossroads gets a major makeover - and it probably won't be the last. Thanks to Digital Commonwealth, we were able to set the Wayback Machine way, way back to the days when Kenmore Square - Governor's Square in the old days - still had a fountain (built and maintained by the MSPCA) for thirsty horses: Read more.
By adamg - 4/24/19 - 11:23 am
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.
By adamg - 4/5/19 - 9:21 am
The mayor's office announced that come July 1, the cheapest parking meters in the city will set you back $2 an hour - up from the current $1.25 - as part of a bid to reduce street congestion and raise money for road infrastructure projects. Read more.
By adamg - 1/30/19 - 8:40 am
The Globe reports that developer Robert Korff has proposed a 300-foot-tall hotel replacement for the Citizens Bank in Kenmore Square - and to build a new road between Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street.
The proposal would be a replacement for an earlier plan to build two hotels in the square, neither anywhere near as tall as the current plan, but without any major changes to the square itself.
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