The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans by the Broadway Restaurant Group to open a 352-seat restaurant called Cook House next to its Lincoln Tavern on West Broadway in South Boston. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/26/24 - 2:42 pm
Nazi candidate memes herself.
Updated with statement by the Massachusetts Republican Committee.
Republicans in the First Suffolk district (state Sen. Nick Collins's district) who vote during the March 5 primary will get to decide who represents them on the Republican State Committee - one man and one woman.
On the woman's side, the candidates are Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick and Lori Kauffman, both of Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 2/26/24 - 1:53 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Newton man on charges he reacted to being denied a drink at the bar at Lola 42, 22 Liberty Dr. by hurling some water at the bar then heading into the men's room to break a sink and set fire to a trash barrel. Read more.
By adamg - 2/25/24 - 12:49 pm
The Washington Post takes a look at what is increasingly stagnant demand for life-sciences lab space - even in Kendall Square - in the Boston area, which saw a huge increase in demand as companies rushed to develop Covid-19 drugs and vaccines.
By adamg - 2/18/24 - 11:50 am
Rendering by Handel Architects.
Beacon Capital Partners last week filed plans with the BPDA for a ten-story life-sciences lab building on Northern Avenue at Channel Street, next to the similar building it's already constructing there as part of its 4.4-acre South Boston Innovation Campus, where the Seaport turns into the Raymond Flynn Marine Park. Read more.
By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:39 am
Roman the roving UHub photographer was on a Silver Line bus that had just hurtled through the route's tunnel this morning when he noticed a woman in a vehicle that was definitely not a bus. He reports: Read more
By adamg - 2/13/24 - 2:28 pm
Josh Bittker reported yesterday spotting his favorite Seaport commuter: A guy on an battery-powered one-wheel thing, this time accompanied by a fuzzy little dog throwing down major McKayla Maroney vibes.
By adamg - 2/11/24 - 1:52 pm
Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.
They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/24 - 1:34 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from a chain called Museum of Ice Cream to open at 121 Seaport Blvd. and to buy the beer and wine license from Dig on Boylston Street in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - 2/2/24 - 11:29 am
On the Channel considers and reviews the Summer Street Steps and wonders how, with all the billions of public and private dollars poured onto the blank slate that used to be the Seaport, that's what we wound up with - complete with loudspeakers pumping out pop music like some mall in the 1990s. Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am
City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/24 - 1:16 pm
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to allow a New York restaurant that serves cheeseburgers with a kimchi-infused topping and other "Korean fusion" dishes open an outlet in the Seaport, with a bar that will serve what its lawyer said would be an extensive list of soju and other Korean liquors. Read more.
By adamg - 1/28/24 - 6:04 pm
Around 5:30 p.m., the MBTA announced Red Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to an "unauthorized person" on the tracks. Said person is no longer on the tracks and service has resumed, the T says.
By adamg - 1/21/24 - 2:29 pm
On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is shirking its duties but because of the street's oddball status as a private way. With a detailed history of why the street remains a private way, going back to the turn of the 20th century.
By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:40 am
The MBTA first reported problems on the Red Line due to some vague track problem at Broadway, but now says you can blame the current delays on signal problems at Broadway.
By adamg - 1/15/24 - 2:56 pm
Eileen Murphy had to do a double take today when she saw what you can buy at the East Broadway Walgreens these days:
Can't say I ever expected to see "Catholicism for Dummies" at the Southie Walgreens.
By adamg - 1/12/24 - 9:43 am
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about the parking situation at Joseph Agri and Rev. Burke streets in South Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 1/11/24 - 9:34 am
The Fort Pointer watched starlings doing some synchronized flying over Wormwood Park in Fort Point at dusk the other day.
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