Remains of a light pole with modified NOT ART stencil
By adamg - 3/21/24 - 9:39 am

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about the graffiti on the remains of a light pole at Rutherford Avenue and Essex Street in Charlestown, thoughtfully circling the offending graffiti to make it easier to find, although without any indication whether the objection is to the original "NOT ART" stencil, the additions that make it somehow even worse, if possibly funnier, or both.

Custom House in the torrent
By adamg - 7/21/23 - 10:25 pm

Sarah Wroblewski reports Boston got nearly two inches of rain out of tonight's storm, more than local storm drains and roads could handle in a short amount of time. Some trees came down after being hit by lightning. Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 12:44 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a 14-lane bowling alley at Hood Park off Rutherford Avenue - and the operators' proposal to buy the liquor license of the former Dogwood Cafe in Jamaica Plain for keglers and diners. Read more.

Rutherford Avenue lab-space rendering
By adamg - 9/14/22 - 11:57 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Related Beal to replace a self-storage building at 420 Rutherford Ave. with a three-story building aimed at life-sciences startups - although in a pinch, a robotics developer could also rent space there. Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/22 - 8:50 pm

Video of the aftermath of the crash, which brought multiple ambulances, at least one of which took somebody to a local hospital in such bad shape the BPD homicide unit was called in just in case.

By adamg - 7/15/21 - 12:18 pm

Related Beal wants to tear down a two-story self-storage place on Rutherford Avenue, next to Hood Park, and replace it with a three-story life-sciences R&D building that would meet current federal standards for the care and research use of lab animals. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/21 - 10:15 am

A blinded-by-the-light citizen files a 311 complaint about the new floodlights at the newish residential building at 330 Rutherford Ave.: Read more.

Rendering of proposed Charlestown residential building
By adamg - 1/19/21 - 10:05 am

New England Development has filed its plans for a seven-story, 240-unit residential building that could be the start of a multi-year project to redevelop the six-acre Bunker Hill Mall on Rutherford Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/20 - 3:14 pm

New England Development says it wants to build a 240-unit residential building on an undeveloped bit of its Bunker Hill Mall, along Rutherford Avenue and bordered by Austin and West School streets. Read more.

Proposed Hood Park project: Now with women doing exercise - and birds
By adamg - 9/20/18 - 1:23 pm

With Sullivan Square and Rutherford Avenue set to become actually usable by pedestrians, the owners of the 20-acre Hood Park parcel have filed another revision for their project with the city that calls for more housing - some at the top of a 290-foot-high tower - as well as more office space. Read more.

Rendering of 610 Rutherford Ave. building
By adamg - 8/10/18 - 11:12 am

Charlestown developer Gray MacLetchie is proposing to replace a 1960s two-story building at 610 Rutherford Ave. with a five-story, 22-unit condo building with 19 parking spaces. Read more.

Hood garage rendering
By adamg - 12/14/17 - 10:30 am

The developer of the Hood Park complex off Rutherford Avenue has filed a request with the BPDA to be allowed to change its original plans for a business and residential development into a business, residential and entertainment park - possibly with bees. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/17 - 8:42 pm

Yes, Charlestown, in the mixed-use development where the Hood plant used to be off Rutherford Avenue, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports.

Crushed State Police cruiser in Charlestown
By adamg - 11/8/17 - 9:26 am

NBC Boston reports a State Police trooper suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a crash around 3:30 a.m. on an access road to Boston Sand & Gravel off Rutherford Avenue.

Rick Macomber reports the cruiser somehow got jammed between two of the freight cars that haul sand and stone from New Hampshire to Charlestown.

By adamg - 10/4/16 - 8:15 am

WBZ reports on a burst main that sent water cascading into the area around Rutherford Avenue and Arrow Street early this morning.

Dumpster fire in Sullivan Square
By adamg - 8/2/16 - 3:47 pm

June Bug and Radiomancy Museum report a plummeting electrical wire set a dumpster in the Hood parking lot in Sullivan Square on fire around 2 p.m.:

Police telling folks to stay inside the buildings due to arching. Smells worse than usual down here!

By adamg - 12/17/15 - 10:18 am

Boston and State Police started reopening roads and ramps around Sullivan Square around 10 a.m.

Photo of the scene.

Bad traffic on Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown
By adamg - 2/3/15 - 3:48 pm

Because it's sounding like downtown and surrounding areas are at gridlock right now - and it can't possibly be because of people heading to the Beanpot, can it?

Gridlocked traffic on Bennington Street in East Boston
By adamg - 5/1/14 - 8:01 am

Traffic lights at Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street in Mattapan, Neptune and Bennington streets in East Boston and Rutherford Avenue and Chelsea Street in Charlestown are on the fritz.