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By adamg - 5/24/23 - 11:42 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Black Seed extend its closing time from 2:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. at its location on Tremont Street downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:26 pm

Correction: The 11 p.m. closing time originally listed here was for the restaurant space Black Seed is moving into. Its current location, next door, lists a 2 a.m. closing time.

Black Seed, 140 Tremont St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek permission to extend its closing time from the current 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:58 am

The Beacon Hill Times reports on initial proposals for a "West End Green Corridor" to connect the Rose Kennedy Greenway with the Esplanade. One proposal: A sort of mini-High Line path 15 feet up.

By adamg - 5/10/23 - 10:52 am
Traffic on the Central Artery in 1971

Not much of a skyline along the highway in 1971.

On May 17, 1971, photographer Gene Dixon snapped some shots of traffic on the Central Artery downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 5/9/23 - 3:17 pm

More than a decade after a developer first proposed a hotel at 188 High St., another developer is set to actually begin construction of a seven-story, 24-room hotel this summer, its attorney told the Zoning Board of Appeal. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 11:16 am
Man in Boston Harbor retrieving skateboard

Horseless Age chronicled one man's successful effort to retrieve his be-stickered skateboard out of the briny shallow off Christopher Columbus Park the other day - after getting down to his skivvies and slipping a time or two on the seaweed.

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 9:34 am

The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon is the obverse of events where people get together to create cool new stuff, and it's coming up, on May 27:

A "hackathon" is a social event where people come together for a short period of time to make a project, like an app or hardware device. A "stupid shit hackathon" is an event where people come together to make projects that are terrible, useless, horrifying, and probably should have never been made.

By adamg - 5/7/23 - 10:00 pm
Kingston Street shooting scene

Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.

In the area of Bedford and Kingston streets, around 9:45 p.m. Victim was driven to a local hospital before police or EMTs could arrive.

Live Boston reports that in addition to investigating the shooting, police had to quell "a massive crowd" in the area.

By adamg - 5/5/23 - 3:48 pm
Tunnel off its hitch

N spotted this newly unhitched boat inside the O'Neill Tunnel northbound today.

Back in 2015:
Yacht founders on icy shoals downtown.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 11:03 am
Janeth Millare

Update: Board requested Millare meet with the neighborhood group, but said it didn't want to hold her up when the mayor's office told her she didn't have to, so approved her license.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Janeth Millare to open Pinoy Kabayan Filipino Asian Cuisine at 71-73 Broad St. downtown.
Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/23 - 9:48 pm
Golden stripes on Boston buildings

Adam Smith watched the golden stripes on Boston buildings at sunset today.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 9:48 pm
Romero

A Chelsea man admitted last week he forced a woman to accompany him from Bromfield Street downtown all the way to the Public Garden, where he raped her, in November, 2020.
Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 4:13 pm

The MBTA reports one of the exciting-and-new Orange Line trains was held at State Street for about ten minutes so workers could whack the hell out of get a recalcitrant door on one car to work again.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 3:33 pm
Running Spiderman

Travis Watson wonders what Spider-Man is running from along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and whether he's run out of his Web fluid.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 10:30 am
Dead train at Haymarket

The deceased train. Photo by Peppamint Patty.

The T spent all that money on brand-new Orange Line cars and yet, here we are this morning with a dead brand-new Orange Line train at Haymarket gumming up the works.

At 10:23 a.m., Peppamint Patty reported from the platform, just a few feet away from the dead train: Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 10:03 am
Damage to Aquarium stop

Remains of windows at Aquarium T stop. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report arresting an East Boston man they say tried to smash his way into the Aquarium stop on the Blue Line with a chair after learning it was closed at 2:30 a.m. last Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:46 pm
Pigeon perched on a tombstone at the Granary Burying Ground

John Daley captured this winged spectre perched at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 4:42 pm

One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.

By adamg - 4/15/23 - 12:36 pm
Turkey in City Hall garage

A roving UHub photographer with access to the City Hall garage spotted this turkey this morning pondering which car to take home.

By adamg - 4/14/23 - 11:04 am

Transit Police report arresting a man at Aquarium on the Blue Line last night for allegedly attacking another man who refused to give up his seat. Read more.

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