Roving UHub photographer Patrick Snyder couldn't help but noticing all the dorm fridge/microwave combos being unloaded on Boylston Street by Emerson College today.
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By adamg - 8/15/24 - 3:42 pm
A man was ordered locked up today when he couldn't make $2,500 bail on charges he sent one Transit Police officer to the hospital with a "serious bite wound" and attacked another when awoken on the floor of a Red Line train at Park Street yesterday morning, according to Transit Police and court records. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 1:20 pm
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:49 am
Turkey. Grass. Sidewalk.
Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).
By adamg - 8/14/24 - 11:13 am
A man was stabbed on Winter Place off Winter Street in Downtown Crossing around 8:15 a.m.
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By adamg - 8/13/24 - 1:49 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved the conversion of offices in buildings on Washington, Water and Devonshire streets downtown into 95 apartments, under a city tax-abatement program aimed at encouraging that. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/24 - 7:56 pm
Remains of the sign, by roving UHub photographer Karyn Regal.
NBC Boston reports the woman was hit in the leg and was able to limp away before being transported to a local hospital for care around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.
By adamg - 8/9/24 - 1:25 pm
A perturbed resident filed a 311 complaint this morning, not because this Tesla Cybertruck is an assault on the eyes but because of the way it's hoovered up parking spaces on India Street at Custom House Street downtown: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/24 - 11:18 am
The Boston Licensing Board today conditionally approved a food-serving license for a Raising Cane's at 101 Arch St. in Downtown Crossing that would let the chicken-finger chain fling breaded fingers until midnight. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/24 - 8:54 pm
Loyal Nine on Union Street downtown, which was Sons of Boston until one of its bouncers killed a visiting Chicago man outside in 2022, has closed for good, will sell its liquor license to its landlord and will use any money left over to pay "the victims of, as we all know, the unfortunate incident there," its lawyer told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 12:51 pm
WBUR reports the Sumner Tunnel is slated to re-open on Monday, but notes that weekend closings will continue through the fall.
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 1:32 pm
The Berkeley Beacon reports Emerson College has reached a deal to house some Boston Architectural College students in its Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets this fall.
BAC will continue to provide all academic and student support for its students, but those living on Emerson’s campus must abide by Emerson’s policies, the announcement said.
By adamg - 7/30/24 - 2:29 pm
As a large group on Mother's Day celebrated a man's college graduation at Estella, 49 Temple Pl., two attendees at the bar got into an argument over who had dibs on the man that escalated into a large roving brawl on Temple Place and Washington Street, police and restaurant managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
By adamg - 7/30/24 - 1:27 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was running around outside the Dubliner, 2 Center Plaza downtown, early Sunday morning, chasing exiting customers and attacking two of them. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/24 - 11:11 pm
Boston firefighters responded to South Station around 5:35 p.m. after somebody got on the outbound Red Line tracks at South Station and was hit by an incoming Red Line train. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/24 - 1:40 pm
The state said today it will soon seek bids to turn the "superblock" of the Hurley and Lindemann buildings - the most brutal of Boston's brutalist structures - into a "residential mixed-used redevelopment" that will bring new housing and commercial space downtown while upgrading space for the site's current residential mental-health services. Read more.
By adamg - 7/23/24 - 12:41 pm
Jay Fitzgerald notes John Hancock is giving up some office space and that while what passes for an official Boston office vacancy rate is around 23%, it could actually be closer to 40% if you throw in "shadow" space - space that tenants are still paying rent on, for now, but which is basically empty because of all the workers now logging into work from home.
By adamg - 7/22/24 - 11:40 am
A new show called Orphan Black: Echoes, which is just like "Orphan Black," only sideways, is set in Boston in 2052, as Brad Searles discovered.
And as you can see from this screenshot from one of the trailers downtown and Beacon Hill will look a tad different in 28 years, so get cracking, developers. But the Red Line will always be the Red Line, even if now a bit rusty on top. Read more.
By adamg - 7/18/24 - 10:29 am
That day started poorly on the Green Line, with the MBTA announcing delays due to "signal problems" at Government Center at 5:38 a.m. The T declared that issue fixed at 6:12 a.m., but then, at 7:35 a.m., upgraded (or is that downgraded?) the Government Center issue to "a track problem" severe enough to halt B and C service at Park Street. That short-stoppage is continuing. Read more.
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