NBC Boston posts video of "chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling near riders at the Downtown Crossing station on Monday." On a Red Line platform, because that's the line where things fall from above, as opposed to the Orange Line, where things catch on fire.
Tina StGelais Kelly posted some photos from the scene at the State Street Blue Line stop at 5:10 p.m., which make her doubt the Blue Line can possibly handle any of those motorists the state is urging to take the Blue Line when the Sumner shuts on July 5 for repairs: Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that car dealerships that loan out cars to customers awaiting repairs to their own vehicles are in the rental business, and that means they are covered by a federal law that prohibits their financial liability for any problems caused by the cars' drivers - even if they are unlicensed and in a car that wasn't supposed to be taken out of state. Read more.
The Dubliner in Center Plaza downtown won't give up its name without a fight - it filed a countersuit today against an older Dubliner pub in Washington, DC that demands it change its name. Read more.
WBUR reports Boston City Hall, built as a brutalist monument to a new age, is getting old and needs like $80 million in repairs - some due to the fact that its architects failed to plan for repairs or renovations to certain key systems, such as hot-water pipes completely encased in the building's concrete structure.
If you stand on Washington Street at Summer and Winter in Downtown Crossing at look up above the building that houses the Corner Mall, you'll see a lionish gargoyle looking for a particularly plump pedestrian to chow down on. But if you look alllll the way up, at the very top of the building, you'll see a line of screaming gargoyles who have had quite enough of the classical music the Corner insists on loudly playing at the Washington Street entrance.
Who knew it would be the Forest Hills platform on the Orange Line at Downtown Crossing at 10:37 on a Monday morning?
As part of Pride month, the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District and Men of Melanin Magic are hosting a free drag, dance and music show with local queer performers, on Summer Street at Washington Street, between 5 and 8 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police have released surveillance photos of a man they say has broken into guest rooms at two local hotels. Read more.
Rendering by Schwartz/Silver Architects.
The Holocaust Legacy Foundation yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for the six-story Holocaust Museum and Educational Center she hopes to build at 125 Tremont St., across from the Park Street Church downtown. Read more.
Brenda looked towards Boston from Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott about 5:20 p.m.
Today's the first Monday in June and that means it was once again time for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, founded in 1638, to hold its annual march through downtown to commemorate its changing of the guard. Read more.
Glub: A man who never moved from the Custom House would need air tanks in a storm by 2070, report says.
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men they say used a machete to attack a third man at Tremont Street and Temple Place downtown shortly before 9 a.m. on May 23. Read more.
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