The Herald reports on the disappearance of a Rembrandt etching and a Durer engraving.
Copley Square
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Jay Franzone was among those on hand to watch Adrianne Haslet-Davis dance across the Boston Marathon finish line in Copley Square this morning.
Haslet-Davis, you may recall, was the ballroom dancer who lost her left leg below the knee in the 2013 bombings.
Boston Police have released details on their encounter with the guy they say refused to move his car off Boylston Street in Copley Square yesterday as they were trying to get the street ready for the Greek Independence Day parade.
Stevil attended the vigil for earthquake victims in Nepal in Copley Square last night.
Copyright Stevil. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The intersection of Dartmouth and Boylston streets and Copley station on the Green Line were shut shortly before noon as the BPD bomb squad investigated a suspicious vehicle and its apparent driver.
Rory Razon, who took the photo of the car in question, reports:
Some idiot left his car and refused to move it. Police action. They took to guy into custody.
Dvdoff was in the Copley Plaza this morning as the elite runners got a sendoff before boarding a bus for the Marathon starting line in Hopkinton.
Our own Dvdoff was down in Copley Square this morning, watching workers cleaning the Marathon finish line.
The BRA was scheduled to vote on a proposed 52-story residential building atop the mall yesterday, but the Globe reports the authority put off the vote because community groups continue to protest the number of affordable housing units as too low.
J. Patience was startled by the retail-lease sign on the side of the new wing of the under-renovation BPL main library in Copley Square.
Earlier this month, BPL trustees issued an RFP for companies interested in leasing the space, at the corner of Boylston and Exeter in the under-renovation Johnson wing.
A roving UHub photographer took this panorama inside the renovated Johnson wing of the BPL main branch in Copley Square.
The BPL formally opened its revamped modern wing at the main library in Copley Square yesterday. Whitney Wilson loved the new children's library.
Greg Cook also toured the updated wing:
The first thing you notice about the renovation of the second floor of the Johnson Building at the Boston Public Library’s central Copley Square branch ... is the color.
Well played, Ft. Lauderdale, well played. Edmond Hatfield ran across its oasis last night in Copley Square.
Copyright Edmond Hatfield. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
A little cold weather didn't deter First Nighters from enjoying the traditional parade down Boylston Street tonight.
Marchers wished watchers a happy new year; some threw glow sticks or applied reflective stickers to the faces of little kids:
What would a parade be without dragons?
Louise Miller took in the ice sculptures in Copley Square this morning.
The Herald reports on the battle between the BPL board of trustees, who think it's dandy to decorate the main library with Christmas wreathes, and a Back Bay resident who wants to supplement the wreathes with a menorah.
The mayor, who appoints library trustees, has decided it's "not his place" to try to convince them otherwise.
Green Line service turned into a complete oxymoron this morning when a trolley died. The T rolled in substitute buses between Kenmore and Park. At 11 a.m., Zach Tucker tweeted:
3 dark trolleys sitting at Copley IB, no MBTA CSA's anywhere to explain to clueless tourists.
UPDATE: At 1 p.m., the T announced resumption of normal service, but, naturally, with residual delays.
Sgt. Luke Taxter at District D-4 reports a man was stabbed around 10 p.m. on Wednesday at Boylston and Clarendon streets, and that police arrested a suspect.
Ryan Fox photographed the work permit for the new Chipotle going in where the Burger King used to be until a fire closed it for good in February.