Several feet of garbage at the bottom of a trash chute at 770 Boylston St. ignited overnight, starting a two-alarm fire that sent some residents into the chill night air. Read more.
Hey, there! Log in / Register
Boylston Street
By adamg - 4/22/16 - 10:38 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports it could be re-opened as a place called Tony C's.
By adamg - 4/4/16 - 9:54 pm
Doug Sieber looked out his window to see firefighters and EMTs working to help a person hit by a car on Boylston Street outside Jerry Remy's around 9 p.m. Stanley Staco reports the pedestrian was taken away in critical condition.
By adamg - 3/27/16 - 11:43 am
Jimmy Ellis spotted this fire dog standing guard at Engine 33 on Boylston Street this morning.
By adamg - 3/18/16 - 8:52 am
Boston City Archaeologist Joseph Bagley has put together an animation that shows how Boylston Street in Copley Square has been built up over the millennia:
— Boston Archaeology (@BostonArchaeo) March 15, 2016
By adamg - 3/3/16 - 1:12 pm
Emerson College today announced plans to turn the building between the old Alley and the theater on Boylston Street into a new student dining center - to go along with the 18-story dorm the college is building there.
That's good news for fans of the old Colonial, which the college had initially looked at as space for a new student center/feeding facility. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/16 - 4:39 pm
Guy on left wanted; guy on right arrested.
Boston Police report arresting Jose Manuel Lopez on charges he was sticking up pedestrians at knifepoint in recent weeks downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 11/20/15 - 4:33 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports on the sale of 500 Boylston and 222 Berkeley, notes:
The deal to acquire 500 Boylston and 222 Berkeley comes at frothy time in Greater Boston commercial real estate market.
By adamg - 11/13/15 - 10:16 pm
617 Images captured the French tricolor atop the Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street tonight.
By adamg - 10/29/15 - 12:53 pm
St. Francis House and the Archdiocese of Boston are seeking BRA permission to convert the old Young Men's Christian Union building at 48 Boylston St. into 46 apartments for residents making no more than 60% of the area's median income. Read more.
By adamg - 9/24/15 - 11:06 am
Eric Griswold shows us Pope John Paul II's motorcade going down Boylston Street on the way to a mass on the Common in 1979. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/15 - 3:48 pm
A worker did welding on a beam today in what will be one of the entrances to the Prudential Center on Boylston Street after the completion of the building now under construction where the plaza in front of the food court used to be.
By adamg - 9/4/15 - 7:17 pm
Meg reports:
Ain't no party like a party at former Burger King site w/no guests but a lovey table setup.
By adamg - 7/16/15 - 3:39 pm
Daniella Torres reports on a crash around 3:15 p.m. at the Back Bay intersection:
Just saw/heard terrible hit and run with a bike and a red (maybe gray trim) SUV at intersection of Mass Ave and Boylston.
Walking across street, heard crash, saw biker fly in air. Crowd (not me) got license plate, stayed until ambulance came.
Biker was in severe pain (head/leg) but talking. Guy in crowd made sure he didn't move his head & comforted him.
By adamg - 6/10/15 - 11:13 am
UPDATE: They got the license.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant an all alcohol license to Target for the new store the chain says will open July 22 at Boylston and Kilmarnock.
The four-story store will be the first East Coast CityTarget, aimed at nearby residents who arrive on foot, rather than in a car.
Target attorney Joseph Devlin said the Fenway is ideal for that, given all the residential development along Boylston. He said the neighborhood's existing liquor outlets, which includes the Boylston Star Market, have not kept pace with the demand.
Devlin said the alcoholic beverages, in a single aisle near housewares, will be aimed at people stocking up for parties or events, rather than the sort of people looking for a quick buzz. The store will not sell 40s, nips or pints, he said.
The proposal was supports by the mayor and city councilors Josh Zakim, Ayanna Pressley, Michael Flaherty, Michelle Wu and Steve Murphy. Nobody spoke in opposition.
By adamg - 6/5/15 - 8:42 am
Architect's rendering: Why is the woman in the foreground just walking down Boylston?
The owner of the 500 Boylston St. tower made famous by Boston Legal has filed renderings of the proposed "infilling" of the curved plaza it says few people use because it's too dark and windswept and too close to the more pleasing Copley Square. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/15 - 10:32 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Lir, 903 Boylston St. stay open until 2 a.m., an hour later than at present.
Lir is the only one of the four bars on that stretch of Boylston that currently has to close at 1 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/15 - 8:19 am
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.
By adamg - 4/27/15 - 5:08 pm
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.
By adamg - 4/26/15 - 12:51 pm
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.
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
