The BPDA this week sternly wagged its administrative finger at Millennium Partners for shutting a supposedly public part of its Winthrop Square tower to the public on weekends even though it had promised to keep "The Connector" open every day of the week as part of its conditions for winning BPDA approval to replace a condemned city parking garage with a sleek 21st-century complex of offices, luxury apartments and restaurants. Read more.
KTC won't forget where he was 30 years ago tonight - or 30 years ago tomorrow:
I spent my last evening at the old Boston Garden with Pearl Jam Cobain died a few days before and no one knew what to expect. The show started in pitch black, the 1st song Release. Epic. Saw them next night at Orpheum.
Boston will get its annual pre-Marathon background nuclear radiation check Thursday through Monday, s o that's why you'll see (and hear) a blue and white copter flying loud and low over downtown and the Marathon route and downtown Boston - like 150 feet up at 80 m.p.h.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to convert a six-story office building at 281 Franklin St. into 15 apartments, 3 to be rented as affordable. Read more.
Photo by Lora Power Estey.
The Boston Fire Department reports construction material on an outside deck of the ninth floor of the 51-story South Station Tower caught fire this morning. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspects via TPD.
Transit Police this morning released surveillance photos of two men wanted in connection with a stabbing Saturday evening that sent a man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
Teddy Kokoros took in the Greek Independence Day parade down Boylston and Charles streets today.
A person was found with possibly life-threatening stab wounds at Summer and Purchase streets across from South Station around 6:20 p.m. Read more.
Williams going full Nazi at Roxbury meeting last week. Photo by a UHub photographer.
A Bridgewater man was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges he segued from screaming slurs at people inside City Hall to shouting at and then biting and punching Boston police officers trying to get him out of the building, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Photo between 1955 and 1959 by Nishan Bichajian. See it larger.
What's now a little used alley across Tremont Street from Lagrange Street (so obscure the Google Street Views car has never been down it) was once an entrance to a nightclub that was part of a restaurant complex where Boston's elite would meet to greet and eat - and until 3 a.m., if you can imagine. Read more.
A woman suffered possibly life-threatening injuries when hit by a large box truck at Essex Street and Atlantic Avenue around 6:30 a.m. The truck driver remained at the scene.
Big Day Boston, the friendly downtown birding competition, is returning to Copp's Hill Terrace in Boston's North End, Saturday, May 4th, 2024. Read more.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Joshua Wall today sentenced former Transit Police officer Shawn McCarthy to 4 to 6 years in state prison following his conviction last week on charges he concluded a joy ride he gave two women in his cruiser in 2012 by raping them.
Ruth Zakarin, a former rape counselor, contrasts the reaction to the news about a Haitian man charged with raping a teen at a migrant shelter in Rockland and an Irish man charged with raping a woman at a hotel in downtown Boston. Read more.
In 1966, a news photographer captured the construction of the concrete structure around what would become the giant tank at the heart of the New England Aquarium - which opened to the public in 1969, giving us a generation of children who could walk like a penguin: Read more.
A Dublin man was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail after he was charged with raping a woman at the Omni Parker House, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted former Transit Police officer Shawn McCarthy for raping two women against and in his cruiser after offering them a joy ride in his cruiser that started near the Aquarium T stop and ended in a vacant lot near the Museum of Science in 2012, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
At Kendall Square Red Line entrance, sign would go under the red-and-white "Kendall" sign
The MBTA and the company that handles its electronic ad boards inside subway stations have begun a program to bring the boards above ground, at the entrances to stations. Read more.
1899 ad (source).
Long, long before the AMC Boston Common went up at the corner of Tremont and Avery streets, the site was the home of the Tremont Theatre, where an enterprising Swedish immigrant put in a swimming pool and a Turkish bath in the basement - open all night, at least for men. Read more.
The Fort Pointer spotted this pristine 1931 Ford on Federal Street today.
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