At 8:45 a.m., the MBTA reported halting Blue Line service due to smoke at Airport station. Turned out there was "a fire along the third rail near airport," the T updated at 9:01 a.m., but it was out and service was returning, but with "residual delays," some of which might be caused by T workers trying to figure out what sparked the fire.
H/t Rob A.
Rendering of the two building showing their central plaza by Joy Street Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a proposal for a two-building complex with 35 affordable apartments and 22 affordable condos off Saratoga Street in Orient Heights, but the owner of a commercial building behind which the complex would sit says one of the proposed access routes, via a private way, would violate an easement. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Italian Pizza Express, 336 Sumner St. in East Boston, plans to re-open.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the owner of Mexicali Sushi Bar, 199 Sumner St. in Maverick Square, to rename the place La Piñata. Read more.
An East Boston man started the new year by going on a rampage on Princeton Street that left his girlfriend pouring blood from knife wounds in her head, neck and hand, her car and three others damaged and a man with injuries from being punched in the face, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, watched this morning, as a crane and crew resurrected the Armageddon, which sank at its berth at the Boston Harbor Marina in East Boston at some point.
Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tawakal Halal Cafe on Maverick Street in East Boston's Jeffries Point, is closing next week.
Boston Police report arresting an Everett man on charges he fatally stabbed Wilfredo Landaverde Arevalo of Medford at 186 Gove St. in East Boston around 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 15. Read more.
WFXT reports a man was stabbed at Sumner and Paris streets in East Boston around 1:15 p.m. today.
Victim identified as Wilfredo Landaverde Arevalo, 34, of Medford.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed at the end of Gove Street near the airport in East Boston around 6:35 a.m. Read more.
A rattled citizen files a 311 complaint - and a confession - about the situation outside the Umana Academy at Eutaw and Border streets in East Boston: Read more.
An East Boston man who says he's out $55,000 for the cost of removing his appendix is suing a group that claims to provide a lower-cost, "faith-based" alternative to regular health insurance, but which he says refused to pay for his surgery. Read more.
McKay Place rendering by Zephyr Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 41-unit condo building at McKay Place and Maverick Street in Jeffries Point and two apartment building with a total of 41 units at the Orient Heights rotary where Saratoga, Ford and Boardman streets meet. Read more.
A man who had bought several pairs of sneakers from an East Boston man was arraigned today on charges he set up a ruse to carjack the seller - and take the sneakers he'd said he would buy - in a Saratoga Street parking lot last month, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
White rabbits stood out in the brown of the marsh.
Hugmajesty reports she was leading a bird-watching tour at Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston today when she and her group came upon more than a dozen big white bunnies in the underbrush. Read more.
The MBTA reports Blue Line bollixing due to a train that sighed and died at Aquarium.
Today's headline courtesy of Rob A.
An increasingly frustrated citizen files yet another 311 complaint about the person who responds to the unlocking of the gate across the harborwalk at the end of Sumner Street in East Boston by putting in a new lock - one that required some ingenuity since whoever replaced the previous lock made it impossible to simply slap a new one in: Read more.
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