Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
A man was stabbed in the chest in a Herter Park parking lot, near the kayak rental place, possibly in an argument spurred by a traffic incident on Soldiers Field Road in Allston shortly after 5 p.m. Boston EMTs found the man walking around. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Roxy's Grilled Cheese on Cambridge Street in Allston will fling its last cheesy comestible on Nov. 24. The outlet in Central Square in Cambridge, though, will remain open.
A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.
Rendering by Urbanica.
A developer has filed plans for a three-story, three-building condo development at 65-79 Seattle St. that would include things most Boston projects don't get, including plantings that will include nut trees and a "woonerf" - a sort of combination plaza, driveway and shaded area that is popular in the Netherlands and which could ultimately be connected to a local "greenway" path once Harvard finishes its own research campus nearby. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 9-11 Holton St. in Allston around 10 p.m. for an attic fire that turned into a two-alarm blaze. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more
Tom Leonard spotted the aurora right over his house in Lower Allston - looking west on Athol Street - around 7:20 p.m.
Kevin D. Jordan spotted the lights around the Needham TV towers - and he reports that unlike last time, they were definitely visible with the naked eye, even if only briefly: Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.
A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
The Crimson: Real estate firms are hitting the brakes on laboratory development in Allston. The Crimson says this includes a halt to plans for a billion-dollar lab-sciences and residential complex where WBZ is now on Soldiers Field Road.
The state Attorney General's office yesterday filed for permission to confiscate $182,189.11 it says Boston Police found in a May raid of the Harvard Convenience Store and what police described as its illegal three-machine slots parlor at Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue. Read more.
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
Not sure this qualifies for the "dining" tag, but felt this public service announcement can't go unmentioned
https://www.silhouetteallston.com/event/get-a-sil-tattoo-free-hot-dog-a-...
GBH uncorks the news that City Hall is considering several "open container districts" where people could buy something adult at a local restaurant and then just walk around sipping like we're a common New Orleans or Las Vegas. Read more.
Rendering of proposed 17 Linden St. by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected plans for a 14-unit apartment building - with three affordable units - at 17 Linden St., saying that while they and the Boston Planning Department both agree it would be a great addition to the side street off Cambridge Street, it just needs to be pruned back a bit to add some more open space in an area nowhere near a park. Read more.
A hardcore band that loves having its fans climb on stage got the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave., hauled before the Boston Licensing Board this morning to explain how one of those fans wound up with head injuries in a tumble from the stage. Read more.
Bird-infused rendering by Embarc.
Landlord Anwar Faisal's Alpha Management Corp. has filed plans to replace a three-story apartment building at 23-25 North Beacon St. in Allston's Union Square with a six-story, 25-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects of new building and old church.
The Allston Brighton Community Development Corp. today filed plans to build a four-story, 49-unit apartment building on North Harvard Street at Coolidge Road in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
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