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.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the owner of a Watertown restaurant to move into the Linden Street space where a violence-plagued hip-hop club has sat closed for the past two years. Read more.
The owners of the violence-plagued Garage on Linden Street and the group that once hoped to turn it into a hi-fi club are now battling in court over the space, even as the Boston Licensing Board plans to consider whether the space still warrants a liquor license. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to take away the Russian Benevolent Society's valuable liquor license for its long shuttered Linden Street nightclub if the organization doesn't file complete written documentation by June 10 - with signatures on paper and everything - that it's really, truly, no kidding, selling the liquor license to the owner of a Mediterranean restaurant in Watertown who says he wants to open a restaurant in the space. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to let the owners of the closed Garage nightclub on Linden Street in Allston try to close a deal to lease the space and sell the liquor license to the owner of Jana Grill and Bakery of Watertown, who said today he would use the larger Allston space to offer both Mediterranean food and entertainment. Read more.
Hardy, McCarthy and Rosenberg.
For more than a year now, Stephen Rosenberg, Lukas McCarthy and Jhayson Hardy have been building a novel kind of Boston club: A place that would play hi-fidelity music, but at low enough volumes where you could still have a conversation, through hand-built and vintage sound components in a venue that would be a "safe space" for everybody from members of the LGBTQ+ community to people with mobility issues to just people who want a place to hang out or even do school work during the day. Read more.
The owner of the closed Garage club on Linden Street - shut since 2022 because of yet more gunfire out front - wants the Boston Licensing Board to revoke its "indefinite suspension" of his liquor license so he can explore leasing the space to new operators who would, one of his lawyers says, convert it into a music-focused "LGBTQ+ safe space in the community." Read more.
Matov during Tuesday hearing.
Alex Matov, whose Garage nightclub on Linden Street in Allston was ordered shut last year after a series of violent incidents, is asking the Boston Licensing Board to let him sell the place's liquor license to a new nightclub operator, who would re-open the club and run it until Matov can gain the financing he needs to replace the building with a new apartment complex - one that might have room for a nightclub of its own. Read more.
Two days after the owner of Garage on Linden Street said he was closing the place for good, following the latest round of gunfire outside, the Boston Licensing Board voted to suspend its license indefinitely. Read more.
Gunfire rang out outside Garage, 20 Linden St., early on April 20, just hours after the chairwoman of the Boston Licensing Board had given her OK for the place to re-open for the first time since a double shooting in the club parking lot last November. Read more.
Matov in Zoom hearing.
The owner of the shuttered Garage on Linden Street and his new manager today gave the Boston Licensing Board a re-opening plan that would include having at least seven security guards trained in "de-escalation" on duty at all times. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to levy a four-day suspension on Garage, 20 Linden St. in Allston after finding club managers and security staff failed to let police know about a fight inside that may have led to a double shooting minutes later outside on Nov. 15 and that they managed to hinder, whether deliberately or not, a still active investigation into that shooting. Read more.
Shooting scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports two men were shot overnight in the parking lot of Garage, 20 Linden St. in Allston. Read more.
Live Boston reports a man was stabbed at Dorchester Avenue and Linden Street around 2:40 a.m. on Saturday.
Rendering by Prellwitz Chilinski Associates of the view from across Linden Street.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the owner of the Linden Street block that houses the Garage nightclub with a three-building complex with 349 tiny apartments, including some lofts set aside for artists. Read more.
Victim identified as Jason Brandao, 28, of Dorchester.
Around 11:15 p.m. at 121 Adams Street at Leedsville Street. A man was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A woman was also shot, but she is expected to survive, police say.
An Allston nightclub that has a heavy concentration of Russian-speaking customers found itself before the Boston Licensing Board for the second time in a few months because servers were leaving carafes filled with liquor - tequila and whiskey - on tables for customers to just pour by themselves. Read more.
Proposed view down Linden Street.
The owner of the building that now houses the Garage nightclub, day-care facilities and offices on Linden Street in Allston wants to tear the whole thing down and replace it with a complex of three buildings - one 14 stories tall - housing 300 apartments, 53 condos and a neighborhood cafe or shop. Read more.
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