One of Allston/Brighton's larger landlords, Samia Cos., today sued another one of the neighborhood's larger landlords, Anwar Faisal, over two condos Samia owns in a building Faisal's company manages on Gordon Street in Allston. Read more.
The MBTA reports B Line delays of up to 15 minutes due to a trolley that got to BU Central and then would go no further.
Michael Sokolov captured the aftermath of a classic storrowing this morning: The remains of a freshly storrowed box truck that had been hauled off Soldiers Field Road and dumped on Western Avenue, after its driver fought the bridge and the bridge won. 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.
Somebody drove a Tesla Cybertruck all the way from Washington state to Allston, parked on Comm. Ave. near Harvard and immediately got boxed in, as a roving UHub reporter out for a stroll discovered this morning. She reports she did not pour any water on it.
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.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tavern in the Square on Brighton Avenue, where the Kells used to be, has served its last BU student.
DCR will be holding a public meeting Wednesday evening to help it map out a long-term plan for better managing the annual fall Head of the Charles Regatta between the Watertown line and the Charles River basin. Read more.
Transit Police report that around 3 this morning, somebody in a 2015 Hyundai drove onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Packards Corner, and then, realizing he couldn't escape the clutches of the sarlacc pit there, got out with a pal and ran away. "TPD Detectives to follow up," police say. "Vehicle towed from scene, no damage to tracks."
The Daily Free Press reports the Allston Brighton Community Development Corp. bought the Hill Memorial Baptist Church, 279 N. Harvard St. and plans to use the site for 50 affordable apartments for seniors. The non-profit bought the church, which had its last services last spring, in December.
Update: Approved, with a 9 p.m. closing time.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to approve a food-serving license for Middle Eastern-based Sofra Bakery, 210 North Harvard St. in Allston - directly across from a Dunkin' and around the corner from a Starbucks and a Swissbaker. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Henry Luthin snapped the aftermath of a most impressive storrowing this afternoon, inbound on Soldiers Field Road by the Harvard B-School. Read more.
WBZ reports on the man's plunge at 72 Gardner St. in the GAP area mainly occupied by BU students.
The Harvard Crimson talks to City Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton) about the city's proposed budget for capital projects, noting that supposed projects to build a new Jackson-Mann school and community center are still only marked as "to be scheduled" and that the neighborhood is dead last in proposed capital projects, behind even smaller neighborhoods.
The Rat City Arts Festival, which as its name implies, is in Allston, is sponsoring a program to artists to paint a bunch of empty black rat-bait stations, which will then be spread around the neighborhood for residents, and the more artistically inclined rodents, to enjoy, sort of like the city's utility-box painting program, just lower to the ground: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today for a three-day license suspension at the Silhouette Lounge, 200 Brighton Ave. in Allston, but to hold that in abeyance for six months, after BPD licensing cops found five people under 21 drinking - three of them just 19. Read more.
Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.
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