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By adamg - 11/22/24 - 11:57 am

Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!

Globe blurb that says Fenway Park is in the Back Bay

Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 11:02 pm
Locker-room thief

Surveillance photos of alleged thief via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rifled the locker room at G20, 33 Exeter St. in the Back Bay, making off with $250,000 worth of jewelry Tuesday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 11/15/24 - 11:05 am
Old pay-phone booth in the Back Bay

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about this relic of the time before everybody had their own personal communications device: Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 5:16 pm

A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 2:28 pm

NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.

By adamg - 11/11/24 - 10:57 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tree House Brewing Co. is looking to open a brewery AND a distillery at the Prudential Center. With a tasting room, of course. The Boston Licensing Board considers the applications (beer and spirits require separate licenses) at a hearing on Wednesday.

By adamg - 11/7/24 - 4:13 pm

The Boston Sun reports a chain called First Watch, which offers blunchy stuff, is looking at space at 777 Boylston St. for its first Boston location. They'll be seeking a liquor license, because what's breakfast without a bloody Mary?

By adamg - 11/6/24 - 10:32 pm

When Boston Police announced the arrest of a woman charged with stealing $4,800 of stuff from the Prudential Center Lululemon on Saturday, they gave her name as that of a 37-year-old Ipswich woman. Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/24 - 9:58 am

A man and a woman face charges in unrelated shoplifting incidents in which both targeted Lululemon outlets in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - 11/1/24 - 12:16 pm

The city today announced the expansion of the Open Newbury street closing to two Sundays during the holiday season next month.

The street will be shut to motor vehicles on Dec. 1 and Dec. 8 in what had previously been just a summertime program to let pedestrians have free reign, if even just for part of a day, between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

By adamg - 10/31/24 - 2:52 pm
Proposed Back Bay Jenga building

Proposed Jenga tower next to Back Bay station still just proposed.

The Boston Business Journal reports the developer that once proposed some major reconstruction of the space around and above Back Bay station - which would have included a re-do of the station's interior - is continuing to not move forward on its proposal because, well, you know, the office market and all. Read more.

By adamg - 10/28/24 - 11:57 am

An annoyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 7:52 a.m. about the striking Park Plaza workers, who now strike up the band, um, buckets and loudspeakers, starting at 7 a.m.: Read more.

By adamg - 10/23/24 - 10:03 am

A Commonwealth Avenue resident whose condo backs up to the Newbury Street location of yet another proposed dispensary says the idea goes against city zoning codes and would help diminish the neighborhood and his property in so many ways, including through the generation of "noxious odors." Read more.

By adamg - 10/9/24 - 12:41 pm

The Boston Public Health Commission reports the state has lifted its cyanobacteria advisory for the Charles River between the Longfellow Bridge and the Charles River Dam, including the Broad and Lechmere canals in Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/24 - 10:50 pm

Tristie-Mattea Ortiz reports how two classmates and she sprung into action while studying at the Copley Square library last month when they spotted a pigeon who needed help - he had "a visibly broken wing and missing toe." They were preparing to take it back on the Green Line to try to rehab it in their dorm - luckily, one of them was an avid birder - when they got a call back from 311 and were redirected to the MSPCA in Jamaica Plain, where, on the long trek over, they named the bird Freduardo.

By adamg - 10/4/24 - 2:51 pm

The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.

Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.

By adamg - 9/30/24 - 7:50 pm
Sunset from the Mass Ave. bridge

Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko stopped for a moment on the Mass. Ave. Bridge to enjoy the sunset this evening.

By adamg - 9/25/24 - 3:16 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved a marijuana dispensary at 297 Newbury St. in the Back Bay, granting a variance to let it open just steps from two other existing dispensaries. Read more.

By adamg - 9/20/24 - 9:25 am
Charles in bloom; map of affected area

The Charles in bloom and map of the affected area, by CRWA.

The state Department of Public Health yesterday confirmed that the Charles River from the Longfellow to the dam is now full of blue-green algae, which means you need to be especially careful to keep your dogs and young children out of it, the Charles River Watershed Association reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/24 - 10:11 am

Jack Cohen uses the same tree to show three faces of fall in the Public Garden.

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