A man and a woman face charges in unrelated shoplifting incidents in which both targeted Lululemon outlets in the Back Bay. Read more.
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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 - 10/23/24 - 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 - 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 - 9/16/24 - 5:47 pm
Update, Dec. 4, 2024: The bar voluntarily dismissed its suit.
The Black Rose bar on State Street today sued a Westborough bakery - which now has an outlet on Newbury Street - for also calling itself Black Rose. Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/24 - 10:31 pm
Boston Police report arresting somebody they say stabbed a man in the leg outside the firehouse at 941 Boylston St. shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, possibly after a fight around the corner on Newbury Street near Massachusetts Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/24 - 1:46 pm
The city announced today that Newbury Street will be open only to pedestrians for ten Sundays in a row starting June 30 and running through Sept. 1. Read more.
By adamg - 4/7/24 - 10:25 pm
A woman was found stabbed at Newbury and Gloucester streets in the Back Bay around 9:45 p.m. Injuries did not appear life threatening.
By adamg - 2/23/24 - 10:36 am
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/24 - 3:39 pm
The owner of a pottery studio that used to be on Beacon Hill yesterday sued her new and notorious Back Bay landlord, saying he broke his promise to let her install kilns to fire her patrons' hand-decorated wares. Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/23 - 11:47 am
Boston Police report arresting one of the two men they say used a brick to smash their way into Valentino, 47 Newbury St. early Monday and made off with a variety of high-priced Italian women's items. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 3:05 pm
Surveillance images via BPD. See it larger.
Boston Police report two guys broke into Valentino, 47 Newbury St., and took a number of items that do not seem like they would pair well with their own wardrobes. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/23 - 9:07 am
Charlie Dippolito checks out the new Central Perk on Newbury Street and suggests you leave it to the tourists who want to sit on a replica couch and buy "Friends" tchotchkes as the "Friends" song plays over and over and over and eat sandwiches that are just like what you could get at Panera, only more expensive and with "Friends"-based names.
By adamg - 10/10/23 - 10:14 am
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say took "illicit pictures of others in various stages of undress" in the changing rooms at H&M, 100 Newbury Street in the Back Bay, around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday - and may have snapped similar photos elsewhere on the street. Read more.
By adamg - 10/5/23 - 2:03 pm
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans for a Newbury Street coffee-like shop based on a fictional New York coffeehouse whose name is a play on that of a famous New York park. Read more.
By adamg - 10/4/23 - 11:43 am
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Kazuhiro Aotani, who operates Boston Ramen Co. in Harvard Square, open a new ramen outlet called Sushi by Bosso Ramen Tavern at 163 Newbury St. in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/23 - 10:10 pm
Flooded Newbury Street, photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reported at 9:35 p.m. that a water main burst at 337 Newbury St, between Mass. Ave. and Hereford Street and was sending water all the way down to Gloucester Street. Read more.
By Sasha Patkin - 9/8/23 - 11:30 am
Host Sar at the mic. Photo by Sasha Patkin.
"And next up, Tony!" called the host of Trident Booksellers's Poetry Open Mic Night.
Instead of one person standing and walking toward the mic to read a poem as had happened all evening, two people got up from a table at the back of the café. One of them ducked to the side, and started filming on her phone as Tony approached the mic. Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:00 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Beard Papa's, which once had outlets in Chinatown, Allston and the Back Bay, is returning to the city to see if we are finally worthy of a chain that sells just cream puffs, albeit customizable cream puffs (you pick your shell, then the filling). It'll be opening up on Newbury Street, next to another import: Shake Shack.
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