A soaked resident filed a 311 complaint about the water feature that GBH is now running nightly along the sidewalk outside its studios at Guest and Market streets in Brighton: Read more.
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By adamg - 8/29/24 - 9:39 am
Boston Police report they are looking for a prowler spotted on Gerald Road, off Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College, Tuesday night.
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By adamg - 8/28/24 - 2:36 pm
Drone-view rendering by Stantec Architecture and Engineering.
A developer has filed plans to replace a building housing radio stations and an antenna tower on Leo Birmingham Parkway across from Lincoln Street in Brighton with an eight-story, 338-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/24 - 11:01 pm
Boston firefighters responded around 5:40 a.m. to the rear of 7 Tip Top St. in Brighton's Oak Square for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 8/16/24 - 12:03 pm
Gov. Healey said today she has ordered St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton seized so that the state can keep it open while it transitions to a less rapacious owner - the non-profit Boston Medical Center - rather than risking the collapse of any deal by its current for-profit owners to squeeze the last bits of cash they can as they go bankrupt. Read more.
By adamg - 8/13/24 - 3:34 pm
The MBTA reports the recent shutdown of the B Line let workers eliminate all of the eight slow zones on that Green Line branch. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/24 - 11:45 am
The MBTA is reminding Green Line riders that the B Line will be shut between Boston College and Babcock Street between Aug. 2 and 11 for some of those accelerated track repair sessions.
Bustitution, of course, except the buses won't stop at Allston Street, Griggs Street or Packards Corner for accessibility reasons.
House on Washington Street in Brighton Center could be torn down for four-story residential building
By adamg - 7/25/24 - 11:52 am
Rendering by Embarc.
A Newton developer has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to raze a single-family house at 434 Washington St. in Brighton Center and replace it with a four-story building with 18 residential units and ground-floor commercial space. Read more.
By adamg - 7/19/24 - 2:14 pm
Rendering by Shepley Bulfinch.
Boston College has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to build a three-story, roughly 45,000-square-foot building to store collections of religious stuff "as well as limited artwork and cultural artifacts" on a hillside between its Theology and Ministry Library and its St. John's Seminary property off Lake Street in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/24 - 9:47 am
A man charged with exposing himself in Brookline and Boston after getting out of his pickup with Oregon plates has been ordered to undergo observation to see if he is competent to stand trial. Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/24 - 11:11 am
Photo attached to the complaint of crash aftermath at Lincoln and Portsmouth.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about Lincoln Street following a crash that resulted in one vehicle bursting into flames yesterday at the intersection with Portsmouth Street: Read more.
By adamg - 7/8/24 - 5:50 pm
Routes of new electrical lines; new substation is pink rectangle on right; existing substations are orange triangles.
The state Energy Facilities Siting Board recently approved plans by Eversource to build a large new underground substation in Kendall Square and 8.5 miles of new high-voltage lines connecting it to other Eversource substations in Brighton and Somerville to deal with growing demand from new construction and electric vehicles - and Vicinity Energy's plans to convert its Kendall Square steam-generating boilers to electric power. Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/24 - 12:50 pm
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski yesterday sued Khaled Awad, whom authorities say stabbed Noginski eight times as Noginski successfully managed to get the man away from children at a summer program at Shaloh House on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton Center on July 1, 2021. Read more.
By adamg - 6/11/24 - 9:35 am
A Colorado company that builds industrial-sized battery systems for use in electrical grids says it will soon file plans to build a two-story "battery energy storage system" at 35 Electric Ave. in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/24 - 9:15 am
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.
By adamg - 6/4/24 - 1:45 pm
Rendering by Embarc showing the blank wall in case the pizza place gets replaced by something taller.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to replace the three-story office building next to the Circle pizza place and bar with a six-story, 30-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 8:14 am
1893 MDC photo of the pumping station, including the smokestack. Source.
The Boston Landmarks Commission agreed yesterday with the owners of one of the 19th-century pumping stations across from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir that its crumbling 150-foot smokestack needs to be taken down before it collapses, either spontaneously or in even a mild earthquake. Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/24 - 11:00 pm
Not the gun used in the robbery, but also seized: Unassembled assault weapon and bullets.
Boston Police report arresting two men, 64 and 65, at the J.J. Carroll House, 130 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Brighton, yesterday on charges they tried to hold up the Cumberland Farms store just down the block at 148 Chestnut Hill Ave. on May 15. Read more.
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