A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.
Photo by BPD.
Update, 7/5: Judge denies request to hold suspect as potential danger to society, but orders her held in lieu of the $10,000 bail he set.
Boston Police report arresting one of two people who fled without paying for a meal at a Chinatown restaurant Saturday night, after she pointed a gun at one worker trying to stop her, then beat her, then ran outside as she dropped the gun - and her Social Security card. Read more.
Firefighters attack Jacob Wirth fire. Photo by Smith.
Boston firefighters responded to the Jacob Wirth building, 37 Stuart St., around 11 p.m. on Monday for what turned into a four-alarm fire extending across all three floors. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved Big Night Entertainment's plans to buy Metro, 100 Stuart St. in the Theater District, and rename it BSMNT. Read more.
A Hanover man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail at his arraignment on charges he refused to stop calling Tufts Medical Center to threaten to blow the place up - and to scream racial epithets at whoever answered the phone, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A bouncer at Game On in the Fenway lost his job after smacking one alleged jerk of a customer in the forehead with his flashlight, while a bouncer at Candibar in the Theater District was suspended for a week after punching a customer who made a particularly crude remark about his 11-year-old daughter. Read more.
Big Day Boston, the friendly downtown birding competition, is returning to Copp's Hill Terrace in Boston's North End, Saturday, May 4th, 2024. Read more.
Rob Colonna spotted this Purity Supreme shopping cart outside the Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown today. The last Purity Supreme closed in 1997.
Top of the deed for 179 Lincoln St.
In perhaps the most dramatic example of the decline of the Boston office market yet, Triple Net Investor reports a subsidiary of Blackstone last week sold the five-story 179 Lincoln St. at Kneeland Street for just $10 to local developer Synergy.
Synergy is actually also paying another $76.5 million - to assume the amount remaining on the mortgage Blackstone took out in January, 2020. Read more.
Firefighters on roof make sure fire isn't still spreading. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 15 Hudson St. for a fire that started in Great Barbecue and spread to the roof of the three-story building. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a request from China Pearl, 9 Tyler St. in Chinatown for a live-entertainment permit, saying owner Brian Moy needs to first convince nearby residents the move won't mean extra late-night noise, crowd and safety issues in the tightly packed neighborhood. Read more.
Sampan reports on a recent Boston Water and Sewer Commission meeting in Chinatown about both water-main breaks and flooding caused by blocked storm drains, but adds one Leather District resident complained about his tap water "reaching temperatures of nearly 100 degrees."
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the two bodies found yesterday in a room on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St., were those of a man, 43, and a woman, 24.
Both victims sustained bullet wounds. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The incident remains under investigation by Boston police and the Suffolk DA’s office.
WCVB reports on two bodies found on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St. shortly after noon.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Uncle Tetsu, which makes cheesecakes, including green-tea matcha cheesecake and ube cheesecake made with purple Filipino yams, plans to open its first East Coast outlet on Hudson Street in Chinatown.
The turkey wasn't the only thing that was carved at a private Friendsgiving party at Bijou, 51 Stuart St., and now the Boston Licensing Board has to decide whether the club could have foreseen the slicing and done anything to prevent it. Read more.
An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about the scorching steam on South Street near Kneeland Street - right across the street from the Vicinity Energy steam plant: Read more.
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