Update: Transit Police report they've IDed the guy.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
A company renovating the skyscraper at 1 Lincoln St. in Downtown Crossing yesterday won the right to buy a liquor license for a currently unoccupied space to serve what it says is a growing demand for full service restaurants as more people return to office work by opening at least one restaurant, but possibly more. Read more.
Alvaro Larrama, a bouncer at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter for the March, 2022 stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, a Marine veteran from Chicago in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
NBC Boston reports Boston Police move in around 2 a.m. and dragged out students protesting the situation in Gaza and tents from Boylston Place. Emerson canceled classes for today. Some video.
Meanwhile, Harvard students are in their second day of an encampment in Harvard Yard. The school is barring non-Harvard people from the Yard.
Streetsblog Massachusetts reports on the cruiser crash Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street, taking out a traffic light and damaging a hydrant, but not hitting anybody. The officer was on his way down Tremont to the Burger King, where other officers managed to arrest a man while he was still trying to hold the place up at gunpoint.
Another truck driver managed to wedge his truck inside the Sumner Tunnel this evening.
Roving UHub photographer Ray Ausrotas spotted Boston's musical bear outside Faneuil Hall yesterday. Sam Adams, as usual, was unimpressed.
A man was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was trying to rob the Burger King, 128 Tremont St. downtown, Boston Police report. Read more.
Boston Pedestrian observed the scene on Franklin Street just before Washington Street in Downtown Crossing this afternoon: Read more.
The BPDA this week sternly wagged its administrative finger at Millennium Partners for shutting a supposedly public part of its Winthrop Square tower to the public on weekends even though it had promised to keep "The Connector" open every day of the week as part of its conditions for winning BPDA approval to replace a condemned city parking garage with a sleek 21st-century complex of offices, luxury apartments and restaurants. Read more.
KTC won't forget where he was 30 years ago tonight - or 30 years ago tomorrow:
I spent my last evening at the old Boston Garden with Pearl Jam Cobain died a few days before and no one knew what to expect. The show started in pitch black, the 1st song Release. Epic. Saw them next night at Orpheum.
Boston will get its annual pre-Marathon background nuclear radiation check Thursday through Monday, s o that's why you'll see (and hear) a blue and white copter flying loud and low over downtown and the Marathon route and downtown Boston - like 150 feet up at 80 m.p.h.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to convert a six-story office building at 281 Franklin St. into 15 apartments, 3 to be rented as affordable. Read more.
Photo by Lora Power Estey.
The Boston Fire Department reports construction material on an outside deck of the ninth floor of the 51-story South Station Tower caught fire this morning. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspects via TPD.
Transit Police this morning released surveillance photos of two men wanted in connection with a stabbing Saturday evening that sent a man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
Teddy Kokoros took in the Greek Independence Day parade down Boylston and Charles streets today.
A person was found with possibly life-threatening stab wounds at Summer and Purchase streets across from South Station around 6:20 p.m. Read more.
Williams going full Nazi at Roxbury meeting last week. Photo by a UHub photographer.
A Bridgewater man was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges he segued from screaming slurs at people inside City Hall to shouting at and then biting and punching Boston police officers trying to get him out of the building, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Photo between 1955 and 1959 by Nishan Bichajian. See it larger.
What's now a little used alley across Tremont Street from Lagrange Street (so obscure the Google Street Views car has never been down it) was once an entrance to a nightclub that was part of a restaurant complex where Boston's elite would meet to greet and eat - and until 3 a.m., if you can imagine. Read more.
A woman suffered possibly life-threatening injuries when hit by a large box truck at Essex Street and Atlantic Avenue around 6:30 a.m. The truck driver remained at the scene.
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