West Roxbury Roche Bros. this afternoon.
Members of the family that owns Roche Bros., which grew from a Roslindale Square meat market in 1952 into today's Roche Bros. and Sudbury Farms chains, are selling controlling interest in the company to a Connecticut food-delivery concern that has long been the chains' principal supplier of food and other products. Read more.
You can't tell from a photo, of course, but Sebastian Stockman checked in from Downtown Crossing this morning: "Downtown Crossing smells…clean?!?"
The Supreme Judicial Court today thew out a state law barring people from going out in public with a switchblade, concluding the knives are "arms" under the Second Amendment and that means people can legally pack them for self protection. Read more.
For the past couple of days, at-large Councilor Henry Santana has been listing interesting and fun stuff to do in Downtown Crossing and across Tremont on Boston Common. Read more.
A man was stabbed on Winter Place off Winter Street in Downtown Crossing around 8:15 a.m.
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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved the conversion of offices in buildings on Washington, Water and Devonshire streets downtown into 95 apartments, under a city tax-abatement program aimed at encouraging that. Read more.
Remains of the sign, by roving UHub photographer Karyn Regal.
NBC Boston reports the woman was hit in the leg and was able to limp away before being transported to a local hospital for care around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.
The Boston Licensing Board today conditionally approved a food-serving license for a Raising Cane's at 101 Arch St. in Downtown Crossing that would let the chicken-finger chain fling breaded fingers until midnight. Read more.
As a large group on Mother's Day celebrated a man's college graduation at Estella, 49 Temple Pl., two attendees at the bar got into an argument over who had dibs on the man that escalated into a large roving brawl on Temple Place and Washington Street, police and restaurant managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
Sweltering riders can't get to the Kendall platform because it's already full of other sweltering passengers waiting for the Godot Line. Photo by Johnmcboston.
Yes, of course, on one of the hottest, most humid days of the year, a train would jam up the already partially not running Red Line by dying (of heat exhaustion?) at Downtown Crossing. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Meghan Perdue snapped the line yesterday evening to get into Fajitas & 'Ritas - as it readies to close forever on Saturday after 35 years serving up, well, fajitas and margaritas.
BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.
Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect and escape car via BPD.
Boston Police have released photos of the man they say stabbed two people in a fight that also sent two other people to the hospital near the main entrance to the Park Street T stop on June 13. Read more.
A fight turned into a double stabbing near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
A person was shot near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common shortly before 10:10 p.m. Read more.
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