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By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:01 pm

Boston Police report arresting three teens in two separate knife incidents yesterday, at the Downtown Crossing Macy's and near City Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 9:05 pm

Boston Police report that Jazreanna Sheppard, 21, of South Boston, who was stabbed on Tremont Street across from Winter Street on July 20, has died.

Police continue to search for the suspect in the stabbing.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 8:51 am

Fun with the all new trains on the Orange Line: At 6:04 a.m., the MBTA reported a dead train at Wellington. At 7:56 a.m., the MBTA reported delays due to an earlier deceased train at Downtown Crossing (exactly when that train died, the T did not report).

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 2:40 pm

Update: Klyushin's sentencing has been canceled "until further notice."

Vladislav Klyushin, a Moscow IT executive held at the Plymouth County jail since 2021, could learn at some point how much longer he sit behind bars in the US following his conviction in February on insider-trading charges related to the theft of American corporate financial statements before their official releases. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 3:33 pm

Mayor Wu today announced a proposal to open up empty commercial space downtown to residential use by offering 75% off standard residential tax rates for up to 29 years for building owners - and by setting up a new office to speed conversions through the city's normal development approval process. Read more.

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 3:58 pm

Boston Police report teaming up with Transit and State Police to capture an alleged bank robber they say used the Orange Line as his escape route after a Downtown Crossing bank robbery, possibly because in an earlier Boston robbery, he tried using a stolen car, only to be foiled when he crashed the car, ran somebody over and was tackled by a bystander. Read more.

By adamg - 7/2/23 - 2:17 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Hanover man after he stole some food at the Downtown Crossing Chipotle and turned out to be carrying "a Polymer 80 P80 Glock 17 style 'Ghost Gun' with a magazine Friday afternoon, police say. Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 9:01 pm

NBC Boston posts video of "chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling near riders at the Downtown Crossing station on Monday." On a Red Line platform, because that's the line where things fall from above, as opposed to the Orange Line, where things catch on fire.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 9:41 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that car dealerships that loan out cars to customers awaiting repairs to their own vehicles are in the rental business, and that means they are covered by a federal law that prohibits their financial liability for any problems caused by the cars' drivers - even if they are unlicensed and in a car that wasn't supposed to be taken out of state. Read more.

By adamg - 6/12/23 - 12:30 pm
Screaming gargoyles in Downtown Crossing

If you stand on Washington Street at Summer and Winter in Downtown Crossing at look up above the building that houses the Corner Mall, you'll see a lionish gargoyle looking for a particularly plump pedestrian to chow down on. But if you look alllll the way up, at the very top of the building, you'll see a line of screaming gargoyles who have had quite enough of the classical music the Corner insists on loudly playing at the Washington Street entrance.

By adamg - 6/12/23 - 12:22 pm
Empty Orange Line platform

Who knew it would be the Forest Hills platform on the Orange Line at Downtown Crossing at 10:37 on a Monday morning?

By adamg - 6/9/23 - 11:55 am

Boston Police report a 14-year-old from Dorchester and a 12-year-old from South Boston were busy stuffing their backpacks with merchandise inside a Tremont Street smoke shop around 1:20 this morning when officers, summoned by the alarm they triggered, arrived. Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/23 - 9:34 am

As part of Pride month, the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District and Men of Melanin Magic are hosting a free drag, dance and music show with local queer performers, on Summer Street at Washington Street, between 5 and 8 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/2/23 - 10:44 am
Photos of men wanted for machete attack in downtown Boston

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for two men they say used a machete to attack a third man at Tremont Street and Temple Place downtown shortly before 9 a.m. on May 23. Read more.

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 2:05 pm
Two bucrania above School Street

Walk up School Street from the Downtown Crossing Walgreens and look up at the back of the building at the corner of Province Street, and you'll see these two ox skulls staring back at you. Read more.

By adamg - 5/28/23 - 11:37 am

Boston Police report arresting a man on the Common they say was in possession of "a Walther PPK/S-1 .380 ACP firearm with six rounds of ammunition in the magazine and several plastic bags containing a white rock like substance believed to be crack cocaine" Friday evening. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:26 pm

Correction: The 11 p.m. closing time originally listed here was for the restaurant space Black Seed is moving into. Its current location, next door, lists a 2 a.m. closing time.

Black Seed, 140 Tremont St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek permission to extend its closing time from the current 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/1/23 - 9:10 pm
Keytar Bear in Downtown Crossing

Roving UHub photographer Michael C. spotted Keytar Bear jamming in Downtown Crossing today.

By adamg - 3/31/23 - 2:55 pm
Street-level rendering of new hotel

Street-level rendering by Grassi Design Group.

The owner of the parking lot at 17 West St. in Downtown Crossing has filed plans to build a 15-story, 94-room hotel on the less than 1/10th acre parcel. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/23 - 11:29 am

Boston Police report detaining four suburban youths, one just 11, on charges they and some of their pals went on a beating rampage in Downtown Crossing last night. Read more.

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