The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a billboard company's plan to replace the rusted old billboards down the hill from the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on Rte. 1A in East Boston with a double-sided electronic signboard, after hearing from residents and elected officials that the plan would remove a local eyesore and help fund the religious order that owns the property. Read more.
Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 15, 1942 - a fire broke out in the ceiling above the first-floor kitchen of Luongo's Tap on Henry Street in East Boston - just 2 1/2 hours after some 200 couples had gathered for some dancing in the place's second-floor dance hall. Boston firefighters responded to what grew into a three-alarm blaze in the five-story brick building. Read more.
Crushed boat on right. Photo by BFD.
Rigging on a crane being used to lower a floating dock or "barge" into the water at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal St. in East Boston, failed at 11:08 a.m., sending the dock slamming into the water - and a boat that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Boston Fire Department and the shipyard report.
Nobody was injured, but the shipyard reports it shut for the day, to await a second crane to help right things.
WBUR reports a group at UMass Boston is experimenting with adding honeycomb-like structures to seawalls along Chelsea Creek in East Boston and on Boston Harbor in the Seaport to see if they will become refuges for both plants and shellfish, turning what are now basically barren stone walls into greener spaces full of life.
UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.
If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.
Councilors with UNITE HERE 26 members in Council chambers.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.
Audio from the wrong turn with re-enactment graphics (via Aviation Librarian).
Aviation for Aviators reports the pilots of a British Airways Airbus A380 - one of the world's largest jets - got lost on the way to Terminal E after landing at Logan on Friday and wound up stuck for nearly an hour on a taxiway that was supposed to be closed for construction. Massport had to bring in a "pushback tug" to haul the jumbo jet to the right taxiway so that it could then, well, taxi, to the terminal.
Verizon cell zones in East Boston; new zone in green.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Verizon to install 20 new cell antennas in four clusters atop an apartment building at 319-327 Chelsea St. in East Boston.
In lieu of birds, Monte French Design Studio's rendering highlights contrails.
A developer has filed plans to replace a four-unit house at 99-105 Addison St. in East Boston with a five-story, 20-unit condo building. Read more.
Bird-enhanced rendering by Khalsa Design (garage shown across the street has since been replaced by a residential building).
A developer has proposed converting an abandoned four-story manufacturing plant at 98-100 Condor St. in East Boston into 35 market-rate apartments. Read more.
As close as the complainer was willing to get (lower left), in garage at Border and White.
An East Boston resident files a 311 complaint imploring the city to do something about the influx of l'll stinkers in the neighborhood: Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state energy board properly approved Eversource's plans for a substation on Condor Street in East Boston. Read more.
A developer that won approval in 2016 for a 36-unit condo building with 33 parking spaces at 151 Liverpool St. in East Boston says it's still chugging along on the project but that it wants to reduce the amount of parking to just 13 ground-floor spaces - by eliminating a proposed one-level basement garage with an expensive "vehicle elevator." Read more.
Update: Board found no violations for either incident.
A downtown bar and one in East Boston had to explain fights that erupted when off-duty workers from other joints violently acted out at closing time, at hearings before the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
Some 900 members of UNITE HERE Local 26 went on strike this morning at the Hilton Park Plaza, Hilton Logan Airport, Hilton-Hampton Inn Boston Seaport, and Fairmont Copley Plaza over wages and against staffing and service cuts.
Boston Restaurant Talk report that Caffe dello Sport on Hanover Street in the North End is opening a second location at 973 Saratoga St. in East Boston's Orient Heights.
A man was stabbed in the back on the Jacobbe Road side of the Maverick Square MBTA station shortly after 9:20 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital.
Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.
A man was stabbed in the shoulder at the Shaw's at 246 Border St. in East Boston around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
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