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By adamg - 6/15/24 - 9:20 am
Proposed replacement for Matthews arena

New Northeastern arena, rendered by Perkins & Will.

Northeastern University yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposed replacement for Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street and laid out longer-term plans for several new buildings across its campus, including dorms and lab buildings, some 20 stories tall, that could dramatically change the look of one stretch of Huntington Avenue if built. Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/24 - 11:23 pm
Woman with multicolored parasol

Matt Frank took in the annual Pride parade today, reports a lot of parasols were out on the sunny day. Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/24 - 3:48 pm
Rendering of renovated 615 Albany St.

Rendering by Studio47.

A developer has filed plans to convert and expand a former Boston Medical Center office building at 615 Albany St. into 24 residential units, through renovation of the existing floors and the addition of one new floor. Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/24 - 12:25 pm

NBC Boston reports on the crash, which happened near where I-93 northbound connects with the Massachusetts Turnpike. One dead.

By adamg - 5/28/24 - 3:22 pm

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by a former Boston Medical Center registered nurse who sued the hospital after it fired her in October, 2021 for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/24 - 3:37 pm

Transit Police report arresting four teens - all 15 or 16 - on charges related to an attack on a Silver Line bus at Washington and Herald streets in the South End around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 2:06 pm

Sometime in the mid-1950s, Nishan Bichajian snapped the Washington Street el passing the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Washington at what is now Washington and Msgr. Reynolds Way.

The el-less view in 2022: Read more.

By adamg - 5/4/24 - 11:05 am
Passat with a Hawaii license plate in the South End

Neal Gaffey spotted this car with a Hawaii plate on Dedham Street in the South End the other day.

By adamg - 4/30/24 - 11:39 pm

Fenway Health posted the news today: The Boomerangs shops in Jamaica Plain, the South End and Central Square will be closing in June - and have already stopped accepting donations. Read more.

By adamg - 4/21/24 - 3:13 pm

Boston Police report arresting five men - aged between 41 and 62 - on drug-distribution charges and seizing more than 2 1/2 pounds of crack and fentanyl in raids on three addresses near Boston Medical Center and Mass and Cass. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 9:48 am
Wind knocked over traffic lights at JFK/UMass

Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.

Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.

By adamg - 4/2/24 - 11:34 pm

Update, Wednesday: Updated with new information from State Police.

State Police report a Boston man in a wheelchair was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash with a Boston Sand and Gravel truck hauling concrete at Frontage Road and Traveler Street around 10:10 a.m. today. Read more.

By adamg - 4/2/24 - 1:54 pm
Rendering of proposed new hotel

Rendering of new hotel by CBT.

The developers who have been trying to do something with what's left of the Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street at Massachusetts Avenue for six years now have asked the BPDA for re-grant them permission to put up a 13-story hotel inside the original building's facade - after concluding it no longer made financial sense to build condos in the space. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 10:48 am

The Boston Licensing Board today granted a food-serving license to Cacao, 570 Columbus Ave. in the South End. Read more.

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 3:07 pm

An AARP mailing to a 51-year-old South End man with a criminal record dating to the 1990s helped investigators tie him to the loaded gun and separate box of ammo they found in a Harrison Archway apartment in February while searching for another man believed to be a Heath Street Gang member. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 2:00 pm

WCVB reports on the fatal crash around 3 a.m. at Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street. The driver remained on scene, WCVB reports.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:09 am

A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by a nurse at Boston Medical Center over the way the hospital fired her after rejecting her request for a religious exemption to its requirement that all employees get vaccinated against Covid-19, saying her suit failed to provide very specific details on just what religious doctrines would have been violated by the shots. Read more.

By adamg - 1/14/24 - 11:15 pm
Imagine all these lights blinking on and off over and over

Imagine all these lights blinking on and off over and over and over.

A concerned citizen files a 311 report about the blinking lights along Chester Park on Massachusetts Avenue: Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Rainbow over Uphams Corner

After the overnight torrents, we got another mini-torrent this afternoon, followed by a rainbow that water-weary Bostonians rushed out to see. Danny in Boston shows us the double rainbow over Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 9:37 am
Hawk on a South End railing

Amy Weingarten Salvucci was a bit startled when she looked out her window on Washington Street near Peters Park in the South End this morning to see a hawk eyeing her right back.

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