A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.
Firefighters on roof make sure fire isn't still spreading. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 15 Hudson St. for a fire that started in Great Barbecue and spread to the roof of the three-story building. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a vacant lot at 12-12A Hudson St. with a new six-story building that would have a two-level restaurant and four one-bedroom apartments above it. Read more.
Early rendering by Stantec.
The Asian Community Development Corp. says it will soon file detailed plans for a 12-story building with 66 moderate-income apartments, 44 income-restricted condos and a two-floor BPL branch, on what is now a BPDA-owned parking lot bordered by Tyler and Hudson streets between Kneeland and Harvard streets in Chinatown. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Edwin Ramirez, 40, for a rape on Hudson Street early Sunday morning. He was formally charged with aggravated rape and robbery, police say.
Innocent, etc.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man involved in a sexual attack on Hudson Street in Chinatown around 4:45 this morning. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by three restaurants on Hudson Street to purchase liquor licenses from shuttered restaurants elsewhere in the city. Read more.
Richard Auffrey details the background behind the sign on Hudson Street for the China Pavilion, a restaurant that hasn't been open since 1990.
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Scotch 'n Sirloin | Sahara Syrian Restaurant.
The BPDA board agreed today to let developers of a proposed residential and hotel building on Tremont Street in Chinatown eliminate space for the long awaited BPL Chinatown branch because of funding complications caused by Covid-19. Read more.
Wright (l) and Edwards.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men for a shooting early Saturday on Hudson Street that left a man dead. Read more.
Victim identified as Kevin Reyes, 22, of Roxbury.
Boston Police report finding a man, in his 20s, shot at 66 Hudson St. around 2:35 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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