The City Council agreed today to consider whether moves to make Tremont Street safer for pedestrians and bicyclists in recent years are costing business owners untold thousands in lost sales and making it harder for first responders to get to emergencies. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/19/2025 - 2:52pm
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By adamg - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 10:50am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a new liquor store on State Street downtown and gave a convenience store on Tremont Street in Chinatown permission to start stocking beer and wine. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 1:52pm
Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said today she plans to call a hearing at which to consider rolling back the 2 a.m. closing time for Theater District clubs, after listening today to police describe large street parties that often include people taking over the streets so they can crank up giant speakers mounted in the back of pickups, drink, dance, sometimes on the tops of cars, and get into brawls. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 01/19/2025 - 11:34pm
Boston Police are investigating a stabbing early this morning in the Castle Square apartment complex on Tremont Street in the South End. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 11:09am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a 2 a.m. closing time for Day & Night Cereal Bar at 6 Tremont St. in Brighton, which will be changing its name to Sweet & Comfy and beefing up its current menu of cereal-drizzled desserts with sandwiches. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 1:04pm
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers requests by restaurant owners at opposite ends of the city to open into the wee hours. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/29/2024 - 1:12pm
Boston Police report they are looking for a couple of yeggs they say broke into the Shell station at 1600 Tremont St. on Mission Hill. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 12/20/2024 - 11:53am
A federal judge today tossed a lawsuit by a lawyer who claimed BPD officers violated his Constitutional rights when he made his way around police tape surrounding a Roxbury Crossing crash scene and then refused to back up because he had an important appointment to get to and they stopped him and only sent him on his away after he flashed his lawyer credentials. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:36am
Bertucci's says it plans to open a new, smaller outlet, dubbed Bertucci's Pronto, at 18 Tremont St., near Court and Cambridge streets downtown this spring.
Its proposed 34-seat location will be open not just for lunch and dinner, but for breakfast as well, for people who have been hungering for a downtown place to grab a breakfast pizza, and yes, that is a thing.
By adamg - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 1:36pm
A man who lists the Southampton Street shelter as his home address was ordered held without bail this week at his arraignment on a charge of exposing himself to a teenage girl in the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in July, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 10/24/2024 - 12:02pm
The City Council yesterday approved holding a hearing at which to consider ways to combat what some said was drug use and related violence that are so bad they are making some residents think of moving away and of threatening Boston's tourism industry. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:29pm
By adamg - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 1:13pm
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about a hot-dog stand whose owner was selling hot dogs - and even cajun chicken - in Eliot Norton Park on the Chinatown/Bay Village line at 2:45 this morning: Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 1:32pm
A judge has declined to order the Holocaust museum under construction on Tremont Street to let the Orpheum Theatre take over complete control of the alley that is the venue's main entrance while the two wrangle in court, because workers on the ground for both sides have arranged a truce that leaves enough of the alley clear for performers' trucks and then patrons to get into shows so far. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 09/27/2024 - 5:03pm
Boston firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded to Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St. at Stuart Street after an SUV driver hit at least one pedestrian and then plowed into the front entrance shortly before 3:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 1:58pm
By adamg - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 11:11am
Earlier this month, the operator of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1852, sued the foundation now building a Holocaust museum at the corner of Tremont Street and Hamilton Place - the alley that leads to the Orpheum's main entrance - for the right to continue blocking the ally on performance nights for use by entertainers' equipment trucks and patrons waiting to go inside. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 08/25/2024 - 9:08pm
Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 11:54pm
Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 1:32pm
The Berkeley Beacon reports Emerson College has reached a deal to house some Boston Architectural College students in its Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets this fall.
BAC will continue to provide all academic and student support for its students, but those living on Emerson’s campus must abide by Emerson’s policies, the announcement said.
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