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By adamg - 7/16/24 - 10:19 am
Police, tow worker getting scooters ready for transport somewhere else

Scooters away, in Downtown Crossing.

Boston Police report seizing nine scooters whose owners were driving down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing despite the road legally being closed to them. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/24 - 1:27 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a crowbar to smash his way into a store at 338 Washington St. in Dorchester early Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/4/24 - 10:23 pm
Sailors in front of Old Navy in Downtown Crossing

BostonPilot captured some of the Navy sailors in town for July Fourth.

By adamg - 7/3/24 - 11:11 am
Pink gun, bullets and magazine

Photo by BPD.

Update, 7/5: Judge denies request to hold suspect as potential danger to society, but orders her held in lieu of the $10,000 bail he set.

Boston Police report arresting one of two people who fled without paying for a meal at a Chinatown restaurant Saturday night, after she pointed a gun at one worker trying to stop her, then beat her, then ran outside as she dropped the gun - and her Social Security card. Read more.

By adamg - 7/2/24 - 10:45 pm

A person was shot in front of Fernandez Liquors at Washington and Cedar streets in Roxbury around 10:05 p.m.

Police found shell casings a block away at Cedar and Juniper streets.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 12:22 pm

Acklerley Communications of Massachusetts yesterday sold the small parcel where it had a billboard on Washington Street in Egleston Square to the city of Boston for $300,000, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.

By adamg - 6/10/24 - 3:22 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 12-year-old on charges he threatened somebody with a knife at Washington Street and Chilcott Place on the Jamaica Plain side of Egleston Square around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/27/24 - 10:27 am

Boston Police report arresting two men on gun charges early Sunday after officers on patrol noticed them making a right turn on a red light at Erie and Washington street - despite a sign prohibiting right turns on red lights. Read more.

By adamg - 5/23/24 - 1:30 pm
Paik

The Boston Licensing Board today granted Evergreen Eatery, 154 Green St. in Jamaica Plain, permission to buy the beer and wine license from a Fenway Qdoba.
Read more.

By adamg - 5/23/24 - 11:18 am

The Boston Licensing Board today gave the operator of a barbecue food truck a license to open a permanent storefront at 5272 Washington St. in West Roxbury, currently home to a Salvadoran restaurant. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 10:59 pm
Pita scattered on cars in Roslindale

Photo by Conor Davies.

Some vandals up early this morning decided it would be fun to steal the pita that Bob's Pita Market on Washington Street in Roslindale Square gets delivered overnight and then toss the bread all over the area. 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 - 5/2/24 - 9:18 pm

Boston Police report arresting two alleged package thieves and one shoplifter over the past week, two at Washington and Morse streets in Dorchester and one at 108 River St. in Mattapan. Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/24 - 12:59 pm
New apartments atop Chinese restaurant

Rendering by Timothy Burke. The apartments approved this week are on the left.

The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a plan by the owner of the building housing JP Kitchen, 3510 Washington St., across from English High School, to add two duplex apartments on top. Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/24 - 10:25 am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday issued a warning to Napper Tandy's, 4187-4195 Washington St. in Roslindale, for a Dec. 5 incident in which two guys playing pool went into a men's room that was supposed to be closed to snort some coke, then came out and collapsed to the floor - one as EMTs and firefighters were already on hand to help the other - because their powder turned out to be laced with fentanyl. Read more.

By adamg - 4/29/24 - 1:42 pm
Rendering of new pumps from Kenton Rd.

Rendering of new pumps off Kenton Road; current garage is where the shrubs are.

Hatoff's, where gas is gas at 3440 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, has filed plans with ISD to add eight more gas pumps - and opening access to them from Kenton Road. Read more.

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 10:11 pm

Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver for speeding in the area of Washington and Erie streets Friday night wound up arresting him for the gun with the "extended magzine" and the 22 bullets loaded into it they found in his car. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/24 - 12:36 pm
Rendering of proposed apartment building at 3458 Washington St.

No birds in rendering by Balance Architects, but a vintage VW Bug.

A developer has proposed replacing an auto-repair garage and parking lot at 3458 Washington St., across Kenton Road from Hatoff's gas station in Jamaica Plain with a 37-unit, five-story apartment building. 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.

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