Dan Meade reports he was in front of Faneuil Hall around 6:45 p.m. today when a large group of motorcycles came roaring up:
They came down Devonshire, held up traffic at the crossing at Congress to keep the pack together, and then about 100 motorcycles stopped in front of Fanueil Hall and smokescreened the whole block.
Copyright Dan Meade. Posted in the Universal Hub pool.
Workers today removed Nate Swain's little Lego wall on Congress Street near the Children's Museum - as part of an overall redo of the entire building.
Architect's rendering.
The BRA yesterday approved John Drew's plans for a 23-story addition to his Waterside Place project on Congress Street at World Trade Center Avenue. Read more.
Becky watched workers installing colored panels on the side of the Congress Street bridge yesterday: Read more.
UPDATE: All clear given around 2:05 p.m.
Congress Street is shut at D Street as State Police and Boston firefighters investigate a suspicious package at 1 Seaport Lane.
It's the second time Congress has been shut today - earlier, a manhole fire briefly shut the road at Farnsworth Street.
Last summer, Nate Swain "patched" a wall on Congress Street down from the Children's Museum with Lego bricks. A couple months later, somebody smashed it. Somebody fixed it. Now, Cynthia Donovan reports, somebody's smashed it again.
Boston Police report an Everett man began punching an officer in the face around 2 a.m. New Year's Day - and then began screaming about the end of the world as other officers rushed to restrain him.
According to police, the incident happened in front of the City Hall garage on Congress Street: Read more.
Lift catwalk swinging in the wind in Boston PO Square.
— Hopeful Cynicist (@HopefulCynicist) November 14, 2015
Hopeful Cynicist watched the wind-driven havoc on Congress Street this morning.
Pedro Alarcon, who runs an eponymous Latin-American restaurant in Watertown, got approval today to open a new La Casa de Pedro at 505 Congress St. Read more.
ICYMI The Congress St bike lane got cones & flowers last night.
#DemandMore pic.twitter.com/wZaXS265AK
— Jonathan Fertig (@rightlegpegged) October 8, 2015
Cynthia Donovan reports that now that people are once again using the tops of news boxes to avoid the onerous task of taking their lunch detritus back to their office trash cans, now that the city has removed all the BigBelly trash containers along Congress Street on the South Boston side of Fort Point Channel. Sounds like a district in need of some innovation when it comes to trash.
Photo posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
An irate citizen complains about where some valet is parking the more exotic cars on Congress Street near the Children's Museum:
Four hours ago it was a Masserati parked in front of the hydrant. Now it's a vintage Caddie and Bentley. Are you going to do something about this valet or do special cars get special treatment? PLEASE!!
Earlier:
This is what happens to the cars of morons who park in front of hydrants.
Another reason not to park in front of a hydrant.
BPS parents held a bake sale outside City Hall yesterday to make a point about the impact a $61-million shortfall in the school budget will have on their kids. Several city councilors bought baked goods in support.
No doubt there's a perfectly good explanation for this afternoon's six-story geyser on A Street at Congress that doesn't involve a burst water main or an attack by Lord Nemo on the surface people. Photograph by Upstatement.
Robbie Waters provides another view of the eponymous event.
At North and Congress streets.
UPDATE, 11:55 a.m.: The city reports Congress remains shut from State to North, on the northbound side only, as BWSC makes repairs.
Greg MacKay photographed the Congress Street Bridge and the nearing-completion Tea Party Museum.
The owners of the burned out ship and museum wharf off Congress Street go before the Zoning Board of Appeals on July 13 to seek a variance to rebuild - presumably with some sort of fireproofing, given that the place has caught on fire twice in ten years.
The owners need city pemission to rebuild because they want to build something twice as large as the old wharf and add two additional replica ships.
The hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on the eighth floor of City Hall.
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