The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a ten-day halt to alcohol sales at the Harvard Convenience Store, Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue because of a BPD raid in May that found a room with three slots machines and gamblers quaffing beers from the store's stock. Read more.
The state Attorney General's office yesterday filed for permission to confiscate $182,189.11 it says Boston Police found in a May raid of the Harvard Convenience Store and what police described as its illegal three-machine slots parlor at Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue. Read more.
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by a trio of musicpreneurs to buy O'Brien's at 3 Harvard Ave. in Allston as part of their plans to re-open Great Scott next door - with housing on top. Read more.
Vanyaland gets the scoop: The venerable Allston rock spot, which used to be where the Taco Bell is now at Harvard and Commonwealth, is planning to return in new space at Harvard and Cambridge Street that it'll share with O'Brien's Pub, including new room where Stingray Body Art used to be. Read more.
One of the shot-out car windows. Photo by Clay Gollobin.
A group of men, at least one with a gun, fired several shots at somebody in the area of Harvard and Glenville avenues around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to raze the current unused post office on Harvard Avenue, a repair garage and some parking lots to put up a six-story, 170-unit apartment complex that would have ground-floor room for the Postal Service to return to Allston. Read more.
City Councilor Liz Breadon said today that the USPS has signed a letter of intent to move into the building that could replace the crumbling Harvard Avenue post office it shut in 2019. Read more.
Over the objections of the Allston Civic Association, the Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license with into-the-wee-hours service for an upscalish Taco Bell where Great Scott used to be at Commonwealth and Harvard avenues. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let a proposed liquor-serving Taco Bell Cantina not just serve drinks until 2 a.m. but then stay open another 60 to 90 minutes in the old Great Scott spaces at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues - unless the company agrees to seek a deferral to meet with the Allston Civic Association, whose president called service and hours like that a potential menace to the neighborhood that an understaffed police district might be unable to contain. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Taco Bell is looking to put one of its liquor-infused Taco Bell Cantinas into the space at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues where Great Scott used to be.
A federal judge last week sentenced Jamaine Howell, 36, of Everett, to nine years in prison for robbing the TD Bank at Harvard and Commonwealth avenues on Feb. 7, 2021. Read more.
Allston's changing face in rendering by Embarc (newest proposed building in baby blue). See it larger.
A developer this week filed detailed plans with the BPDA to replace the condemned former post office on Harvard Avenue in Allston and three neighboring lots with a six-story, 170-unit apartment building. Read more.
A developer says it will soon file detailed plans for a 170-unit apartment building on Harvard Avenue to replace the post office shut in 2019 and neighboring parking lots. Read more.
A Dorchester man who won approval to open a cannabis shop on Harvard Avenue in Allston yesterday sued the Zoning Board of Appeal for approving a Mattapan woman's proposal to open her own cannabis shop on the same block. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request by the new owner of Steve's Kitchen, 120 Harvard Ave. in Allston, to change the name to Cafe Weekend. Longtime owner Steve Stamos recently sold the place to Juhun Kwak after 37 years of hash slinging.
Updated: It's not closing, just getting a new owner.
Steven Stamos, who has been serving breakfast all day on Harvard Avenue for decades, is retiring, but he's sold Steve's Kitchen to new owners, who plan on keeping it open just as it is.
Ed. note: An earlier version of this story referred to Franklin Street in Downtown Crossing, because the UHub reporting staff failed to look at the Zip code in the filing.
Mary Ann's, for decades the sticky-floored haven for thirsty BC students, is seeking permission to move to Franklin Street at the end of Harvard Avenue in Allston as its Cleveland Circle location is turned into a marijuana mart. Read more.
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