A man was stabbed in the chest and leg on Cambridge Street near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon Street around 6 p.m. The alleged stabber drove away in a reddish-orange SUV. Read more.
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By adamg - 11/26/24 - 1:42 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.
By adamg - 7/30/24 - 10:42 am
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.
By adamg - 7/24/24 - 1:40 pm
The state said today it will soon seek bids to turn the "superblock" of the Hurley and Lindemann buildings - the most brutal of Boston's brutalist structures - into a "residential mixed-used redevelopment" that will bring new housing and commercial space downtown while upgrading space for the site's current residential mental-health services. Read more.
By adamg - 5/14/24 - 8:58 pm
Passerby took this photo of the mangled bike still by the side of the road about 25 minutes later.
A woman bicycling through Charles Circle at Cambridge and Charles streets was hit by the driver of a dump truck who kept going - until he was flagged down by state troopers around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/18/24 - 11:11 am
Rendering of proposed 66 Cambridge St. by SGA and DREAM Collaborative.
The BPDA board last week approved plans for a two-building life-sciences complex at 66 Cambridge St. in Sullivan Square, an Orange Line stop away from where another developer says it will soon file detailed plans for a 700-unit residential complex. Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/24 - 10:34 am
Charles River Plaza Co., started by developer Jerome Rappaport in the 1960s, this week sold the building housing what is now the Wyndham Hotel at Blossom and Cambridge streets to the Maryland-based firm that was already running the hotel for $125 million, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/23 - 9:35 am
The Boston Cyclists Union reports the death of Samuel Alvarado, 21, hit by a garbage truck at Cambridge and Hano streets in Allston Tuesday morning. Read more.
By adamg - 12/13/23 - 4:03 pm
Between Charles River Plaza and the Otis House: 12 stories including 2 stories of library space.
A non-profit housing group and its investment partner have won preliminary city approval to replace the current West End BPL branch at 151 Cambridge St. with 119 affordable apartments atop a new two-story library branch. Read more.
By adamg - 11/6/23 - 9:16 pm
A fight outside the Jackson-Mann School at Cambridge Street and Brighton Avenue sent a teen to the hospital with multiple stab wounds, at least one in the lower abdomen, around 3:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/23 - 10:07 pm
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about a motorcycle madman in the area of Massachusetts General Hospital: Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/23 - 10:42 pm
Boston Area Public Safety Alerts reports a 40-foot-long trailer caught fire at the parking lot at 50 Cambridge St. in Charlestown shortly before 7 p.m. and that the fire may have spread to a second trailer before firefighters doused the blaze. Fire crews from Somerville and Cambridge joined Boston at the scene.
By adamg - 9/27/23 - 11:32 am
Update: Approved.
Local restaurant operator Douglas Bacon today described his planned Hobson's Bar& Kitchen at 353 Cambridge St. in Allston as an American restaurant that will also serve pizza.
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By adamg - 9/22/23 - 1:50 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports local restaurant operator Douglas Bacon plans to turn the old Regina/Allston Depot on Cambridge Street in Allston into Hobson's Bar & Kitchen, which might offer a DJ and live music as well.
By adamg - 9/3/23 - 2:20 pm
Cornelia Vrel shows us the flaming car on Cambridge Street in Allston, on the bridge over the Massachusetts Turnpike ramps, around 2:15 p.m., moments before the first Boston firetruck arrived.
By adamg - 7/28/23 - 8:16 am
Jordan Frias spotted this trio where Court Street meets Tremont and Cambridge streets at Government Center yesterday, offering to do reps with their weights for every car honk. Because if there's one thing downtown needs, it's more car honks.
By adamg - 6/19/23 - 10:24 pm
The Dubliner in Center Plaza downtown won't give up its name without a fight - it filed a countersuit today against an older Dubliner pub in Washington, DC that demands it change its name. Read more.
By adamg - 3/22/23 - 2:35 pm
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and crews have taken over Bova's in the North End to film scenes from a movie in which they play thieves whose robbery attempt goes awry. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/23 - 10:08 pm
The owner of Center Plaza across from CIty Hall today sued Twitter, alleging the company continues to use its third-floor office space even though it stopped paying rent after November. Read more.
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