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By adamg - 5/16/13 - 12:56 pm
A pedestrian who suffered no visible injuries when "brushed" by a car whose driver was making a turn made a series of phone calls to get money out of him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Instead of money, however, Deborah Yi, 24, got a trip to a State Police barracks, after she was arrested on an extortion charge after allegedly accepting an envelope full of cash from the driver - who had immediately reported the calls to police, the DA's office says.
According to prosecutors, the driver, a lawyer:
By adamg - 4/28/13 - 10:03 pm
It's hard to imagine how many miles of train tracks used to exist within Boston city limits (let alone how few will be left once Harvard gets around to ripping out the Allston yard). Here we see the train yard in front of Commonwealth Pier in South Boston, sometime shortly after World War I. Today, the pier is better known as the World Trade Center and the tracks have mostly been replaced by highway ramps, parking lots and surface roads. Nearby is Fan Pier, named for the way the train tracks there fanned out toward the water.
By adamg - 3/16/13 - 8:36 pm
Roving UHub photographer Noah Sachs stopped in at Whiskey Priest today and captured this Irish Viking having a Guinness.
By adamg - 10/26/12 - 8:12 am
WBZ reports a state trooper with an annual salary upwards of $200,000 parked his camper on some waterfront Massport land (leased from the city) and set up housekeeping there. Story includes choice quotes from City Council President Steve Murphy on how this guy is worse than participants in Occupy Boston on the Greenway last year.
By adamg - 10/3/12 - 2:27 pm
Grub Street Boston reports Fort Point is getting a gourmet shop that promises to have the largest cheese counter anywhere near downtown.
By adamg - 8/21/12 - 9:28 am
The Herald reports four development groups have submitted proposals for a city lot next to the waterfront restaurant complex, ranging from more restaurants to a boutique hotel to a "floating event space."
By adamg - 6/4/12 - 7:07 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports Don Chiofaro has finally figured out how to get things done in Boston, after waking up to a horse's head in his bed a little chat with Godmayor consigliere Peter Meade: The BRA will actually work with him to replace the Aquarium garage with something a little taller, as long as he stops doing stuff like going on Greater Boston to bitch
By adamg - 5/9/12 - 7:05 pm
The owner of Packy Connors, 203 Blue Hill Ave., wants to sell his liquor license to a proposed Asian restaurant on the South Boston waterfront.
James Cairns goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission for the deal. Coming on the heels of the Breezeway's decision to shut down this would mean Blue Hill Avenue will not have a single bar in Mattapan or Roxbury.
By adamg - 5/9/12 - 2:18 pm
City officials who were quick today to support a waterfront restaurant's plans for a patio open until midnight were equally quick to reject a Boylston Street restaurant's plans for a patio open until midnight - even though another restaurant just a few doors down already has a patio open until midnight.
The mayor's office and city councilors Steve Murphy, Felix Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley all endorsed a proposal by the Boston Harbor Hotel to build a patio for up to 64 patrons on its southern side - its second - with weather-appropriate hours of 11 a.m. to midnight.
By adamg - 5/2/12 - 5:49 pm
Boston Licensing Director Patricia Malone says she faces a thorny question: Whether to let an upscale waterfront steakhouse turn the sound on on televisions mounted on its outdoor patio.
Smith and Wollensky, on Congress Street on Fort Point Channel, has probationary permission to turn TVs on the patio on - but only with the sound off. Now it wants to be able to turn the sound on, for both select TV shows and for background music.
By adamg - 4/10/12 - 5:00 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports Harpoon Brewery is expanding its waterfront facilities, in part to make room for more visitors who want to see where the beer happens.
By adamg - 4/8/12 - 3:24 pm
Liberty to drink.
Thomas Kershaw's Hampshire House Corp. asks the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday for permission to open a bar at Liberty Wharf on Northern Avenue.
The proposed Little Chestnut Boston Harbor would fill what is now a vacant "kiosk" next to the main wharf complex, which already houses several restaurants with bars. The 1,490-square-foot bar would have room for 60 patrons.
Rather than just hope the board has a spare license to hand out, Hampshire House already has a deal to buy the liquor license from XO Bar and Restaurant on Washington Street in Dorchester.
By adamg - 2/15/12 - 8:24 am
Guilt faces possible sanctions for over-serving customers - and trying to keep a Boston Police detective from investigating one drunken woman while writing the club a sanction for two other inebriated customers.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take against the Tremont Street club for twin incidents on Dec. 4.
By adamg - 2/12/12 - 1:52 pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com ponders the news that residents of Harbor Towers and Rowes Wharf are trying to carve out a new identity as the Wharf District when they're already covered by the North End/Waterfront Neighborhood Council. In fact, the current president of that group is a Harbor Towers resident:
By adamg - 2/6/12 - 5:47 pm
The Herald reports residents of Harbor Towers and Rowes Wharf are trying to rename their stretch of the waterfront as the Wharf District.
Ed. Boston English question: If they succeed, would kids born there be called Wharf Rats?
By adamg - 12/29/11 - 11:37 am
The Boston Business Journal reports on the end of litigation by residents of one luxury building against a proposed luxury building on the water by North Station.
By adamg - 12/23/11 - 7:41 pm
Dan Ryan spotted this pickup driving around by the South Boston waterfront today.
By adamg - 12/16/11 - 7:27 am
The BRA last night gave final approval to plans for the first of three new developments on the pier, a 383-unit apartment building, the Boston Business Journal reports.
The BRA has more details on the project.
By adamg - 11/18/11 - 3:33 pm
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Greek International Foods on Washington Street in West Roxbury for a license to sell beer and wine. However, the board rejected a request from Louis, the upscale clothing store on the waterfront, to nestle a full-service liquor store among its suits.
The board took no action on a request from Sugar in Roslindale to offer beer and wine with meals because it currently has no restaurant beer and wine licenses left. The vote means Sugar can re-apply again in the hopes a license becomes available or it can try to buy somebody else's license.
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