Boston Police report arresting a Brockton man and a younger accomplice on charges they beat a food deliverer in the face with gun Monday night, then took his scooter for a little adventure through the alleys and streets of the Fenway and Audubon Circle before ditching the scooter near Beacon and St. Mary's streets in Brookline. Read more.
The WCVB headline tells you all you need to know: Ice maker catches fire inside Boston's Fenway Park. Fortunately, Boston firefighters quickly took care of the flaming ice maker before we got another once-in-a-century only-in-Boston disaster.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for the city's third upscale Taco Bell, in what used to be a T-Mobile shop at 1084 Boylston St., just around the corner from Mass. Ave. Read more.
Jonathan Cohn captured the epilogue of a flaming Honda at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues this afternoon.
Boston College's Burns Library posted this illustration for the Shooting the Chutes ride somebody would set up along Huntington Avenue at Parker Street back in the late 1890s - you get up to the top of a tower and then zoom, you shoot down the chute in a gondola and splash in the man-made pond at the bottom. Read more.
New Northeastern arena, rendered by Perkins & Will.
Northeastern University yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposed replacement for Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street and laid out longer-term plans for several new buildings across its campus, including dorms and lab buildings, some 20 stories tall, that could dramatically change the look of one stretch of Huntington Avenue if built. Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports BU's dorm at 610 Beacon St. is now officially known as just 610 Beacon St.
Northeastern University today filed a "letter of intent" with the BPDA that it plans to replace Matthews Arena - built as Boston Arena in the early 1900s and once home to the Bruins and Celtics - with a new 290,000-square-foot facility that will include both an arena for university teams and a fieldhouse for recreational student use. Read more.
Three Quincy teens were arraigned Friday on charges they decided to go all droog on some other South Shore teens and bash in their heads at the Kenmore Green Line stop on May 10, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding police are continuing to try to ID two other alleged attackers. Read more.
T spreading the news at Park, photo by a roving UHub photographer.
Update, 8:21 a.m.: T reports service back to normal
The MBTA reports the Green Line is dead between Copley and Government Center because of a switch problem at Arlington. Take the Orange Line instead, or the 39 bus should your travel plans include Huntington Avenue, they say.
WCVB reports on the attack outside 169 Massachusetts Avenue on May 10. She had to be taken to the hospital because her head slammed onto the curb when she fell, but she was able to graduate the next day.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Fenway Community Development Corp. has filed plans for a six-story, 24-unit apartment building to replace a vacant laundromat at 112 Queensberry St. in the Fenway. Read more.
Fresh off its victory over the sleeping peeps of Allston, Taco Bell is going to try to build another wee-hours taco-like emporium in Boston, this time at 1084 Boylston St., near Mass. Ave., where presumably starving (musical) artists from Berklee will quieren Taco Bell at the end of a long night. Read more.
Workers try to figure out how to get trailer out from under overpass. Photo by roving UHub photagrapher Brian C.
The driver of an 18-wheeler tried to get on Storrow Drive outbound from the Bowker Overpass this morning only to learn that like the house in poker, the bridge always wins. Bright-eyed and bushytailed NBC Boston photographer Mark Garfinkel was on the scene shortly before 6:30 a.m. and posted some photos of what it looks like after the overpass is done teaching its latest lesson.
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