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Fan Pier
By adamg - 9/15/23 - 8:34 pm
If nothing else, the clouds heralding Lee gave us an amazing sunset tonight, as Tim Babatz couldn't help but notice at Fan Pier on the harbor.
Up the harbor a bit, Adam Balsam got a good view in the North End: Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/23 - 11:35 am
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Stubbys, which focuses on sandwiches and wraps at 43 Northern Ave., permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. At a hearing yesterday, nobody voiced opposition.
By adamg - 5/4/23 - 10:52 am
Neil couldn't help but notice the Mexican ARM Cuauhtémoc docked at Fan Pier this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/22 - 2:47 pm
Handmaid had a great view on Fan Pier this morning of two fireboats, one an active BFD vessel, the other a retired 1940s fireboat seen above, shooting water high into the air, as part of a "water cannon display" for the National Fire Protection Association's conference in Boston.
By adamg - 5/5/22 - 11:47 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a plan to replace the closed Daily Catch at the Moakley Courthouse with a bar catering to hard chargers who need to unwind with a cocktail in hand as they watch the sun go down after a long day arguing in court or creating new wonder drugs in a nearby life-sciences lab. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/21 - 8:58 pm
Porter Square Books of Cambridge today confirmed a report by the Fort Pointer that it will be opening its Boston edition at 50 Liberty Dr. on Fan Pier tomorrow.
The book store is part of new quarters for Grub Street.
By adamg - 9/21/21 - 12:41 pm
The Convention Center Authority will start ferry service between Lewis Mall Wharf and Fan Pier on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/11/20 - 2:04 pm
Smoke from Fan Pier fire. Photo by Peter Cheung.
Boston firefighters responded around 1 p.m. to the Mass. Mutual building under construction next to 50 Liberty Dr. for a fire in the garage that sent thick black smoke into the air: Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/19 - 10:44 am
KMV captured the ARC Gloria docked at Fan Pier this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/18 - 12:27 pm
In 1903, when Walker & Co. published this bird's eye view of the area around Fort Point Channel, trains were still king and Boston was full of freight yards, such as the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's yard on the South Boston side of the channel, where it met Boston Harbor. Read more.
By adamg - 12/22/17 - 10:49 am
Developer Joseph Fallon says the city and state have made it financially impossible for him to build a hotel on Fan Pier and so is asking the BPDA to let him build up to 245 new residential units instead. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/17 - 4:43 pm
Adam Castiglioni went down to Fan Pier today to see the Gloria, a Colombian Navy tall ship docked there.
Troublewithtribbles photographed the ship lit up last night.
By adamg - 3/16/17 - 9:36 am
Rob Littlefield got up early to take a peak at the tall ship Cuauhtémoc, currently berthed at Fan Pier.
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports the ship will have public visiting hours today through Sunday.
By adamg - 9/28/16 - 10:37 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a packie license to a proposed neighborhood grocery on the first floor of the Vertex building on Northern Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/16 - 10:46 am
An investigation into an argument between two groups that ended with gunfire on Fan Pier in February is "kind of at a dead end" because nobody involved wants to talk, a police detective says. Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/16 - 1:34 pm
Vinod Johnson watched the Bandaloop dance troupe help the Fallon Co. inaugurate its new 12-story office building at 100 Northern Ave yesterday.
By adamg - 5/23/16 - 10:35 am
Dan Feidt is none too happy to see this sign in the window of Sleeper Street Cafe, which will close Friday, less than a month after the nearby Yada Yada closed to make way for a craft-beer place:
I just want a basic sandwich not microwaved blah.
By adamg - 5/3/16 - 11:24 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports we'll be getting a Mastro's Steakhouse. In a luxury residential building on Fan Pier, natch.
By adamg - 7/11/15 - 1:54 pm
John Gage got a good look at the French tall ship Hermione, which glided into Boston Harbor this morning. To her right is the Sagres, which came into port yesterday.
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