South Boston
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans to replace the long shuttered Supreme House of Pizza at 313 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston with a new restaurant that would serve Middle Eastern food and fresh-pressed juices - along with pizza and burgers - between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. - but on condition it not offer takeout. Read more.
As Boston officials await word on whether the legislature will give last-second approval to more than 250 liquor licenses for the city, the Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by developer John Hynes IV to pay $600,000 for the liquor license of a defunct downtown bar to use it as an enticement to bring in somebody to run the restaurant he wants to have in his 18-story, $600-million Seaport office and life-sciences building. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let an East 8th Street market begin selling beer and wine, but again cautioned they are going to put more scrutiny on any future requests from South Boston markets to add alcoholic beverages. Read more.
Eversource outage map; orange dot is for more than 1,600 customers.
Eversource reports nearly 1,900 homes and businesses in a swath of Roxbury along Melnea Cass Boulevard - and into South Boston - are without power. Among the affected buildings: 1010 Massachusetts Ave., home to the Boston Public Health Commission, ISD and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which has turned to battery-powered laptops to try to continue its scheduled hearings for today.
Eversource says it hopes to begin restoring power around 3:30 p.m., with the final outage eliminated by 5.
Boston firefighters responded to a fire at 587 East Broadway that spread to a neighboring house and went to three alarms before being brought under control this afternoon. Read more.
Tony Ursillo was among the (fully clothed) people watching naked, half-naked and faux naked people riding down Northern Avenue on bikes, skateboard and, yes, at least one penny farthing last night as part of the annual World Naked Bike Ride Boston, which started at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain.
Hugmajesty spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also note its feet are yellowish - you're thinking of blue-footed boobies, which are a different species altogether, one found in the eastern Pacific.
Bird watchers flock to South Boston for look at tropical sea bird rarely seen north of the Caribbean
Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.
The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board deferred a vote today on a request from an East 8th Street market to let it sell beer and wine, so that board members can consider whether South Boston is on the verge of having too many places that sell adult beverages. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the operator of the existing indoor golf-simulator joint near City Hall expand into a second location at 311 Summer St. in Fort Point and buy the liquor license from a South End seafood tapas place. Read more.
They'll be working on the railroad, all the live long day. Photo by Just Some Dude.
Matt Frank went down to Castle Island today to watch Old Ironsides on its trip around Boston Harbor and got a good view of both it and Codzilla.
A man was shot in the leg at 4 Dalessio Ct., off Orton Marotta Way in South Boston, around 9:45 p.m. Shell casings recovered.
On the Channel captured the scene on A Street at Melcher Street in Fort Point, where the driver of a Hyundai Tucson somehow flipped the vehicle shortly before 8 a.m. He was able to get out of the SUV himself before first responders arrived.
Boston Police found the teen shot in the hip in the area of Northern Avenue and Pier 4 Boulevard around 11:45 a.m. after graduation ceremonies for Boston Collaborative High School in South Boston. Read more.
Roman Lilligren couldn't help but notice the old Red Line car being towed down Dorchester Avenue in South Boston and then unhitched at the On the Dot project along Dorchester Avenue from Andrew Square north. Read more.
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