Parts of the South End and nearby areas subject to climate-resilience review. Source.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a non-profit group's plans to convert a Shawmut Avenue office building into affordable apartments because it would have one apartment on the first floor despite being in Boston's coastal flood resilience overlay district, where residences are supposed to be higher than that in anticipation of flooding as sea levels continue to rise and storms become more fierce. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday dismissed a wrongful-death suit against an officer in Boston Police's D-4 district by the family of Cristhian Geigel, who ingested a fatal dose of drugs even though he'd been in a holding cell at the D-4 police station in the South End for more than a day and a half in 2019 - and then lay in the cell, dead, for another 14 hours before police realized he was dead. Read more.
Eight people were arrested yesterday following a Monday raid at a condo at 231 West Newton St., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a New Bedford man on charges he stabbed another man multiple times outside 474 Massachusetts Ave. in the South End Friday afternoon. Read more.
Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint today about "adult toys and other garbage left on sidewalk" at Warren Avenue and Clarendon Street in the South End. With a photo of said adult toys, in case you're unfamiliar with what they look like.
Earlier:
Citizen complaint of the day: Is that a traffic sign on your pole or are you just glad to see me?
Rendering by Animal Arts.
The Animal Rescue League of Boston yesterday filed plans to replace its current two-story South End home with a more modern three-story home right next door. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Barbara Lynch is closing the last two restaurants she hadn't already closed: No. 9 Park on Beacon Hill and B&G Oysters in the South End. Lynch ran into some employee issues last year, which included a lawsuit.
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
A man who ran a prostitution-and-cocaine tent at Mass and Cass pleaded guilty today to several federal counts that, if a judge agrees, will send him away for 15 years - followed by five more years of probation, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Rendering by Stantec Architecture.
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Beacon Communities yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let them shrink the size of a proposed apartment building at 50 Herald St. in the South End - where the C-Mart is now - from 313 to 115 or 120 apartments. Read more.
Rendering by DREAM Collaborative.
Related Beal and DREAM Development have filed plans for a six-story, 45-unit condo building on what is now a Boston Water and Sewer Commission parking lot on Reed Street between East Lenox and Newcomb streets on the Roxbury/South End line. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say tried to break into one of the brownstones on the even-numbered side of 28 Worcester Square around 1 this morning: Once he opened the outer door, he found himself trapped - he couldn't open the second, inner door and then the outer door locked him into the small space. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a woman they say stabbed a man outside the city shelter at 112 Southampton St. around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest shortly before 4:25 p.m. at Mass and Cass. He walked into the McDonald's at 870 Massachusetts Ave., where staffers called 911. Not long after BPD officers arrived, the homicide unit was called in, due to the severity of his injuries.
A South End man today sued a South Shore trampoline park for the foot slicing and subsequent infection and scarring he says he suffered because the place recklessly failed to provide any padding for the metal rod and associated bolts and screws that anchor its basketball hoops at its trampoline-basketball court. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer snapped minibikes on Boylston about to be hauled away.
The father of a Dorchester woman who died at the South Bay House of Correction while awaiting transportation to an alcoholism treatment program today sued the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, jail guards and the state, charging that not only shouldn't she have been held there at all, she slumped into unconsciousness on the floor of her cell, where jail guards ignored her for more than an hour as she died. Read more.
Boston Police report officers arrested a local man on armed-robbery charges for the way he tried and failed to hold somebody up at knifepoint at Massachusetts and Shawmut avenues around 5 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
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