Rendering of proposed Simmons tower, next to Boston Latin School.
Simmons University has filed plans with the BPDA to shut down its current six-acre residential campus in the Longwood Medical Area and tear down its science building and to replace both with a single, 21-story "Living and Learning Center" that would house 1,100 dorm rooms, classroom and office space and athletic facilities. Read more.
Bill Clinton's getting an award at the Harvard School of Public Health next Thursday and the kids at Boston Latin School couldn't be more thrilled. Not because they get to mingle with Bubba, because they don't, but because the fact the award is being given across Avenue Louis Pasteur from the school means they all get out of school 2 1/2 hours early so the city can shut the street or something.
The Boston Fire Department reports crews rushed to 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur around 3 p.m. when a doctor moving some bottles of chemicals on the tenth floor jostled three bottles of acid that dropped to the ground and broke.
The doctor, wearing full protective gear, was not hurt when the two-liter bottles, containing hydrochloric acid and acetic acid, broke. She "self-deconned" herself and was allowed to leave after being checked out by Boston EMTs.
Police began re-opening the road to traffic shortly after 5:30 p.m.
Kathryn Kinzel photographed the LMA shuttle bus that caught fire around 4:30 p.m. on Avenue Louis Pasteur, which was shut down as firefighters doused the bus.
These turkeys (and a third, out of view) seemed more inquisitive than aggressive as they followed people walking along the avenue by Simmons and Boston Latin this morning.
Boston Fire at the Merck building. Photo by Robert Beene.
Getting Twitter reports of an incident at the Merck building on Avenue Louis Pasteur.
Channel 4 reports chemicals in the process of being removed for disposal mixed, exploded, caused a spill that forced the evacuation of the building and the closing of nearby roads. Nobody hurt.
NECN reports the incident happened around 9:35 a.m.
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