By adamg - 12/5/13 - 8:52 am

The Herald reports the company that now manages Faneuil Hall Marketplace is looking at some big changes for the Quincy Market building - possibly including escalators and construction of two two-story glass "sheds" for new retailers.

Quincy Market in 1828 or 1829
By adamg - 8/26/13 - 10:21 am

Mass. Moments alerts us that today's the anniversary of the grand opening of Quincy Market, in 1826:

By Ron Newman - 4/16/09 - 10:11 am

General Growth Properties, which operates Faneuil Hall Marketplace and owns the Natick Mall Collection, filed for bankruptcy today.

By adamg - 12/19/08 - 11:29 am

Faneuil Hall Marketplace up for sale.

Well, technically, the lease on the city-owned marketplace is up for sale, as current operator General Growth shrinks.

By adamg - 10/27/08 - 7:12 pm

Alicia goes down to the Quincy Market Starbucks with a gift card, buys one of its new fruity Vivanno drinks, reports:

... The smoothie had a unique taste to it; it definitely didn't taste like oranges, mangoes and/or bananas, but it was sweet and I became slightly nostalgic drinking it. About halfway through the drink, I realized what it tasted exactly like: amoxicillin! Amoxicillin is the pink bubblegum flavored medicine I used to take for ear infections, and it was delicious (for a medicine.) I'm not sure if drinking Vivannos will cure a bacterial infection, but they sure taste like they will.

By adamg - 8/1/08 - 8:28 am

Tom Menino has a new mission: Turn Faneuil Hall into the Natick Mall. The Globe reports that an angry Menino, way up there near the top of Mt. Crumpit, could no longer take the noise, noise, noise, noise and ordered Boston Police to bust up those dangerous street performers - and balloon artists - in front of Faneuil Hall:

The officers shooed away clowns and caricature artists. They ordered music and dance acts to contain their performances to a single, small patch of brick - measuring 15 feet by 15 feet - near a stand of trees. And they erected steel crowd-control barricades in a wide swath around three sides of Faneuil Hall, to make sure the performers didn't sneak back.

But did they confiscate their tartinkas and who-hubas?

Why, Tommy, why?

Tom Grinchino
By adamg - 4/13/08 - 5:09 pm

Flann takes a photo on the Orange Line of the Quincy Market Ben Franklin, you know, the one who gets crabby if you try to take his picture without paying him.

By adamg - 3/5/08 - 9:06 am

Boston Guerrilla Queer Bar will "take over" a Faneuil Hall bar this Friday. No, of course, they don't announce which one beforehand (you need to sign up for the mailing list to get some e-mail the morning of the event):

The idea is to turn an unsuspecting straight bar into a gay bar for one night. Call it guerrilla bar fare.

By adamg - 2/24/08 - 12:11 pm

Didn't realize it was that cold yesterday:

Dare I suggest it was better in New York?

By adamg - 11/18/07 - 9:03 pm

Margaret and Rich take the kids to the Quincy Market tree lighting tonight, which featured Tom Menino, Wally and Santa Claus:

By adamg - 11/8/07 - 7:22 pm

And Greg MacKay is there.

By adamg - 8/22/07 - 10:27 am

Cowbark photographs a parrot shredding a Metro at Quincy Market:

By adamg - 8/2/07 - 8:51 am

Say you're that guy who walks around Quincy Market all day dressed like Ben Franklin. What do you do when it's time to go home?

By adamg - 7/31/07 - 8:21 am

Boston Behind the Scenes interviews a guy at Quincy Market who escapes from straightjackets.

By adamg - 6/25/07 - 8:54 am

The Herald reports that the Yankee Candle shop was held up yesterday by a guy carrying what appeared to be a shotgun in a bag (also: when an assistant manager asked a cus

By adamg - 4/22/07 - 9:20 am

Seth Finkelstein just happens to have a copy of the same software used by the city to decide what you get to see on your laptop while connected to the city's WiFi network in Quincy Market.