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By adamg - 4/6/24 - 10:30 pm

A person was found with possibly life-threatening stab wounds at Summer and Purchase streets across from South Station around 6:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/20/23 - 9:05 pm

The planned pouring of 3,000-degree molten iron at Dewey Square across from South Station has been moved from Saturday to Sunday since, of course, it's supposed to rain buckets tomorrow. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 8:16 pm
Little Amal at the Chinatown Gate

Brooks Payne walked with Little Amal - who is actually 12 feet tall representation of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl - from Dewey Square to the Chinatown Gate today. Read more.

By adamg - 6/19/22 - 11:38 am
New Greenway mural

Greg Cook takes a look at Rob "ProBlak" Gibbs's new mural, "Breathe Life Together," going up in Dewey Square across from South Station. It's the tenth mural on the large wall, but the first by a Boston artist.

By adamg - 5/16/21 - 11:53 am
New mural in Dewey Square

Adam Castiglioni watched workers putting up the new mural on the Greenway at Dewey Square this morning.

By adamg - 1/27/20 - 11:30 pm
Downtown Boston in purple and gold for Kobe Bryant

Adam Castiglioni reports One Financial Center - the tower across the street from South Station, was lit up in Lakers purple and gold tonight.

The Garden was also lit up: Read more.

By adamg - 11/22/19 - 4:54 pm
Sunset over Dewey Square downtown

Flea looked up while crossing Dewey Square near South Station as the sun went down.

Meanwhile, traffic getting onto 128 north at the split was at a complete standstill, allowing the UHub mobile unit to snap this photo of the sunset: Read more.

By adamg - 5/14/19 - 1:14 pm
Dogs lining up for a photo shoot

Brandy spotted a photographer lining up dogs in chairs in Dewey Square downtown at lunchtime today.

By adamg - 5/23/18 - 5:05 pm
New Rose Kennedy Greenway mural

Adam Castiglioni watched artists at work on the Greenway at Dewey Square today as they painted Shara Hughes's mural.

By adamg - 7/31/17 - 11:51 am

Clover Food Lab founder and CEO Ayr Muir writes he's permanently garaging his pioneering fleet of Clover food trucks, with the Dewey Square one scheduled to go out with a party on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/17 - 12:42 pm
Banana guy in Dewey Square seeks wife

With Keytar Bear playing in the background, Jed Hresko noticed the Dewey Square fruit guy had a new sign up today. Looks aren't important, but you'll need to care and cook for him and, oh, no lip, please: Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/17 - 9:06 am
Pedialyte samples in front of South Station

Are we facing a shortage of toddlers with dehydration these days? For some reason, Pedialyte had some shills in Dewey Square yesterday trying to foist samples on passing adults. Maybe it goes great chilled with some vodka.

UPDATE: Ye hair-of-the-dog editor has been informed by reliable sources that Pedialyte is pushing itself as a hangover cure. Blecch. Read more.

By adamg - 3/17/17 - 9:24 am
Dewey Square fruit vendor on St. Patrick's Day

Rovin' UHub photographer Jed Hresko captured a Dewey Square fruit vendor this morning all ready for the day.

By adamg - 1/20/17 - 4:21 pm
Protesters gather in Dewey Square.

Steve Abreu looked out his window shortly after 4 p.m., when anti-Trump protesters who gathered there began to march towards the Common.

Meanwhile, scores of state troopers traveled to the South Boston convention center this afternoon to go over plans for protecting the much larger march planned from the Common to Copley Square. Read more.

By adamg - 1/7/17 - 1:39 pm
South Station and Dewey Square in the snow

Joe Pesaturo gives us the bird's eye view of South Station and Dewey Square on a snowy Saturday.

By adamg - 10/18/16 - 9:28 pm
Mural being painted on Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway

Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo was hard at work in and above Dewey Square today, turning South Station side of the O'Neill Tunnel ventilation shaft into the Greenway's latest mural, to be called Spaces Of Hope. Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/16 - 1:55 pm

Bldup reports the sale of 175 Federal St. to a German investor.

By adamg - 1/18/16 - 10:33 am
Snowman on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston

Patrick McMahon shows us a couple of kids with the snowman they built this morning on the Greenway in Dewey Square.

By adamg - 9/18/15 - 12:02 pm
New mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway

William Fleurant took a look at the newest Dewey Square mural going up on the Greenway this morning.

By adamg - 2/6/15 - 5:39 pm
Buses in a row in Brighton

KWAPT shows us the non-moving bus traffic on Washington Street in Brighton, where a bus and a cab may have tried to occupy the same space at the same time. Traffic elsewhere is marginally better, except possibly in Kenmore Square, where the stop lights have taken the night off.

Atlantic Avenue by Summer is also a morass of non-movingness, as Cybah noticed out his office window:

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