Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more
Tom Leonard spotted the aurora right over his house in Lower Allston - looking west on Athol Street - around 7:20 p.m.
Kevin D. Jordan spotted the lights around the Needham TV towers - and he reports that unlike last time, they were definitely visible with the naked eye, even if only briefly: Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.
A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
The Crimson: Real estate firms are hitting the brakes on laboratory development in Allston. The Crimson says this includes a halt to plans for a billion-dollar lab-sciences and residential complex where WBZ is now on Soldiers Field Road.
The state Attorney General's office yesterday filed for permission to confiscate $182,189.11 it says Boston Police found in a May raid of the Harvard Convenience Store and what police described as its illegal three-machine slots parlor at Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue. Read more.
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
Not sure this qualifies for the "dining" tag, but felt this public service announcement can't go unmentioned
https://www.silhouetteallston.com/event/get-a-sil-tattoo-free-hot-dog-a-...
GBH uncorks the news that City Hall is considering several "open container districts" where people could buy something adult at a local restaurant and then just walk around sipping like we're a common New Orleans or Las Vegas. Read more.
Rendering of proposed 17 Linden St. by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected plans for a 14-unit apartment building - with three affordable units - at 17 Linden St., saying that while they and the Boston Planning Department both agree it would be a great addition to the side street off Cambridge Street, it just needs to be pruned back a bit to add some more open space in an area nowhere near a park. Read more.
A hardcore band that loves having its fans climb on stage got the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave., hauled before the Boston Licensing Board this morning to explain how one of those fans wound up with head injuries in a tumble from the stage. Read more.
Bird-infused rendering by Embarc.
Landlord Anwar Faisal's Alpha Management Corp. has filed plans to replace a three-story apartment building at 23-25 North Beacon St. in Allston's Union Square with a six-story, 25-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects of new building and old church.
The Allston Brighton Community Development Corp. today filed plans to build a four-story, 49-unit apartment building on North Harvard Street at Coolidge Road in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
The MBTA reports the recent shutdown of the B Line let workers eliminate all of the eight slow zones on that Green Line branch. Read more.
Left Guy is now missing.
The Silhouette Lounge on Brighton Avenue in Allston reports somebody made off with the left silhouetted figure from its landmark sign - and it's offering a no-questions asked reward for the return of Left Guy. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by a trio of musicpreneurs to buy O'Brien's at 3 Harvard Ave. in Allston as part of their plans to re-open Great Scott next door - with housing on top. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say was the leader of a pack that tried to steal another guy's moped in the area of Lee's II Market at Commonwealth Avenue and Allston Street around 11:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Vanyaland gets the scoop: The venerable Allston rock spot, which used to be where the Taco Bell is now at Harvard and Commonwealth, is planning to return in new space at Harvard and Cambridge Street that it'll share with O'Brien's Pub, including new room where Stingray Body Art used to be. Read more.
The MBTA is reminding Green Line riders that the B Line will be shut between Boston College and Babcock Street between Aug. 2 and 11 for some of those accelerated track repair sessions.
Bustitution, of course, except the buses won't stop at Allston Street, Griggs Street or Packards Corner for accessibility reasons.
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