Rendering of new Great Scott awning by CambridgeSeven.
A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to add four stories and 14 apartments to the building where the Glenville Stops bar used to be at 85-93 Glenville Ave. in Allston. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Queens man on charges he was using two luxury apartments at 55 Brighton Ave. in Allston as brothels. Read more.
Around 6:40 a.m., an MBTA manhole at the Green Line station at Harvard and Commonwealth Avenues in Allston began to emit smoke, bringing in Boston firefighters and forcing the T to rustle up some buses to provide service between Washington and Babcock streets until its engineers could fix the problem.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for 49 affordable apartments for senior citizens at 279-283 North Harvard St. 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 Daily Free Press reports on the "fowl odor" that has shut the Raising Cane's on Comm. Ave., near Agganis Arena. ISD and the chain can't agree where the smell in the dining area is coming from - the chain blames the city and its aging infrastructure - but the chain is hoping to re-open in time to feed ravenous Terriers their accustomed tendies by next week.
Two end-of-year sales along Allston's North Beacon Street show how the local real-estate market has flipped: Life sciences is down, apartments are up. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer stopped to snap a tree reflection on the Charles in Allston near the Harvard athletic buildings, back when there was still ice on the river along with calm water, like, this morning.
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a ten-day halt to alcohol sales at the Harvard Convenience Store, Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue because of a BPD raid in May that found a room with three slots machines and gamblers quaffing beers from the store's stock. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by landlord City Realty to convert the former local home of the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross - the Rosicrucians - at 13 Clevemont Ave., off Everett Street in Allston, into four apartments. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest and leg on Cambridge Street near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon Street around 6 p.m. The alleged stabber drove away in a reddish-orange SUV. Read more.
From Foley's patent application. He is working on a more user-friendly design.
Northeastern Global News introduces us to Mike Foley, who is in the process of perfecting a device that, when fed silverware in one tray, and napkins in another, folds the former into the latter. He got the idea talking to his brother, who works in the restaurant business and who told him one of the things waitstaff hate the most is the monotony of silverware/napkin folding.
A concerned resident filed a 311 report early this morning about the situation along Kelton Street between Comm. Ave. and Allston Street:
People using airsoft guns to hunt rats and shooting around cars and apartment windows.
Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
A man was stabbed in the chest in a Herter Park parking lot, near the kayak rental place, possibly in an argument spurred by a traffic incident on Soldiers Field Road in Allston shortly after 5 p.m. Boston EMTs found the man walking around. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Roxy's Grilled Cheese on Cambridge Street in Allston will fling its last cheesy comestible on Nov. 24. The outlet in Central Square in Cambridge, though, will remain open.
A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.
Rendering by Urbanica.
A developer has filed plans for a three-story, three-building condo development at 65-79 Seattle St. that would include things most Boston projects don't get, including plantings that will include nut trees and a "woonerf" - a sort of combination plaza, driveway and shaded area that is popular in the Netherlands and which could ultimately be connected to a local "greenway" path once Harvard finishes its own research campus nearby. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 9-11 Holton St. in Allston around 10 p.m. for an attic fire that turned into a two-alarm blaze. Read more.
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
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