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By adamg - 1/27/24 - 1:06 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports a transformer explosion behind the Lenox Hotel at Exeter and Boylston streets around 12:30 p.m. filled the hotel with smoke. Firefighters went through the hotels evacuating all guests and employees as other firefighters installed fans to get the smoke out.

The department ordered a two-alarm response because of the need to evacuate the building.

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 9:16 am
Water gurgling on Exeter Street

Shamus Moynihan spotted Boston's newest water source - or maybe just the result of a burst water main - last night on Exeter Street by the Lenox in the Back Bay.

By adamg - 11/4/22 - 10:19 am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by HuE, in the Copley Square Hotel at Exeter Street and Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay, to let tables order bottle service after promising it's not going to try to recreate its predecessor, the Storyville nightclub. Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/22 - 2:54 pm
George Aboujaoude

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans to replace the former Storyville club in the Copley Square Hotel at Exeter Street and Huntington Avenue with a restaurant aimed at what its lawyer said was "an older, more sophisticated crowd" only out to "enjoy food," not bring the house down. Read more.

By adamg - 10/23/20 - 10:56 pm
Stenciled ad for 28 Exeter

Update: Building owner apologizes, sends crew out to wash the ads away.

Way to make an impression with the neighbors: Several disgusted citizens filed 311 complaints today about the gauche way 28 Exeter at Newbury advertised it has flats to rent - by spraying stenciled ads on the sidewalk of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The building went up in 1979, so you'd think the owners would know how their ads would be received in the Back Bay.

By adamg - 3/12/19 - 8:02 am
Buckled pavement after water-main break in the Back Bay

Rick Macomber shows us the aftermath of the water-main break at Commonwealth Avenue and Exeter Street last night.

By adamg - 3/11/19 - 10:13 pm

You might want to avoid the area around a broken water main there. BPD officers are there to help guide you somewhere else as BWSC workers struggle to contain the might flow, which has now inundated Exeter between Newbury and Marlborough and forced the evacuation of some buildings.

By adamg - 12/11/18 - 12:27 pm

A patron at Top Mix Bar and Kitchen on Norfolk Avenue in Roxbury left her clutch outside, went back out to retrieve it and found it but with $360 missing, then got punched in the face by the man who'd been captured on surveillance video lifting the money, police and the bar's owner told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/18 - 1:20 pm

A man went up to a table where two women and a man were sitting at Storyville, 90 Exeter St., on the night Feb. 8 and asked one of the women to dance. She refused and the guy responded by punching her in the mouth three times and then ran out, police told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.

By adamg - 12/22/17 - 8:57 am
Taping off the crime scene on Exeter Street

Taping off the crime scene. Photo by KMV.

A woman was stabbed in the chest shortly before midnight on Exeter Street, outside Luke's Lobster KMV and Rick Macomber report. John Duffill reports the suspects fled in a black Jeep with New York plates.

WBZ reports police think this was case of road rage. The victim was in a car at the time.

The stabbing comes less than 24 hours after a man was stabbed on Exeter at Boylston.

By adamg - 12/21/17 - 8:49 am

A man was stabbed in the lung around at Boylston and Exeter streets around 1:50 a.m., Boston EMS Incidents and Scott B report.

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