The Boston Licensing Board today conditionally approved a food-serving license for a Raising Cane's at 101 Arch St. in Downtown Crossing that would let the chicken-finger chain fling breaded fingers until midnight. Read more.
The St. Anthony Shrine on Arch Street downtown was wrapped today with the name of all the victims of 9/11, Anthony Castiglioni reports.
Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester 14-year-old for attacking officers down the street from where Boston cops were arresting a woman allegedly trying to set people on fire in the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeals today rejected a company's plans to convert 21 apartments at 103-111 Arch St. into executive suites after elected officials and a neighborhood residents association said the proposal would be an end run around the city's short-term rental restrictions and efforts to increase the amount of housing stock available for Bostonians. Read more.
Surveillance photo via Transit Police.
A man Transit Police say attacked a woman he was piggybacking behind at the JFK/UMass Red Line stop last Tuesday also punched an Uber driver on Arch Street on Friday afternoon, according to the driver's passenger at the time. Read more.
Aline Kaplan explains what happened to the arch that gave Arch Street its name.
St. Anthony's Shrine on Arch Street has posted photos of the well-dressed guy they say broke into the shrine between 4 and 6 a.m. yesterday. If he looks familiar, you know the number to call.
The Globe reports on a group of about 20 people that went on a violent spree from the Common to Arch Street Wednesday evening. Four people were arrested; three victims were transported to Mass. General.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters had to send a rescue elevator up a shaft at 33 Arch St. to free a man from another elevator that stopped around 9:40 a.m. today.
The department reports the man was stuck between the second and third floors in a "blind" shaft - there were no doors on those floors for him to try to use to esape.
Brought adjacent elevator next to stuck one. Tech Rescue trained firefighters transferred person from one to other via roof hatches.
David Schachner photographed the entrance to 33 Arch St. the other night.
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