By adamg - 6/1/24 - 3:58 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Silvertone Bar & Grill, long a favorite of bartenders at other joints, suddenly closed this week.

By adamg - 11/28/22 - 11:41 am

The Boston City Archives recount what happened when Mayor James Michael Curley successfully fought to rid Bromfield Street of young women shining shoes and blacking boots on Bromfield Street in 1917 - when the young men who would normally have done the job were getting ready for war. It was an outrage to public morality, Curley and others - including the Women's Christian Temperance Union - thundered.

By adamg - 11/10/21 - 9:37 pm

Police found the victim, stabbed in the back and shoulder, at Winter and Tremont streets around 9:30 p.m., although he was stabbed on Bromfield Street, midway between Washington and Tremont streets.

Rendering of new Bromfield Street
By adamg - 11/8/21 - 10:52 am

The New York company that owns the former Payless building at Bromfield and Washington streets in Downtown Crossing now says, in a filing with the BPDA last week, it expects to begin 28 months of construction on a new 22-story office tower there in the second half of 2022. Read more.

Wanted man
By adamg - 11/8/20 - 4:47 pm

Boston Police have released a photo of a man they say forced a woman from Bromfield Street in Downtown Crossing through the Common and into the Public Garden, near Charles and Beacon streets, where he raped her, around 2 a.m. Read more.

Proposed tower at Bromfield and Washington streets in downtown Boston
By adamg - 10/31/20 - 11:11 am

Midwood Investment and Development this week filed plans for a 23-story office building, with the first two floors and the basement set aside for retail use, at the corner of Bromfield and Washington streets in Downtown Crossing. Read more.

Destruction inside Clarendon Wine
By adamg - 6/2/20 - 9:40 am

Looters who smashed into places like Marshalls and Walgreens Sunday night were not particularly discriminating - they also destroyed small mom-and-pop businesses across downtown, the Back Bay and the South End. Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/20 - 1:19 pm

A New York developer that once proposed a 59-story residential tower at the corner of Bromfield and Washington streets downtown is now telling the BPDA it will soon file plans for a less lofty 21-story office building with some retail at the lower elevations. Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/19 - 4:09 pm

Boston Police report arresting an East Boston man after, they say, officers caught him trying to break into Wild Orchid, 40B Bromfield St. - and then chased him on foot through downtown and along the Common before finally bringing him down on the Common. Read more.

By adamg - 5/31/19 - 11:35 am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by Insomnia Cookies to open a warm-cookie storefront on Bromfield Street that would be open until 3 a.m. to serve downtown college students and long-term residents looking for a break from pizza and Chinese food in the witching hour. Read more.

By adamg - 5/29/19 - 11:26 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Insomnia Cookies open a storefront on Bromfield Street from which it would deliver warm cookies to downtown residents and students up to 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/19 - 9:54 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Insomnia Cookies has filed a request to open a late(ish)-night cookie delivery service at 61 Bromfield St.

The company, which already delivers cookies into the early morning to BU students, is asking the Boston Licensing Board for permission to stay open until 3 a.m. on Bromfield.

By adamg - 4/28/19 - 1:49 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man on gun, knife and drug charges on Bromfield Street Saturday night. Read more.

By adamg - 10/22/18 - 4:55 pm

The Globe reports the Watch Hospital on Bromfield Street closes for good on Friday.

By adamg - 8/20/18 - 11:57 am

Boston Police report arresting Joseph Porter, 47, on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for allegedly stabbing another man outside 69 Bromfield St. around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday.

Police say his victim remains hospitalized but is expected to survive.

Innocent, etc.

Stabbing scene on Bromfield Street
By adamg - 8/19/18 - 10:59 am

UPDATE: Suspect arrested.

KMV and Doogs report somebody was stabbed several times on Bromfield Street, near Tremont, shortly before 1:40 a.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.

Gluten-free option in downtown Boston
By adamg - 7/20/16 - 9:07 am

Crag Caplan spotted this sign on Bromfield Street.

By adamg - 7/1/16 - 6:13 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the BRA wants the company to come up with something that doesn't completely overshadow Bromfield Street.

Swoopy skyscraper as seen from Boston's Public Garden
By adamg - 4/4/16 - 11:15 pm
Proposed downtown tower

The New York developer that has been figuring out how to put a skyscraper at the intersection of Washington and Bromfield streets last week released a series of renderings of a building that would rise higher than the Millennium Tower and have a series of rooftop gardens and possibly solar panels.

Midwood Investment and Development is proposing a 59-story, 683-foot-tall building with 300 apartments - 54 affordable - topped by 119 condos. The residential units would sit on a five-story base that would include ground-floor retail and a garage for 235 cars and 420 bicycles. Read more.

Giant icicle behind Bromfield Street
By adamg - 3/9/15 - 2:27 pm

Sarah Rubenstein forwards a pair of photos of a giant icicle coming loose behind her office at 36 Bromfield St. this afternoon.