UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.
If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.
Councilors with UNITE HERE 26 members in Council chambers.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about a hot-dog stand whose owner was selling hot dogs - and even cajun chicken - in Eliot Norton Park on the Chinatown/Bay Village line at 2:45 this morning: Read more.
Stanley Staco recently broke the public silence on the death of Justin Arthur Davidson, whose body Boston Public Works employees found at the Frontage Road yard while emptying a blue bin in a Whole Foods shopping cart somebody had complained about to 311 on Winchester Street in Bay Village on the morning of Aug. 7. Read more.
In 1954, 46 Winchester St. in Bay Village was home to the Latin Quarter nightclub.
Until very recently, it was an unassuming parking lot that doesn't look at all like the sort of spot that would play a role in transgender history and Boston's mid-20th-century reputation as a center of puritanical small-mindedness (and now it's nine-unit luxury townhouse): Read more.
Roslindale space saver back when we got snow.
Mayor Wu today announced the city will continue its 48-hour post-storm grace period for saving parking spaces for the coming winter, except in the South End and Bay Village, where space saving is never allowed. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday sentenced former Boston Center for Adult Education Executive Director Susan Brown, 70, of Marblehead, to two to three years in state prison for embezzling funds from the group over nine years, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Hotel under construction in 1926. Source.
Sunstone Hotel Investors of Aliso Viejo, CA, announced last week it's sold the 1,050-room Boston Park Plaza in Park Square for $370 million, to Parks Hospitality Holdings, which is returning "Hilton" to the hotel's name. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk gets the salty scoop: The steak guy with the funny way of putting salt on steaks has closed up shop in Boston, where, you may recall, he opened up in Park Square at the height of the pandemic only to get shut down after barely a week for violating the city's Covid-19 restrictions.
City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.
Boston Police report three men spotted spray-painting the building at 131 Arlington St. proved unable to outrace responding officers, even the one who tried to lighten his load by tossing aside cans of spray paint as he ran early Tuesday. Read more.
The Boston Sun recaps the forum with Montez Haywood and Sharon Durkan, running in a July 25 special election to replace Kenzie Bok as city councilor in District 8 (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Bay Village, Fenway and Mission Hill). They're competing for a term that runs until just Jan. 1, when the winner of the November regular election will take the seat.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police have released surveillance photos of a man they say has broken into guest rooms at two local hotels. Read more.
But not the same location it left in 2020, Boston Restaurant Talk reports.
The Boston Sun reports on the Bay Village installation of a test electric lamp, designed to look like ye olde gas lamps, but with a new reduction of carbon emissions and a much longer lifespan.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a pair of entrepreneurs to turn a part of the Park Plaza Castle into a place for giant displays of art - just in time for their first show, featuring the work of Frida Kahlo, next month. Read more.
Greta the roving UHub photographer was among the people in Copley Square at the Donna Summer disco party tonight.
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