Seems there's only so far you can go to replicate post-apocalyptic Manhattan on the streets of Lowell, so the producers of The Walking Dead were setting up some props for filming in downtown Boston today, like at High and Congress. A roving UHub photographer couldn't help but note that a BTD employee ticketed a zombiemobile.
Rendering by Anthony Pisani, showing new wings coming off existing house in center.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to expand a 3-family house at 16 High St. in Dorchester to nine units, following a hearing that turned into a mini-debate about the future of Meetinghouse Hill and Dorchester's other residential hills - Jones, Popes and Savin. Read more.
Victim identified as Nilton Fernandes, 24, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was found shot to death outside 34 High St. in Dorchester at 5:28 a.m.
The man, pronounced dead at the scene, is Boston's first murder victim this year.
More than a decade after a developer first proposed a hotel at 188 High St., another developer is set to actually begin construction of a seven-story, 24-room hotel this summer, its attorney told the Zoning Board of Appeal. Read more.
8:47 a.m. Photo by Seth Lipkin.
Downtown workers and residents got a jolt this morning when two manholes blew up at Summer and High streets shortly before 8:40 a.m. One person was injured. Read more.
Tom the roving UHub photographer spotted this official looking MBTA vehicle with a Boston parking ticket last night on High Street downtown. The T's operation center is right there, but it's on the other side of the street, so maybe that offended a ticket giver - or maybe the driver got the ticket somewhere else and left it in place as a badge of honor or an attempt to fend off further tickets (anybody know if that actually works?).
The Boston Licensing Board could decide Thursday whether Howl at the Moon on High Street shares any of the blame for the way one of its patrons wound up in Fort Point Channel, from which he managed to climb out shortly before police found him between the Congress Street and Moakley bridges, wet, shivering and clad only in his underwear and one sock - several hours after he was booted from the bar. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a Hen Chicken Rice of Somerville plans to open an outlet on High Street in downtown Boston.
WBZ reports a broken water main sent water towering into the air at Congress and High streets this morning.
Shamus captured the scene on High Street downtown tonight; reports nobody was hurt.
What $65 a night on High Street would buy you. From a Wharf District Council presentation.
Update: The licensing board deferred its vote so it can take a look at last week's zoning-board extension on the project.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Chris Elsey, a developer from Manhattan, KS, build a 14-story hotel on what is now a tiny parking lot on High Street with 100 two-person pods, similar to, if a bit larger than. the pods found in Japanese capsule hotels. Read more.
Trillium Brewing announced this morning it's re-opening its beer garden on the Rose Kennedy Greenway at High Street, starting at noon today. Read more.
BWSC reports a water main on High Street near Pearl Street downtown cracked open around 2 p.m. and that crews are now busy replacing it.
Update, 8/8: Licensing Board found club was not at fault.
Barely 15 minutes after four men paid off a doorman to let them into Society on High one March night even though the club was full to capacity and they did not meet the club dress code, they got involved in a shoving match that turned into a knife fight that sent four men to the hospital - one with injuries serious enough to have homicide detective summoned just in case - BPD detectives and the club's attorney told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
Bit of a tight turn in Charlestown.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the intersection of High and Walker streets in Charlestown - and the big-rig drivers who get stuck there on the regular: Read more.
Seems Boston has this nifty little search tool that lets you type in a car's license-plate number and see when it was last towed (and to where).
Over on Boston Reddit, mac_question has been using the tool to follow the exploits of a 2017 Fiat sports car (no, that's not an oxymoron), whose owner keeps parking it haphazardly at Summer and High streets downtown. In the past three months, the car has been towed five times from that spot. Maybe it's still cheaper than a deeded parking space?
The Boston Fire Department ordered the evacuation of the 32-story 99 High St. when a reaction of three disinfecting chemicals in an 18th-floor mechanical room sent bromine gas into the building shortly before noon. Read more.
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