As a large group on Mother's Day celebrated a man's college graduation at Estella, 49 Temple Pl., two attendees at the bar got into an argument over who had dibs on the man that escalated into a large roving brawl on Temple Place and Washington Street, police and restaurant managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
For the past couple of days, Mary Hurley has been chronicling the people who park on narrow Temple Place, blocking in Silver Line buses at either end of the short downtown street that is supposed to serve as the SL5's starting and ending points. Read more.
Update: Expansion approved.
The owner of jm Curley's and the Wig Store Lounge on Temple Place hopes to expand down the street by opening a new "fast casual" Korean place and a "fine dining" sushi restaurant where diners would be serenaded with music from actual records on a record player - hi-fi records, "so it would be a hi-fi lounge," Curley's attorney, Stephen Miller, specified at a Boston Licensing Board hearing this morning. Read more.
Update: Licensing board says Estella's not to blame for what happened.
Boston Police say that when officers responded to a report of a large fight outside Estella's on Temple Place, they found a crowd of people on the street, up to 50 people, many of them shoving and yelling at each other, around 9:20 p.m. on June 18. Read more.
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men they say used a machete to attack a third man at Tremont Street and Temple Place downtown shortly before 9 a.m. on May 23. Read more.
Updated Monday with arrest info.
A 15-year-old was stabbed in the back on Temple Place near Tremont Street around 7:40 p.m. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Boston Chops on Temple Place, which closed at the onset of the pandemic, has started advertising for help
The Boston Licensing Board today gave jm Curley on Temple Place downtown permission to expand into the soon to be closed Wig World next door.
The bar will use the space for a 31-seat space to be called the Wig Shop Lounge, bar attorney Marci Costa told the board at a hearing yesterday.
Seem tourists from far away are having trouble with the concept of Boston, at least based on incidents at Democracy Brewing downtown and Table Boston in the North End. Read more.
Ace Gershfield, one of the people behind the Temple Place watering hole, announced and explained the permanent closing today: Read more.
Stabbing scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a man was beaten and stabbed by three to five other men on Temple Place in Downtown Crossing around 8 p.m. on Friday. He was found outside Boston Chops, although responding police also found blood on Park Street. Because of the severity of the man's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
Boston EMS gets patient ready for ride to nearby hospital. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a man was stabbed at Washington Street and Temple Place around 2 a.m.
As he was being transported to a local hospital with serious injuries that were not, however, considered life threatening, police found a suspect about a block away - a guy covered in blood, possibly from his own minor head injury.
Boston Police are trying to figure out where a man who wound up on an Orange Line platform at Downtown Crossing bleeding from a fresh stab wound around 8:20 p.m. was actually stabbed. Read more.
A worker at JM Curley on Temple Place got punched to the ground in June by an angry customer who accused the bar of stealing his wallet, while a bouncer at Hennessy's of Boston found himself tumbled in a heap of people after he tried to escort a vaping customer out in August, police and bar managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
UPDATE: Bail set at $2,000, Suffolk County DA reports.
Boston Police report a man with a cast on one leg and holding a cane was punched to the ground and then repeatedly kicked by four men who made off with his purple cell phone, at Temple Place and Washington Street, around 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
A 16-year-old was arrested yesterday for a May 2 shooting on Washington Street that left Temple Place shut at rush hour, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
At Tremont Street and Temple Place around 6:05 p.m. Injuries not considered life threatening.
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