Roving UHub photographer Patrick Snyder couldn't help but noticing all the dorm fridge/microwave combos being unloaded on Boylston Street by Emerson College today.
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By adamg - 8/9/24 - 2:21 pm
The Boston City Council this week agreed to consider a proposal by Councilor Sharon Durkan (Fenway, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill) to amend an ordinance aimed at preventing some city parks and parkways from being overwhelmed by tall buildings next to them to allow a tall residential building next to the Charlesgate section of the Emerald Necklace. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/24 - 1:18 pm
First up, we have the Globe's Brian McGrory, who argues Boylston Street bike lanes are a major mistake, that even pedestrians love the sheer exuberance of a traffic-clogged thoroughfare full of life and the essence of Boston, and man, who doesn't love just driving down the boulevard looking up at all the tall buildings and it's where the Marathon bombings were and besides, there are bike lanes on parallel streets, leave Boylston Street alone! Read more.
By adamg - 8/1/24 - 1:32 pm
The Berkeley Beacon reports Emerson College has reached a deal to house some Boston Architectural College students in its Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets this fall.
BAC will continue to provide all academic and student support for its students, but those living on Emerson’s campus must abide by Emerson’s policies, the announcement said.
By adamg - 7/26/24 - 9:22 am
Roving UHub photographer snapped minibikes on Boylston about to be hauled away.
By adamg - 7/10/24 - 10:31 pm
Boston Police report arresting somebody they say stabbed a man in the leg outside the firehouse at 941 Boylston St. shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, possibly after a fight around the corner on Newbury Street near Massachusetts Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/24 - 1:43 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for the city's third upscale Taco Bell, in what used to be a T-Mobile shop at 1084 Boylston St., just around the corner from Mass. Ave. Read more.
By adamg - 6/23/24 - 11:35 pm
Local 718 posted photos today of firefighters' cars at Engine 33 and Ladder 15 at Boylston and Hereford streets after the firefighters "returned to the firehouse to find their personal vehicles severely damaged and vandalized." Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/24 - 9:02 am
The city announced our five-year Duck Boat parade drought will end Friday at 11 a.m., when the Celtics head on out for a triumphal procession from Causeway Street in front of the Garden. The parade will go by City Hall Plaza and the Common via Tremont Street, turn onto Boylston and end at the Hynes.
By adamg - 6/11/24 - 9:59 am
Eater.Boston reports how some spittle-flecked keyboard warriors went after A.T. O’Keeffe on Boylston Street in the Back Bay because it hosted a "Sapphic Nights party" with the staff of the soon-to-open Dani’s Queer Bar next door to help ring in Pride month.
By adamg - 5/23/24 - 10:11 am
Michael Ratty was among Trader Joe's fans lining up this morning outside the new, bigger store on Boylston Street - up the street from the old, world's-smallest Trader Joe's - in the building made famous by Boston Legal between Clarendon and Berkeley.
Once inside, employees gave those shoppers a welcome worthy of a Super Bowl: Read more.
By adamg - 5/13/24 - 2:16 pm
Fresh off its victory over the sleeping peeps of Allston, Taco Bell is going to try to build another wee-hours taco-like emporium in Boston, this time at 1084 Boylston St., near Mass. Ave., where presumably starving (musical) artists from Berklee will quieren Taco Bell at the end of a long night. Read more.
By adamg - 5/7/24 - 10:55 am
The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans to replace the old Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street with a four-story restaurant with mini-golf. Read more.
By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:43 am
NBC Boston reports Boston Police move in around 2 a.m. and dragged out students protesting the situation in Gaza and tents from Boylston Place. Emerson canceled classes for today. Some video.
Meanwhile, Harvard students are in their second day of an encampment in Harvard Yard. The school is barring non-Harvard people from the Yard.
By adamg - 4/13/24 - 5:29 pm
Patrick spotted the Nuclear Emergency Support Team's radiation-sensing helicopter over Boylston Street today, doing the annual pre-Marathon check of background-radiation levels, just in case.
By adamg - 4/8/24 - 1:03 pm
Handmaid captured some workers today erecting the viewing stands at the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street for next week's annual race.
By adamg - 2/28/24 - 9:44 am
Boston Police report arresting a man for an incident outside the Walgreens, 841 Boylston St. in the Back Bay, around 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/24 - 1:06 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports a transformer explosion behind the Lenox Hotel at Exeter and Boylston streets around 12:30 p.m. filled the hotel with smoke. Firefighters went through the hotels evacuating all guests and employees as other firefighters installed fans to get the smoke out.
The department ordered a two-alarm response because of the need to evacuate the building.
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