Owners of South Boston bar plan remake with four floors of apartments on top
Rendering by Tim Johnson Architect.The owners of the one-story Stats Bar and Grille in South Boston's Perkins Square want to replace it with a five-story building with a ground-floor restaurant and...
View ArticleOwner of Seaport restaurants that want to expand says he has fixes for loud...
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Gavin Moseley, who operates Borrachito and the Garret in the Echelon building at 70 Pier 4 Blvd. in the Seaport, open a third joint next door,...
View ArticleIce not so nice: Cold mischief from the Charles to Jamaica Pond to M Street
Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back...
View ArticleOld South Boston bank would become new South Boston courthouse - and apartments
Rendering by the Cedarwood Group.Two developers have filed plans to convert the old South Boston Savings Bank at 460 West Broadway, which already sort of looks like a courthouse, into a new home for...
View ArticleSouth Boston elected officials warn out-of-town colleges, high schools to get...
Four South Boston elected officials want statewide college and high-school associations to tell their students not to go all Clockwork Orange during this year's St. Patrick's parade.In a letter to the...
View ArticleDinner and a show at Castle Island
Laurie Crist went out for dinner and a show at Castle Island this evening: Dinner from Sullivan's and the show of windsurfers on Pleasure Bay.Neighborhoods: South BostonFree tagging: Castle...
View ArticleSouth Boston gets a geyser
Boston's newest water-main geyser.Romeo Trauma videoed South Boston's newest water feature, although not yet dyed green for this weekend, at D and West 7th streets this afternoon.A new uhh... fountain...
View ArticlePolice kept busy today confiscating borgs and yelling at people to get down...
Lineup of borgs at Transit Police HQ, including one tagged "Shipping Up to Borgston."Making good on their pledge to aim for an alcohol-free St. Patrick's parade, Boston Police - and their counterparts...
View ArticleDepartment of Up Is Down goes after three Boston law firms for not doing...
The now ironically named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today sent letters to law firms across the country demanding to know why they're not doing their part to ensure mediocre white men get...
View ArticleConvention center could get another hotel
A pair of real-estate investment firms say they will soon file plans for a 15-story, 438-room hotel next to the existing Aloft and Element hotels on D Street, across from the Boston Convention and...
View ArticleProsecutors drop rape case against ride-share driver arrested for alleged...
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office on Friday dropped a rape charge against a Brighton man who had been sitting in jail since his arrest last month, South Boston Municipal Court records...
View ArticleFinally, a club for people who want to legally have an IV jabbed in their arm...
The Boston Business Journal introduces us to the Seaport's impending Remedy Place, run by a California chiropractor who's building a chain of wellness centers that he says double as a social club:Leary...
View ArticleBoard rolls back closing time for Andrew Square pizza place after yet another...
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered Red Line Pizza, 580-582 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston, to close its doors promptly at 10 p.m. - and by 10 p.m. the board made clear it means everybody out by...
View ArticlePolice issue APB for woman they say tossed a rock into a Tesla in South Boston
Surveillance photo via BPD.Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say vandalized a Tesla parked on O Street between East 1st and East 2nd streets on Saturday.Officers who arrived on...
View ArticleTwo councilors say South Boston needs more parking spaces, fewer rental bikes...
City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown) and Erin Murphy (at large) today called for a hearing to consider ways to make the Boston Planning and Transportation departments...
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