Braintree guy admits, yeah, he walked across Red Line tracks at Andrew Square
A Braintree man admitted today he walked across the tracks from one platform to the other at Andrew Square station on Sunday - narrowly avoiding getting flattened by a train entering the station at the...
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Construction material blown about like paper; trees snapped like matchsticks
High winds are wreaking havoc across the area. Joseph Couture looked out his window to see Boylston Street shut between Jersey and Kilmarnock streets in the Fenway around 7:40 p.m. - as firefighters...
View ArticleThey just don't make police cruisers like they used to
Eileen Murphy today is taking in the shooting of a scene for an ABC pilot about women cops in Boston in 1978.
View ArticleMCCA offers to shuttle Seaport employees
Getting around the Seaport District by car can be a royal pain, especially during the evening commute. According to the Boston Herald, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) thinks it has...
View ArticleSouth Boston parade organizer says gay group only got in because of a mistake
Allied War Veterans Council Commander Brian Mahoney writes this week that some hapless volunteer mistakenly approved Boston Pride's application to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade, that he and...
View ArticleSnow? Never heard of it
Paul Nutting took in the Save the Harbor Cupid Splash in South Boston today.
View ArticleGood to go in Fort Point
Zinnia really likes the new State Street building in Channel Center in Fort Point.
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Fishermen find old cannonball off Castle Island; State Police blow it up
State Police report that, after consultation with the Navy, their bomb squad blew it up, shortly before noon.The thing could date back to the Civil War, but State Police say they didn't want to take...
View ArticleSnow-related one-way streets in South Boston could stay that way permanently
The mayor's office announced today that two-way streets turned into one-way streets to account for all that snow will stay that way until at least June 1 - and could become permanently changed that...
View ArticleDorchester Street could get 17-story tower
The Boston Business Journal reports a developer wants to turn five acres of industrial land at Dorchester Street and Old Colony Avenue into a mixed-use development with 700 housing units in eight...
View ArticleThe canals of Boston
Zinnia shows us some streets are looking like canals with all the melting snow, such as Bolton Street in South Boston.
View ArticleMoon over the admiral
Eileen Murphy watched the moon rise over the Farragut statue in South Boston.
View ArticleBoston police officer suspended without pay after indictment on charges he...
A Suffolk County grand jury today indicted Michael Doherty, 41, of South Boston on assault-and-battery and civil-rights charges for an incident in January in which he allegedly used a racial epithet...
View ArticleWhen did they replace the South Boston snow farm with a coal pile?
Eileen Murphy was amazed by how dirty the waterfront snow pile has gotten.
View ArticleMoon light, moon bright, first moon I see tonight ...
Eileen Murphy caught the moonrise over Pleasure Bay tonight.
View ArticleTony Stark's deal to take over the Gillette plant
The lighting makes it impossible to read, but that covered over sign in Chris Devers's photo says "Stark Industries," so you have to wonder if Stark plans to divert all those razor blades for a new...
View ArticleSunset over the power plant
Eileen Murphy captured the sunset behind the old South Boston power plant from Castle Island tonight.
View ArticleCity, developer, look for ideas on attraction for Pier 4
The BRA and UDR, which is turning Pier 4 into a mixed-use development, are soliciting bids for civic or cultural use of 20,000 square feet of space at the pier's first new building - a 21-story...
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Spring is, dare we say it, busting out all over
Across the city today, winter-weary Bostonians shed their coats, or, at least, unzipped them a bit as they marveled at temperatures that approached 60.On Carson Beach in South Boston, Eileen Murphy...
View ArticleFailed Forest Hills bar could prove tonic for impending waterfront hotel
The Boston Licensing Board this week hears a request from the owner of the failed Tonic bar in Forest Hills to sell his all-alcohol license to the owners of the Envoy Hotel, scheduled to open this...
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