Citizen complaint of the day: The South Boston dust bowl
A concerned citizen complains about the clouds of dust bursting from the St. Augustine project (in which an old church building on E Street is being turned into condos). Another concerned citizen...
View ArticleSouth Boston suspect all wet
A man who apparently decided to try to evade justice at South Boston Municipal Court shortly before noon quickly found himself being tracked by Boston police officers. Eventually, as one does in...
View ArticleBody recovered from Reserved Channel
First responders rushed to the Summer Street bridge around 8:30 a.m. on a report of a person in the water. Eileen Murphy reports they recovered a body.
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A hammock kind of day
Eileen Murphy spotted somebody cocooned in a hammock at the M Street beach in South Boston today.Gwen Betts, meanwhile, took a moment out from reading a book to give us a foot's eye view from the...
View ArticleFight over South Boston restaurant not over
Residents opposed to a restaurant planned for Dorchester and Dresser streets meet tomorrow to figure out their next steps now that the Boston Licensing Board has agreed to grant it the license it needs...
View ArticleSure, it's $4,500 a month, but look at the views
Castle Island regular Eileen Murphy ran across some people filming "World's Smallest House" with a tiny unit they probably just brought in for the filming, rather than something they're actually going...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Houses aren't supposed to lean like that, are...
A concerned citizen frets about his house on E. 8 Street in South Boston:House is falling over more than ever before and now looks like it's causing house next door to sag.H/t Trevor Maloney.
View ArticleLove that dirty water - in my beer
WBZ reports Harpoon Brewery is now making an ale with (don't worry, heavily purified) Charles River water.Maybe this winter, JP Licks will come out with a line of snow cones made with actual Boston snow?
View ArticleCranes get no rest: Construction set for next year on next, $700-million...
The Boston Business Journal talks to developer John Hynes about the three-building, 750-unit Seaport Square complex on which work is set to begin in mid-2016.
View ArticleConvicted drunk driver charged with plowing into a woman crossing the street...
A South Boston man with one OUI conviction under his belt and facing charges for another alleged OUI incident was ordered held without bail after he allegedly hit a woman walking across Day Boulevard...
View ArticleGroper on the loose in Dorchester, South Boston
Boston Police report a woman was indecently attacked around 3 a.m. on Saturday at Boston and Mayhew streets in Dorchester - almost two months after another woman was similarly attacked late at night in...
View ArticleA little rain won't stop construction - or firetrucks
Daniel Glennon shows us the Seaport Square construction along Seaport Boulevard in South Boston in this morning's rain.
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Boston's best vending machine is on the waterfront
On Pier 4, near the road on the World Trade Center side, you can now buy any of several types of frozen bait from a vending machine that is open for business 24 hours a day: Clams, squid, pogies,...
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Another golden sunset
Michael Ratty watched the sunset from the Seaport tonight.Neil, meanwhile, was out on the water watching the sun go down over Boston:More photos of the sun going down over Boston this evening:Just...
View ArticleMan who jumped off restaurant deck into Boston Harbor lucky to be alive,...
A Brighton man who celebrated his 24th birthday last month by taking a leap into Boston Harbor from the top of Legal Harborside on Northern Avenue got the restaurant hauled before the Boston Licensing...
View ArticleSouth Boston condo gets quite the price cut, now priced to moooove
Even in rapidly gentrifying South Boston, $12 million for a 3-bedroom, 2,421-square foot condo seems just a tad high, so we're going to assume that Zillow made a $10.8-million mistake on its initial...
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Helicopters were everywhere today
Neil photographed one of the helicopters that ferried Congressional Medal of Honor recipients around town to various ceremonies today - in this case, parked outside the World Trade Center, where the...
View ArticleAnother woman attacked at intersection near Edward Everett Square
Boston Police report a woman walking near Boston and Mayhew streets around 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday was indecently assaulted.Another woman reported being attacked at the same intersection on Saturday....
View ArticleAnother longtime Southie bar could be about to dry up
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a developer has purchased the building at A and West 2 that houses Williams Tavern and My Diner and that, of course, its plans do not include keeping those two places open.
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