Contentious Southie Starbucks goes for license on Wednesday
A community meeting tonight on a Starbucks proposed for L Street and Broadway repeatedly veered towards Parks and Rec style chaos as residents battled each other on issues that often had little to...
View ArticleTaking one last bite at Anthony's Pier 4
John Gage watched the last bits of Anthony's Pier 4 being torn down today. It's making way for a park to go with a luxury residential tower, of course.
View ArticleChain of high-end steakhouses to open waterfront outlet
Boston Restaurant Talk reports we'll be getting a Mastro's Steakhouse. In a luxury residential building on Fan Pier, natch.
View ArticleMayor: City Point has enough coffee shops
Mayor Walsh, city councilors Michael Flaherty and Michelle Wu and state Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry this morning backed residents opposed to a Starbucks at L Street and East Broadway, saying there are...
View ArticleMayor supports pool table at South Boston hotel
When the Aloft hotel on D Street opened on Feb. 4, the lobby had one of the pool tables that all Aloft hotels have. And then management had to order it packed up and put it in storage when they learned...
View ArticleBoard rejects Starbucks in City Point
NECN reports the Boston Licensing Board this morning set the border of Starbucks Nation at Dorchester Street when it sided with residents - and the mayor - and rejected a food-serving license for a...
View ArticleIndyCar Boston only mostly dead
Mayor Walsh and Mark Miles, CEO of IndyCar's parent company, Hulman & Co., issued this statement yesterday:Boston has an open door for new and innovative ideas that will benefit the city's future....
View ArticleScorpion bowls ordered by BU students prove expensive - for the waterfront...
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered a two-day shutdown for Empire, 1 Marina Park Dr., because police found three underage students with scorpion bowls during an inspection on Feb. 21 - almost...
View ArticleWheels taken in South Boston
Rear Admiral spotted this car that won't be going anywhere for awhile near the intersection of I and E. 8 streets in South Boston today.
View ArticlePossibilities emerge for what to do with the old Northern Avenue bridge
The city of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects have posted entries in a design competition for what to do with the Northern Avenue Bridge, which has been closed to even pedestrians for the...
View ArticleMan hit by Red Line train at Broadway; expected to live
Transit Police report a man in his mid-50s was hit by an outbound train at Broadway around 2:35 p.m.He suffered serious injuries but is expected to live, police say. Police declined to say how he wound...
View ArticleOh, the stories they'll tell
Massmouth's annual storytelling competition will pick Boston's best story teller on Sunday evening, from among the ten winners of the Club Passim and Trident Booksellers 2015-2106 story slams.The...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Complaint about somebody filing a complaint
A concerned citizen uses Bos:311 to file a complaint about another concerned citizen using Bos:311 to file a complaint - while behind the wheel of his car on Dorchester Avenue in Andrew Square.So...
View ArticleOh, come on: Developer proposes calling new building on W. 5 Street SOBO Place
A developer whose office is in the heart of FiDi has filed plans with the BRA for a four-story, 36-unit residential building at 55 W. 5 St. at the corner of B Street that he will market under the name...
View ArticleIf you really like Tasty Burger, don't stand in front of its South Boston...
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday handed a warning to the Tasty Burger on L Street for the beer-holding people Boston Police detectives said they found loitering outside its pick-up window during...
View ArticleIn South Boston, city plants asphalt instead of trees and residents like it
Some residents, at any rate. Caught in Southie presents the new asphalt islands in the sidewalk in front of the post office. To a casual outsider, they might look ideal for plantings and trees, but...
View ArticleTrump-inspired dirtbag brothers acknowledge beating, urinating on sleeping...
Two South Boston brothers today admitted they attacked a man sleeping near the JFK/UMass T stop with a metal pole and their urine on their way home from a Sox game last August because he was too...
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Our epidemic of SUV flipping continues; this time by the convention center
Matt Di Stefano reports this SUV flipped like a pancake on Summer Street after hitting two parked cars around 1:40 p.m.:Kenny Jervis shows us the cars:
View ArticleL Street could get an Italian restaurant that serves alcohol after all
Earlier this year, the Boston Licensing Board didn't grant a liquor license to developer Michael Norton's proposed Italian restaurant at L Street and Broadway in South Boston (and then rejected a...
View ArticleCouncilors float idea of ferry service to connect waterfront neighborhoods
Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina says he sometimes gets frustrated with the otherwise beautiful view from Piers Park in East Boston: He can see the Seaport in South Boston, but knows the only way to...
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