Seaport gondola is the answer to a problem we don't have: How to move people...
MBTAinfo.com ponders Millennium Partners's proposal to spend $100 million on a gondola along the South Boston waterfront, concludes that if the developer is serious about throwing $100 million at...
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Developer unwraps replacement for South Boston Family Dollar
Architect's rendering.Developer Michael Moore last week filed his detailed plans for replacing the Family Dollar, a pizza place and three other shops on West Broadway with a 44-unit apartment building...
View ArticleWoman goes berserk when she spots ex smooching another at Southie bar, police...
A woman who walked into the Lincoln Tavern on West Broadway on the night of Oct. 15 and spotted her ex-boyfriend kissing another woman grew enraged and went up and punched the other woman, a BPD...
View ArticleMan shot in the stomach in South Boston
Tue, 12/05/2017 - 22:45Shortly after 10:45 p.m. in the area of E. 9 and Mercer streets in the Old Colony project.Free tagging:Â Old ColonyEast 9 StreetGunsNeighborhoods:Â South BostonTopics:Â Crime
View ArticleSilver Line not on time; dead bus gets it a rhyme
What do you call a Silver Line tunnel with a dead bus in it? A mess. The MBTA reports "moderate" delays on the SL1 and SL2 due to a bus that died between Courthouse and South Station.UPDATE: The delays...
View ArticleOwner of South Boston nursing home plans March shutdown
Kindred Healthcare of Louisville, KY, has notified state regulators it plans to shut its Harborlights nursing home on East 7 Street by the end of March.In a letter to the state Department of Public...
View ArticleWhat might be faster is a sleigh; there's a dead train at Broadway
The MBTA reports "moderate" delays persist on the Red Line long after evidence of the smoking train at Broadway has been cleaned up.
View ArticleBedeviled boat berthed
Rick Macomber covers the waterfront:The Helsinki Bridge cargo ship was towed by tugboats tonight from Boston outer harbor back to Conley Pier in South Boston after being torn away in the wind storm on...
View ArticleBuilding Boston's newest, whitest neighborhood
As part of its series on racism, the Globe looks at looks at the development of the Whiteport, um, Seaport.
View ArticlePlans for trains and trucks collide in vacant lot in South Boston
MassDOT and the freight railroad CSX are battling the owner of a vacant parcel next to a currently dormant rail line behind the South Boston convention center over his proposal to lease out the space...
View ArticleMarine industrial park would get less mariney under city plan
The BPDA is seeking state approval to allow more non-marine companies to move into the Raymond Flynn Marine Industrial Park, saying there's just not that much demand for decaying waterside facilities...
View ArticleFirst of the new Orange Line cars arrive in South Boston
Photo by MBTA.The MBTA reports the first four new Orange Line cars from Chinese manufacturer CRRC arrived at the Conley Terminal in South Boston this morning, from where they will be transported to the...
View ArticleTwo-alarm fire at South Boston project injures firefighter
Photo by BFD.The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded around 4:20 p.m. to 66 Orton Marotta Way in the West Broadway project for what turned into a two-alarm fire in a first-floor...
View ArticleSanta Cupid is coming to town
Eileen Murphy reports the Valentine's Day stuff is already beginning to crowd the Christmas stuff at one South Boston store.
View ArticlePedestrian struck and killed in the South End
Around 2:20 p.m. at Herald and Washington streets, WCVB reports.
View ArticlePublic seafood market proposed for the warehouse end of the South Boston...
A developer has proposed a series of seafood buildings in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park that would include Boston's first public seafood market as well as new space for seafood processors.In a letter...
View ArticleFan Pier developer throws hands up, says he can't build a hotel, wants to...
Developer Joseph Fallon says the city and state have made it financially impossible for him to build a hotel on Fan Pier and so is asking the BPDA to let him build up to 245 new residential units...
View ArticleIce not nice
Photo by KMV.Cars and trucks crashed and people walking on sidewalks plunged to the ground across the Boston area overnight and this morning.In Waltham, KMV reports the fire department's Engine 2...
View ArticleChristmas Eve dawn
See it larger.KMV watched the sun come up from Castle Island.Rus Lodi, meanwhile, walked around Crystal Lake in Newton:Fire & ice, 7 a.m., Crystal Lake, Newton....
View ArticleBut were you dreaming of a white Christmas with THUNDERSNOW?
Doble Enganche looked out his window in Beverly at 9:58 a.m.Reports came in of thundersnow across the region, well, from Jamaica Plain to Needham, at any rate, which is good enough to bring back this...
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