Deck could be stacked against four-story residential building near Andrew Square
The Board of Appeals today took no action on a proposed four-story residential building on Ward Street to give the developer and neighbors more time to work out a solution to what is becoming one of...
View ArticleAmazon to add 2,000 jobs in Seaport
The Herald reports this is to bolster its existing workforce in the area, and is not tied to the company's search for the city that will give it the biggest tax breaks for its proposed second world...
View ArticleNew Amazon buildings in the Seaport will have to be built to survive days...
From developer's filing: Prone to flooding.The new Amazon tower proposed for the Seaport - and a second one that it might have built next to it - would sit on a lot that is prone to flooding and is...
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The Atlantic reclaims its eponymous street; Fort Point becomes the Inundation...
See it larger.Finn shows us the rising floodwaters on Atlantic Avenue at Long Wharf., around 11:30 a.m.Earlier, he watched police blocking off Atlantic Avenue - which also flooded in the January...
View ArticleSurf's up in Fort Point
pic.twitter.com/pTvTjajNrA— The Fort Pointer (@FortPointer) March 2, 2018The Fort Pointer forwards Dave Everett's video from Farnsworth Street at high tide today.
View ArticleIn South Boston, house wobbles but it don't fall down - yet
Photo by BFD.A three-story building under renovation at 306 West 3 St. forced the evacuation of two neighboring buildings this evening when it began "showing movement" in high winds, the Boston Fire...
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There's a reason they called it Castle Island
See it larger.Tyrantill was out at Castle Island as the 12:05 p.m. high tide rolled in - making the cupola on the Sugar Bowl unreachable for anybody without a kayak. The tide also came rushing in...
View ArticleGutted South Boston triple decker that began to wobble in the wind is pulled...
pic.twitter.com/GSftG5NX4e— Mike V (@mjvulch) March 4, 2018Mike V. watched a crew today tear down the 306 West 3 St. building that started shaking so much at the height of the storm Friday that BFD...
View ArticleSouth Boston developer wants to add more units to building he has yet to...
Architect's moody rendering.Developer Joe Hassell, who won BPDA and zoning-board approval in 2016 for a 32-unit, five-story building at 55 West 5 St. is now asking the city for permission to put up a...
View ArticleAnyone recently had jury duty at the Moakley Courthouse?
All instructions say no electronic devices but I am interested to see people's experiences - no cell phones, no laptops? Thanks! Neighborhoods: South Boston
View ArticleTake a ride on the gondola
It's just a parody account for now, but see what life would be like with a gondola that would glide like a cloud over the traffic-choked streets of the Seaport, because obviously spending $100 million...
View ArticleSouth Boston adult-ed program could get new facilty - and four stories of...
A developer has proposed replacing the Notre Dame Education Center at 200 Old Colony Ave. with a new six-story building that would include ground-floor space for the center and 55 residential units...
View ArticleOh, this isn't Loon Mountain, Marty?
@TMZpic.twitter.com/BLMRcSEezM— The Junction (@JunctionSouthie) March 13, 2018JunctionSouthie captured the action in South Boston today.
View ArticleBPDA approves up to $10 million in tax breaks for Amazon buildings in the...
WBUR reports the BPDA yesterday approved two measures to reduce taxes on two potential buildings in the Seaport Square complex - a $5-million break on a 17-story tower that would be filled mostly with...
View ArticleParade group gives in, won't contest cutting St. Patrick's parade route in half
The Allied War Veterans Council said today it will not contest Mayor Walsh's decision to cut the route of the St. Patrick's parade on Sunday by more than half because of snow piles expected to remain...
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It was time for a parade
Redsox 223 took in the St. Patrick's parade in South Boston today.It was a bit nippy today, so as Eileen Murphy shows us, Keegan, Delaney and Kaylee Nolan of Nashua, NH, got bundled up (especially...
View ArticleCrying woman who claimed she and her son have cancer threatened to blow up...
Mon, 03/19/2018 - 12:52A woman who demanded exactly $5,300 robbed the East Boston Savings Bank branch at 430 West Broadway Monday afternoon after telling the teller that both she and her son had cancer...
View ArticleTwo South Boston men charged as I Street package thieves
Boston Police report arresting two men they say went up I Street yesterday stealing packages, then turned onto East 2 Street to rip open their booty.Police say officers - aided by an off-duty officer...
View ArticleDogs get electric shocks at Castle Island
City Councilor Ed Flynn reports a dog was shocked and burned at Castle Island today, an apparent victim of "stray electricity" from a shorted-out or improperly connected electrical cable.According to a...
View ArticleAngry, racist man with a glass carves up bouncer's face at Seaport bar,...
Sun, 01/21/2018 - 01:15A bouncer at Empire, 1 Marina Park Dr., required more than 100 stitches and may have permanently lost vision in one eye after he was attacked by a customer upset at being asked...
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