The Irish take a look at the Boston Irish
BostonIrish details the episodes of "Gaeil Bhoston," an Irish documentary series. The series is in Irish, but has English subtitles.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleWhen the state says parking is closed at Castle Island, they mean it
Nick Gemelli learned first hand today that the state wasn't kidding around about trying to reduce crowding in the time of coronavirus at Castle Island:Sorry, folks. Castle Island is CLOSED!...
View ArticleMBTA bus inspector dies of coronavirus
The Amalgamated Transit Union today announced the death, due to Covid-19, of Andrew Wong of Quincy, an inspector who worked out of the Southampton bus depot.Wong, 57, who died this past Sunday, had...
View ArticleConstruction of Boston's newest hospital now underway
Ralph Gaskell of Jamaica Plain is one of the workers building out a 1,000-bed field hospital inside the South Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The WTFDIC Hour posts a couple of his photos of...
View ArticleOr 1.1 Smoots, your choice
Karen McFeaters snapped the new sign in the lobby of the Fort Point post office.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleState to shut parts of three parkways to cars so bicyclists and pedestrians...
DCR announced it's shutting parts of Day Boulevard in South Boston, Francis Parkman Drive in Jamaica Plain and Greenough Boulevard at dusk today to make the asphalt available to pedestrians, bicyclists...
View ArticleMarines land at Hanscom
WBZ reports USMC doctors, nurses and technicians are heading to Boston to help staff the new Covid-19-focused Boston Hope Medical Center inside the South Boston convention center.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleAin't no party like a South Boston St. Patrick's party, cuz it don't stop,...
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Boston police officers did nothing wrong when they walked through an open door into a boisterous party at East 6th and O streets on St. Patrick's Day in...
View ArticleMotorcycle drivers collide in South Boston; both bikes go up in flames
Photo by Live Boston.Live Boston reports that shortly before midnight on Saturday, two motorcycle drivers collided at C Street and West Broadway in South Boston. The drivers, and a passenger on one of...
View ArticleBun's got some moves
Jennifer Rice watched the Easter Bunny dance up a storm today on Hillview Avenue in Roslindale.In South Boston, meanwhile, Samuel Brian watched His Bunness came by on the back of a truck, with an...
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Car-swallowing flood shuts Harrison Avenue in the South End; parts of South...
Photo by BFD.A major water-main break under Harrison Avenue at Perry Street shortly after 9:15 p.m. has buckled the street, swallowed cars, created water problems as far away as G Street in South...
View ArticleShots fired at Old Colony
Live Boston reports shots were fired on East 8th Street near Mercer Street around 10 p.m.Sun, 04/19/2020 - 22:03Neighborhoods: South BostonTopics: CrimeFree tagging: GunsEast 8th...
View ArticleArmy engaged in battle against coronavirus in Massachusetts
WBUR reports on a visit by Army Chief of Staff - and Quincy native - Gen. James McConville to survey work by the Army Corps of Engineers and Army Reserve medical units to help build and staff the...
View ArticleSouthiehenge
Kevin Wolf had a front-row seat - his porch - for the semi-annual Southiehenge, when the sun rises and shines directly through the top of the Dorchester Heights Monument. The next solar oculus will be...
View ArticleFormer councilor decries maskless assholes in Boston Proper
Former City Councilor Josh Zakim is calling for Mayor Walsh or Gov. Baker to make outdoor mask use mandatory after what he saw on a run through the the Back Bay, downtown, Fort Point and Chinatown...
View ArticleNAACP postpones national convention in Boston
WGBH reports on the coronavirus-related postponement of the national convention, which had been set for July 25-30 at the South Boston convention center, which is now in use as a Covid-19 field...
View ArticleThe empty city: Boston Harbor, Wednesday morning
Not much activity on the water around 11:20 a.m.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleInside the South Boston convention center's shelter for homeless people with...
WBUR gives us a tour of the "respite shelter" at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for people who have tested positive for Covid-19 who have no or only very mild symptoms but who want to self...
View ArticlePlane just keeps circling South Boston, over and over and over again
Eileen Murphy wonders:Anyone know who has been doing sky donuts over Southie, Dot, South End for hours at a time past 5 days? Wow! I don’t know “who” it is but this is them pic.twitter.com/ff6FbPFyoR—...
View ArticleBroadway closed at G Street on account of tree
Katie Kat was witness to the awesome power of wind and gravity at East Broadway and G Street this morning.facebooktwitteremailprint
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