Five-story life-sciences building proposed for West 1st Street in South Boston
Rendering by RODE Architects.The Broadway Company of the Back bay has proposed replacing the old blue buildings at 202 West 1st St. at C Street with a "vibrant commercial office, life sciences,...
View ArticleMan was hanging out on a South Boston corner with a gun loaded with 19...
Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested a man they say was standing at Logan and McDonough ways in the Mary Ellen McCormack development chatting with some other guys - while packing a gun...
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The South Boston hill that helped seal a glorious Revolutionary triumph is...
Workers used cranks at the bottom to adjust semaphores in Grout's system. From Swan.South Boston's Telegraph Hill is where Washington ordered the placement of the cannons that drove the British out of...
View ArticleIt's not easy finding a place for a scrap-metal business in Boston these days
Rendering of proposed replacement for A Street scrap-metal business.The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave the owner of a scrap-metal company at 29 A St. in South Boston a year to find a place in the...
View ArticleFerry service between East Boston and Seaport to start next week
The Convention Center Authority will start ferry service between Lewis Mall Wharf and Fan Pier on Monday.Similar to the North Station route, this service will operate on a 20 minute frequency during...
View ArticleBody in a movie trailer
Firefighters at the trailer. Photo by Live Boston.Live Boston reports that a body was found in a movie trailer at a BCEC parking lot on Cypher Street behind the convention center around 5:30 a.m.The...
View ArticleIt was tool time on the T, at least until the police got to Andrew
Transit Police report officers rushed over to Andrew station on the Red Line Wednesday morning after getting word that two guys had walked out of a Quincy store with several thousand dollars of...
View ArticleCourt upholds Cadillac Frank Salemme's conviction for killing the owner of...
A federal appeals court ruled today that Frank Salemme and henchman Paul Weadick got a fair trial in 2018 on charges they murdered the owner of the Channel nightclub to keep him from talking to federal...
View ArticleHouse with three apartments in Andrew Square could be replaced with larger...
Rendering by Tim Johnson Architect.The new owners of a two-story, three-family house at 44 Ellery St. in South Boston's Andrew Square have filed plans to replace it with a six-story,18-unit condo...
View ArticleRed Line derails at Broadway
Two cars hit a tunnel sidewall. The MBTA reports it's now running shuttles between JFK/UMass and Park Street. Closeup of the damage. And a closeup of a bit of the station or wall embedded in the...
View ArticleGet ready for more life sciences along the water: Biotech developer pays...
A joint venture between a New York developer and a Los Angeles biotech venture-capital firm last week paid Gillette $80 million for a 2.4-acre parcel at A and Binford streets that Gillette now uses...
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View ArticleNine displaced by early morning fire on East 4th Street in South Boston
Photo by BFD.The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 893 East 4th St. in South Boston for a fire in the basement around 3:15 a.m. No injuries, but nine people were displaced, the...
View ArticleActual bookstore to open in the Seaport on Monday
Porter Square Books of Cambridge today confirmed a report by the Fort Pointer that it will be opening its Boston edition at 50 Liberty Dr. on Fan Pier tomorrow.The book store is part of new quarters...
View ArticleCourt upholds life without parole for man who brutally murdered Amy Lord in...
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Edwin Alemany got a fair trial and will spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing and strangling Amy Lord to death in Stony Brook Reservation - and...
View ArticleCafe and community space coming to changing section of Dorchester Avenue...
Rachel Lazar went before the Boston Licensing Board today asking permission to open an 18-seat daytime restaurant at 383 Dorchester Ave. that will be available as a meeting space in the evening.Her...
View ArticleSmall apartments could replace warehouse on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston
Rendering by Arthur Choo and Co.Developer Joe Hassell has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a warehouse at 212 Old Colony Ave., near Dorchester Street, with a six-story, 30-unit residential building...
View ArticleOnce, all Bostonians could tell you how many cookies Andrew ate
Roving UHub photographer Greta Gaffin (yes, the former UHub copy desk) spotted these signs today in the back of the BU College of Arts and Sciences. Boston Edison and "despatcher" alone are enough to...
View ArticleFort Point Channel is bubbling
Only problem is, it's not supposed to bubble:Heard today from @FPNA_Boston regarding the Fort Point Channel watersheet bubbling. It’s visible everywhere from @fortpointpier. Attributable to area pile...
View ArticleSouth Boston building owner sues after board denies it chance to outfit the...
An educational concern that replaced an old rivet factory on A Street in South Boston with what it hoped would be its new five-story headquarters has sued the Zoning Board of Appeal over its rejection...
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