Ride-share drivers turn L Street into parking lot as they gear up for...
To lobby for a first-in-the-nation law that would let them unionize, Uber and Lyft drivers assembled today for a motorcade on L Street in South Boston up to the State House, in the process jamming the...
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Never mind commuters from the North Shore, what about all the people in South...
Only the front of the line.Carina Flynn videoed the lines of people hoping they can get on a 7 bus in South Boston this morning:The line continues:Needless to say I’m taking the #9 and rolling the dice...
View ArticleTwo guys wearing dark panty hose on their heads beat man senseless at Andrew...
Transit Police report arresting two men they say used a metal baton to beat a man at Andrew seriously enough around 9 p.m. on Thursday that he had to be hospitalized. Read more.Thu, 07/13/2023 -...
View ArticleNew Haven pizza place to open branch in the Seaport, but no, not Pepe's
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Sally's Apizza, which has been slicing up fare since 1938, plans to open in the Seaport next year.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleSouth Boston comes closer to teeing off in a basement under the CVS
Danny Picard scored an ace today when the Boston Licensing Board today approved his plans to buy a beer and wine license for the underground collection of golf simulators he's planning to open...
View ArticleLateish night food approved on Fan Pier
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Stubbys, which focuses on sandwiches and wraps at 43 Northern Ave., permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. At a hearing yesterday, nobody...
View ArticleFour employees at an East Broadway liquor store just not enough to deal with...
The Boston Licensing Board today formally dinged Dorgan's, 662‑664 East Broadway, for getting caught selling hard liquor to an underage guy with a fake ID and for letting customers walk back onto the...
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Citizen complaint of the day: Blinding light of Old Colony Avenue
A vexed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the blinding light that Rotary Liquors, at the rotary in South Boston, has added that would make a good topic for a song by the Weeknd or Manfred Mann and...
View ArticleSullivan's at Castle Island removes outdoor seating after attacks by...
NBC Boston reports Castle Island gulls are flying amok this summer:Like a scene right out of "The Birds," customers are dropping their boxes of food and running from the scene screaming....
View ArticleBanned from Castle Island? It's enough to drive you to drink
Steve Klise spotted this young seagull at a Northern Avenue parking garage about to take a snort in disgust at the attempt to ban him from Castle Island.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleTeen was hanging out in a West Broadway development hallway with a loaded...
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say shoved a senior citizen with a walker in a vain attempt to evade officers who'd heard her yell she was going to call police, around 8:20 p.m. on...
View ArticleHitting a man in the Seaport with her car at closing time wasn't enough, so...
A Hyde Park woman had bail set at $1,000 last week at her arraignment on charges she drove onto a Seaport sidewalk and rammed a man walking there, got out, beat him, then drove away only to crash into...
View ArticleWe are not lying: Red Line trains keep dying
At 7:51 a.m., the MBTA announced delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line due to a train that diverted to the River Styx near Broadway.Or as one rider fumed:I’m on the train. Already an hour from...
View ArticleCouncilor suggests Mass and Cass street sweepers are spreading disease...
City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the...
View ArticleDognapped chihuahua rescued; alleged thief arrested
Alejandro and his owner reunited at D-4.Boston Police report finding Alejandro, the missing Fenway chihuahua and the woman they say dognapped him on Saturday.Police report a D-4 detective got a tip...
View ArticleGroups propose new recovery campus at Widett Circle to relieve Mass and Cass...
Although Boston still wants to re-open the Long Island treatment campus and the state is planning a new recovery center at Shattuck Hospital, both are year's away, say Mass and Cass business owners and...
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Review: Guadalupe Maravilla's vision rings out at ICA Watershed block party
Maravilla's flight across the United States as a child. Photo by Sasha Patkin. See it larger.Our experience of art doesn't solely consist of the impression we get in the moment as we stand in front of...
View Article75-unit residential building proposed for D Street in South Boston
A developer has proposed replacing a printing company and its parking lot at 49-51 D St. in South Boston with a nine-story, 75-unit residential building with ground-floor commercial space.In a "letter...
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Review: Art has consequence at the Big Summa’ Show
Rose Christian's painting Nevermore. See it larger. Photos by Sasha Patkin.Teen artist Ashanti Dejesus's paintings hung on the wall at the Artists For Humanity's Big Summa' Show - two moody-blue...
View ArticleWhere the mattresses are
Complaints to 311 about mattresses on Boston Move-In Day. Allston/Brighton and Mission Hill, of course, but a fair number of complaints from South Boston, too. Also see: Allston Christmas Bingo - North...
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