Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for 49 affordable apartments for senior citizens at 279-283 North Harvard St. in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports on the "fowl odor" that has shut the Raising Cane's on Comm. Ave., near Agganis Arena. ISD and the chain can't agree where the smell in the dining area is coming from - the chain blames the city and its aging infrastructure - but the chain is hoping to re-open in time to feed ravenous Terriers their accustomed tendies by next week.
Two end-of-year sales along Allston's North Beacon Street show how the local real-estate market has flipped: Life sciences is down, apartments are up. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer stopped to snap a tree reflection on the Charles in Allston near the Harvard athletic buildings, back when there was still ice on the river along with calm water, like, this morning.
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a ten-day halt to alcohol sales at the Harvard Convenience Store, Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue because of a BPD raid in May that found a room with three slots machines and gamblers quaffing beers from the store's stock. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by landlord City Realty to convert the former local home of the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross - the Rosicrucians - at 13 Clevemont Ave., off Everett Street in Allston, into four apartments. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest and leg on Cambridge Street near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon Street around 6 p.m. The alleged stabber drove away in a reddish-orange SUV. Read more.
From Foley's patent application. He is working on a more user-friendly design.
Northeastern Global News introduces us to Mike Foley, who is in the process of perfecting a device that, when fed silverware in one tray, and napkins in another, folds the former into the latter. He got the idea talking to his brother, who works in the restaurant business and who told him one of the things waitstaff hate the most is the monotony of silverware/napkin folding.
A concerned resident filed a 311 report early this morning about the situation along Kelton Street between Comm. Ave. and Allston Street:
People using airsoft guns to hunt rats and shooting around cars and apartment windows.
Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
A man was stabbed in the chest in a Herter Park parking lot, near the kayak rental place, possibly in an argument spurred by a traffic incident on Soldiers Field Road in Allston shortly after 5 p.m. Boston EMTs found the man walking around. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Roxy's Grilled Cheese on Cambridge Street in Allston will fling its last cheesy comestible on Nov. 24. The outlet in Central Square in Cambridge, though, will remain open.
A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.
Rendering by Urbanica.
A developer has filed plans for a three-story, three-building condo development at 65-79 Seattle St. that would include things most Boston projects don't get, including plantings that will include nut trees and a "woonerf" - a sort of combination plaza, driveway and shaded area that is popular in the Netherlands and which could ultimately be connected to a local "greenway" path once Harvard finishes its own research campus nearby. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 9-11 Holton St. in Allston around 10 p.m. for an attic fire that turned into a two-alarm blaze. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more
Tom Leonard spotted the aurora right over his house in Lower Allston - looking west on Athol Street - around 7:20 p.m.
Kevin D. Jordan spotted the lights around the Needham TV towers - and he reports that unlike last time, they were definitely visible with the naked eye, even if only briefly: Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.
A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
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