Back Bay

Judge rules Nazi group owes Black musician nearly $3 million for attacking him one July 4 weekend in Copley Square

By adamg - 1/13/25 - 12:37 pm

A federal judge today awarded street musician and teacher Charles Murrell III $2.76 million in actual and punitive damages against the Nazi group Patriot Front and its leader Thomas Rousseau for the way they pinned him against a light pole, beat him and forced him into a busy street on July 2, 2022 as he was making his way to play his saxophone outside the BPL and they were stomping through the Back Bay in a display of their alleged racial superiority. Read more.

In case you were wondering why you felt like baying at the moon this morning

By adamg - 1/13/25 - 10:33 am

Tim Lepczyk looked up at the wolf moon from Metropolitan Hill in Roslindale.

Closer to sea level, meanwhile, Alice got a good look at the moon from Marlborough Street in the Back Bay last night: Read more.

Nothing like a fresh coating of snow to make everything look nice

By adamg - 1/11/25 - 11:47 am

Satellite and smashed car on Washington Street downtown in the snow

Celtics1985 wandered around downtown Boston and the Back Bay this morning, snapping scenes in the snow, including the satellite smashed into an Altima on Washington Street and a trash truck coming through an alley: Read more.

Seeing Boston from 80 miles away

By adamg - 1/5/25 - 12:30 pm

Trying to See Boston From Ridiculously Far Away

A guy who goes by Terrible Ideas is on a quest to find the farthest point from Boston where he can stand and still see the city. In this video, he shows us his four, count 'em, four, treks to the top of Mt. Kearsarge, up past Concord, NH, to see if he can spot our fair Hub. Foiled by an incoming storm and haze, he fails on the first three tries, but finally, he succeeds at sunrise and gets to see, if barely, the taller buildings downtown and in the Back Bay.

H/t Angry Dan.

Sunset over the lagoon

By adamg - 1/4/25 - 11:43 pm

Sunset over the Charles River Lagoon and the Community Boating Christmas boat

Stephen C. Bedell watched the sun go down over the Charles River, the lagoon and the Community Boating Christmas boat from the Longfellow Bridge this evening.

Marathon bomber one of three federal inmates with death sentences who didn't get a presidential reprieve

By adamg - 12/23/24 - 9:44 am

President Biden has commuted the death sentences to life in prison for 37 of the 40 people on federal death row.

He believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder – which is why today’s actions apply to all but those cases.

Esplanade eagle

By adamg - 12/18/24 - 9:31 am

James was riding along the Esplanade lagoon on the Paul Dudley White path yesterday when he couldn't help but notice the eagle flying along the banks of the Charles before coming in for a landing on a tree on the Storrow side of the lagoon.

Earlier:
Eagle eyeing the Muddy River.

Was only matter of time before another Boylston Street water main would shreve, crump and blow

By adamg - 12/13/24 - 4:19 pm

Big hole in the ground where the water main burst

Photo forwarded by Chris Gervais.

For the second time in two days, a water main along Boylston Street burst, this time in front of the new office building going in where Shreve, Crump & Low used to be at the corner with Arlington Street, but possibly extending as far down as the benighted and condemned Tannery building several doors down. Read more.

Back Bay water main bursts; Berklee loses water

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 10:58 am

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a main burst at Belvedere and St. Cecilia streets, which means no water for Berklee College. Photos.

Commuter rail from South Station out of whack; this is all something you can blame on Amtrak

By adamg - 12/11/24 - 6:00 pm

It's a nightmare getting home on commuter-rail trains out of South Station because of an Amtrak train that took out one of the overhead power lines near Back Bay. Or as the T puts it:

Framingham/Worcester, Needham, Franklin/Foxboro Line & Providence/Stoughton Line passengers are experiencing severe delays in both directions due to a downed catenary wire & earlier disabled Amtrak train. All trains must operate on one track at Back Bay.

Shining city on a hill

By adamg - 12/7/24 - 4:34 pm

Two downtown building fiercely reflecting the setting sun around 4:05 p.m.

The view of downtown from the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale at 4:05 this afternoon.

And yes, the Hancock wanted to get in on the act: Read more.

Some Boston views you never get tired of

By adamg - 12/6/24 - 10:31 pm

View of the sunset from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge into Cambridge

Patrick Snyder captured this evening's sunset over the Charles from an outbound Red Line train on the Longfellow Bridge.

Today's Boston puzzler: What neighborhood is Fenway Park in?

By adamg - 11/22/24 - 11:57 am

Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!

Globe blurb that says Fenway Park is in the Back Bay

Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.

Bottle blonde with her roots showing sought for making off with $250,000 in jewelry from locker room of high-end Back Bay spa

By adamg - 11/20/24 - 11:02 pm

Surveillance photos of alleged thief via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rifled the locker room at G20, 33 Exeter St. in the Back Bay, making off with $250,000 worth of jewelry Tuesday afternoon. Read more.

311 complaint of the day: One historic artifact in the Back Bay needs to go

By adamg - 11/15/24 - 11:05 am

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about this relic of the time before everybody had their own personal communications device: Read more.

You'll have your choice of protests Saturday against out-of-town men in suits marching down Comm. Ave. to demand we stop all the abortin'

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 5:16 pm

A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.

The day's most a-peeling storrowing

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 2:28 pm

NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.

Something big could be brewing at the Pru

By adamg - 11/11/24 - 10:57 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tree House Brewing Co. is looking to open a brewery AND a distillery at the Prudential Center. With a tasting room, of course. The Boston Licensing Board considers the applications (beer and spirits require separate licenses) at a hearing on Wednesday.

Breakfast and lunch chain eyes Back Bay location

By adamg - 11/7/24 - 4:13 pm

The Boston Sun reports a chain called First Watch, which offers blunchy stuff, is looking at space at 777 Boylston St. for its first Boston location. They'll be seeking a liquor license, because what's breakfast without a bloody Mary?

Case of mistaken Lululemon shoplifting identity reported

By adamg - 11/6/24 - 10:32 pm

When Boston Police announced the arrest of a woman charged with stealing $4,800 of stuff from the Prudential Center Lululemon on Saturday, they gave her name as that of a 37-year-old Ipswich woman. Read more.