The city announced today that Joanne Chang's Flour has won a lease to re-open the former Earl of Sandwich kiosk on Boston Common this coming spring. Read more.
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By adamg - 11/26/24 - 5:39 pm
At hearing, mother took items out of her diaper bag: Diapers, wipes, a spare onesie and a sharps container for discarded needles on the ground.
At a hearing on public-safety issues downtown and around Boston Common today, Elizabeth Vizza had a request for suburbanite do-gooders who keep coming to the Common to feed the homeless: Stop! Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/24 - 11:16 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports A Sanctuary Cafe, 80 Charles St., has opened, with two rooms - one a bookstore with tables where you can sip coffee, the other a room full of cats you can sit among and pet, with a picture window between the two so the cat-averse can still watch the kitties while not getting exposed to their dander. Read more.
By adamg - 11/14/24 - 1:43 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved Stuart Eicoff's plan to sell his Beacon Capitol Market, 32 Myrtle St. on Beacon Hill, to Lalit Verma, who also owns the Wild Duck liquor store on Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 10:27 pm
Charred remains of the hot-dog stand, photo by roving UHub photographer Patrick S.
Boston firefighters responded to the Common shortly after 2:20 p.m. for a flaming hot-dog stand on the main path near the baseball field. Firefighters quickly doused the fire.
No reports of injuries, no tallies of burnt wieners.
By adamg - 10/22/24 - 4:19 pm
Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
By adamg - 10/17/24 - 1:18 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved one chef's plans for a new, locally sourced restaurant at 39 Charles St. on Beacon Hill and for a hummus take-out shop right next door. Read more.
By adamg - 10/15/24 - 12:48 pm
A weary resident files a 311 complaint to ask that something be done about the excessive short-term rental lockery on Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill:
Can old lock boxes be removed???
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 3:13 pm
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about the current parking situation on Beacon Hill: Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 6:28 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Barbara Lynch is closing the last two restaurants she hadn't already closed: No. 9 Park on Beacon Hill and B&G Oysters in the South End. Lynch ran into some employee issues last year, which included a lawsuit.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 12:41 pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports the state has lifted its cyanobacteria advisory for the Charles River between the Longfellow Bridge and the Charles River Dam, including the Broad and Lechmere canals in Cambridge. Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/24 - 9:25 am
The Charles in bloom and map of the affected area, by CRWA.
The state Department of Public Health yesterday confirmed that the Charles River from the Longfellow to the dam is now full of blue-green algae, which means you need to be especially careful to keep your dogs and young children out of it, the Charles River Watershed Association reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/24 - 11:00 pm
Barr Foundation founder Amos Hostetter Jr., who lives in the historic Harrison Gray Otis mansion on Mt. Vernon Street, today sued a couple relatively recently arrived from Cambridge over the roof deck they have proposed for their historic, if smaller, house out back on Pinckney Street. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/24 - 10:11 am
Jack Cohen uses the same tree to show three faces of fall in the Public Garden.
By adamg - 9/18/24 - 10:44 am
Associated Press reports the Secretary of State's office at Ashburton Place was one of 15 elections offices across the country targeted by somebody who sent powder-filled packages to them. The one here was intercepted by postal inspectors; in other states, the powder turned out to be flour.
By adamg - 9/8/24 - 10:14 am
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 1:20 pm
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:49 am
Turkey. Grass. Sidewalk.
Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).
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