Nick Schmidt moseyed onto the mock-up of a proposed next-gen Green Line trolley, the one that will have multi-segments, on City Hall Plaza today. He reports: Read more.
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By adamg - 10/23/24 - 4:29 pm
Rendering via MBTA.
The MBTA says it will assemble a mock-up of its proposed new Type 10 Green Line trolleys - the ones 40 feet longer than current trolleys - for visits by prospective riders at City Hall Plaza next Tuesday and Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:01 pm
Boston Police report arresting three teens in two separate knife incidents yesterday, at the Downtown Crossing Macy's and near City Hall. Read more.
By adamg - 8/5/23 - 10:47 pm
Somebody's added the Cop Slide to Google Maps as a local attraction.
Via Handmaid and Jamaica Plain.
By adamg - 8/2/23 - 1:36 pm
By now, we've all seen the video of the BPD cop who took spilled out of the City Hall Plaza slide, no? No? OK, take a look (with bonus Phil Collins soundtrack).
City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large), however, beat him to it by several months: Read more.
By adamg - 12/30/22 - 3:04 pm
The Fort Pointer reports that with such nice weather, local hockey fans massed for a City Hall Plaza even in advance of the games at Fenway Park - and stood in a line the wrapped around the Government Center T stop to get in.
By adamg - 11/18/22 - 9:57 pm
Adam Castiglioni attended the official re-opening of City Hall Plaza, which features $95 million in "kinder brutalism," including a new playground with what might be the longest slide in the city.
Matt Conti also posted photos of the revamped plaza.
By adamg - 11/9/22 - 10:07 am
The city of Boston yesterday formally agreed to pay $2.125 million to the lawyers for Hal Shurtleff, the former West Roxbury man who won the right to fly his "Christian" flag over City Hall Plaza for a couple of hours in August. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/22 - 9:24 pm
Hal Shurtleff, the former John Birch organizer who used to live in West Roxbury, is scheduled to arrive at City Hall Plaza with a "Christian" flag the city agreed to let him fly over City Hall Plaza for a couple of hours starting at 11 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/18/22 - 6:29 pm
Hal Shurtleff, who sued Boston for the right to fly what he claims is a Christian flag over City Hall - and won in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court - will get to unfurl his banner over City Hall Plaza for two hours on Aug. 3 under a settlement reached with city attorneys. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/22 - 11:13 am
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the city of Boston was wrong in refusing to let a man run a flag featuring a cross up one of the three flagpoles over City Hall Plaza - not because he necessarily has a First Amendment right to let his religion flag fly but because the city had a lame policy for deciding what could and couldn't wave over the plaza. Read more.
By adamg - 4/6/22 - 1:09 pm
Update: Both approved.
Boston could soon be awash in places to hit your putts without worrying about the weather: With one indoor simulated golf "course" already planned for West Broadway in South Boston, companies are now proposing two more: A similar full-swing facility across from City Hall, where the wax museum used to be, and a mini-golf range in a new space in the Seaport. Read more.
By adamg - 11/29/21 - 8:54 am
Don't you just hate it when you're driving and make a wrong turn and next thing you know you're going down the stairs next to City Hall?
Earlier:
The time somebody drove all the way down to Congress Street.
By adamg - 11/24/21 - 5:28 pm
Adam Castiglioni spotted this turkey inside the Government Center T station this afternoon.
H/t Ruth Zakarin.
By adamg - 11/23/21 - 10:07 am
The Department of Justice says federal courts in Boston goofed in upholding the city of Boston's decision to bar an ex-Bircher who used to live in West Roxbury from flying what he considers a "Christian" flag from one of the three flagpoles in front of City Hall. Read more.
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