The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the Burger King at 944 Bennington St. in East Boston's Orient Heights to keep its grills on and its oil hot 24 hours a day to serve deliveries to people who need sustenance whenever, especially people working or landing early in the morning at nearby Logan Airport. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers requests by restaurant owners at opposite ends of the city to open into the wee hours. Read more.
Earlier this year, Shaun Utter took his onewheel out for a spin along the East Boston Greenway.
Johnmcboston took a walk along East Boston's Constitution Beach, where two straight days of temperatures in the 40s is making all that snow turn into fog.
Across Boston, disgusted residents are filing 311 complaints about sidewalks that are still unwalkable nearly a week after the snowstorm, such as this one about the conditions on Neptune Road in East Boston.
An East Boston man was arrested today on six counts of animal cruelty and six counts of animal cruelty by custodian, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a Taco Bell Cantina, with updated stylings and even some vegetarian options, for 10 Maverick Sq. in East Boston. Read more.
Kristin MacDougall spotted what appears to be a hawk inside Airport station on the Blue Line this morning.
Earlier:
Watching the Green Line like a hawk - and riding it like one, too.
MBTA starts new rodent-control program at Haymarket.
Hawk takes up perch in Green Street Orange Line station.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today un-did its denial last week of an investor's request to let him sell eight condos on Webster Street in East Boston because the "public notice" for that hearing referred to supposed violations of article 68 of the Boston zoning code, which covers South Boston, rather than article 53, which covers East Boston. Read more.
Boston Magazine reports Democracy Brewing on Temple Place downtown, hopes to open a second location next year at 154 Maverick St. in East Boston - which has been home to several restaurants in recent years and the focus of a long-running, bitter battle between the now split couple who bought the former city Welfare building in 2011. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week rejected a request by an Arizona real-estate investor to approve unapproved changes made by an earlier owner of an eight-unit condo building at 160 Webster St. in East Boston that went up in 2019 but remains unoccupied. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state wiretap law bars Suffolk County prosecutors from using video recorded by an undercover cop buying drugs from an alleged dealer in East Boston and Brighton because the cop didn't get a warrant first. Read more.
A Boston man faces felony charges, including a civil-rights violation, for the way he allegedly yelled slurs at a woman who identifies as transgender before physically attacking her on a Blue Line train at Maverick station, causing injuries that included a fractured wrist, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a billboard company's plan to replace the rusted old billboards down the hill from the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on Rte. 1A in East Boston with a double-sided electronic signboard, after hearing from residents and elected officials that the plan would remove a local eyesore and help fund the religious order that owns the property. Read more.
Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 15, 1942 - a fire broke out in the ceiling above the first-floor kitchen of Luongo's Tap on Henry Street in East Boston - just 2 1/2 hours after some 200 couples had gathered for some dancing in the place's second-floor dance hall. Boston firefighters responded to what grew into a three-alarm blaze in the five-story brick building. Read more.
Crushed boat on right. Photo by BFD.
Rigging on a crane being used to lower a floating dock or "barge" into the water at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal St. in East Boston, failed at 11:08 a.m., sending the dock slamming into the water - and a boat that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Boston Fire Department and the shipyard report.
Nobody was injured, but the shipyard reports it shut for the day, to await a second crane to help right things.
WBUR reports a group at UMass Boston is experimenting with adding honeycomb-like structures to seawalls along Chelsea Creek in East Boston and on Boston Harbor in the Seaport to see if they will become refuges for both plants and shellfish, turning what are now basically barren stone walls into greener spaces full of life.
UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.
If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.
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