A man who lists the Southampton Street shelter as his home address was ordered held without bail this week at his arraignment on a charge of exposing himself to a teenage girl in the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in July, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The City Council yesterday approved holding a hearing at which to consider ways to combat what some said was drug use and related violence that are so bad they are making some residents think of moving away and of threatening Boston's tourism industry. Read more.
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about a hot-dog stand whose owner was selling hot dogs - and even cajun chicken - in Eliot Norton Park on the Chinatown/Bay Village line at 2:45 this morning: Read more.
A judge has declined to order the Holocaust museum under construction on Tremont Street to let the Orpheum Theatre take over complete control of the alley that is the venue's main entrance while the two wrangle in court, because workers on the ground for both sides have arranged a truce that leaves enough of the alley clear for performers' trucks and then patrons to get into shows so far. Read more.
Boston firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded to Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St. at Stuart Street after an SUV driver hit at least one pedestrian and then plowed into the front entrance shortly before 3:40 p.m. Read more.
Earlier this month, the operator of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1852, sued the foundation now building a Holocaust museum at the corner of Tremont Street and Hamilton Place - the alley that leads to the Orpheum's main entrance - for the right to continue blocking the ally on performance nights for use by entertainers' equipment trucks and patrons waiting to go inside. Read more.
Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.
Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.
The Berkeley Beacon reports Emerson College has reached a deal to house some Boston Architectural College students in its Little Building at Boylston and Tremont streets this fall.
BAC will continue to provide all academic and student support for its students, but those living on Emerson’s campus must abide by Emerson’s policies, the announcement said.
Rendering of proposed building by Embarc.
Monty Gold, a Brookline landlord who has gone to court to try to stop apartment buildings from going up near buildings he owns in Jamaica Plain and Salem, yesterday sued to try to block a six-story apartment building from going up at St. Alphonsus Street and Tremont Street in Mission Hill, in between two buildings he owns. Read more.
BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.
Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.
The city announced our five-year Duck Boat parade drought will end Friday at 11 a.m., when the Celtics head on out for a triumphal procession from Causeway Street in front of the Garden. The parade will go by City Hall Plaza and the Common via Tremont Street, turn onto Boylston and end at the Hynes.
A fight turned into a double stabbing near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer spotted this guy slowly driving around the Common this morning, reports the guy has been circling Beacon Hill for a couple months now.
Photo of seized gun and bullets by BPD.
Boston Police report a detail cop at Tremont and Northampton streets who went to investigate when he heard two teens arguing arrested one for the gun loaded with two bullets police say he had in his hoodie pocket. Read more.
Some things don't change much: The steepleless King's Chapel at Tremont and School streets today looks pretty much like it did back in 1800, when this engraving was made (click that link to see Tremont Street from Court Street to the long gone Carver Street).
Compare to the view from last year: Read more.
Streetsblog Massachusetts reports on the cruiser crash Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street, taking out a traffic light and damaging a hydrant, but not hitting anybody. The officer was on his way down Tremont to the Burger King, where other officers managed to arrest a man while he was still trying to hold the place up at gunpoint.
A man was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was trying to rob the Burger King, 128 Tremont St. downtown, Boston Police report. Read more.
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