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Columbus Avenue
By adamg - 6/17/17 - 12:06 pm
Jason Turgeon spotted this FedEx truck in a close encounter with a Northeastern building on Tremont Street near where it turns into Columbus Avenue late this morning.
By adamg - 11/22/16 - 10:31 am
The owner of the old White Rock building on Columbus Avenue wants to build a 120,000-square-foot office building next door for use by Horizons for Homeless Children and other social-services agencies. Read more.
By adamg - 10/13/16 - 9:27 am
The Huntington News reports somebody was held up at gunpoint around 1:20 p.m. on Saturday at Massachusetts and Columbus avenues, and that the robbers fled "in a black car with the Zipcar logo on the side."
By adamg - 10/12/16 - 12:35 am
UPDATE: Arrest made.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say sexually attacked the occupants of an apartment at Clarendon Street and Columbus Avenue after entering through a rear window around 4 a.m. on Tuesday.
He's described as black, possibly in a hoodie and camo pants with red being the main color. He was last seen running down Clarendon Street.
By adamg - 10/8/16 - 11:02 pm
A man shot twice outside 5 Cleaves Ct., off Columbus between Washington and Seaver around 10:55 p.m. was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A bullet fired into an apartment air conditioner a few blocks away on Abbotsford Street might be related.
By adamg - 9/26/16 - 10:16 am
Sarah the roving UHub photographer stopped for a monent or two this morning to ponder this flier posted to a pole at Berkeley Street and Columbus Avenue in the South End.
By adamg - 8/23/16 - 9:02 am
UPDATE: Arrest made.
Boston Police report a woman was sexually attacked early Monday morning at the Carter Playground on Columbus Avenue - after being forced to walk there by a man with a knife. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/16 - 10:55 pm
Around 10:45 p.m. on Dixwell Street. EMTs found him on Columbus Avenue, although he may have been shot closer to School Street. A window in a house on Dixwell midway between School and Columbus was shot out.
By adamg - 3/16/16 - 1:23 pm
C. Carew shows us firefighters arriving to deal with a smoking load in a dump truck in a parking lot on Ritchie Street off Columbus Avenue shortly before 1 p.m.
By adamg - 1/21/16 - 1:50 pm
Architect's rendering.
Northeastern University wants to replace a parking lot on Columbus Avenue with a 20-story building that would house 800 students in roughly 207 apartment-style dormitory rooms. Read more.
By adamg - 1/5/16 - 6:26 pm
Firefighters have evacuated the 41-unit 585 Columbus Ave. due to a gas leak that forced the shutoff of the building's heating system on one of the coldest nights of the season.
City officials are now on scene trying to coordinate getting residents into someplace warm for tonight.
By adamg - 8/30/15 - 5:48 pm
Jenniferkly spotted this bird today in a tree at Carter Playground on Columbus Avenue at Camden.
By adamg - 4/18/15 - 12:54 pm
Boston Police report the arrest of three 19-year-olds on Columbus Avenue early this morning after finding them driving around with loaded guns - one with laser sights.
According to police, officers pulled a car over around 1 a.m. outside 2044 Columbus Ave. Looking inside, they saw neither of the men in the front seat were wearing seat belts:
By adamg - 3/13/15 - 9:28 pm
Police are investigating windows that were hit by gunfire around 9:20 p.m. at 1586 Columbus Ave.
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