Cambridge Day reports on the errant bin and one resident's futile efforts to get the world's largest logistics company to retrive the stuff and deliver it to the right building.
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By adamg - 8/20/21 - 4:17 pm
WGBH reports on the now ex-manager of Offsuit, a literal hole in the wall that you had to know the code to enter owned by the better known Troquet on South in the Leather District. The place is closed now, due to his alleged actions.
By adamg - 7/14/21 - 11:34 am
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about East Boston's Eternal Plywood building, which morphed from the Eternal Flapping Plastic Sheets building, at Porter and Orleans streets. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/21 - 9:20 am
WBUR reports on a financing issue that could affect some 400 South End residents living in apartments owned by the Tenants’ Development Corp.
By adamg - 4/12/21 - 10:15 am
A blinded-by-the-light citizen files a 311 complaint about the new floodlights at the newish residential building at 330 Rutherford Ave.: Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/21 - 12:51 pm
A group of East Boston residents have asked the city for a non-binding referendum this fall calling on Eversource to move a substation proposed for East Eagle Street on Chelsea Creek someplace else, like Logan Airport. Read more.
By adamg - 11/27/20 - 12:08 pm
Watertown News reports the Town Council is fed up with all those double poles - where a utility puts up a new pole then doesn't take down the old one next to it - and has told Eversource the company can forget about getting permits for any other work in town until it does something about them.
A Boston double pole that was finally taken down after several years.
By blues_lead - 11/24/20 - 9:14 pm
Google maps is taking some creative liberties with the Blue and Orange lines today.
Are we now a city without a State?
By adamg - 10/24/20 - 12:02 pm
Mike Fedotowsky of Kensington Investment Co., which owns 28 Exeter St., apologizes for those stenciled chalk ads for the building that were sprayed on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall walkway yesterday, and says a crew is going up the mall today washing them away: Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/20 - 10:56 pm
Update: Building owner apologizes, sends crew out to wash the ads away.
Way to make an impression with the neighbors: Several disgusted citizens filed 311 complaints today about the gauche way 28 Exeter at Newbury advertised it has flats to rent - by spraying stenciled ads on the sidewalk of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The building went up in 1979, so you'd think the owners would know how their ads would be received in the Back Bay.
By adamg - 10/17/20 - 11:45 am
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint from the Constitution Marina in Charlestown about the construction crews working on the new North Washington Street Bridge: Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/20 - 11:25 am
Gary, of Gary's Liquors in West Roxbury, ventured out of his leafy bubble last night and drove down to the Seaport to enjoy a meal at Lola 42. Two hours later, he walked over to the Fan Pier Garage, put his ticket into the machine and was informed he owed $14,235 - which he could pay in cash. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/20 - 2:42 pm
Angry citizens are filing 311 complaints (like this one) about the fireworks mailings they're now getting from a New Hampshire fireworks dealer in this, the Year of the Fireworks, even though the offerings are, you know, technically illegal here.
By adamg - 5/22/20 - 8:32 pm
A disgusted citizen files a complaint with 311 about the situation over the beach at M Street: Read more.
By adamg - 4/19/20 - 1:12 pm
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 report about the gull buffet outside the Summer Street Taco Bell this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/20 - 9:59 am
A peeved citizen files a 311 complaint about the lighthouse-bright floodlight now pouring into his or her apartment in the Troy Boston building on Traveler Street in the South End: Read more.
By adamg - 1/1/20 - 1:32 pm
An Ipswich man is suing six companies, including the locally well known Direct Energy, for what he says has been an unceasing flood of phone calls asking him to switch his energy provider. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/19 - 2:50 pm
Leo Buk Lhu owns a bit of the waterfront on Commercial Wharf in the North End. Adam Balsam collected the 70 complaints that have been filed through 311 since 2017 about the way the sidewalk there is never shoveled after snowstorms and used them to create a mosaic of Lhu: Read more.
By adamg - 12/26/19 - 10:55 pm
Former Boston City Councilor Mike Ross and wife Karolina Chorvath have been livetweeting over they way they saw a JetBlue attendant has hounded them and their 15-pound shayna punim of a dog on a flight to, well, they haven't said, but that's not what's important right now.
At 7:38 p.m., Ross tweeted: Read more.
By adamg - 10/22/19 - 9:39 am
One of the legions of prescriptivist spelling nerds who have long harshly (if normally quietly) judged Planet Fitness for their "judgement free" zone finally couldn't take it anymore and took pen to health-club ad on the Red Line - only to be countered by one of the legions of descriptivist gadabouts who tells him to chill, as Michael, who appreciates "some good old fashioned pedantry," shows us.
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