A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest outside Sammy's Pizza and Wine Basket & Spirits on Commonwealth Avenue at Warren Street shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.
Secretary of State Bill Galvin, BC Police Chief Bill Evans lose battle against proposed wine and cheese at hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a packie license for a proposed gourmet food shop in the block of stores next to the Boston College Green Line stop over the strong objections of both the school - which serves beer and wine at on-campus events, including football games - and Secretary of State Bill Galvin, who lives just up the street. Read more.
A Commonwealth Avenue resident whose condo backs up to the Newbury Street location of yet another proposed dispensary says the idea goes against city zoning codes and would help diminish the neighborhood and his property in so many ways, including through the generation of "noxious odors." Read more.
Rendering of proposed store's interior.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a UPS store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. with a 900-square-foot "provision" market focusing on high-end beverages - and kosher wines - and prepared gourmet foods, aimed not at the thousands of underage Boston College students right across the street but at nearby residents looking for a more convenient place to stock up than Cleveland Circle or Brookline. Read more.
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has ordered Sunset Cantina, 916 Commonwealth Ave., to go alcohol free between Oct. 7 and Oct. 15 because of an incident in which a swarm of state investigators found an even larger swarm of freshman-age drinkers, many with vodka concoctions, one night last October. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say was the leader of a pack that tried to steal another guy's moped in the area of Lee's II Market at Commonwealth Avenue and Allston Street around 11:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
The MBTA is reminding Green Line riders that the B Line will be shut between Boston College and Babcock Street between Aug. 2 and 11 for some of those accelerated track repair sessions.
Bustitution, of course, except the buses won't stop at Allston Street, Griggs Street or Packards Corner for accessibility reasons.
The MBTA reports B Line delays of up to 15 minutes due to a trolley that got to BU Central and then would go no further.
Somebody drove a Tesla Cybertruck all the way from Washington state to Allston, parked on Comm. Ave. near Harvard and immediately got boxed in, as a roving UHub reporter out for a stroll discovered this morning. She reports she did not pour any water on it.
Transit Police report that around 3 this morning, somebody in a 2015 Hyundai drove onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Packards Corner, and then, realizing he couldn't escape the clutches of the sarlacc pit there, got out with a pal and ran away. "TPD Detectives to follow up," police say. "Vehicle towed from scene, no damage to tracks."
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Leon Robinson got a fair trial on charges he gunned down Recardo Robinson in Robinson's Commonwealth Avenue barbershop during an argument in 2001, which means Robinson will spend the rest of his life in prison. Read more.
Around 8:45 a.m., Boston's Leslie Knope reported this potentially fowl problem on the Green Line in Brighton, but based on the lack of T alerts, the gaggle was gone by the time any trolleys pulled through.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let City Smoke Shop, 957 Commonwealth Ave., add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.
The Green Line's day started inauspiciously per an MBTA announcement at 5:59 a.m. about 20-minute delays due to an earlier deceased trolley at Chiswick Road in Brighton.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a rat that is both injured and blind and yet still managing to scare passersby on Commonwealth Avenue near Exeter Street in the Back Bay:
Rat seems to have been in a fight and is blind. Has been wandering in this area all morning scaring people and pets.
Photo by Stanley Forman, from the BPL Brearley Collection.
On Jan. 25, 1971, a nearly finished 16-story apartment building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., near Boston College, collapsed, killing four construction workers and injuring a couple dozen more in a slow domino-like pancaking that started with a roof collapse. Read more.
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