Boston Police report arresting a man they say held up the Charlestown Whole Foods, 27 Austin St., around 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
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By adamg - 3/18/24 - 11:11 am
Rendering of proposed 66 Cambridge St. by SGA and DREAM Collaborative.
The BPDA board last week approved plans for a two-building life-sciences complex at 66 Cambridge St. in Sullivan Square, an Orange Line stop away from where another developer says it will soon file detailed plans for a 700-unit residential complex. Read more.
By adamg - 11/18/23 - 1:07 pm
Initial rendering from Trinity Financial's winning proposal.
The BPDA board this week designated downtown-based Trinity Financial to turn what are now parking lots between Rutherford Avenue and the I-93 deck south of the Gilmore Bridge into a complex of apartments and condos. Read more.
By adamg - 5/24/22 - 5:55 pm
Shortly before 6 p.m., a roving UHub correspondent reported spotting a chicken crossing Austin Street in Hyde Park. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/18 - 12:08 pm
UPDATE: Ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston Police report arresting Thomas Hickey, 49, of Charlestown, for a Nov. 30 bank robbery on Austin Street in which he allegedly pushed an elderly man who was in line before him out of the way at a teller window. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/18 - 8:48 am
Sometime overnight or early this morning, a tree fell at West and Austin streets, causing problems for motorists and riders of the 50 bus. Photo by Sean Flynn.
By adamg - 12/6/16 - 10:46 am
A city transportation official told residents of Summer and Austin streets last night he could have a simple fix for the cut-through speeders that have made many of them afraid to park in front of their own houses: Some buckets of white paint. Read more.
By adamg - 10/24/16 - 12:07 pm
Mayor Walsh's office reports the city has won a $250,000 federal grant to add climbing areas and trail markers and restore wetlands in the Sherrin Woods Urban Wild. Read more.
By adamg - 6/8/16 - 12:45 pm
Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that broke out around 10:05 a.m. at 212 Austin St. did an estimated $250,000 in damage.
The fire started in a rear enclosed porch in the two-family home.
By adamg - 5/20/14 - 7:45 am
Look how straight and tall and proud that new pole is.
Crews were busy along Austin Street in Hyde Park yesterday, throwing up these new, bigger, plastickier utility poles.
With any luck, when they're done, they'll take down the old poles, rather than just leaving them up like they've tended to do over the years.
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