Market Street

311 complaint of the day: For the love of God, GBH, turn off your damn sprinklers

By adamg - 8/30/24 - 12:00 pm

A soaked resident filed a 311 complaint about the water feature that GBH is now running nightly along the sidewalk outside its studios at Guest and Market streets in Brighton: Read more.

Ambulance flipped on side in Brighton crash; three workers suffer minor injures

By adamg - 1/31/21 - 5:15 pm

Photo by Armstrong Ambulance.

Armstrong Ambulance reports three of its workers suffered minor injuries when another vehicle crashed into an ambulance at Western Avenue and Market Street in Brighton around 1 p.m. Read more.

In Brighton, switch from Mary Ann's to maryjane comes closer, but the dream of a Dunkies/pot run up near Soldiers Field Road is dead

By adamg - 11/20/20 - 2:43 pm

The Boston Cannabis Board this week approved the transformation of Mary Ann's, once Cleveland Circle's premier sticky-floor bar, into a recreational marijuana shop. Read more.

Board backs beefing up Brighton bank building for housing

By adamg - 10/27/20 - 3:13 pm

Architect's rendering.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to add four stories to a former bank building between two other still open banks on Market Street in Brighton Center to add 23 housing units and new retail space. Read more.

Developer would put four new floors of apartments atop vacant Brighton Center storefront

By adamg - 2/13/20 - 2:28 pm

Architect's rendering of Market Street proposal

Rendering by Choo & Co. of Quincy.

Developer Henry Chen has filed plans with the BPDA to add four floors with 23 apartments to a currently vacant one-story building between the Rockland Trust and Santander Bank branches on Market Street in Brighton Center. Read more.

Getting themselves back to the garden?

By adamg - 8/22/19 - 10:30 pm

Teddy Kokoros spotted this Greek-American Woodstock Peace and Love van at Market and Lincoln streets in Brighton today.

NESN truck rolls over in Brighton, right onto SUV; one trapped

By adamg - 6/25/19 - 12:06 am

Tori Bedford at WGBH reports from Market and North Beacon streets shortly before midnight: Read more.

Brighton Center bank robbed, suspect promptly nabbed

By adamg - 3/23/18 - 10:03 am

Updated with additional info from BPD.

The TD Bank branch at 391 Market St. in Brighton was held up shortly before 9:50 a.m. by a man who got into an SUV and drove away. A couple minutes later, police stopped the suspect at Washington and Cambridge streets and recovered the money. Read more.

Two B&E suspects nabbed in Allston/Brighton

By adamg - 2/23/18 - 9:29 am

Boston Police report arresting two men for two separate break-ins in Allston and Brighton on Wednesday. Read more.

Old-school Brighton bar to be torn down for condos

By adamg - 10/5/17 - 12:23 pm

It'll soon be last call for the Lincoln Bar and Grill

Could soon be last call for the Lincoln Bar and Grill (from developers' filing).

Developers this week filed plans to tear down the Lincoln Bar and Grill and a neighboring office building so they can put up an 82-condo building at a formerly nondescript location that's suddenly become hot because of massive nearby development. Read more.

Brighton Center to get noodlier

By adamg - 4/5/17 - 10:50 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Pui Chung Siu buy the beer, wine and liqueur license now held by the Umai sushi restaurant at 412 Market Street and turn the space into a noodle place called South of Clouds.

Siu's attorney, Meihuei Hu, told the board this morning that Siu is planning only cosmetic changes to the restaurant's interior. Nobody opposed the request.