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By adamg - 9/13/23 - 10:19 am
Proposed bollards on Boylston Street.
The Apple Store, 815 Boylston St. goes before the Back Bay Architectural Commission tomorrow for a review of its plans for bollards in the sidewalk out front to ward off the sort of crash that killed one and injured nearly two dozen at the Apple Store in Hingham last year. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 2:09 pm
The Clover Food Lab outlet at 565 Boylston St. closed today, victim, the owner says, of a combination of long Covid-19 effects and a landlord who wouldn't negotiate a rent reduction.
CloverBBY took over the space of the failed Minigrow in December, 2019 - just in time to get whacked by the pandemic. Owner Ayr Muir writes today: Read more.
By adamg - 8/10/23 - 9:28 am
The owners of a dispensary on Boylston Street between Gloucester and Fairfield streets in the Back Bay yesterday sued the operators of a proposed dispensary three blocks down the street - and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved both. Read more.
By adamg - 5/23/23 - 6:08 pm
Joe Curnane caught a performance by John Davidson on Boylston Street outside the BPL today.
Davidson, now 81, who was both an actor and a musician, and who guest hosted the Johnny Carson Show 87 times, came down from Sandwich, NH, where he runs a summertime music venue.
By adamg - 4/11/23 - 5:21 pm
One of the companies that purchased the Sheraton Boston Hotel last year says it will soon file detailed plans to permanently convert the 428-room south tower into a dormitory with room for roughly 854 college students. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/23 - 4:10 pm
The MBTA reports Green Line service is now back to the new-normal regular delays now that it's done something about the dead trolley that was gumming up the works at Copley.
By adamg - 1/26/23 - 9:27 pm
The scene in Copley Square. Photo by Rand. Can't sit still.
What the MBTA described as a signal problem turned out to be a trolley derailment just after Copley Square outbound that left passengers on that train and two trains behind it stuck in the tunnel. Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/23 - 11:15 am
The BPDA board this afternoon will vote on spending $100,000 for a consultant to recommend ways to turn Dartmouth Street between the BPL main library and the Copley Square park into a permanent mall for pedestrians and bicyclists - with space set aside for a lane for emergency vehicles. Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/22 - 10:15 am
Huntington Avenue between Brigham Circle and Gainsborough Street and Boylston Street in Copley Square will keep their dedicated bus lanes, city officials announced today. Read more.
By adamg - 8/14/22 - 10:30 pm
Boston Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge reports contractors began laying down the stencils and paint tonight to create bus lanes down Boylston Street in Copley Square as the first set of temporary bus lanes for the charter buses that will move between Orange Line stations when the trains stop running for a month at 9 p.m. on Friday.
We’re marking around Copley Square now, and moving on to Government Center over the next few nights.
By adamg - 8/1/22 - 9:37 am
The T reminds Green Line riders that it's shutting down the ol' E Line between Copley and Heath between Aug. 6 and Aug. 21 to make improvements, including sprucing up the tracks it didn't get to the last time it shut the line. Riders who'd rather not just walk from Back of the Hill to Copley Square can instead ride the 39 bus, the T says.
By adamg - 7/27/22 - 6:08 pm
The MBTA reports a trolley with an embarrassing door problem at Copley is messing up service on the Green Line. "Trains may be asked to stand by at stations," along with, presumably, their passengers.
By adamg - 7/16/22 - 10:38 am
Erica Mattison was among the scores of bicyclists yesterday evening in Copley Square who set off for the first Boston Bike Party in a long time.
The Fort Pointer captured the procession through the Seaport (and, yes, one of the Seaport's Lambo drivers making the rounds): Read more.
By adamg - 7/5/22 - 4:00 pm
Wu, Rollins and acting Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden exit BPD HQ for press conference.
Mayor Wu and US Attorney Rachael Rollins vowed today to prosecute white supremacists they say attacked a gay, Black man who had the misfortune of walking onto Dartmouth Street just as they were marching to the Back Bay Orange Line stop for a ride out of town on Saturday. Read more.
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