The Zoning Board of Appeal today un-did its denial last week of an investor's request to let him sell eight condos on Webster Street in East Boston because the "public notice" for that hearing referred to supposed violations of article 68 of the Boston zoning code, which covers South Boston, rather than article 53, which covers East Boston. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week rejected a request by an Arizona real-estate investor to approve unapproved changes made by an earlier owner of an eight-unit condo building at 160 Webster St. in East Boston that went up in 2019 but remains unoccupied. Read more.
Jordan Frias spotted this big stuffed cat head on Webster Street in East Boston today.
The East Boston Times reports on Webster Street, where residents were startled to see the city change that recently to allow overnight parking on weekends for non-residents and two-hour parking during weekdays. With the help of City Councilor Lydia Edwards, that didn't last long.
Narrow-gauge proposal.
A strip of land up Jeffries Point that was once used to ferry millions of riders a year between the East Boston waterfront, Revere Beach and Lynn could become a series of five apartment and condo buildings under a developer's proposal. Read more.
Boston Police are charging that Tomas Mikula, 28, was futzing with chemicals in his Webster Street apartment early Sunday when it exploded, leaving him with second-degree burns over his legs, compromising the structural integrity of his building and showering the street below his second-floor apartment with glass and other debris. Read more.
KMV surveyed the damage on Webster Street shortly after midnight. Read more.
A man already in prison for a 2012 stabbing was sentenced today to 25 to 30 years in prison for a rape and beating on Webster Street in Jeffries Point in 2011, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A man in prison for a 2012 stabbing in Marshfield was arraigned today for a brutal attack in a Jeffries Point vacant lot the year before that left his victim near death with permanent brain injuries. Read more.
Boston Police report a woman was found "suffering from significant trauma and unresponsive" around 7 a.m. at 228 Webster St. in East Boston.
The woman, in her 20s, was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Both homicide and sexual-assault detectives are investigating, although police said they do not yet know if she was sexually attacked.
Anyone with information should call homicide detectives at 617-343-4470 or contact the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
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