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Group of Navy Yard residents sue to block conversion of failed hotel into affordable housing, including units for people trying to get out of homelessness

By adamg - 2/6/24 - 11:30 pm

A group of 11 Charlestown Navy Yard residents today sued the BPDA and two non-profit groups, saying the approval process for a plan to turn a closed hotel into an apartment building where nearly half the units are meant for people trying to get out of homelessness not only violated state bidding laws and their own constitutional rights but will lead to sick, hungry, jobless addicts wandering and maybe even dropping dead in the streets of the historically important neighborhood. Read more.

Remembering all the 9/11 victims downtown

By adamg - 9/10/23 - 9:32 pm
St. Anthony's Shrine on Arch Street wrapped with the names of 9/11 victims

The St. Anthony Shrine on Arch Street downtown was wrapped today with the name of all the victims of 9/11, Anthony Castiglioni reports.

9/11 commemorations on Monday.

Charlestown Navy Yard could get 100 affordable apartments, half aimed at women and veterans coming off of homelessness

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 10:15 am

Two non-profit groups say they will soon file detailed plans to rebuild the shuttered Constitution Inn at 150 3rd Ave. in the Charlestown Navy Yard into an affordable apartment building, with roughly half the units aimed at people making between $30,000 and $83,000 and the other half targeted at "households headed by women or by veterans" who were previously homeless. Read more.

Got jeans you're not wearing?

By adamg - 1/23/21 - 11:46 pm

St. Francis House, 39 Boylston St., is looking for jeans:

We understand the comfort of sweatpants, and we get the professionalism of a pair of slacks... but right now - we need jeans - in any and all sizes! Durable, denim pants are always a major request at our day shelter.

Court rules prosecutors can't use gun, drugs seized from man outside St. Francis House because police didn't have enough justification to search him

By adamg - 6/9/20 - 11:53 am

Down the drain.

In a 2-1 decision, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Suffolk County prosecutors can't use a loaded gun, 9 small bags of heroin and 23 small bags of crack as evidence against Jamal Chin-Clarke on gun and drug charges because Boston police officers didn't have enough evidence he was involved in a criminal act at the time they searched him. Read more.

St. Francis House seeks emergency donations after pipe bursts

By adamg - 6/24/19 - 2:35 pm

St. Francis House, which provides services to the homeless on Boylston Street, says it's hoping for $10,000 for emergency plumbing supplies so it can resume providing showers and hot meals. Currently, the kitchen is flooded from a burst pipe.

With roughly 500 men and women who desperately rely on our refuge services every day, this is absolutely devastating.

Man travels from Pittsburgh to Boston with a gun, lot of ammo and a Kevlar vest; gets arrested

By adamg - 6/14/18 - 9:10 am

Boston Police report arresting a man from a Pittsburgh suburb on gun charges because while he had a license to carry, it had been revoked last week. Read more.

Police nab man wanted for knifepoint stickups downtown, but say second suspect at large

By adamg - 3/1/16 - 4:39 pm
Two suspects in downtown stickups in Boston

Guy on left wanted; guy on right arrested.

Boston Police report arresting Jose Manuel Lopez on charges he was sticking up pedestrians at knifepoint in recent weeks downtown. Read more.

Anybody downtown with some spare wrapping paper?

By adamg - 12/11/15 - 8:02 am

St. Francis House reports:

Our closet leaked, ruining our holiday wrapping paper. Could you donate some festive wrapping paper at our front desk for our guests' gifts?

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