Downtown Crossing
By adamg - 11/17/20 - 12:38 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeals today rejected a company's plans to convert 21 apartments at 103-111 Arch St. into executive suites after elected officials and a neighborhood residents association said the proposal would be an end run around the city's short-term rental restrictions and efforts to increase the amount of housing stock available for Bostonians. Read more.
By adamg - 11/2/20 - 1:30 pm
Roman Lilligren wandered the empty, boarded-up Washington Street in Downtown Crossing in advance of Election Day. Read more.
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By adamg - 10/31/20 - 11:11 am
Renderings by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gil (hard to tell at this size, but, yes, the left rendering includes a flock of birds).
Midwood Investment and Development this week filed plans for a 23-story office building, with the first two floors and the basement set aside for retail use, at the corner of Bromfield and Washington streets in Downtown Crossing. Read more.
By adamg - 10/30/20 - 8:47 am
"Oh, rats!" Coach Bolster was no doubt thinking at DTX this morning: Read more.
By adamg - 10/28/20 - 12:02 pm
The MBTA said today it's reopening the CharlieCard store at Downtown Crossing on Tuesday, several months after it was shut due to Covid-19 concerns. Read more.
By adamg - 10/17/20 - 10:36 am
Emergency response at Downtown Crossing. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports emergency crews responded to Downtown Crossing around 2 a.m. after a man was found on one of the third rails on the Orange Line. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
By adamg - 10/6/20 - 11:28 am
Ace Gershfield, one of the people behind the Temple Place watering hole, announced and explained the permanent closing today: Read more.
By adamg - 9/25/20 - 5:12 pm
Matthew Wilding watched as a busload of Boston police officers got out on Summer Street in Downtown Crossing this afternoon, in advance of the Breonna Taylor protest.
Kory Gladysz watched a convoy of three buses bearing cops to the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/20 - 12:11 pm
Stabbing scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a man was beaten and stabbed by three to five other men on Temple Place in Downtown Crossing around 8 p.m. on Friday. He was found outside Boston Chops, although responding police also found blood on Park Street. Because of the severity of the man's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
By adamg - 9/4/20 - 2:27 pm
The MBTA reports Orange Line delays of up to 15 minutes because it had to take a northbound train with a major door issue out of service at Downtown Crossing.
By adamg - 8/22/20 - 10:16 am
The Kenmore Army & Navy Store, 477 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing, is suing its insurance company for the more than $320,000 it says it's lost due to the Covid-19 crisis - which it says its insurance company is supposed to cover. Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/20 - 9:30 am
Aline Kaplan provides some history on the Transcript Building at Washington and Milk, which was home to the Boston Evening Transcript in the days when Washington Street was Boston's Newspaper Row.
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