Over the last few days, concerned citizens have filed 311 complaints about fireworks at Castle Island in South Boston, Charlestown High (where they burned the turf) and the Bremen Street Park and the McKay School area in East Boston. Read more.
South Boston
By adamg - 4/8/21 - 9:24 am
Update: 311 says this isn't a 311 matter; you should call police.
A discerning citizen files a 311 complaint about a man on the other side of a window on West Broadway in South Boston:
Each day, there's a naked man who stands in the window of the condo building, facing the Broadway Bridge. He's there all the time. I don't know if this is illegal, but he's not a very attractive man. I recommend that he be given a good leaving alone.
By adamg - 4/5/21 - 4:43 pm
Rendeirng with work by Elkus Manfredi, ZGF and Cookfox.
National Development of Newton has filed plans to replace a Gold's Gym and a series of Marr Rigging warehouses at 323-365 Dorchester Ave. with four buildings - two with residential units and two outfitted to support the life-sciences labs and offices that are the current hotness in Boston development. Read more.
By adamg - 4/4/21 - 9:36 am
Seagull's eye view rendering by SGA.
Marcus Partners last week filed plans with the BPDA to replace the old screeching Au Bon Pain bakery at 1 Au Bon Pain Way in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park with an eight-story building aimed at Boston's exploding life-sciences R&D market. Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/21 - 11:43 pm
Massport hopes to formally open an expanded, "Big Ship Ready" Conley Terminal this fall, after $850 million and several years' worth of expansion work that has included dredging a deeper ship channel through Boston Harbor and installing new, bigger cranes to unload containers from the largest ships that can traverse the Panama Canal. Read more.
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By adamg - 3/16/21 - 12:11 pm
Rendering by DHK Architects.
Cronin Development has filed plans with the BPDA for an eight-story building on Drydock Avenue at Tide Street in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park that would feature the seemingly now obligatory life-sciences R&D space as well as space for an actual marine-industrial concern - Boston Ship Repair, which runs the large drydock that gave Drydock Avenue its name. Read more.
By adamg - 3/14/21 - 3:11 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a king eider, usually seen farther north, in the water off Castle Island this morning.
By adamg - 3/12/21 - 4:32 pm
Wanted for church vandalism.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say jammed the locks a St. Teresa of Calcutta Church and St. John Paul II Catholic Academy, 800 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester and St. Monica-St. Augustine Church, 331 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston with an unknown substance early this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 3/11/21 - 9:17 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 request about the rotary where Old Colony Avenue meets Preble Street and Columbia Road: Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/21 - 9:15 pm
On Dorchester Street at Woodward Street, around 9 p.m. Because of the severity of the victim's injuries, the homicide unit was called in, just in case.
By adamg - 3/5/21 - 9:26 am
National Development of Newton yesterday told the BPDA it plans to file plans soon to replace a series of warehouses between F.W. Webb and Benjamin Moore on Dorchester Avenue, near Old Colony Avenue, with a four-building development - two buildings with 345 residential units and two buildings with 674,500 square feet of commercial space. Read more.
By adamg - 3/2/21 - 5:51 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 329 Northern Ave. after the wind ripped a 50x50 piece of wall off the side of the vacant building around 3:15 p.m. ISD and a structural engineer will now determine if the whole building has to come down.
By adamg - 2/28/21 - 10:13 pm
An annoyed citizen speedily files a 311 complaint about a guy who seems to have made it his mission in life to drive his expensive Italian car around the Seaport as loudly and as often as possible, almost like a ghost from that race the mayor once wanted to have there: Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/21 - 10:40 pm
A dog-owning citizen barks out a 311 complaint about supposedly irresponsible parents at Medal of Honor Park in South Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/21 - 1:43 pm
Rendering by SGA of the view from the Reserved Channel.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to add four floors to the top of an existing and long three-story building at the end of Black Falcon Pier in the Raymond Flynn Marine Industrial Park on the South Boston Waterfront. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/21 - 1:21 pm
Live Boston reports on the man apparently fell from the pier around 1:40 a.m. and his rescue by first responders.
By adamg - 2/6/21 - 9:36 pm
Shortly before 9:30 p.m. First responders were able to get him off the tracks and up to the platform, from which he was transported to a local hospital, conscious and alert.
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