The Boston Fire Department reports a fire on the deck atop the five-story 272 Marlborough St., just past Fairfield Street, went to two alarms before it was knocked down. Firefighters responded around 8:10 p.m.
Marlborough Street
By adamg - 6/8/19 - 11:09 pm
A concerned citizen captured a raccoon getting all trash-panda-y in Public Alley 429 off Marlborough Street behind Comm. Ave. tonight and filed a 311 report to request prompt city action.
By adamg - 3/22/19 - 12:29 pm
The Boston Sun reports a deli worker at the Marlboro Market, on Marlborough Street at Mass. Ave., was charged earlier this month after an undercover cop gave her a $20 bill and she reached into a bag behind the counter and gave him "one pre-rolled marijuana cigarette."
By adamg - 10/31/18 - 12:12 pm
Carpundit spotted these dragons on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay today.
By adamg - 10/1/17 - 12:26 pm
SafeResponsibleMover shows us a sign taped to a tree on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay. Yesterday, somebody filed a complaint (complete with photo) about somebody who keeps dropping his or her pet's rear-end extrusions next to one particular tree on Dartmouth Street in the South End.
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By adamg - 3/11/17 - 11:44 pm
A concerned citizen looks up at Gloucester and Marlborough streets in the Back Bay, sees a broom and wants the city to do something about it.
Earlier:
Table in a tree.
By adamg - 1/13/17 - 11:22 am
Farewell note is at bottom of the tree.
Newton paused to read the sad goodbye from Boe the Elm Tree on Marlborough Street at Fairfield this morning. Boe is 135. Read more.
By adamg - 7/19/16 - 8:51 am
For the second time in a little over a month, the Back Bay Architectural Commission has rejected a request by Steve and Judy Pagliuca to turn the basement of 352 Marlborough St. into a garage. Read more.
By adamg - 6/9/16 - 12:25 am
Judy Pagliuca makes a point to commission members.
Judy and Steve Pagliuca hit .500 before the Back Bay Architectural Commission Wednesday night: The board gave them permission to add an addition that would house a two-car garage and a deck in the rear of their house at 362 Marlborough St., but rejected a similar request for a smaller house they also own at 352 Marlborough.
The City Hall hearings on the two proposals turned into a contentious debate on the future of a historic neighborhood where even exterior changes visible only from its numerous service alleys - and the removal of trees - require commission approval. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/15 - 5:01 pm
A concerned citizen posts a photo of what's left of his Audi Q5 on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay, asks the city to please, for the love of God, do something before the rest of his car disappears in a burp of rattus digestion.
By adamg - 9/19/15 - 7:01 pm
Katherine Larson enjoyed the flowers on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay today.
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 9:15 pm
Mike the Mad Biologist explains it was an attempt to cut into the business of the streetwalkers who used to ply their wares at the corner of Marlborough and Arlington in the 1970s:
People would hop off Storrow Drive and drive around the block, find, erm, a 'friend', and drive off. Not exactly the kind of tourism the city was hoping for, so the traffic pattern was changed. Hard to believe today, since the penthouse of Zero Marlborough (the corner of Arlington and Marlborough) recently went for $8.8 million.
By adamg - 1/31/09 - 6:01 pm
Unlike Vessel, some guy who lives on Marlborough Street between Mass. Ave. and Hereford Street goes way beyond the snow-removal call of duty, by ensuring a clear, ice-free path all the way to the street, Penny Cherubino reports:
... It was deeply appreciated this week when icy sidewalks made walking in the street safer than slip-sliding your way in front of buildings that did not keep up with de-icing. ...
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