Boylston Street

Fenway Star Market to jump across Boylston to new Landmark Center location

By adamg - 3/25/21 - 10:23 am

The Boston Sun reports the redeveloper of Landmark Center, now redubbed 401 Park, will be making 50,000 square feet of space available for Star Market - space once proposed for a Wegmans. Read more.

Berklee-area teriyaki place shutting down

By adamg - 3/23/21 - 10:28 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Teriyaki House, 1110 Boylston St., around the corner from Mass. Ave., will be closing forever on March 27.

Developer unwraps plans to stick five modern floors above old three-story buildings on Boylston Street

By adamg - 3/8/21 - 10:11 pm

Proposed expanded Boylston Street buildings

Rendering by Elkus Manfredi Architects.

A Florida-based developer yesterday filed plans with the BPDA for adding five floors to the three-story buildings that now house Abe & Louie’s, Crate and Barrel and the Atlantic Fish Co. on Boylston Street in the Back Bay. Read more.

Board approves two marijuana shops in Fenway and once again rejects half-mile buffer between cannabis concerns

By adamg - 2/23/21 - 2:37 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved marijuana shops proposed for what is now the Little Steve's pizza place on Boylston Street and the basement of the Cask 'n Flagon at Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street. Read more.

Zoning board approves cannabis shop on Boylston Street in Back Bay; says it can open on Sundays

By adamg - 1/26/21 - 1:00 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposed marijuana mart at 829 Boylston St., between the Apple Store and the Walgreens, across from the Mandarin Oriental. Read more.

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Developer wants to add five new floors to a row of three-story buildings on Boylston Street in the Back Bay

By adamg - 1/23/21 - 10:55 am

Developer would add floors to these Boylston Street buildings

Going up? The buildings that would get taller.

A Florida-based developer wants to raise the height of four buildings on Boylston Street between Fairfield and Exeter streets, to add new residential, office and retail space. Read more.

Century-old ghost of long gone Fenway caterer makes brief appearance on Boylston Street

By adamg - 1/13/21 - 8:59 pm

Painted wall shows former home of Whittemore Caterer on Boylston Street

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Nick Aldwin snapped this photo yesterday of 1270 Boylston St. in the Fenway, showing advertising for the C.C. Whittemore Caterer - a paint job that may have been hidden from site for more than 100 years as the building and the former garage that sort of got grafted to it next door went through decades of transformations, ending up as a series of clubs and bars. Read more.

A Little Truth

By adamg - 12/29/20 - 10:04 am

Truth in 2021 on the side of the Little Building at Boylston and Tremont

Msmariamad captures Emerson College's Little Building done up in lights for the new year at Boylston and Tremont streets.

Copyright Msmariamad. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Boylston Street decimation continues: No more chocolate by the bald man

By adamg - 12/21/20 - 10:56 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Max Brenner has closed forever.

Before the bars: The food-based history of 1270 Boylston

By adamg - 12/13/20 - 10:47 pm

C. C. Whittemore Caterer at 1270 Boylston St.

The catering business in 1921, from the Architectural Forum. Compare to a more recent view.

Update: Century-old ghost of long gone Fenway caterer makes brief appearance on Boylston Street.

Photos of 1270 Boylston St. - and the neighboring and larger 1252-1268 Boylston St. - being torn down this week brought back memories of the clubs and bars that have used the space over the last few decades. Read more.

A lot of memories getting torn down this week on Boylston Street in the Fenway

By adamg - 12/12/20 - 11:42 am

Old Machine and Baseball Tavern being torn down

Kim memorialized what's left of the buildings that used to house Machine and the Baseball Tavern (and an assortment of first-floor stores), being torn down to make way for an apartment building that will include an LGBTQ-themed performing-arts theater, in memory of the clubs that were torn down for the new building.

Guy charged with trying to rob blind man in Copley Square

By adamg - 11/27/20 - 11:22 pm

Shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police say, Brian Buhamiizo, 38, went up to a legally blind man on Boylston Street near Ring Road, grabbed his cane, said he had a gun and demanded money. Read more.

Nearly four months after he won early release because of Covid-19, convicted bank robber is arrested for Back Bay bank robbery

By adamg - 11/14/20 - 1:25 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he robbed a Santander Bank branch in the Back Bay yesterday, close to four months after he got a compassionate early release for bank robberies in Brookline and West Bridgewater. Read more.

The Lindt must flow!

By adamg - 11/5/20 - 4:32 pm

A lot of police in front of the Lindt store on Boylston Street

Heavy police presence on Boylston Street this afternoon, in particular, as Abigail Hadfield noticed, in front of the Lindt chocolate shop.

Shots fired in the Back Bay

By adamg - 10/27/20 - 4:48 pm

Evidence markers on Fairfield Street. Photo by Neal.

Around 4 p.m. in the area of Boylston and Fairfield streets. Read more.

Flamed letter box replaced with new, more tamper-resistant one in Copley Square

By adamg - 10/27/20 - 2:01 pm

Vivien Li watched today as a mailbox outside the Copley Square CVS where a letter carrier found burned mail yesterday was replaced with a new box, one with a far narrower opening that would make it more difficult to drop a flaming ball of doom in it. Read more.

Postal box with burned mail found about a block down Boylston from flamed ballot drop box

By adamg - 10/26/20 - 10:04 pm

Boston Police report a postal worker found "mail that had been damaged by fire" in a postal box outside the Copley Square CVS this afternoon - on the other side of Dartmouth and Boylston streets from the ballot drop box that somebody set on fire early Sunday. Read more.