The BPDA board yesterday approved a $2-billion project by Massachusetts General Hospital to replace several current buildings with a new two-wing structure that will add 1 million square feet of clinical and patient-bed space - and leave room for a possible expansion of the Charles/MGH station should the state ever extend the Blue Line down Cambridge Street. Read more.
West End
By adamg - 7/25/21 - 6:47 pm
Boston Police report a man was stabbed on Causeway Street at Canal Street around 5:40 p.m. on Saturday.
By adamg - 4/28/21 - 11:28 am
A group of ten citizens - six of whom live in the same West End building - last week sued the Boston Landmarks Commission as part of a bid to save three buildings left over from the destruction of the West End that Mass. General wants to raze so it can build a 14-story clinical center along Cambridge Street. Read more.
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By adamg - 4/23/21 - 9:58 am
The view from across Cambridge Street, by NBBJ.
Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday filed its latest plans for replacing several current buildings and a parking lot with a new two-wing building with 1 million square feet of new clinical space and patient rooms that could be more easily converted into ICU use in another pandemic - and which would include space for a headhouse, or entrance, for a possible Red/Blue Line station. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/21 - 1:28 pm
The other day, Taylor came upon all these dogs posed in one of the Longfellow salt shakers (or is it one of the pepper shakers?) and just loved it.
And here is one of the photos the dog walker, Steven Watson, took (bonus shot of the pack in front of the Copley Square T stop, the fancy entrance).
By adamg - 3/30/21 - 9:27 pm
Hyatt Regency attorney William Kelley discusses murder during Zoom hearing.
Managers at the Hyatt Regency downtown and the Hotel Indigo near North Station say they did everything they could to cooperate with police arriving on scene to investigate two separate murders and that the deaths were completely unpredictable and not something they could have prevented. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/21 - 10:38 am
Board says nope.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a billboard company's plan to stick a 24-hour electronic billboard on top of the Dunkin' Donuts on Causeway Street at Lancaster Street, across from the Tip O'Neill Building. Read more.
By adamg - 3/26/21 - 10:17 am
Rendering of LLAP statue via Museum of Science.
The Museum of Science announced today - officially Leonard Nimoy Day in Boston - it's working with the family of the late actor on a 20-foot-tall, illuminated stainless-steel statue of the hand gesture he made famous in his role as Mr. Spock. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/21 - 10:50 pm
A Hollis, NH man was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on charges he stabbed his brother-in-law in a room at the Hotel Indigo on Friend Street during a shoving match between the victim and his sister - his alleged murderer's wife. the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/21 - 10:00 pm
Victim identifed as Christopher Kellar, 21, of Portsmouth, NH.
Boston Police report a man was fatally stabbed at the Hotel Indigo, 280 Friend St., around 11:25 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/20 - 6:06 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Friend Street bar is the latest to go into hibernation, with the hope of re-opening at some point.
By adamg - 12/10/20 - 2:01 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the West End and Fenway Johnnie's have gone into hibernation for the winter.
By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm
The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.
By adamg - 10/29/20 - 8:59 am
The Beacon Hill Times reports the city is looking at updating the Cambridge Street library and that part of the study includes adding housing units to the site. At a meeting last week, residents asked that whatever the final plans, they should keep the library's unique hexagonal reading room.
By adamg - 9/13/20 - 11:53 pm
Looking for evidence on Friend Street. Photo by Joseph A. Rinaldi.
Around 11:15 p.m., a man apparently came out of the 222 Lounge at 222 Friend St., near Valenti Way, walked into the neighboring parking lot, fired a shot across the street, then fled in a car. No reports of anybody or anything getting hit.
By adamg - 8/31/20 - 1:01 pm
The Fours on Canal Street says good bye. Its Quincy and Norwell locations remain open.
By adamg - 8/27/20 - 9:13 am
The Beacon Hill Times reports residents are hoping to convince Mass. General to save three buildings, one from 1884, that somehow survived the neighborhood's destruction in the 1950s only to face demolition as part of the hospital's $1-billion expansion plan.
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