City Council agrees to study anti-suicide measures at high-rise parking garages after contentious debate
Pedestrian critically injured in Copley Square e-bike crash
August 7
NBC Boston reports on the crash at Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue shortly before 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday. Police said the bicyclist stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, the station says.
Porch fire damages house on Florence Street in Roslindale
August 7
Boston firefighters responded to 40 Florence St. in Roslindale for a fire on a second-floor porch shortly before 6:30 p.m.
Man whacked in the head with a hammer in Maverick Square, police say; suspect ordered sent to Bridgewater
August 7
Boston Police report arresting a guy they say hit a man in the head with a hammer outside a Maverick Square bakery early Tuesday morning.
Big Belly goes up in big flames in Downtown Crossing
August 7
A Bluesky user happened to be at DTX when one of those Big Belly trash-compactor things outside the Corner and EB Horn burst into flames around 5:15 p.m.
Better break out a box or two of tissues: The Needham Line has mechanical issues
August 7
Midsummer Dunks shows us the scene at Ruggles around 4:20 p.m., when a Needham Line train was declared to be pining for the fjords.
City Council agrees to study anti-suicide measures at high-rise parking garages after contentious debate between two councilors over how to discuss suicide
August 7
The Boston City Council yesterday agreed to study requiring owners of high-rise parking garages to install railings and take other measures to prevent people from throwing themselves off the higher levels.
It ain't Legal: Roger Berkowitz gets OK to re-enter seafood-restaurant business; says he'll offer high-quality fish at airport food-court prices
August 7
The Boston Licensing Board today approved Roger Berkowitz's plans for a new seafood eatery at Logan Airport's Terminal A, at which he says he will offer the sort of quality seafood people know him for, but at a lower price point, since instead of waiters bringing food and explaining wine pairings, customers will order at a counter and then find...
Indian restaurant in Dorchester's Harbor Point gets OK to stay open until 1 a.m.; had asked for 3 a.m.
August 7
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Fiskie's Cafe, 27 Harbor Point Blvd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Teens sought for hijacking Red Line PA system, setting off fire extinguisher at Downtown Crossing
August 7
Even normally jaded Red Line passengers were rattled after their train pulled into Downtown Crossing shortly after 9 p.m. yesterday and a fire alarm went off, the air and platform filled with haze and powder and somebody began screaming obscenities through the train PA system....
Owners of a Lebanese restaurant in West Roxbury aim to end the South End's lack of Lebanese food
August 7
The owners of Al Wadi on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury have filed plans to open a Lebanese restaurant at 280 Shawmut Ave. in the South End - which longtime residents would remember as the home of Nadia's Eastern Star, a remnant of the once bustling Syrian/Lebanese community in the South End and Chinatown...