Copley Place evacuated due to electrical fire; immigrant groups sue to block warrantless ICE raids

Not even the Orange Line is immune as problems on all the T lines balloon

February 1

Riders on the Blue, Red and Green lines had to deal with delays today. No delays (yet) on the Orange Line, but trains had to bypass Back Bay station due to smoke from an electrical fire under the nearby Copley Place mall.

Copley Place mall evacuated after garage electrical vault bursts into flames; Orange Line bypassed Back Bay

February 1

Boston firefighters responded to 100 Huntington Ave. in the Back Bay after smoke began pouring out of an Eversource electrical vault in the building's garage.

Developer proposes converting a downtown office building into 171 apartments

February 1

Local developer Patrick Mahoney says he will soon file detailed plans to convert the ten-story 50 Congress St., at Exchange Place downtown, into 171 apartments, under the city's office-to-apartment program.

Several thousand brave freezing temps to say no to ICE

January 31

Ron Newman attended the Ice Out Everywhere protest at the State House today.

Kraft loses the Patriots a fan

January 31

So there was ol' Bobbie Kraft grinning as he stood right with the Convicted Felon in Chief at the Kennedy Center premier of the Amazon bribeflick about the First Immigrant Lady the other night.  That was more than enough to shift Oddmanout to the Seahawks.

Maybe with the next storm, Boston can concentrate just a tad more on crosswalks in what is allegedly America's most walkable city

January 31

Here we are, a week out from that 20-inch snowstorm and Boston streets are in pretty good shape - for people in motor vehicles. For people on foot - even if they're not pushing a stroller - or in wheelchairs, not so good.

A dead train on Red, what else need be said? A dead Green trolley made riders go: Golly!

January 31

At least the Orange Line is, so far, running OK (after signal problems at Wellington yesterday).

Signal woes on Blue, so what else is new?

January 31

Bright and early at 6:09 a.m., the MBTA announced delays on the Blue Line due to its now ever present signal problems, this time between Revere Beach and Beachmont.

Luxembourgish luxury on the waterfront: Investor proposes converting vacant office building into a hotel

January 31

A Luxembourgish investor with a penchant for boutique hotels has filed plans to convert the vacant six-story office building at 390-400R Atlantic Ave., next to the Rowes Wharf Hotel, into a hotel with 113 rooms - 20 of them suites.

Protesting the regime in Copley Square

January 31

BINJ posts photos from Friday's protest in Copley Square.

ICE shows up at East Boston court - and so do neighborhood monitors

January 30

MassLive reports on a standoff outside the East Boston courthouse this morning between an ICE SUV and members of both a neighborhood watch and LUCE.

Another Boston-area high school swatted

January 30

Medford High School went into "secure" mode after getting a threatening phone call at 8:32 this morning, Gotta Know Medford reports.

Judge blocks regime from beginning to kick 5,000 Ethiopian refugees out of the country next month

January 30

A federal judge in Boston today blocked, at least temporarily, the regime's plans to strip some 5,000 refugees of Ethiopia's brutal civil war of the right to live and work in the U.S. as soon as Feb. 14, which would force them to choose between returning to a country still in the grips of violence and disease or being thrown into an ICE gulag.

Red Line woes continue to be stark, another train died, this time at Park

January 30

A Red Line train wheezed into Park, issued a little sigh and then died, shortly after 10:45 a.m., leading to 15-minute delays.  The MBTA declared the problem gone at 12:26 p.m.

Two-alarm fire in 5-degree temps hits two houses on Juniper Street in Roxbury

January 30

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to Juniper Street in Roxbury around 1:30 a.m. for what became a two-alarm fire across 21 and 23 Juniper St.

A big fan of Southie space savers

January 30

Chris Kuczynski of Roslindale, who works in the Seaport, couldn't help but notice how Southie is keeping up its reputation for unusual space savers.

Water mains burst in Hyde Park, Dorchester

January 30

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports this morning that a crew is at Gordon Avenue and Child Street in Hyde Park, where a main gave way yesterday evening, creating a geyser that shot water into the air, which then fell to the ground and froze....

Wood-fired pizza place in Fort Point shuts down

January 30

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the demise of Pastoral ARTisan Pizza + Kitchen + Bar on Congress Street.

Car-wash vacuum rage ends with a slap in the face in Watertown

January 30

Watertown News reports that when one guy didn't pull away from a self-serve vacuum on School Street fast enough for another guy waiting for it, the two began to bellow at each other, both got out. ...

Two Boston immigrant groups sue to keep warrantless ICE goons with battering rams from storming people's homes

January 30

Two local immigrant advocacy groups today sued the regime for its current policy of unleashing poorly trained ICE troops against people's houses without a warrant signed by a judge.