Developer that once planned DTX residential skyscraper plans a residential skyscraper again
Developer planning apartment building at Washington and Bromfield with more units than the 59-story tower it once proposed there
June 30
A New York developer that first began talking in 2006 about redeveloping the block it owns at Washington and Bromfield streets in Downtown Crossing says it will soon file plans for an apartment building there with roughly 760 apartments in an 800,000-square-foot tower.
Racist PoS pitcher tells Sox player to 'sit down, boy!' but umps think that's fine because it's the 1950s all over again
June 30
Cade Cavalli, a Nationals pitcher from Oklahoma, struck out Willson Contreras and yelled at him to "Sit down, boy!" Cavalli was not ejected, but Contreras, who eventually tossed his helmet at somebody, was, along with another Sox player and one Nats player.
Former Lower Mills man might try to emulate Scott Brown and lose campaigns for the same office in two states
June 30
Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy, who once tried to run for mayor of Boston before moving to New York, now says, completely seriously, of course, that he is thinking of running for mayor of New York.
Avast! Six men hanged at the bottom of Copp's Hill for being pirates
June 30
On June 30, 1704, 40 musketeers, various town officials, two clergymen - one possibly Cotton Mather - marched John Quelch and five other crew members from the Boston jail to Scarlett's Wharf near Fleet and North streets to be hanged for the crime of spending a year pillaging the wrong ships on the high seas - on gallows set up between the high and low water marks at the base of what we now call Copp's Hill.
Box-truck driver does the backup of shame on Soldiers Field Road
June 30
Brad Searles played the role of Sylvester Jr. on Soldiers Field Road today as he watched a driver doing a backup of shame on Soldiers Field Road near the Doubletree in Allston. At least, he reports, the driver was able to stop in time to avoid the ignominy of also having his roof peeled back.
Supreme Court rules people born here are citizens; some of first cases on the question were brought in Massachusetts
June 30
In a 6-3ish decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the 14th Amendment clause that makes everybody born on American soil, save children of foreign diplomats, American citizens.
Boston got some smokehouse flavor last night due to a wildfire in the Blue Hills Reservation
June 30
Johnmcboston reported this morning that he and people from the South End and Back Bay over to East Boston all wondered about a "wood burning smell last night."
Regime sues Massachusetts because undocumented immigrants living here get in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities
June 30
WBUR reports on the suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, over a three-year-old law that says anybody who lives in Massachusetts is eligible for in-state tuition rates, which the regime says violates the rights of out-of-state Americans who might want to go to school here.
Three shot in Theater District, possibly over stolen moped
June 30
NBC Boston reports three people were shot at Tremont and Stuart streets shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday. All were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening. NBC Boston reports the shooting may have started as a chase and battle over a moped stolen outside the McDonald's up Tremont Street.
