Resident injured in Hyde Park fire
Resident injured in fire on Birchcroft Road in Hyde Park
December 1
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 74 Birchcroft Rd. in Hyde Park to find "heavy fire from multiple windows" around 3 a.m.
Black Harvard student charges she was verbally, physically attacked by a Greyhound bus driver at South Station
December 1
A Harvard senior today sued Greyhound and an as yet unidentified bus driver for the way she says he attacked her when she tried to board a bus to Springfield at South Station shortly before 3 p.m. on Oct. 31.
Boston to hold more free Covid-19 and flu vaccination clinics this month
December 1
Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Curley Community Center in South Boston; Dec. 10, 3-7 p.m. at the Hyde Park Community Center; Dec. 11, 3-7 p.m. at the Curtis Hall Community Center in Jamaica Plain; Dec. 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Nazzaro Community Center in the North End; and Dec. 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the BPL main library in Copley...
Some gourd
December 1
Spotted the other day on Beech Street in Roslindale - the stretch where you get to tell people you had to walk uphill both ways.
Servers at Back Bay restaurant sue over tips, which they charge are being skimmed and shared with people who legally don't deserve them
December 1
Three servers at La Padrona, an Italian restaurant in the Raffles Hotel on Trinity Place in the Back Bay, last week filed what they hope will be a class action suit over the way they restaurant divvies up tips - which they charge includes sharing the money with people not entitled to tips....
Driveway on West Roxbury/Brookline line gets unofficial official name thanks to a bored guy during the Covid lockdown
December 1
Frank, the voice of MBTA buses, now announces Maranville Street as the 51 trundles down Independence Drive along the Westie/South Brookline line. Thing is, there's no official Maranville Street, but one redditor reports on the chain of events...
Do you even lift, bot?
December 1
Turns out that robotics researchers have been busy figuring out how to use natural muscle cells - "nature's actuators" - to power new robots. Now MIT robo-boffins say they've figured out how to overcome a key limitation on those muscle packs attached to synthetic skeletons - by creating artificial tendons, according to...
Color scheme changed for proposed library/apartment tower to lessen visual impact on neighboring historic building, but increase visibility of BPL branch
December 1
Architects designing a replacement for the West End BPL branch that would include a two-story library topped by twelve stories of affordable apartments have submitted revised renderings that aim to better highlight the new branch and the historic Otis House next door....
