Sale price of a downtown office building increases for a change
Sunset Saving Time
March 8
Somerville Steve watched the sunset over the old and new Hancock buildings in the Back Bay this evening.
Adam Castiglioni had a good view from along Atlantic Avenue and the Greenway:
Glory be: Sale price of a downtown office building increases for a change
March 8
Although the building, 4 Liberty Sq., still sold for less than half what it went for ten years ago - and it's been approved for conversion to apartments and is on its fourth owner in three years.
311 complaint of the day: Cone saving a chair saving a space
March 8
A disgusted resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about somebody apparently not wanting anybody to sit on the chair saving a space on Brookley Road in Jamaica Plain long, long after the expiration of the last snow emergency.
Loud singing/yelling group at Mass and Comm
March 7
Lucretia Baskin asks:
Any idea wtf the loud group singing/yelling somewhere near Comm & Mass Ave is? It went on yesterday evening for over an hour, and just started again.
Dedham man sues to get back the three ATVs he says Boston Police seized last year
March 7
The owner of three Yamaha ATVs seized in a BTD raid on a Roxbury garage in August says he has nothing to do with the reason BPD was doing mass ATV/scooter seizures last year and wants his vehicles back - and without having to pay the thousands of dollars a tow lot wants for storing them.
Appeals court rules regime can't simply boot Haitians, including 45,000 in Massachusetts
March 7
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC last night upheld a ruling by a lower-court judge that the regime can't immediately revoke humanitarian visas for Haitians granted refuge here because of the awful, and ongoing, conditions in their homeland that have included hurricanes, earthquakes epidemics and the collapse of the government.
Kicking, punching beardo sought for violent robbery at Downtown Crossing T station
March 7
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say used both his fists and his feet to rob somebody at the Downtown Crossing T stop around 5:10 a.m. on Thursday.
Roslindale Resists: New group distributes 10,000 flyers telling people what to do when masked ICE agents show up
March 7
Some 225 volunteers from a coalition of local groups that include everybody from immigrant-aid group LUCE and the Boston Teachers Union to the Roslindale Congregational Church and Roslindale Is for Everyone walked Roslindale streets today, slipping flyers under doors with tips on how to prepare for an ICE invasion and help neighbors cope with.
Two councilors want city, MBTA to cancel plans for Blue Hill Avenue bus lanes, use the money to continue free bus service on three routes
March 7
City Councilor Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury, South End, Fenway) and Brian Worrell (Dorchester) this week called on the city and the MBTA to cancel plans for center bus lanes down Blue Hill Avenue and instead use the roughly $44 million set aside for it.
Woman pulled out from under a Red Line train at Andrew
March 6
A woman wound up under an inbound Red Line train at Andrew shortly before 10:20 a.m.
Two-alarm fire displaces four in Roxbury
March 6
Boston firefighters responded to Hestia Park, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury, around 2:45 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
Man plunges 20 feet through grating in a downtown alley
March 6
NBC Boston reports a driver making a delivery stepped on a grate that gave way in an alley behind the Omni Parker House on School Street this morning, sending him 20 feet down a ventilation shaft.
Dot Ave. to get a new American tavern
March 6
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by Joey Arcari to sell his liquor license for 1121 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester to Five Horses Tavern for its third craft-beer-focused bar and restaurant.
In a fog on Charles Street
March 6
Roving UHub scroller JK noticed something odd on Google Maps yesterday: If you set it to Charles and Beacon streets, go to street-view mode, then "walk" towards Charles Circle, after about a half a block, the right, odd-numbered side of the street suddenly disappears into a dense gray fog.
ICE rent-a-prison kills Boston man, not with a bullet, but with neglect
March 6
WBUR reports on the death of Emmanuel Damas, 56, flown from Boston to a for-profit ICE gulag in Arizona, where he complained of a toothache but was ignored, the tooth infection he had spread and now he's dead.
