The heat was extra exhausting with a dead train at Downtown Crossingwww.universalhub.com Yes, of course, on one of the hottest, most humid days of the year, a train would jam up the already partially not running Red Line by dying (of heat exhaustion?) at Downtown Crossing. Read more.
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Single-family home near Ashmont station to get rear addition with 13www.universalhub.com The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to renovate a single-family home at 9 Fuller St. in Dorchester and add a rear extension with four floors - to create a total of 14 condos....
In latest neighborhood scooter sweep, police seize nine mopeds inwww.universalhub.com Boston Police report seizing nine scooters whose owners were driving down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing despite the road legally being closed to them.
Enough with Ryders and Penskes - our long drought of U-Haulwww.universalhub.com Roving U-Haul photographer Paul Kafasis reports he was inbound on Soldiers Field Road down by Harvard Stadium today when he "hit a wave of traffic and saw a mangled U-Haul backing up." He adds that if...
311 complaint of the day: Ice-cream trucks don't belong in bikewww.universalhub.com A disgruntled resident files a 311 complaint about the ice-cream truck whose driver keeps parking in a bike lane at Green and Elm streets in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
Single-family home could be replaced with 28 apartments on Wachusettwww.universalhub.com A Burlington developer has proposed replacing a "run down" single-family house at 140 Wachusett St. in Jamaica Plain, between the Boston Teachers Union and Young Achievers Schools, with a 28-unit apar...
Boston booby has a new BFFwww.universalhub.com Hugmajest spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also...
Boston boy catches fish in Boston pond with most Boston of baitswww.universalhub.com Christine Ventura of West Roxbury and her son Teddy, 7, pulled over on Enneking Parkway yesterday to try some fishing off the dock at Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation - even though all they had ...
Bird watchers flock to South Boston for look at tropical sea birdwww.universalhub.com Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for...
Pride flag burned, torn down outside Mass. homewww.wcvb.com Two men attempted to tear down a pride flag hanging outside a home in a residential Boston neighborhood.
311 complaint of the day: No sex please, we're Bostonianswww.universalhub.com A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the sign that used to tell people they couldn't park overnight along Denny and Springdale streets near McConnell Park in Dorchester, but which has acqu...
Boston VCs are pleased that HubSpot will remain an independent companytcrn.ch For months, rumors persisted that Google, and perhaps others, were interested in buying HubSpot, a Boston-based CRM and marketing software company. HubSpot’s market cap ballooned as the rumors persisted, eventually reaching over $30 billion. But this…
Bill protecting location data related to reproductive and gender-affirming care clears Mass. House 159-0www.nbcboston.com Massachusetts representatives took their latest step Wednesday to protect access to abortions, other reproductive health services and gender-affirming care with unanimous approval of a location data s...