James Harold, owner of the Rat, dies, 79
James Harold, 79, of Medford, was owner of the Rat in Kenmore Square, in the pre-BU, pre-hotel era, when Mr. Butch held court and Deli Haus served breakfast late into the night. He died Sunday at...
View ArticleFeel the dread: Green Line's dead
Riders turned track walkers near Hynes.The Green Line suffered a "power problem" near Kenmore and now it's rolled out the buses between Kenmore and Government Center. This was no mere inconvenience,...
View ArticleIn a crisis, T riders turn to each other
We saw it on July 21, when flames started going up the side of that Orange Line train And we saw it again today, not during the rapid-fire roof-top flash bangs on a B trolley at Park Street, but...
View ArticleStudents try to get BU to change name of dorm that honors Myles Standish, who...
More than 170 Boston University student groups have asked the school to rename Myles Standish Hall as Wituwamat Memorial Hall in honor of one of the indigenous leaders Myles Standish massacred in what...
View ArticleOne guess what a developer wants to turn the old Hotel Buckminster into
Hotel Buckminster in 1900, three years after it went up in what would become Kenmore Square. From BPL.A developer says it will soon file plans to gut Kenmore Square's Hotel Buckminster and turn it into...
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Citizen complaint of the day: Victorian-era coal chute causing problems on...
Not the missing coal-chute in question; this one is on Beacon Street on the other side of Charlesgate.A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a missing manhole cover outside 470...
View ArticleJust before the Sox game is due to start, Green Line service begins to fall...
A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle...
View ArticleMotorist slams into bus in Kenmore Square, runs away, police say
Photo by TPD.Transit Police report that at 5:30 this morning, somebody in a Honda SUV drove into the back of an MBTA bus outside Kenmore station. The driver then ran away, police say, adding what was...
View ArticleBoston looking at how to make the 39 and 57 buses run faster, better
The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them...
View ArticleKenmore Square to get another chain coffee place
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a former Qdoba with a 16-seat Starbucks at 540 Commonwealth Ave., across from the former Buckminster Hotel in Kenmore Square.The new Starbucks...
View ArticleGet your kicks on Route, um, 20
WBUR takes a look at the highway that unites Kenmore Square and Newport, OR, 3,365 miles away - and reports that Tom Tinlin, the former Boston and then state highway czar who got the highway marker...
View ArticleYou get less with a Kenmore; a trolley is dead for sure
Allie Hahn reports from an inbound Green Line trolley in one of the tunnels just before Kenmore:Green Line has an Eastbound train stuck in the tunnel just outside Kenmore. Source: I’m on the train and...
View ArticlePolice report men grabbing, groping women near local campuses; one arrest made
Northeastern (l) and Simmons suspects.Boston and Simmons University Police report two sexual assaults on women near the Simmons and Northeastern campuses in recent days, while Boston University Police...
View ArticleMore pantograph woes are no longer surprising: Parts of the Green Line are...
Hey, remember back in the day when the Green Line kept having embarrassing pantograph problems, and the T said in one case it was because the line was too new and in other cases it was because the...
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Heading into Kenmore Square, then and now
Jam and cram in front of the Hotel Buckminster. See it larger.Richard Merrill photographed traffic heading into Kenmore Square on Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street past the Hotel Buckminster in...
View ArticleScreenshot from the latest Boston-based video game, Dark Trolley
Michael A. Burstein reports he was on an inbound C Line trolley this afternoon when it dipped into the tunnel between St. Mary's and Kenmore and suddenly the lights went off and all the riders were...
View ArticleSeafood place that replaced a seafood place gets the hook in Kenmore Square
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the impending end of Pescador, which replaced Island Creek Oyster Bar in the Hotel Commonwealth. No word yet if it will be replaced by a seafood...
View ArticleGreen Line was shut for two weeks for badly needed repairs, it's reopened and...
The MBTA switched back to bustitution between Copley and Babcock Street on the B Line this morning after a trolley derailed near Kenmore Square shortly before 9 a.m. Also:Cleveland Circle and Riverside...
View ArticleMBTA: Green Line derailment had nothing to do with all the track work
The MBTA is blaming a faulty trolley for Saturday morning's derailment on the outbound B Line, rather than the track and other work that was completed just the day before:A thorough inspection confirms...
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