The Boston Licensing Board last week approved Koushik Babu Koganti's plans to re-open Little Steve's Pizzeria at 1114 Boylston St., near Mass. Ave.
But after meeting with the Fenway Civic Association, Koganti agreed to close the pizza shop at 2 a.m. instead of 3 a.m. most nights, and 2:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Daily Free Press reports on the gnawing problem of mice in Boston University's main library, quotes one student as saying her friends were so freaked out they "had to stand on their chairs" when a mouse ran by, but quotes another as saying, eh, she's been desensitized because "she lives in Warren Towers, which she said has silverfish."
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers an application by a local restaurant operator to re-open Little Steve's Pizzeria at 1114 Boylston St. - and with just the sort of late-night hours that used to bring in customers before it was shut to make way for a pot shop that then never opened. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a Cybertruck owner who keeps parking in a resident-only space without a resident parking permit - using the old ticket-on-the-windshield trick: Read more.
Rendering of the view from the Muddy River by Utile.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 28-story, 400-unit apartment building at 100-102 Ipswich St. at the Bowker Overpass in the Fenway. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave El Jefe's Taqueria permission to open a new location in the big Whoop complex in Kenmore Square - with a closing time of 2 a.m., 11:30 p.m. for an outdoor patio. Read more.
Update: 2 a.m. closing time approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let El Jefe's Taqueria, which currently stays open until 3 a.m. near Northeastern, BU and in Harvard Square, open a new outlet with the same closing time in Kenmore Square. Read more.
The New England Wildlife Center brought a gaggle of de-oiled waterfowl back to the Muddy River to live out their best bird lives again. It can be hard to hear the people (they didn't want to use speakers that might annoy the birds), so if you just want to see those birds flapping their way back to the water, skip ahead to 6:00. Read more.
Brookline.news reports that while the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River came from a pipe near the Brook House, and while that condo complex had been responsible for past oil spills, officials are not sure it was the source, in part because it had earlier removed heating-oil tanks.
Goldman Sackler went for a walk along Leverett Pond early yesterday afternoon and noticed this EPA Emergency Response SUV parked in the lot between the pond and the Brook House condo complex. Read more.
The New England Wildlife Center reports its workers captured four more birds along the oil-besotted Muddy River in need of cleaning and rehab today, bringing the total number of birds it now has under care to 43. Read more.
Near the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Ryan Hatcher went for a walk along the Fenway and Park Drive stretch of the Muddy River between 1 and 1:30 p.m. today, took some photos and reports on the headache-inducing smell: Read more.
Rendering by Embarc of the new building between two existing buildings..
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Fenway Community Development Corp. to replace a long closed laundromat at 112 Queensberry St. with an apartment building with 24 affordable units. Read more.
Oil-covered goose near Longwood.
Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond this afternoon on reports of oil - and a heavy petroleum odor, spreading from Leverett Pond at the rear of the Brook House at 33 Pond Ave. in Brookline and at least as far north as the Longwood Green Line stop. Read more.
An Amesbury woman who suffered a fractured skull and pelvis and had to have part of her leg amputated due after falling under a Green Line trolley in 2023 that had begun pulling out of BU Central last week sued the MBTA for negligence, saying the operators of the two-car train failed to check to make sure the outside of the train was clear before starting to leave the stop. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that El Pelon Taqueria has closed its Peterborough Street location, although its Brighton outlet and catering service remain open.
Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!
Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.
Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.
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