Downtown News

Last night, July 22, 2008, around 11:05pm, officers from District A-1 responded to the area of LaGrange and Tamworth Streets for a robbery in progress.

Published July 22, 2008 at 10:36 a.m. Tags: walkability , walk score , pedestrian friendly , walkscore.com , transit Walkability is big in today's world.

Join me 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 29 at Silvertone , 69 Bromfield St. in the heart of Boston's Downtown Crossing for an all-media networking event promoted by Mediabistro.com based in NYC.

If you were shopping in downtown Boston's main shopping district this week, you may have ended up smiling on a candid camera.

The Cummings Building, which houses the popular restaurant No Problemo on Purchase Street, has been sold to a Martha's Vineyard-based developer that plans to spiff up the exterior and convert the second and ...

Juan Hurtado misses the days of serving his famous chacarero sandwiches out of a small kitchen at the side of Filene's department store.

More than a dozen developers, retailers and brokers joined Mayor Thomas Menino and Boston Redevelopment Authority officials Tuesday morning to tour Boston s redevelopment hot spots.

Both were unveiled yesterday by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who hosted the first leg of an "Experience Boston" tour of the city's retail opportunities prior to the International Council of Shopping Centers' ...

City officials announced today that New York developer Midwood Management Corp. is expected to file plans this week for a mixed retail/residential project on the corner of Bromfield and Washington streets in ...

Meet some of the chalk artists featured in new festival this weekend. By Kira Johnson * kjohnson@stargazette.com * July 8, 2008 Elmira will host its first Street Painting Festival this Saturday and Sunday on ...

TOMORROW: Zoë Ferraris reads from "Finding Nouf," at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge.

It's an emerging neighborhood. Rents are cheap and landlords are pulling out the stops to lure commercial tenants.

The St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center , acclaimed as a hub of social life and activity for older adults in the Heights/Hill and Downtown Brooklyn communities, has been celebrating its 35th anniversary.

The Liberty Bell is a must-see historical stop in Philly. Summer crowds take in the scene at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

TODAY : No listings TOMORROW : Poet Maxine Kumin and fiction writer Matthew Klam read at 7 p.m., at the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl St., Provincetown .

Earlier this week, guests sipped ice tea and lemonade and ate cupcakes while taking in the view of the Boston skyline from the 26th floor of one of Boston's newest condominium developments.

Moored to the elevated High Line train track and park, the tugboat silhouette of Renzo Piano 's $435 million design for New York's new Whitney Museum looks poised to steam purposefully toward the nearby Hudson ...

Boston Herald Business Reporter Reporter Scott Van Voorhis brings 15 years of aggressive reporting to a wide range of topics that affect the Hub's business community and residents.

The Good Life in Downtown Crossing welcomes a hip-hop veteran to the turntables tonight - Pete Rock .

June 10, 2008 Source: Boston Globe A "topping-off" ceremony is scheduled to take place this afternoon for 45 Province Street, a 32-story tower that will have 138 condominiums in Boston's Downtown Crossing area.