Month: July 2011

Council meeting mystery solved

A June 1 item on the City of Boston’s calendar looked like the stuff of conspiracy theory: an apparently private State House meeting between the Boston City Council and Boston state representatives about redistricting—the annual redrawing of electoral districts. The…

Thrift shop to close for fix-up

CENTRAL JP—Boomerangs, the popular thrift store at 716 Centre St., will be closed for renovations July 11-21. A reopening will follow on July 22. The work will be mainly cosmetic interior work, according to spokesperson Susan Ryan-Vollmar. The storefront will…

Laundromat to reopen

HYDE SQ.—The laundromat at 410 Centre St. whose closure last month sparked concerns of gentrification will reopen soon, according to landlord John Demopoulos, whose own family will operate it. “New machines—everything [will be] new,” said Demopoulos on June 22 while…

ATM closes for new storefront

HYDE SQ.—The Boston Private Bank ATM at 403-405 Centre St. is shut down until about July 20 while the building gets a glassy new storefront, according to landlord Mordechai Levin. While the ATM will immediately reopen when work is done,…

Bus stop changes pushed back again

Harvest stop may stay MBTA senior planner Greg Strangeways told the Gazette June 23 that planned changes to the MBTA’s bus Route 39—three years in the making—may not happen until next spring. The project includes the elimination of some stops…