Funding, infrastructure delays have held up electrification of the commuter rail

For years, the idea to replace the existing diesel engines on the Massachusetts commuter rail system with electric ones has ...
Multi-Housing News

Pembroke Buys Boston Community for $170M

Pembroke purchased Proto, a 280-unit multifamily community in Cambridge, Mass. from BXP for $170 million in its first area ...

The Green Line gone dark: Peek underground as the MBTA replaces wooden beams from the 1890s

The wooden beams that ran along the ceilings of the MBTA’s Green Line tunnels were installed when the line was built in the late 1890s, a decade before the Ford Model T was released and Oklahoma ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Report of bomb threat at Museum of Science prompts evacuations, emergency response

JESSICA BROWN. LET’S GET RIGHT OUT TO OUR EMILY MAHA, WHO’S LIVE AT THE SCENE IN CAMBRIDGE, AND EMILY, MUCH QUIETER THERE AT THIS POINT. WELL, ERICA, JESSICA, I JUST HEARD FROM CAMBRIDGE POLICE. THEY ...
The Boston Globe

Museum of Science evacuated over bomb threat; no hazardous materials found

The Museum of Science was evacuated and searched for a potential explosive device Friday afternoon, according to Cambridge police. No hazardous materials were found. At around 3:30 p.m., an individual ...
The Patriot Ledger

Martha Stewart visited a Boston museum this week

Lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart visited a renowned Boston museum this week. The 84-year-old cooking show host, businesswoman, and author stopped by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on ...
WHDH

All clear after bomb threat prompts evacuation of Boston’s Museum of Science

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Museum of Science in Boston is back open Friday night after it was briefly closed and evacuated due to a bomb threat, according to museum officials. In a statment, the museum wrote ...
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Bored Brookline teen accidentally changes name of MBTA bus stop

A family joke took on a whole new meaning when the MBTA updated the name of a bus stop in Boston. WBZ-TV's Aaron Parseghian reports. Grandfather, 3-month-old granddaughter dead after violent dog ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Boston’s unfinished Holocaust museum hoists boxcar into exhibit space overlooking Boston Common

Traffic on Tremont Street in downtown Boston came to a standstill Tuesday morning as a crane lifted a historic 12-ton railcar onto the fourth floor of the city’s upcoming Holocaust museum. The museum, ...
MassLive

This is why a railcar was dangling over Boston this week: What to know about new Holocaust museum

Traffic on Tremont Street slowed, passersby glanced up and a sea of cellphones pointed skyward on Tuesday morning when a crane lifted a historic railcar into the construction site of the new Holocaust ...
Wicked Local

Fare gates at Boston's South Station: What this means for passengers

If you've passed through Boston's South Station recently, you may have noticed the shiny, new fare gates in front of the MBTA Commuter Rail and Amtrak platforms. The MBTA said the gates will be ...
The Business Journals

Needham project filed under MBTA Communities Act approved

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A 189-unit housing development ...