BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston.
In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit groups received the planning agency's permission to transform the historic Boston Young Men's Christian Union building on Boylston Street near Tremont Street into 46 all-affordable housing units, the BRA said in a statement released Friday. It will also contain office space for one of the developers, St. Francis House, which operates a homeless shelter across Boylston Street from the building.
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and top transit officials blamed "multiple errors" by the operator of a Red Line train which rolled out of the Braintree station early Thursday with some 50 passengers aboard and no driver. Two brakes had been disengaged and a throttle-like device may have been blocked from working properly to hold the train in place, they said.
"We are confident that this was an isolated incident where a single individual appears to have made multiple errors," Baker told reporters Friday, the State House News Service reported.
