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Boston Globe
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
These Boston food trucks stay up late; a Seaport spinoff for Woods Hill
The trucks are serving night owls at seven locations around the city, all near workplaces and entertainment venues that operate into the wee hours. Find them in Allston (at Roadrunner on concert nights), in Back Bay (Clarendon Street by Trinity Church), downtown (at Faneuil Hall and the Theatre District/Tufts Medical Center at 135 Stuart St.), in the Fenway (163 Ipswich St.), near Northeastern (Huntington Ave. at Opera Place), and in the South End by Boston Medical Center (775 Harrison Ave.). Hours vary slightly from location to location, but trucks will be serving until 2 or 3 a.m. For a complete schedule, go to Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Block at Woods Hill, a spinoff adjacent to Woods Hill Pier 4, offers small plates and an outdoor patio in the Seaport. Handout Openings: In the Seaport, the Block at Woods Hill (300 Pier 4 Boulevard) opens June 27. Restaurateur Kristin Canty and chef Charlie Foster operate Woods Hill Pier 4 next door; this new space of green-and-gold walls, flower murals, and tiled floors offers a more intimate experience. It has communal seating, smaller plates, and an in-house shop selling meat, charcuterie, and bone broth from the Farm at Woods Hill in New Hampshire. Expect a daytime menu offering that bone broth, salads, and sandwiches: artichoke panini, lobster rolls on toasted milk buns, hot fried chicken, and more. In the evening, there are charcuterie plates to nibble on with cocktails, mocktails, wine, and beer, along with dishes such as surf clam ceviche, beef carpaccio with tallow confit, crispy cauliflower with Buffalo dip, and flat iron steaks. The Block has an in-house dry-aging program for meat and fish; like its next door sibling, it also has a water view and a patio. Advertisement South Boston's Park City (411 Dorchester Ave.), from Broadway Restaurant Group (Capo, Lincoln Tavern, Loco Taqueria), is now open, serving up summer fun at the Lot on the Dot. With a mere 30,000 square feet of outdoor space, the seasonal, kid-friendly venue features live music and entertainment alongside drinks and a menu of hot dogs, tacos, lobster rolls, and more. Offerings: To offset the Tuesday-night doldrums — yours, theirs — Bar Mezzana in the South End (360 Harrison Ave.) introduces Steak & 'Tini Tuesdays. Come in for flat iron steak, frites, and mixed greens plus a gin or vodka martini ($49). A classic combination. Devra First can be reached at
Boston Globe
15-05-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
‘Boston attracts great tenants': Lego cuts the ribbon on new Back Bay headquarters
A seating area at the Lego's new North American HQ in Boston. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Advertisement Lego first announced its move to Boston in January 2023, though its roots in New England are deep. The company originally established itself in the region by opening a manufacturing site in Enfield around 50 years ago. More recently, Lego started building a massive new factory for its colorful plastic bricks in Virginia, along with a nearby distribution center. Lego decided to relocate the corporate jobs that remained in Enfield to Boston because it became increasingly tough to attract talent in suburban Connecticut. Advertisement 'By being in Boston, we are able to tap into a global talent pool that will help us develop and grow our business further,' Lego chief executive Niels Christiansen told the crowd on Thursday. 'We are investing in the long term.' About 300 people work for Lego in Boston today, and another 300 still need to make the move. Lego has enough room for more than 800 workers in this office, and plans to fill the remaining 200 or so spots with new hires. The call center work that has taken place in Enfield is being shifted to Arizona, and the company is still looking for a home for its Enfield model production team. The Boston move was personal for Lego chief commercial officer Colette Burke, who recalled how she lived and worked here for two decades and became a US citizen in 2003 at a Faneuil Hall ceremony. Her family often strolled past Nancy Schon's Make Way for Ducklings sculpture. Now, Lego has recreated that scene with its own version in the lobby of its new office. Another local nod: There's a Lego made to look like a miniature version of Gov. Healey among the dozens of Lego figurines hanging on one wall near the elevators. A view camera (right) and an antique telephone are among items made from legos were on display at Lego's new North American HQ in Boston. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Burke announced that Lego will give $5 million to Boston charities over two years, to existing charitable partners such as the Museum of Science and Boston Children's Museum and new ones, such as the Boston Public Library system. Most notably, Burke announced a $1 million gift to BPL as part of that broader contribution. It was unclear how much of an increase this amount represented from Lego's previous levels of charitable giving in Boston. Advertisement 'I am thrilled about this moment,' Wu told the crowd. 'Boston has always been a community of builders.' Speaking to reporters afterwards, Healey said that Lego's decision to relocate to Boston affirms the state's reputation for education and innovation. 'Lego's putting their mark right here in Massachusetts, and in Boston, is a sign of that,' Healey said. It's also a sign of the type of building that's attracting new office tenants in the slow market these days. The ribbon-cutting was a proud moment for Samuels & Associates, with several executives in attendance. They pointed to the tower's amenities, including outdoor terraces and floor-to-ceiling windows with spacious views, its distinctive interior and exterior architecture, and its location on the edge of the Back Bay, across the street from a Green Line station, as reasons for why they attracted two marquee tenants when the market was still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. 'It shows, even in a tough market, if you build the right things,' principal Steve Samuels said, 'Boston attracts great tenants.' Jon Chesto can be reached at
Boston Globe
26-01-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Help Meredith with a story
As we approach this milestone, reporters in our newsroom will be writing about Meanwhile, I'll be diving deep into our relationships. Did everybody get divorced? Married? Have babies? Decide … no more babies? In April of 2020, I did a story with the headline: ' This part of the story, where we talk about what might happen after the pandemic, is something I've been thinking about for the last five years. Advertisement Her research showed that within a year after [Hurricane Hugo], there were more big decisions made in general. It wasn't just that people wanted to get divorced; they wanted to get married, have babies, make changes. 'When we consider that all three outcomes increased, the pattern of results suggests a fourth perspective, that a natural disaster mobilized people to take action,' she wrote when she published her research in the Journal of Family Psychology. Basically, her take was that disasters (pandemics and other scary things) inspire people to change their whole lives — to do the things they've been waiting on. In my community, this was true. My high school friend Stacie, By the end of 2020, I had jumped on a dating app for the first time. Because … why not? A lot of people made moves. Advertisement Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall were empty at 1:58 p.m. on March 25, 2020. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff This is where I need your help: I want to know how your relationship lives changed because of the pandemic, and what you saw in your communities. I also want to know what you'd like to see in this story. Are you curious about divorce rates? How My guess is that even if if your routine didn't change much because of the pandemic, you've probably been around people who altered their relationship values based on their own COVID experiences. Let me know what you think about all of it (you can email me directly at Of course, you can also send your questions about life, love, relationships, etc. to or
