Assembly Row Caffe Nero catches fire

Caffe Nero on fire
By adamg - Sat, 08/20/2022 - 3:02pm

Dan Esdale captured the fire - and firefighters working to put it out - at Caffe Nero in Somerville's Assembly Row around 1:30 p.m.: Read more.

State, Everett and Somerville officials announce they're going to get that pedestrian/bike bridge built over the Mystic

By adamg - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 3:50pm

The new bridge will connect the Assembly MBTA stop with the Northern Strand bicycle path. Read more.

T workers sick of sulky swan on the Orange Line

By adamg - Tue, 06/04/2019 - 10:45pm

Sangwiche captured a T worker trying to chase a swan off the Orange Line tracks at Assembly Row this morning (recall how the Orange Line was brought to a halt 10 or so days ago by a swan on the tracks): Read more.

Never mind the bikes: Here come the rental scooters

Scooters
By adamg - Fri, 07/20/2018 - 2:53pm

John Christian spotted these electric scooters for rent at Assembly Row in Somerville today - after being banned, at least temporarily, in San Francisco. Read more.

Orange you glad it isn't pouring?

Orange clouds over Somerville at sunset
By adamg - Wed, 06/21/2017 - 8:43pm

Keiko took a look at some dramatic clouds over Assembly Row in Somerville at sunset today.

Somerville Neighborhood News #32

By SCATV Somerville - Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:11am
Jan.

In Somerville, power goes out from Assembly Row to Winter Hill, where a boom was heard

By adamg - Tue, 10/28/2014 - 5:38pm

UPDATE, 5:47 p.m.: Spirits in Black reports the lights are back on at Assembly Row, but that traffic remains a mess.

Maybe they can drill some holes in the floor

Flooded Assembly stop on the Orange Line in Somerville
By adamg - Sun, 09/07/2014 - 8:22pm

It poured, man it poured, in Somerville yesterday and once again, the new Assembly Orange Line station flooded. Or as Michael Femia, who captured the station apres deluge put it:

This is what a brand new multi million dollar MBTA stop looks like.

Oops: Looks like that new T stop needs some waterproofing

Flooded roadway at Assembly MBTA station in Somerville
By adamg - Tue, 09/02/2014 - 5:22pm

Seems the new Assembly stop on the Orange Line doesn't do well in the rain. Clydizzle reports on conditions after the afternoon downpour:

The new T stop at Assembly on the Orange Line, FLOODED.

Fourth Leaf adds:

Good job MBTA on the platform design at Assembly. #floodzone

The first to assemble

First paying customer at the Assembly stop on the Orange Line in Somerville
By adamg - Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:15am

At 5 a.m. today, the MBTA opened the new Assembly station on the Orange Line (the first new T stop since the T opened the new version of the Orange Line south of Chinatown in 1987). Stuart Spina was on hand and captured Ruthy Rickenbacker becoming the first paying passenger at the station.

Finally, a place for Avengers to assemble

New Assembly stop on the MBTA's Orange Line
By adamg - Fri, 08/22/2014 - 9:20am

MBTAinfo notes you can tell the new Assembly stop on the Orange Line is almost ready for business because they've installed the benches and station-name signs, although hopefully Hulk smash neither.

Putting Assembly Row together

By adamg - Sun, 06/01/2014 - 10:45am

Don't Look Down, Beantown ambles about Assembly Row, the new mixed-use development going up in Somerville, likes the way it's coming together:

From materials to patterns, the faces of each building stand out from one another. Planned downtowns like this often run the danger of blending into a forgettable vanilla (nothing planned all at once could meet the eclectic nature of, say, Government Center here in Boston or the French Quarter in New Orleans), but Assembly Row avoids just such a pitfall. It has personality. Particularly the Legal Sea Foods.