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| Weather 🌴️ 80° / 65° Patchy fog early, then dry into the evening · 84° both weekend days · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Red Line shuttles end today — Alewife–Park St runs normally again. But no Green Line trains from North Station to Babcock St, Kenmore or Heath St all weekend; free shuttles, Route 39 fare-free, budget 25 extra minutes · live status → | Roads Planned: the new Pike bridge in the Newton–Weston stretch opens overnight into Saturday — westbound, pick your lane about a quarter-mile earlier for the I–95 ramps. |
| The number: 66 — open houses on Boston’s schedule this Saturday and Sunday, from $375,000 to $2,995,000. Forty-eight of them are Saturday. see the list → | ⚾️ Sox won 4–2 in Sacramento on Wednesday and open a series at the Dodgers tonight, 10:10 ET — on trade-deadline day · all scores → | 🏠 Open Houses · Sat & Sun Four to see, and the weather is finally on your side Editors’ picks, from a $769,000 one-bed on the water at Lovejoy Wharf to a $2.2m Charlestown townhouse. Today 🌴️ 80°/65° Fog, then dry | Sat ⛅ 84°/68° Partly sunny | Sun ⛅ 84°/68° Partly sunny |
| SOUTH END | Sat 11–12:30 · two beds and three baths across 1,380 square feet on Rutland Street, half a block off the square, $1,995,000. | | CHARLESTOWN | Sat 1:15–2:30 · the weekend’s biggest floor plan — a three-bed townhouse on Bunker Hill Street, 2,689 square feet, $2,199,000. | | EAST BOSTON | Sat 11–12 · a three-bed penthouse over Maverick Square, 1,300 square feet, one Blue Line stop from downtown, $1,149,000. | | WEST END | Sun 12:30–2 · a 736-square-foot one-bed on the water at Lovejoy Wharf, steps from North Station, $769,000. |
On the real estate desk: a new federal law lands with modest effect here — its headline measure, a cap on big investors buying single-family homes, barely touches Greater Boston, where one regional planner puts institutional ownership at about 0.2 percent. | Neighborhood Spotlight · No. 2 The South End The largest Victorian rowhouse district in the country, laid out around parks most cities would charge admission for — Union Park, Rutland Square, Blackstone. It is also the one central neighborhood the Green Line closure does not touch: the Orange Line runs straight through it. | EAT | The ten most-reserved tables in the city this week, ranked — book before Saturday. | | SHOP | Makers, vintage dealers, farm stands and food trucks in the district’s warehouse lots — on again this Sunday. | | DO | Tremont Street’s arts complex — and the Huntington’s summer company plays the Calderwood Pavilion there tonight. | | LIVE HERE | The Rutland Street two-bed above is open Saturday 11–12:30 if you want to see the district from the inside. | | WALK IT | Our district guide — what to see, where it is, how to get there. |
| | TONIGHT | 7pm at the Calderwood Pavilion — the Huntington’s summer institute, in the heart of tonight’s spotlight district. | | SAT 8/1 | The state’s biggest charity ride rolls from dawn Saturday through Sunday — expect riders and rolling road closures well outside the city. | | SAT 8/1 | 7pm in the Theater District — walkable from the Orange Line while the Green Line is down. | | SUN 8/2 | Twenty-three cultural institutions open free to Boston students and their families. |
| Via NBC Boston MassDOT opens a new bridge in the Newton–Weston stretch, and says westbound drivers will lose the last-second cut across to the I–95 ramps. Via Boston.com This weekend is the first of two closures; the longer one runs August 8–16. The T is telling riders to add about 25 minutes. Via WHDH 7News Concrete fell onto the sidewalk and street from a four-story building near Pearl and High on Wednesday. No one was hurt. Business Massachusetts workers whose Haitian temporary protected status is ending are being cut loose as the paperwork runs out. | Eighty-four and open, both days. | ExploreBoston · 1 Beacon Street, Floor 15, Boston, MA 02108 |
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