This Month in History: The Great Brink’s Robbery
At around 7 p.m., a group of seven armed men wearing masks entered the Brink’s armored car depot in Boston’s North End, making off with nearly $3 million in cash and checks.
At around 7 p.m., a group of seven armed men wearing masks entered the Brink’s armored car depot in Boston’s North End, making off with nearly $3 million in cash and checks.
Long before Fan Pier rose from Boston’s shores, there was John Drew’s World Trade Center Boston complex, which pioneered commercial development in the Seaport District between 1988 and 1992.
Disaster struck a Brighton building site on a cold day in January 1971 when around two-thirds of the floors on a 16-story luxury condominium tower under construction pancaked onto one another and fell to the ground.
Former Mayor Thomas Menino’s ambitious vision to transform the 1,000-acre South Boston waterfront into an “innovation district” came alive Jan. 25, 2011, when Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced plans to relocate to a giant, new headquarters there.
Banker & Tradesman turns 150 in 2022. I marvel at the fact that the very germ of the idea that propelled my great-grandfather into this business is exactly what we do today.
Less than a week after the start of a credit union crisis in Rhode Island, Bank of New England, Connecticut Bank and Trust, and Maine National Bank – were seized by the FDIC in what was then the third-larges bank failure in U.S. history.
Paper executives say a gala celebration is expected to be held this fall, but special coverage is planned throughout the year in honor of its anniversary.
The nation’s first community-led developer scored its first victory 55 years ago this month in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, responding to city officials’ plans to demolish an entire community and setting the stage for a groundbreaking new way of developing real estate.