Back Bay

Vigilant at a Back Bay firehouse

By adamg - 3/27/16 - 11:43 am

Jimmy Ellis spotted this fire dog standing guard at Engine 33 on Boylston Street this morning.

Spring arrives all cold and smushy

By adamg - 3/21/16 - 8:26 am

TCC reports:

In Boston, teaching preschoolers about Spring is confusing.

Kathleen O'Donnell woke up to spring with snow in the Public Garden: Read more.

Guy crashes Bentley while drag racing down Beacon Street, hits pedestrian, gets out and flees in another car

By adamg - 3/19/16 - 7:23 pm

Smashed car on Beacon Street at Exeter in the Back Bay

Beacon Street scene. Photo via Boston 311.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Beacon Street at Exeter, Stanley Staco reports. The driver got out, jumped into a BMW X5 that sped off towards Storrow Drive.

WBZ reports the driver was drag racing another vehicle when he jumped the curb and hit the pedestrian. Read more.

Green Line trolley derails, followed by smoke and evacuation in a tunnel

By adamg - 3/19/16 - 12:41 pm

UPDATE: The T announced the resumption of service at 4:50 p.m.

An inbound D train derailed between Hynes and Copley Square. Brian Campbell reports a friend called to say she's now covered in soot after something began burning and passengers had to walk through the tunnel to Copley:

She was on an inbound train and evacuated in the tunnel between Hynes and Copley, they exited at Copley.

The T is now running buses instead of trolleys between Park Street and Kenmore Square.

Back Bay crash involves three buses, several cars

By adamg - 3/18/16 - 9:17 pm

Two buses, two cars in Huntington Avenue crash

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Matthew shows us the "horrific multi-car, multi-bus accident" on Huntington Avenue in front of the Star Market and the Marriott around 8.15 p.m.

WFXT reports the charter bus hit several cars before crashing into the MBTA bus. Injuries, but all minor.

Did the rainbow start or end at the Boston Fish Pier?

By adamg - 3/18/16 - 5:41 pm

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Neil was among those who enjoyed the rainbow (or in some cases, rainbows) after the rain squall that moved through around 4:45 p.m. - heralding the polar front that sets us up for Sunday's nor'easter. He had a front-row seat overlooking the Boston Fish Pier and the harbor.

More photos of the squall and the rainbow action, with bonus hail video from the Back Bay (and now with photos from the second rainbow round around 6:30 p.m.):

Getting sedimental about Boylston Street

By adamg - 3/18/16 - 8:52 am

Boston City Archaeologist Joseph Bagley has put together an animation that shows how Boylston Street in Copley Square has been built up over the millennia:

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— Boston Archaeology (@BostonArchaeo) March 15, 2016

Green Line can't go past Copley Square; riders don't find that very fair

By adamg - 3/17/16 - 5:39 pm

Dead train at Copley and some of the passengers kicked off it. Photo by Victoria.

A Green Line trolley simply had too much to drink on St. Patrick's Day and passed out at Copley Square outbound. At 5:35 p.m., Kelsea Hanks reported:

Don't try to go outbound anywhere on the MBTA Green Line. Nothing has moved past Copley in over 30 min.

Where's her pot of gold?

By adamg - 3/17/16 - 5:15 pm

Jan spotted a rainbow shortly before 5 p.m. from the 49th floor of the Hancock building.

Sudden wind gusts dumps sailors into the Charles

By adamg - 3/17/16 - 5:07 pm

Brian D'Amico reports bursts of wind shortly before 5 p.m. helped capsize a number of sailboats near the Mass. Ave. Bridge. All the dunked people were fished out of the river by first responders.

A green day in Copley Square

By adamg - 3/17/16 - 3:13 pm

Keytar Bear on St. Patrick's Day in Copley Square in the Back Bay

MBCrowley gives us a little St. Patrick's Day/Keytar Bear selfie in Copley Square.

Charles River gives man something to carp about

By adamg - 3/11/16 - 6:52 pm

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Shannon Dooling ran across a fisherman and his carp along the Esplanade this afternoon. That's a lot of potential gefilte fish.

Man's body found in the Charles; not missing Harvard man

By adamg - 3/10/16 - 1:14 pm

Activity on the Charles. Photo by Slottedpig.

Along the Esplanade around 12:30 p.m. near the Hatch Shell.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:

Preliminary evidence including clothing and other factors suggests that the body is not that of a young man from Harvard, MA, previously reported missing. Identification efforts are under way and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of his death.

Reports call for changes in city regulations, Fire Department operations to prevent another Beacon Street tragedy

By adamg - 3/10/16 - 8:51 am

Burned hose at 298 Beacon St. in the Back Bay

Where the hose burned through. From the BFD report.

Federal and local officials today released reports on the 2014 fire that killed two firefighters trapped in the basement with a hose that had been burned through, leaving them with no water. Read more.