Two men got into a fight at the 616 Mass. Ave. Dunkin' Donuts yesterday afternoon that ended when one smashed the other in the face with a chair, Cambridge Police report:
A suspect and victim - both believed to be homeless - were engaged in a fight inside the coffee shop; the victim was struck by a chair and sustained a cut to his face and transported to a hospital for treatment.
There was so much blood from the gash that officers at first thought they were responding to a stabbing, police say.
In Cambridge, Central Square Florist had a pair of turkeys walk by this morning.
In West Roxbury, Terry Klein spotted a bunch of turkeys on Redlands Road: Read more.
Chris Devers found this Bowie tribute in the Central Square graffiti alley today.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Red Line due to signal problems at Central Square. Dave translates the T's "moderate" into English:
Red line is in rough shape. Been sitting between Kendall and Central for at least 10 mins.
Equally intrepid Red Line regular Jake Wark reports from Downtown Crossing that as his Alewife train just sat there, the driver informed people rushing to the train: Read more.
The T advises there are "moderate" delays on the Red Line towards Alewife due to an unspecified track issue at Central.
An Alewife-bound Red Line train developed some electrical issues shortly after 6 p.m. and that meant smoke at Central Square, so the train was taken out of service.
Around the same time, some young women got into a bit of a fight on the outbound platform at Chinatown just as a train was pulling in. The train was halted so police could clear up the affray, but, of course, that halted all the trains behind it.
Fire extinguisher at the ready, police officers watch flaming car. Photo by Kat.
Around 5:40 p.m., afertig reported a car engulfed in flames on Mass. Ave. Erica Hersh reports one person helped into an ambulance and traffic at a standstill.
Anulfo Baez spotted Caleb Neelon's tribute to Paris in Central Square this afternoon.
Over in Kenmore Square, Anusha Mookherjee spotted a French flag waving in the brisk breeze:
The T is reporting the feared "severe" delays on the Red Line inbound due to a dead train at Central - a train that may be dead because shortly before 10 a.m., a passenger tried rushing through closing doors, which got stuck on his bag, and he couldn't get it out, so he pulled the emergency brake.
Antwan Gonsalves, 33, was arraigned today for the fatal stabbing of Tywann Jones of Roxbury in Central Square, Cambridge Police report. Read more.
Ari Ofsevit ran into the Bernie Guy - with his sign done in a local font, natch - yesterday. He reports that if you take a picture of him, he smiles and yells "Bernie!" Read more.
This video shows people playing a part of a song on a piano placed in Central Square on July 18 as part of the Hands Movement.
Participants were taught how to play a part of an original song, and then filmed as they performed it. In the end, a video captured the many different hands and participants coming together to make one complete song.
Central Square shows us some of the soggy people gathering for tonight's Le Diner en Blanc, an annual event in which invited people dress in white and eat dinner on white table cloths outdoors somewhere.
The Central stationary train. Photo by Brony Sanders.
Delays on the Red Line quickly went to "severe" when the Cambridge Fire Department ordered service halted to determine why several people came out of an inbound train coughing. After about ten minutes, firefighters could find nothing wrong and let service resume.
Ironically, just this morning, Transit Police and several other agencies held an exercise at the T's emergency training center on how to deal with a chemical release in a subway station.
Barbara S. hopped over to the Cambridge Dance Party outside City Hall in Central Square.
Weirdo Records in Central Square closed for the last time this week. Owner Angela Sawyer writes: Read more.
Cambridge Police report a man ended a fight at Mass. Ave. and Hancock Street around 11:15 last night by stabbing his opponent in the stomach, then fled in a car as the victim lay there, bleeding.
Frank Fraumeni, 65, of Belmont, was arrested early this morning after they stopped his car at Harvard Street. He was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to murder, police say.
Innocent, etc.
Cambridge Police report gunfire in the 400 block of Mass. Ave. tonight. Officers recovered a gun; police say the investigation is ongoing.
At 10:45 p.m., vsync posted a photo of cops with rifles in front of Naga, 450 Mass. Ave.
Several blocks cordoned off.
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