What started as a 911 call in July about a larceny on Beach Street in Chinatown has spiraled into a licensing issue that could see a Chinatown restaurant lose its right to serve beer and wine - or even to stay open at all. Read more.
Darryll sighed when he got to Eldo Cake House on Harrison Avenue in Chinatown today: "Another good one gone."
New, temporary but as yet unmarked bike lane on Columbus Avenue. Photo by Evan.
Boston officials today announced some changes to roads along the route of the soon-to-stop-running Orange Line to help ease the passage of the big replacement buses until the trains allegedly start running again in a month. Read more.
With the clock ticking on the end of the Orange Line, the news that many people trying to get into or out of Chinatown will have to hoof it to the nearest alternative is not sitting well with Mayor Wu, City Councilor Ed Flynn and three state legislators, who today asked the T to extend its bus-shuttle service to at least the Chinatown or Tufts Medical Center stops, in particular for seniors, the disabled and students. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Edwin Ramirez, 40, for a rape on Hudson Street early Sunday morning. He was formally charged with aggravated rape and robbery, police say.
Innocent, etc.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man involved in a sexual attack on Hudson Street in Chinatown around 4:45 this morning. Read more.
Transit Police report they are looking for Steven Wade Coffey, 27, for raping a woman at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line stop on Aug. 4. Read more.
Amy Weingarten Salvucci reports:
Water main break on Warrenton so Stuart street a bit of a mess
Transit Police have released a couple of photos of a man they say committed a sexual attack at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line station around 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 4.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text tip to 873873.
A Chinatown resident photographed the newest illiterate scrawlings at Liberty Tree Plaza, the small space in front of the city-owned China Trade Building and BPL branch at Boylston and Washington streets. She took the photo yesterday, reports it's still there this morning, but says, yes, she'll be reporting it via 311.
A person jumped from the top of the Tufts Medical Center garage at 274 Tremont St. in Chinatown around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, in an apparent suicide, Tufts told its employees. Read more.
Boston Police report a Roslindale man and a pal from Walpole were up to no good in an alley off Harrison Avenue in Chinatown early this morning: They were using a power drill to open up and steal several scooters. Read more.
The owners of China Gourmet, 23 Tyler St. in Chinatown, and six alleged accomplices were indicted this week on federal charges that they ran a ring that laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars - some trucked up from New York City at the bottom of shipments of meat and seafood - and collected stolen gift cards, which they'd redeem by buying hundreds of computers and other items at the Apple Store at South Shore Plaza in Braintree. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters went up to the top of 216 Tremont St. for a fire in the elevator room on the roof around 9:15 a.m., then quickly came down after extinguishing the fire. No injuries.
The Scope interviews Aubrey Tang, one of the founders of the Chinatown Project, which has a mission to help preserve the neighborhood culture "through visual media, advocacy work and community organizing."
A federal jury today convicted Louis Coleman of kidnapping resulting in the death of Jassy Correia of Dorchester in 2019 - a verdict that could mean life in prison when he's sentenced on Sept. 22.
First Assistant US Attorney Joshua Levy said: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by three restaurants on Hudson Street to purchase liquor licenses from shuttered restaurants elsewhere in the city. Read more.
Update: Arrested in Roxbury.
Boston Police have charged a Lawrence man for a rape early Saturday on Harrison Avenue - now they have to find him.
Read more.
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