On April 9 of last year, a puzzled citizen filed a 311 report about a tree outside 112 South St. in the Leather District that had been laced with panties. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/8/22 - 11:16 am
Sampan reports one "unhoused individual with mental illness" was nabbed on charges related to several break-ins, but that he is now back on the street.
By adamg - 1/5/22 - 3:54 pm
Mayor Wu said the city installed heating tents outside the Anna Cole Covid-19 testing site in Jackson Square today so that if people continue to have to wait in a long line for a test, at least they don't have to freeze. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/21 - 2:39 pm
CommonWealth Magazine surveys next Tuesday's special election to replace state Sen. Joe Boncore, which pits Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards against Revere School Committee Member Anthony D’Ambrosio. The district includes East Boston, the North End, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Revere, Winthrop and a bit of Cambridge.
By adamg - 12/7/21 - 11:45 am
Transit Police report arresting the Dorchester man they say pleasured himself to completion in front of "numerous shocked and horrified passengers" at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line stop on Sunday night. Read more.
By adamg - 12/6/21 - 3:08 pm
At least he wore a mask.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Transit Police report they are hunting a man who, as they euphemistically put it, "left behind his DNA" in "full view of numerous shocked and horrified passengers" on the outbound platform around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 873873.
By adamg - 12/6/21 - 2:18 pm
An irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the graffiti atop 249 Harrison Ave. in Chinatown - and not just because it showed up after earlier graffiti was cleaned up:
And the highest image of boobs has to be removed - every building facing that direction sees it.
By adamg - 11/17/21 - 9:20 am
Richard Auffrey details the background behind the sign on Hudson Street for the China Pavilion, a restaurant that hasn't been open since 1990.
Also see:
Scotch 'n Sirloin | Sahara Syrian Restaurant.
By adamg - 11/8/21 - 9:40 am
One of the suspects in custody. Photo by Live Boston.
Boston Police report arresting two men from Hyannis on charges they used a gun loaded with ten bullets to threaten somebody in an altercation in the Tufts Medical Center garage on Tremont Street early Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/2/21 - 10:48 am
Boston Police report arresting a Newton man on a variety of gun charges after detectives found "an AM-15 rifle with a mounted scope," an old Yugoslavian rifle, a loaded .45 caliber Remington 1911 R1 handgun, two larg- capacity magazines and several rounds of ammunition inside a room at the W Hotel on Stuart Street last Thursday night. Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/21 - 9:20 am
Intrepid fact finder Richard Auffrey, though, finds the facts to dismiss the claim by the long gone Bob Lee's Islander on Tyler Street.
By adamg - 10/9/21 - 1:17 pm
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports that somebody fired seven to ten shot on Lagrange Street, in front of Boston's two remaining strip clubs, around 1:15 a.m. on Friday. One building was hit, but no injuries were reported.
By adamg - 10/4/21 - 9:50 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports that firefighters who responded to an alarm at the Veolia steam plant at 165 Kneeland St. around 7:30 p.m. found fire on multiple floors in the eight-story plant. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/21 - 5:13 pm
A man who was involved in the mass purchase of Boston dives a few years back has filed plans with the city to re-open the seemingly dead-and-buried Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street. Read more.
By adamg - 9/21/21 - 10:56 pm
Eddie Firmin, Joseph Feaster, Robert Ciccolo and Kathleen Joyce in Zoom hearing.
City licensing head Kathleen Joyce is considering cutting back closing time at Savvor, 180 Lincoln St. - and could even revoke its entertainment license - over a string of late-night incidents that the local police captain says is draining his resources when he's already got the Theater District and Faneuil Hall Marketplace to worry about. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/21 - 2:16 pm
Signs all over Chinatown.
From Neponset Circle to Chinatown, agitated citizens are filing 311 complaints about those stupid yellow "forced auction" signs that have sprung up in recent days. One person even walked around Chinatown to take photos with which to urge the city to take down the "P.O.S." signs.
By adamg - 8/25/21 - 11:58 am
Mister Jon took snaps of old cars rolling down South Street today as part of the ongoing filming for HBO's Julia Child bioseries. Read more.
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