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By adamg - 7/21/22 - 5:47 pm
A South Boston man faces a charge of indecent assault and battery after he allegedly stuffed his face in a woman's lap on a Red Line train Saturday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/2/22 - 5:16 pm
Chowderfest returned to Boston this year, after a couple years away because of, well, you know. City Hall Plaza is under reconstruction, so it was held this year along Washington Street in Downtown Crossing: Read more.
By adamg - 5/21/22 - 4:54 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old in Downtown Crossing yesterday afternoon after the kid allegedly tried to end a fight between his crew and another group first by shaking up a can of soda and opening it up on them, throwing the can at them and then whipping out a folding knife and unfolding it in their direction. Read more
By adamg - 5/5/22 - 11:02 am
In 1843, William Sharp created this lithograph of a Boston street scene, specifically, Tremont Street, looking past the Park Street Church and Boston Common on the right.
From the BPL arts department. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 5/2/22 - 9:08 pm
Two young teens were ordered held in lieu of bail at their arraignments today in connection with a series of attacks in Downtown Crossing and Roxbury and on the Common, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/22 - 1:20 pm
Matt Shearer at WBZ (the newsradio one, not the TV one), brings us along for a tour: Read more.
By adamg - 4/22/22 - 5:12 pm
Live Boston reports a homeless man who apparently fell asleep with a lit cigarette on Washington Street across from Macy's downtown, set himself on fire around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday. First responders found the man running down the street engulfed in flames. They put out the fire and rushed him to a nearby hospital for burn treatment.
By adamg - 4/1/22 - 3:02 pm
Transit Police have released a photo of a guy they say went up to a woman with a phone in her hands, grabbed it and then hurled it onto the tracks on the southbound side of the Red Line at Downtown Crossing, around 11 p.m. on March 20. Read more.
By adamg - 3/10/22 - 2:25 pm
Garrett Quinn came across this sad sight today: Two of the last working pay phones in all of Boston, knocked to the ground on Summer Street in front of Macy's in Downtown Crossing. Quinn, a grizzled old-school reporter, says he picked up the receiver on the top side to see if it was still working: He says he got a busy signal.
By adamg - 2/24/22 - 9:49 pm
Rosemarie Sansone, who in 1977 became only the third woman elected to the Boston City Council, died Monday - less than a week after retiring as CEO of the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District. Read more.
By adamg - 2/2/22 - 10:06 pm
Rendering by RODE Architects.
City Realty filed plans today to open a new downtown hotel by adding nine stories to what is now a run-down 19th-century office building next to the entrance to the Orpheum Theatre. Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/22 - 10:42 pm
Bubier in his 1971 high-school yearbook and in a 2020 photo for the Sex Offender Registry Board.
John Bubier, long familiar to people downtown and elsewhere in the Boston area for his outstretched arms and "Do you have any spaaaare change?" requests, died Jan. 11 at 68. Read more.
By adamg - 11/24/21 - 3:04 pm
Patrick McMahon spotted the turkey wandering around Downtown Crossing this morning.
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