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By adamg - 8/15/23 - 9:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds on charges they jumped and stomped a man in front of the Steps on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing and left him bruised and bleeding as they and their pals ran away - except for the one who pedaled away on a Bluebike - around 8:15 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 1:37 pm

Update: Licensing board says Estella's not to blame for what happened.

Boston Police say that when officers responded to a report of a large fight outside Estella's on Temple Place, they found a crowd of people on the street, up to 50 people, many of them shoving and yelling at each other, around 9:20 p.m. on June 18. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 2:34 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a teen they say punched a man in the mouth on an Orange Line car at Downtown Crossing around 9 p.m. on Friday after he asked the kid and his pals to stop threatening other passengers and blocking the train's doors with their Bluebikes. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 8:33 pm
Photos of suspected carjacker

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say used a knife to rob somebody of their car at the Laz parking lot at 37 Merrimac St. around 10:25 a.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.

By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:01 pm

Boston Police report arresting three teens in two separate knife incidents yesterday, at the Downtown Crossing Macy's and near City Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 8/5/23 - 10:47 pm
Cop slide on a map

Somebody's added the Cop Slide to Google Maps as a local attraction.

Via Handmaid and Jamaica Plain.

By adamg - 8/2/23 - 1:36 pm

By now, we've all seen the video of the BPD cop who took spilled out of the City Hall Plaza slide, no? No? OK, take a look (with bonus Phil Collins soundtrack).

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large), however, beat him to it by several months: Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 11:23 am

Engineering News-Record takes a spin through the Sumner Tunnel project, now running 24 hours a day and including 783 pre-cast arches, weighing six tons apiece and brought down into the tunnel one at a time.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 9:05 pm

Boston Police report that Jazreanna Sheppard, 21, of South Boston, who was stabbed on Tremont Street across from Winter Street on July 20, has died.

Police continue to search for the suspect in the stabbing.

By adamg - 7/28/23 - 11:27 pm
Sunset over Boston Harbor and downtown Boston

Jake watched the sun go down over Boston Harbor and downtown Boston from the beach at Peddocks Island this evening.

By adamg - 7/28/23 - 8:16 am
Three people in Goverment Center offering to lift weights for every honk

Jordan Frias spotted this trio where Court Street meets Tremont and Cambridge streets at Government Center yesterday, offering to do reps with their weights for every car honk. Because if there's one thing downtown needs, it's more car honks.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 10:09 pm
Rainbow over Harvard Square

Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.

In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 3:37 pm

The MBTA announced today it's opening a temporary CharlieCard store in the State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza because of intractable air-conditioning problems that forced it to shut the normal CharlieCard store in Downtown Crossing earlier this month. Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 2:40 pm

Update: Klyushin's sentencing has been canceled "until further notice."

Vladislav Klyushin, a Moscow IT executive held at the Plymouth County jail since 2021, could learn at some point how much longer he sit behind bars in the US following his conviction in February on insider-trading charges related to the theft of American corporate financial statements before their official releases. Read more.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 3:31 pm
Old State Street building

Ricky D. Wright looked up this morning and noticed the "State Street" was gone from the top of the bank's former headquarters as it moves to new digs in a less angular building on Congress Street.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 3:11 pm

The state and Berklee College of Music say they free musical performances outside the Aquarium and Wonderland stops twice a week will help take commuters' minds off what are now regular delays due to wire inspections on top of the delays caused by all the slow zones and all the crowding caused by people who normally drive but who have to deal with the Sumner Tunnel shutdown. Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 8:43 pm

Around 7 p.m., the MBTA announced inbound delays of 20 minutes due to "a train with a power problem at Copley," or what Chen Cao described as "wires down" just inbound from Copley - about 40 minutes after similar delays due to a dead trolley at Arlington. Read more.

By adamg - 7/22/23 - 11:01 am

NBC Boston reports Boston firefighters were able to free the woman around 5 p.m. on Friday, after which Boston EMS transported her to a local hospital. The T notes it did not move the train until after the woman was freed.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 9:10 am

Update: The victim, Jazreanna Sheppard, 21, of South Boston, died, police reported on July 29.

Police found a woman stabbed in the chest and face on Tremont Street across from Winter Street shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

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