Downtown

Wings over Boston

By adamg - 5/23/15 - 10:18 am

Flying over the Mystic River and the Tobin Bridge

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Be Brilliant got a bird's-eye view of Boston Harbor, the Mystic River and the Tobin this morning.

Guys, guys, there's a Dunk's right behind you

By adamg - 5/22/15 - 10:33 am

Line for Ogawa coffee in Downtown Crossing

AlistonTBoston shows us the line this morning outside the newly open Ogawa Coffee on Milk Street, which features the Japanese take on coffee, which includes extra fancy foam designs and stadium seating so you can watch the baristas - and this morning, free four-ounce bags of beans for the first 100 people.

And the world is a little safer this morning: Orange Line hummer suspect nabbed

By adamg - 5/22/15 - 8:07 am

Transit Police report members of the Special Crimes Unit last night arrested Philip Urban, 50, of Malden on a charge of being stupid enough to get a blow job on the outbound Orange Line platform at State Street last Friday.

He's scheduled for arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court; technically, the charge is open and gross lewdness. No word on the hunt for the woman seen ministering to him.

Innocent, etc.

Suspicious thing shuts Water Street downtown

By adamg - 5/21/15 - 12:10 pm

Water Street. Photo by Hopeful Cynicist.

Water Street is shut to drivers and pedestrians at lunchtime, and firefighters and EMTS are on standby, as the BPD bomb squad investigates a suspicious package wrapped in duct tape.

Victory for human statues, jugglers: Faneuil Hall Marketplace operators drop busker fee

By adamg - 5/20/15 - 6:05 pm

The Globe reports Ashkenazy Acquisition has decided the revenue from charging street performers wasn't worth the cost of having large parts of Boston City Hall hating them.

Orange Line doors get stuck, riders go oh, well, you know

By adamg - 5/19/15 - 8:29 am

At Downtown Crossing, on a Forest Hills train.

Transit Police launch manhunt for State Street sexy-timers

By adamg - 5/17/15 - 6:41 pm

Boston Metro reports the long arm of the law is about to grab the man getting some oral loving on the Orange Line the other night - and the woman giving it to him. Transit Police say they'll throw the book at the two - and not a copy of the Kama Sutra.

Showing their Pride

By adamg - 5/17/15 - 10:05 am

A roving UHub photographer captured the LGBT teens and their supporters marching through downtown in yesterday's Massachusetts Youth Pride parade.

Hey, you two, get a room

By adamg - 5/16/15 - 9:08 am

No, seriously, get a room; you're grossing out the other people on that Orange Line platform.

Government Center station takes shape

By adamg - 5/15/15 - 4:45 pm

Government Center station coming into shape

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Mike gives us a visual update on the giant glasshouse rising above City Hall Plaza.

Somebody stabbed in brawl on Orange Line platform at Downtown Crossing

By adamg - 5/15/15 - 3:37 pm

Around 3:30 p.m. on the Forest Hills side, near the fare gates at the front of the platform. The victim's injuries are not considered life threatening.

Police: Masshole flashes gun in Tremont Street traffic dispute; unfortunately for him, the other guy was a plainclothes cop

By adamg - 5/15/15 - 10:08 am

UPDATE: A Boston Municipal Court judge set bail at $10,000 - the amount requested by prosecutors, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adds Stoughton Police ordered him to turn over all of the 17 guns he's registered to own, while the case is pending.

Boston Police report a Canton man impatient with the motorist in front of him on Tremont Street near Avery yesterday evening started blaring his horn, then pulled up and unfurled his middle finger, and then: Read more.