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By adamg - 1/19/15 - 7:03 pm
Sweet Bakery, 11 School St., shortly before 7 p.m., by a white man in his 50s wearing a black ski mask and a gray winter jacket. He was 5'8" to 5'10" and had some stubble on his face. He ran out, turned left on Washington.
By adamg - 1/18/15 - 3:52 pm
Around 3:40 p.m. Firefighters quickly doused the fire, in a ground-level closet inside the station, but the T evacuated riders due to the smoke. Trains, however, continued to operate through the station.
By Anonymous - 1/18/15 - 12:23 pm
Long before Nelli Ruotsalainen protested on I-93, Massachusetts government decided to eliminate the breakdown lane and use it for rush hour traffic. That is not on Nelli Ruotsalainen, that is on us.
The government's concern is that the Interstate 93 protest in Milton broke the way we provide public safety services. In fact, we know of not one death nor one injury caused. I'm not saying it couldn't have happened, I'm saying it didn't.
By adamg - 1/17/15 - 10:11 pm
TruNE_79 is loving how Atlantic Wharf is pumping out the Patriots colors in advance of tomorrow's game.
By adamg - 1/17/15 - 10:07 am
Lexiiiiii spotted this solitary shoe at Park Street on the Green Line yesterday: Somebody so desperate to get on a train, they didn't want to try to unstick it, or sign of a partial rapture?
By adamg - 1/16/15 - 8:17 pm
Transit Police report arresting a guy from New York at South Station today on charges he was trying to palm off four bogus tickets to this Sunday's game - for $800.
Police credit a Channel 25 tweet about an arrest of alleged fake-ticket sellers in Somerville - and an alert would-be buyer of the doubtful ducats:
By adamg - 1/16/15 - 7:56 pm
At least two rabbits have taken up occupancy on the grounds of the Federal Reserve Bank downtown.
Jon Hickey photographed one of them last month. Christine reported late this afternoon:
Sitting in traffic on Congress St. next to Fed Reserve bank watching a rabbit pick through the dead garden.
By adamg - 1/16/15 - 9:49 am
Proposed new entrance to the Garden from developer's BRA filing.
The Herald reports Star Market has agreed to build a mega-market in the $1-billion mixed-use development planned for that vacant space in front of the Garden and the train station.
By adamg - 1/14/15 - 6:14 pm
Singh leads prayer as councilors Linehan and Yancey listen.
City councilors take turns inviting a local clergy member to start regular council sessions with a prayer. Over the years, the council has been led in prayer by priests, ministers, rabbis and imams. Today, Councilor Charles Yancey invited a member of a local Hindu congregation to lead the council - for the the first time that Yancey said he could remember in his 31 years on the council.
Padma Singh began with "Om" and ended with "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti."
By adamg - 1/12/15 - 5:44 pm
File this under: Kids, don't try this at home - or when Transit Police are around, or, at all:
Via Rick.
By adamg - 1/12/15 - 9:59 am
With several thousand people now living in Downtown Crossing and nearby blocks, the Midtown Cultural District Residents Association has sprung up.
By adamg - 1/11/15 - 1:01 pm
Photo by Christine Espino. Used under this Creative Commons license.
David Phillips, who sculpted six frog statues at Frog Pond, says Macy's violated his copyright when it used a replica of one of them in a Christmas display at its Downtown Crossing store.
In a ribbeting lawsuit filed last week in US District Court in Boston, Phillips, whose studio is in Medford, charges:
By adamg - 1/7/15 - 7:24 pm
A pigeon tried to huddle into itself today on Court Street. One can only imagine what it'll look like tomorrow.
By adamg - 1/5/15 - 7:49 pm
Current and proposed. See larger.
Developers have submitted plans to the BRA for a 12-story condo building on Broad Street that would completely demolish the building the Times pub is now in and turn the historic Bulfinch building that houses the Littlest Bar into a lobby for the new building and some residential units.
The Littlest Bar moved to 102 Broad St. after its longtime tiny space on Province Street was taken over by the 45 Province luxury project next door.
By adamg - 1/4/15 - 6:28 pm
WCVB reports two well dressed men hid in a men's room until after the Red Hat on Bowdoin Street closed early this morning and then stole several thousand dollars worth of liquor and vandalized the bar.
The Red Hat itself posted video of the two guys figuring out what to take:
By adamg - 1/2/15 - 4:05 pm
A steamed citizen calls into the Mayor's Hotline:
Caller reporting there is a solid covered manhole in the street on Tremont St at School, in front of church, with extremely hot steam coming out. The steam burned her foot and she is concerned for people's safety.
By adamg - 1/2/15 - 9:49 am
UPDATE: Judge dismisses case.
An Emerson student who says school officials dismissed her story of being raped by a fellow Emerson student and an MIT student in October has filed a federal lawsuit against the college. Read more.
By adamg - 12/31/14 - 9:03 am
Some switch seized up this morning, causing delays on both inbound and outbound trains at South Station.
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