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By adamg - 3/26/24 - 1:48 pm
Remains of bridge support across Spring Street

Abutment for where the bridge used to be. Behind the pole are detritus-covered stairs to the top of the embankment.

A developer is getting ready to build four single family homes off Spring Street in West Roxbury, on a former railroad right of way on which steam locomotives once paused to pick up passengers at a small train stop before thundering across a bridge over Spring Street, hauling commuters from Dedham to Park Square in Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 11:15 am
Start of deed for 179 Lincoln St., showing price of just $10

Top of the deed for 179 Lincoln St.

In perhaps the most dramatic example of the decline of the Boston office market yet, Triple Net Investor reports a subsidiary of Blackstone last week sold the five-story 179 Lincoln St. at Kneeland Street for just $10 to local developer Synergy.

Synergy is actually also paying another $76.5 million - to assume the amount remaining on the mortgage Blackstone took out in January, 2020. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 9:02 am

The Crimson reports there were witnesses to the foiled fiddle filching at the Burren in Somerville. Plus, the bow fell out of one of the two students' coats as they were getting into an Uber. One of the two is a Crimson editor, but declined to comment when contacted by a Crimson reporter.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:19 pm

Via the Jamaica Plain Facebook group comes word that the long vacant Il Panino space across Centre Street from the Jackson Square T station now has a sign advising it will soon become an outlet of Viva Mi Arepa, which has long served up Venezuelan food at Grove and Washington streets in West Roxbury, but whose continued existence there is possibly threatened by plans for a new apartment building.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 12:18 pm

A truck driver for Designers Choice, a wholesale florist in Hyde Park (granted, about as close as you can get to Dedham and still be in the city, but still), got on Storrow Drive inbound at rush hour this morning and promptly learned why truck drivers aren't supposed to do that, as James Januzzi shows us (Januzzi rated the crash as a 10/10).

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 11:43 am

A Dorchester man faces federal drug charges after, investigators say, he used a scooter to ferry 30,000 fentanyl pills and more than four pounds of other narcotics from his Dorchester apartment to a Mission Hill parking lot on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:53 am

Cambridge Day reports the university is looking at new ways to make Palmer Street better. One proposal: Retractable bollards on timers to be raised at key times to keep ride-share drivers out.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:50 am

The Daily Free Press reports that the BU Graduate Workers Union, affiliated with the SEIU, will start their strike today with a rally at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue following unsuccessful negotiations over wage increases, better working conditions and funding for childcare for grad students with young children.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:41 am

Boston Police report arresting two teens, one from far distant Hyde Park, on charges they broke into the Super Smoke Shop at 247 Meridian St. in East Boston, Saturday night. Read more.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 9:42 pm
Crash scene

Crash scene. The F150 is on the other side of the cruiser. Photo by On the Channel.

Drew Karedes reports a 4-year-old died at Congress and Sleeper streets after being hit by the driver of a Ford F150. Read more.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 8:57 pm
Wilson's snipe along the Charles River

Mary Ellen watched a pair of Wilson's snipes along some fast moving water at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today: Read more.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 5:45 pm

Associated Press reports that truckers are slamming into the charming covered bridges up north like they're coming in hot on Storrow Drive because they're too cheap to upgrade from their consumer-grade GPSes, only the bridges are made of wood, so aren't doing so well in the encounters.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 12:43 pm

Randolph Abraham, athletic director at Brighton High School is asking for some help in rebuilding the school baseball program:

We are rebuilding the program stronger than ever and have some incredible young men who are in need of cleats and gloves. If anyone wants to donate gloves and cleats you no longer use, please bring them to the high school and ask for Coach Abraham. Size 9, 9 1/2, 10. Or anything.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 12:22 pm

State Police report they are investigating what might have caused the driver of a cab to crash on Soldiers Field Road outbound near the Weeks Footbridge while he was driving a woman home from Logan around 10:30 p.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 10:36 pm
Fire under the ramp

Photo by George Lewis.

Boston firefighters responded to a ramp from Storrow Drive at Commonwealth Avenue for a fire under the ramp around 6:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 2:40 pm
Dumped pineapples by the side of the road

State Police report an 18-wheeler rolled over in the rain on I-495 northbound in Westford this morning, spilling lots and lots of pineapples and forcing the shutdown of two lanes.

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 2:07 pm

State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) is now offering his support for the proposed Small Victories tavern on Dorchester Street in South Boston, two days after he angrily denounced it as a potential home of date-apping "vidiots" being pushed by buttinsky East Bostonians. Read more.

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 1:51 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a variety of charges after they stopped him for driving on the wrong side of the street and speeding and found "an Interarms Ltd .45 caliber handgun loaded with one live .45 cartridge in the chamber and nine .45 in the magazine" and a machete in his car early this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 12:59 pm

State Police report a man whose body was found on the exit ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike to Copley Square died from falling 20 feet from a ledge, not by being hit by a car. Read more.