A newcomer to Boston, unfamiliar with our quaint ways, found this note on her car after parking in a space designated for visitors in South Boston on Monday.
In East Boston, though, they dispense with the pleasantries and just slash the tires right away.
Catxecutive Order asks:
Good place to buy hearty houseplants near Dot/Southie/Quincy? looking for a Valentine plant that won't die.
A vexed citizen files a 311 complaint about a driveway and sidewalk on East 6 Street:
Please clean your condo it's bad enough all your cars are registered in New Hampshire so respect my town.
Boston Police have released a photo of the guy they say punched a man to the floor at the Boston Beer Garden on East Broadway in December. Read more.
A downtown resident has registered a formal campaign organization with state elections officials.
Frank Ulip says he will run for the District 2 seat now held by Bill Linehan of South Boston. Linehan has yet to say if he'll be running for re-election this fall. The city does not release formal petitions for collecting signatures until May. Read more.
Around 3:50 p.m. on Pulaski Avenue between Athens and West 3 streets. One person in custody.
Around 11:50 p.m. on Friday at Dorchester Street and Old Colony Avenue. One car was hit twice, police found three shell casings in the intersection. No people hit.
Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester woman on charges she threw hot coffee in a T worker's face around 9:30 p.m. yesterday.
Police say Janet Bourke, 61, of Dorchester, was trying to get into Broadway on the Red Line without paying when the worker spotted her and tried to stop her.
Unhappy Excel teachers with pink slips. Photo by Rajeeve Martyn.
The Herald reports 90% of the teachers at Excel High School and and Brighton High School will be let go as of March 1 - although they will be allowed to re-apply for their jobs - as BPS tries to right the schools, which have struggled with test scores.
The Globe reports the new owners of the massive Seaport Square land have Xed out longstanding plans for a park in the middle of the property and will instead give the BPDA plans for a walkway from Summer Street to the water that will be "narrower but longer, and friendlier to foot traffic."
From the current plans on file with the BPDA: Read more.
The Boston Business Journal reports that both Legal Sea Foods and Live Nation, which operates the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, are loudly protesting a cit/state proposal to stick the GE Memorial Heliport on a pier behind the pavilion. They cite noise, which they say would be so severe it would likely drive the pavilion out of business.
Architect's rendering.
Developers yesterday filed formal plans with the BPDA for a 266,000-square-foot research and development building between West 1 and West 2 streets, behind Artists for Humanity.
In their filing with the BPDA, CV Properties, LLC of D Street promise a public walkway from West 1 to West 2: Read more.
A man punched in the head by a guy holding a salt shaker at the Boston Beer Garden in December remains in the hospital with head trauma - and finding his attacker is now District C-6 detectives' top priority, a C-6 detective said today. Read more.
David Parsons went on a BPDA tour of the old Boston Edison power plant at L and Summer streets on Saturday, part of the agency's attempt to figure out what to do with the massive property. Read more.
It's not quite dogs and cats laying together, but a disgruntled South Boston citizen has had quite enough of fornicating raccoons on East 7 Street:
Raccoons mating. Need to be removed! Saw them last night on my deck and this morning they are abusing my neighbors pool.
H/t roving UHub 311 reader onelith.
Titanium Cranium wisely did not get in his way this afternoon on D Street:
Look who I just bumped into on D St. cc: @universalhub pic.twitter.com/HLSqAMMMNV
— Titanium Cranium (@FelicityTC) January 26, 2017
The Supreme Judicial Court today tossed a man's conviction for illegal possession of a loaded gun because the Boston cops who pulled him over initially didn't really have a good enough reason to do so. Read more.
The Boston Architectural College library gives us a look at West Broadway in South Boston 100 years ago and today.
Jed Hresko spotted an SUV with an unusual license plate on Congress Street in the Seaport yesterday.
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