Boston police officers lined Albany Street this afternoon as the body of Springfield Officer Kevin Ambrose, slain on a domestic-violence call, was loaded into a hearse at the state medical examiner's office there for the journey to his funeral in Springfield.
Only they didn't seem to be much reassured. The Daily Free Press reports on the latest meeting on BU's biolab, which wants to bring in the world's deadliest pathogens for study.
Plans for an upscale steakhouse on Washington Street are back on track now that owner Brian Piccini has found another restaurant willing to sell him its liquor license.
The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow whether to let Piccini pay the owners of the Columbus Cafe on Columbus Avenue $280,000 for their liquor license so he can open his Boston Chops at 1375 Washington St. Piccini, who earlier opened dbar in Dorchester and Deuxave in the Back Bay, has promised "an urban, modern steakhouse concept."
Boston Police report a woman was attacked around 4:45 a.m. today at Columbus Avenue and Dartmouth Street.
Police say the woman managed to fend off her attacker, who ran down Columbus toward Clarendon.
Police described the man as slim with a muscular build and possibly in his 20s. He was dressed in a black hoodie with something covering his face and low-slung jeans with plaid boxer shorts. The woman was unable to see his race.
An outraged citizen reports from 605 Mass. Ave.:
Street tree vandals have struck again and mostly destroyed a street elm. Needs to have attention and if possible saved or queued to be replaced.
BosGuy reports Yakitori Zai could open next week on Shawmut Avenue, serving up yakitori - charcoal-grilled meat on sticks.
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a homeless man on charges he punched and spit in the face of a Silver Line driver who asked him to pay his fare.
Sean Stuart, 43, was arrested shortly after 10 a.m. at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue - after being pulled off the driver by several Boston Police officers, Transit Police say.
According to an MBTA Transit Police report:
A fed-up South End resident complains:
Trash everywhere! Worcester Sq and rest of the South End are victims of trash pickers who tear open bags. The Mayor must do something to stop this. My building has been fined twice in the last month for trash violations that are a result of trash pickers. So I pay twice, taxes and fines. Start addressing the real problem. My guess is the trash pickers neither pay taxes, or more importantly, vote.
BosGuy reports Chestnut Hill's Urban Grape goes before the Boston Licensing Board this Wednesday seeking a license to start selling beer and wine in a store at the Bryant Residences, 303 Columbus Ave.
Boston Police report Steven Lovering took a cab to the 7-Eleven store at 55 Berkeley St. in the South End early this morning, then decided to hold the place up even though the cabbie refused to stick around for him.
The Daily Free Press reports on a meeting last night about Boston University's South End biolab, which one day hopes to ramp up to play around with ebola and other nasty bugs.
Firefighters at the scene. Photo by BFD.
Updated 6:10 a.m.
A woman who apparently committed suicide by ingesting sodium azide, a chemical used as an explosive in auto air bags and as a preservative in medical and biology labs, sparked a major incident on Mass. Ave. in the South End last night.
South End fire, from 101 Huntington Ave. Photo by Dan Gross.
Firefighters responded to 33 Union Park around 4 p.m. for a roof fire, which they quickly knocked down, but not before it poured thick black smoke into the air. Fire investigators are now trying to determine the cause; the Boston Fire Department estimated damage at $200,000, said there were no injuries.
The Turnstile Theater Company's Blogoliloquy, at the Boston Center for the Arts next week, is a play that focuses on "life and people in Boston" as told through the posts on six actual local blogs.
Turkey in the tree.
John McLachlan reports this tree turkey whiles away the evenings in a neighbor's yard off Milford Street in the South End.
Copyright John McLachlan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The Boston Courant's Mich Cardin reported two weeks ago that developer David Goldman has signed an agreement to purchase the South End rowhouse located at 38 Upton Street, currently owned by the Pine Street Inn (PSI).
According to the Courant (no online edition):
Goldman, who began negotiations with PSI around December, bid on the property, eventually matching the appraisal price of more than $1 million.
38 Upton Street is one of three adjoining buildings originally purchased by Pine Street, back in 2008. The non-profit's plans to turn the properties into transitional housing unleashed the fury of some neighbors, who expressed concern that the development was too big for their bucolic, narrow, one-way street. Pine Street eventually bowed to the pressure and the three-building project was reduced to two, with PSI agreeing to sell the third on the private market.
Some of those same neighbors are still unhappy. According to the Courant, a 2009 written agreement signed by Pine Street and the Union Park Neighborhood Association set out specific deadlines for the sale of the third building; according to it, Pine Street was supposed to immediately begin efforts to sell the property.
The police tape from the murder scene must be all gone, because a concerned citizen only found one thing to complain about in the square - old Christmas wreathes:
I appreciate the wreaths in Blackstone Square for Christmas, but it's now 25 Feb and they are still up. Please remove. Look forward to fresh ones next Christmas.
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