Stony Brook

Man hits head in plunge to tracks at Stony Brook station

adamg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:18:16 -0400

Channel 25 reports on the evening accident.

Where, oh, where did his Stony Brook go?

adamg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:08:42 -0400

Third Decade notes the culverted path of Stony Brook under Jamaica Plain is well plotted out but wonders what path it now takes under Roxbury in its inexorable path to the sea (well, the Charles) - and what other brooks have gotten buried over the past couple of hundred years.

And yes, I said "inexorable path" because I like saying "inexorable path."

The forest before the storm

adamg — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:01:08 -0500

I was just going to go out to the store today, but then I saw Anali's calm before the storm photos and decided to detour via Stony Brook Reservation first, to see the forest before it's re-covered in snow again.

Even in the middle of winter, there's a surprising amount of color in the forest:

Suspicionless searches on the T

adamg — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:09:46 -0500

Michael Blim slinks by the jodhpur-clad transit cops doing a bag search at Stony Brook, but that gets him to pondering the police's newfound ability to conduct searches without warrants, at least on MBTA property:

... The 4th amendment guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure that in many areas of law restricts police searches to those whom they suspect of a crime or who arouse suspicion of criminal intent no longer applies to subway and bus riders. Any city that wants to conduct "suspicion-less" searches on their mass transit can. The judicial trick is that because no one is under suspicion, everyone can be under suspicion. Anyoneâ€™s rights can be violated so long as everyoneâ€™s rights can be violated. Call it equal opportunity rights violation. ...

Via Brian Kane, who has more to say on the topic.

When Stony Brook was tamed

adamg — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:47:38 -0400

It was news to Charles (and, OK, me, too), that Stony Brook runs under Doyle's in JP - it being of little actual interest to pretty much anybody until the city decided to auction off the land and somebody outbid Doyle's. Charles digs up the history of the brook, specifically, the Boston Street Department's 1892 annual report, which discusses progress in controlling the brook after the Great Stony Brook Flood of 1886 by basically turning it into a sewer:

... Stony Brook, the largest of the city's watercourses, is now provided with an ample outlet, and gives little trouble. The effect of the development of its water-shed can be seen, however, in the increasing rapidity and height to which it rises now at every rain, compared to what it did eight years ago, although now its outlet is ample in size, and then it was not. ...

He adds that if one looks carefully, you can still find remnants of some of the industrial buildings built along the brook.