Huntington Avenue

Biplanes strafe Huntington Avenue

adamg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:11:21 -0400

No word if one was flown by a short, fuzzy pilot with a big nose, goggles and a scarf.

And to think that I saw it on Huntington Avenue

adamg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:19 -0400

Video: Man walking down Huntington on stilts.

Where there's smoke, there's ...

adamg — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:26:50 -0400

A generator being tested, at the Westin Hotel in Copley Square around 10:30 this morning.

An Orange Line girl takes the 39 bus

adamg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:48:16 -0500

And is not impressed:

... [Y]ou get on the #39, which stops every 10 yards and each time picks up between 6 and 8 students from Wentworth, MassArt or Northeastern, all of whom are carrying backpacks the size of Amy Winehouse's beehive. You are at least 18 stops from your final destination, and already it's like being stuck in an old toolshed with 9 dozen wet dogs, half of whom have wracking, croupy, Dickensian coughs. ...

And that's before the driver decides to take a break to make a call on her cell phone.

Massholes and trolleys don't mix

adamg — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:52:34 -0500

Maybe it's just as well the MBTA and its predecessors have spent the last 60 years or so taking out trolley lines; imagine if there were more streets like Huntington Avenue by Mission Hill where Massholes got to scream and curse out trolley drivers for daring to stop to let passengers off?

... This guy is literally leaning out the window, screaming at the driver of the first [trolley] car. I of course had my window cracked to hear every sweet word of invective this moron was letting loose.

And then had a good chuckle because just ahead of the first car, just past the intersection, was a cop car. And as we all started moving again, guess who was getting pulled over? ...

Newbury Street not immune to post-game stupidity

adamg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:58 -0400

Boston Police report on trouble on Newbury Street:

At about 12:15am, on Monday, October 29, 2007, officers assigned to the Fenway area for the Red Sox World Series game, received a radio call for a large group vandalizing cars along Newbury Street. On arrival, officers observed and counted 16 cars that had been vandalized. Most of the damage consisted of broken or ripped off side view mirrors, broken windows and damaged windshield wipers.

Boston Police report arresting a total of 22 people - mostly under 24; State Police arrested another 15.

Boston Police also report on an incident on Huntington Avenue around 2:20 a.m.:

According to the victim, he was driving along Huntington Avenue when a large crowd gathered in front of his motor vehicle. Victim further states that when his car came to a stop, an unidentified white male ran jumped onto the hood of his car and, then, ran over the car from front to back. According to the victim, the suspect shattered his rear window.

One of these trees is both the same

adamg — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:53:11 -0400

Some Assembly Required noticed today that crews along Huntington Avenue near the Mass. College of Art were replacing seemingly healthy trees with new seemingly health trees, and he wonders why.

Maybe Steven "I came home the other day to find out all my furniture had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica" Wright is now in charge of tree plantings in Boston?

Which is worse? The E trolley or the 39 bus?

adamg — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:39:01 -0400

Chad Parenteau says it's a toss up:

... It might just be me, but it seems that in light of the construction that has crippled the E Train's already limited abilities, the MBTA has ordered that all the no. 39 buses be rendered as ineffective as the E train for the next few months. ...