Longwood
Person struck, killed by trolley near Longwood stop
By adamg - 10/24/10 - 8:53 amUPDATE: Victim identified as recent BU graduate living in Brighton. See comments.
The MBTA reports:
On October 24, 2010 at 12:19am Green Line operations notified the MBTA Transit Police of an accident between Longwood and Fenway on the D Line. A number of units were dispatched. Brookline Police and Fire Departments were notified and upon arrival with EMS determined the incident to be a fatality. Initial investigation indicated the person was struck by an eastbound trolley. He was found in the gauge of the eastbound track, west of Fenway Station. This area of the tracks is fenced on both sides.
T oddity: Man charged with junk fondling on trolley
By adamg - 8/19/10 - 10:48 am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Salem man yesterday after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman on an inbound D trolley and then began fondling himself.
David Bowie, 57, was arrested at Kenmore station around 4:20 p.m. on a charge of being a Super Creep, specifically, open and gross lewdness.
His victim and a man sitting next to Bowie gave similar accounts of what he'd done between Longwood and Kenmore, according to a police report: He lifted his shorts up to expose his major Tom, then began to "manipulate his penis while staring at her." Both said Bowie covered up when the woman moved to another part of the trolley after a couple of minutes.
Innocent, etc.
Pedestrian struck 400 yards from fire station, fire department and EMS show up in force...20 minutes later
By Brett - 9/14/09 - 7:50 pmThis evening, a female pedestrian was struck at the intersection of Longwood Avenue and Huntington Avenue by a hit-and-run driver. Waiting for the T, I saw the aftermath; a MassArt campus police car blocked one lane while the victim, hidden behind the jersey barrier and about 10-20 feet away from the crosswalk, lay on the ground. A young man was possibly an acquaintance. Someone offered their jacket, which was welcomed. A young woman in scrubs appeared to look her over/speak to her.
I started watching the clock when I realized it had been a while and there were no signs of ambulances.
The turkeys are now approaching the station
By adamg - 3/1/09 - 3:26 pmAs if Riverside commuters didn't have enough to worry about, now people getting off at Longwood have to dodge the blood-crazed killer turkeys of Brookline.
Digiphile somehow evaded them long enough to post the photo.
BTD: we can illegally park near hospitals, ha ha!
By Brett - 9/9/08 - 10:04 amThis street (Longwood Avenue- Google Streetview avoided part of it) is extremely congested. It's also one of two ways to get into the emergency room for Children's Hospital. The lanes are small on this three lane road, and the whole thing is marked no-parking.
But hey: the balding, grey-haired, bespectacled masshole owner of Boston Transportation Department Vehicle with plate # 3045 (who encouraged me to "go ahead and report the tags" but wouldn't tell me his name) apparently feels "it is [a parking space] for me", and parked blocking 1/2 of the only lane going towards the hospitals, and making it dangerous for bicyclists who need that space. He was busy chatting it up with a bunch of other people in suits and ties in front of the Mass College of Pharmacy. Commish, was that you? Maybe that gut wouldn't be so big if you found a proper parking space like everyone else, and walked. Always nice to see the rules mercilessly apply to us, but not to you?
Karma is so fowl
By adamg - 6/16/08 - 8:46 am
You know what's going to happen when you park your fool Cadillac in a crosswalk in the Longwood Medical Area? A turkey's going to jump on your car and peck at it mercilessly, as Tom Wheaton observed.
Hey, Iceland, pick up your trash
By adamg - 4/23/08 - 7:15 pmPaul Levy photographs some detritus from the Icelandic-owned BostonNow: A box dumped by the Green Line tracks at Longwood:
... Too bad, too, that they couldn't at least have picked up their trash before they folded.
Watching a bus that does not belong to Fung Wah on fire in Longwood
By adamg - 4/18/08 - 8:26 amEvan was there with a camera:
... It was pretty spectacular...at first, I saw the driver behind the bus waving his arms and cursing. There was molten stuff dripping beneath the back of the bus that was flaming...then the flames started to grow and reach for the trees above the bus. When I heard a small explosion and the back of the bus blow off, I decided to walk away and watch the rest of the action from the safety of our lab building's front porch. ...
What it's like to dissect a cadaver
By adamg - 4/7/08 - 10:14 pmKristin Huang is a first-year student at Harvard Medical School. First year means dissection and it's pretty rough (and then, the next day, even rougher). Definitely NOT for the squeamish (her subject lines begin with "Dismemberment" and "Mutiliation"), but it can give you some idea of what doctors in training have to go through.
State finally clears path from Longwood T stop to medical district
By adamg - 12/19/07 - 1:47 pmPaul Levy provides the photographic proof that commuters, patients and visitors no longer have to risk their lives getting up the steps and path from the Green Line to the Longwood area:
As late as yesterday, the walkway was a sheet of ice several inches thick. There had been no effort to clear it or to spread sand on it. It was treacherous.
This morning, though? All clear.
