Massachusetts Avenue
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday voted to let the owners of a new restaurant at 61 Massachusetts Ave. serve liquor.
Although several nearby residents attended a Wednesday hearing to support the proposed Deux Ave., the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay objected, saying the license would break an informal ban on any increase in the number of liquor licenses in the neighborhood. The board, however, agreed with the restaurant that the imminent departure of Louis Boston - which has a liquor license - to the South Boston waterfront would reduce the number by one. More on the Wednesday hearing.
Just a ruse?: The giant trailer outside just for show, too?
The Boston Licensing Board meets tomorrow to consider a request by the owner of a popular Dorchester bar to open a new restaurant on Mass. Ave. in the Back Bay. Read more
Riggsm tweets shortly after 4 p.m. No immediate word on the bicyclist's condition, but traffic is a mess, he says.
Photo of the car after the accident after 10 p.m. today. Boston Police tweet injuries were involved, but that they were not likely fatal.
Photo via BostonTweet.
Matthew I. reports he happened to have his camera with him on the way to Starbucks this morning when he spotted this man on Mass. Ave. in the Back Bay:
Gave this guy a couple bucks. Took his photo from across the street on the way back.
Copyright Matthew I. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Boston Police report the 84-year-old man who tried crossing a gridlocked Mass. Ave. Friday afternoon has died. "The preliminary investigation suggests the incident to be a terrible accident," police say:
Witnesses informed officers that motor vehicle traffic was stopped due to gridlock when the elderly male stepped from the curb in an attempt to cross the street. They further stated the victim was immediately struck by a bicyclist traveling on Massachusetts Avenue heading towards the City of Cambridge. The elderly male fell to the ground striking his head. The victim sustained head trauma including a large laceration. The bicyclist stayed with the victim awaiting the arrival of the Boston Police Department. ... According to witness statements, the victim was not utilizing a crosswalk at the point of impact.
Man, 80, hit late this afternoon at 186 Mass. Ave.; homicide unit was called to the scene, Boston Police tweet.
Sup3rmark posts a photo of an obnoxious message board at Mass. Ave. and Westland Avenue this evening.
Korri Leigh Crowley was walking down Mass. Ave. with her camera last night when Jesus asked if she'd like to take his picture.
Then "Seasons of Love" might have come out as Seasons of Smoot:
Three hundred sixty four point four Smoots and an ear
Three hundred sixty four point four lengths plus a smidge
Three hundred sixty four point four Smoots and an ear
How do you measure the length of a bridge? ...
Dreboston tweets:
does anyone in boston know the story behind the herds of runners wearing bondage gear/masks today on mass ave? freaked me out a little bit.
This was originally a link to a cool photo of a pedestrian ramp on the Mass. Ave. bridge, but the photographer took the photo down. Oh, well, but it was cool.
Boston Police report busting up a soiree at Wheeler's Cafe and Ice Cream Bar on Mass. Ave. around 12:50 this morning after officers discovered members of the under-21 set consuming "beer and shots of alcohol:"
Officers observed the windows of the store to be "blacked out" for they were covered with sheets of black nylon, giving the illusion that the store was closed. Officers entered the store and discovered 60 to 70 individuals congregating within, consuming alcohol and listening to music emanating from a large DJ system.
Upon further investigation, it was learned that a large number of the individuals were under the legal drinking age of Twenty-One. Partygoers informed officers that they received a wristband for admittance after paying a Ten-Dollar cover charge. Once inside, they were served beer & shots of alcohol. They further stated that they learned of the establishment through the Wheeler's Ice Cream Parlor's Facebook page.
Hmm, for some reason, the ad for the event is gone from the joint's Facebook page today, although you can still see photos from past dances at the shop there and here. The "micro-creamery" sells only vegan ice cream, including a line of alcohol-flavored treats.
Police say Eric Marcelino, 27, of Acushnet, and Rodeye Mckiedhem, 41, of Cambridge, were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, procuring alcohol for minors and selling/furnishing alcoholic beverages to persons under the age of 21.
Innocent, etc.
Blackout, Leonnea tweets.
Mike Mennonno finds a good candidate involving somebody pining for some guy whose fly happened to be open at the Mass. Ave. stop on the Orange Line.
This morning, according to this tweet - about a mile west of Porter Square. Anybody see it or know more?
Steve Nadis reports on a question posed to him on Mass. Ave. near the Cambridge Y yesterday.
Overmatter reports on a seemingly drunk raccoon in front of the Gap in Central Square last night - which made it fit in perfectly with the community of perpetual drunks who normally hang out there:
... "Seriously!" he said. "Walking down freakin' Mass. Ave.! A big-ass rac-damn-coon!" ...
She suffered an ankle injury and cuts in the early Sunday incident at Mass. Ave. and Everett Street, but the bus and the students aboard it came out OK, the Crimson reports.
Some Assembly Required reports he was stopped for a light on Mass. Ave. this evening when a guy crossed in front holding two old-style boomboxes, both playing an old Nirvana song:
... [T]hey were probably tuned to the same radio station. Or given the hardware, who knows? Maybe he'd copied the music onto cassettes and pushed play on both decks at the same time. Rock on, my friend, rock on.
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury guy and a young sidekick from Dorchester last night on charges they carjacked two people sitting in their car on Camden Street around 11:30 last night.
... The victims state that they were parked on Camden St. when the two suspects approached them and threatened to kill them with a knife unless they gave them a ride to the Mass. Ave. MBTA station. As it turns out, officers spotted the suspects as they made their way to the MBTA station and panicked and fled the car.
So by failing to simply walk the three or four blocks from Camden Street to the Mass. Ave. stop, Terrell T. Banks, 23, and his 14-year-old accomplice now face kidnapping and carjacking charges - along with charges related to the possession of crack, police say.
Meanwhile, earlier in the evening, police say, a Cambridge duo didn't know when to leave well enough alone at the Sox game at Fenway. Police say Kenneth Rudgis, 22, refused to shut up and move back to his seat after police came over to investigate somebody yelling obscenities at some guy (Orioles fan? BPDNews doesn't say):
The suspect was then told that he would have to leave the park because of his refusal to return to his seat, his loud and raucous behavior, and his continuous assault on the victim. While officers were about to place suspect, Kenneth Rudgis in custody, Karalyn Rudgis, who was seated behind the victim poured two full cups of beer on the victim followed by suspect, Kenneth Rudgis pouring another cup of beer on the victim and attempting to grab the victim by the shirt.
Following a brief struggle, police say, the pair were removed to a place where they could yell all they wanted to.
Innocent, etc.
Steve Nadis reports on his smashing meeting with an MIT bicyclist at Mass. Ave. and Memorial Drive.
The body of a white man in his 40s was pulled from the Charles River near the Boston end of the Mass. Ave. bridge around noon today, the Suffolk County DA's office reports. No obvious signs of trauma were found; an autopsy is planned for this weekend.
Rob Bellinger advises that Cambridge Police are actually ticketing bicyclists who run a red light at Mass. Ave. and Pleasant Street:
... They got eight bicyclists for this while I was having lunch nearby, plus ticketed another for biking on the sidewalk in front of 7-11. ...
Amy recounts an incident on the Mass. Ave. bridge during the July Fourth Pops concert that renews your faith in at least part of humanity.
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