Beacon Street

Four-alarm fire in Brookline apartment building

adamg — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:13:04 +0000

Flames on Beacon Street. Copyright Pamela Rosenthal. Posted with permission.

Channel 25 has video of the fire this morning at 1471 Beacon St.

Pamela Rosenthal is posting photos. She writes:

The Brookline fire is more than a burning building. In an instant, the people living there lost everything they owned.

Dan Geller posted video.

Charring crosses up T riders

adamg — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:02:41 +0000

So far this morning, a charred 39 bus was towed from Huntington Avenue near Brigham Circle and buses had to be rolled out for the C line when an overhead power line came down near Cleveland Circle.

Workers repairing Green Line tracks in Brookline had a little extra work last night

adamg — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:14:10 +0000

They had to remove the car that wound up on the tracks near St. Paul on the C line.

Green Line rider charged with assault and battery with a dangerous umbrella

adamg — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:51:30 +0000

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a woman Sunday afternoon on charges she escalated an argument on a C trolley by smacking one opponent in the back of the head with her umbrella and then smacking another by opening the umbrella up in her face.

Isoline Peart-Smith, 21, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest following the 2:30 p.m. incident on an outbound C trolley by St. Mary Street, according to a police report.

According to the report, Peart-Smith hit the one of the women in the back of the head twice with her multi-colored umbrella and then turned her attention to the other woman with whom she was arguing "by hitting the button on the handle and expanding it."

The report adds "the umbrella was secured and submitted into evidence," but does not say what the argument was about.

Innocent, etc.

The T supervisor trifecta

adamg — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:27:10 +0000

Maybe there's a good reason an MBTA supervisor was blocking a handicap space and the sidewalk while parked on grass along Beacon Street today, but Todd Kirrane, who took the picture, says the driver just seemed to have stopped to do some shopping.

Flaming tracks in Coolidge Corner

adamg — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:03:21 +0000

Sara watched the burning tracks in Coolidge Corner shortly before 7 p.m. today.

Channel 4 reports one trolley drove right over the fire - on purpose.

The snow won't take this sign of spring away from us

adamg — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:28:45 +0000

Leslee noticed the return of the sneakers to that one home on Beacon Street on Beacon Hill where they always use sneakers as part of the landscaping.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Wires go boom, Green Line goes dead at Cleveland Circle

adamg — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:55:17 +0000

The MBTA is running shuttle buses between Cleveland Circle and Coolidge Corner due to a "power problem" at Cleveland Circle.

Kevin Aries happened to be right there when the problem occurred, around 7:30 p.m.:

May have just witnessed a small explosion on the live wires above the tracks at Cleveland Circle. Looks like a piece of the wire fell down onto the tracks.

Brookline man bogeys in Boston: Arrested for driving stolen golf cart down Beacon Street

adamg — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:55:45 +0000

Boston Police report officers were immediately suspicious when they saw some guy puttering along in a golf cart around 1 a.m. today on Beacon Street near Clarendon in the Back Bay:

When officers asked the operator why he was driving a golf cart on a public roadway, the operator stated he was doing work for a construction company. Not convinced, the officers posed the question a second time. To which, the suspect stated, "I'm out doing a survey. What the (expletive) is it to you?"

Eventually, police say, the officers established Thomas Wright, 45, had simply taken one of the carts left outside Boston City Hall by organizers of yesterday's Hub on Wheels event. Since Boston has yet to set up its golf-cart-sharing program, Wright was arrested on a charge of larceny over $250, police say.

Innocent, etc.

Police charge BC student as caffeine-mad robber who pistol whipped Cleveland Circle store clerk

adamg — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:02:44 +0000

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports police charge Kevin Michael McCarthy robbed the Beacon Street Tedeschi store in August, then attempted to throw investigators off his trail by changing his photo in the BC imaging system.

According to police, McCarthy robbed the store around 5 a.m. on Aug. 13, four hours after he went in and inquired whether the store was open 24 hours and if the coffee was fresh. After beating the clerk and forcing him to empty two registers, police say, McCarthy demanded to know where the coffee was before fleeing.

Innocent, etc.

Did the earth move for you, too?

adamg — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:04:08 +0000

Guess when the earthquake hit the Boston area: From Boston College's Weston Observatory.

An earthquake in Quebec near the Ontario line sent tremors through the Boston area shortly before 2 p.m. A residential building at 1180 Beacon Street in Brookline was evacuated after it began shaking, possibly because of the quake, Neal Simpson at Brookline Patch reports.

Louis Cameron tweets he felt it at 253 Summer St. on Fort Point Channel. At 1:53, he exclaimed:

Smoked pizza not on the menu at Cleveland Circle pizza place

adamg — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:48:14 +0000

Matthew Cote was among the onlookers who watched Boston firefighters extinguish a fire in the alley behind Pino's Pizza on Beacon Street tonight. Don't worry: He reports the fire did not involve Pino's.

Hit-and-run driver clips bicyclist on Beacon Street in Newton

adamg — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:21:26 +0000

Sean Roche reports the bicyclist managed to stay on her bike after being hit by a car driven by an 81-year-old woman who kept on going - at least until police, whom the bicyclist called with the license-plate number - stopped her.

Downed trees make mess of Beacon Street, Green Line

adamg — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:03:57 +0000

Jed H. photographed the large tree that fell at Beacon and Marion in Brookline during this afternoon's storm. He reports nobody was in the car at the time.

Tree down on the Common, by Kathrine Ciccolini, who reports the Common looks "post-Apocalypic."

Tree falling on Beacon

adamg — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:29:58 +0000

Substitute bus service for C commuters this morning, the MBTA reports. Photo of the tree that did in the C Line.