Brookline Village

Somebody kidnapped the baby Jesus from Brookline Village

adamg — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:29:52 +0000

Today's best reason for a Green Line delay

adamg — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:00:39 +0000

Signal problems, flooding, disabled trains, they're all so passe. AlertNewEngland reports Riverside trains are being delayed because police at Brookline Village are searching for "man with a snake."

Brookline: A tale of two church projects

adamg — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:10:12 +0000

John Carroll, who lives in Brookline Village, wonders why elected officials didn't do much to stop a Borg cube from landing on Harvard Street while they are battling to do something about a proposed Mormon church off Rte. 9 in leafy Fisher Hill:

So: Fisher Hill gets to pick and choose but Brookline Village gets stuck with the Horror on Harvard Street?

Gotta ask: Is more than somebody in Brookline government getting greased here?

Brookline Village: The dry-cleaning capital of America

adamg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:04:01 +0000

A Proper Bostonian is amazed to count nine dry-cleaning places in Brookline Village:

... I never thought of Brookline Village as terrifically pressed and creased. I've always experienced it as more of a yuppie-hippie enclave. After all, there's the hot yoga and at least one holistic spa. I envision the typical Villager wearing organic natural fibers that were washed in biodegradable suds. ...

Dead trolley on the D line

adamg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:21:34 +0000

George Aaron Cuddy tweets he's on the dead outbound train, just before Brookline Village.

Brookline Village gets its answer to Boston City Hall

adamg — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:28:56 +0000

So how about that giant cube now rising on Harvard Street?

... The cube itself is a monolithic presence, kind of like a big stereo speaker in a room of antique furniture, as we look across the street to the fine historic red brick buildings, with their inviting doors and windows, fine detailing and timeless simplicity. It would have been entirely possible to design a modern structure that nonetheless fit in this setting. Had it had some elements remotely in common with the structures in the vicinity, namely the original church, the house on Holden, or the brick buildings on Harvard, be it materials, height, massing, roof height and angle, the rhythm of windows, shape, form, etc. But these structures have none of these. ...

Via Neal Simpson.

Ghostriders on the T

adamg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:29:51 +0000

Finally, somebody has a ghost of a chance of getting a trolley at Brookline Village.

Suspects in Brookline bookshop holdup arrested in Jamaica Plain

adamg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:55:31 +0000

Brookline Police report that Horai-San Book and Crystal Shop, 242 Washington St. in Brookline Village, was held up around 6:42 p.m. on Friday.

Saturday morning, Brookline Police raided 21 Child St. in Jamaica Plain, arresting two men on armed-robbery charges. Police blame the pair, who they say were shacking up there temporarily, for at least one other armed holdup in Brookline and say they were likely planning more holdups to support an addiction to crack. Police said one of the men was from Fall River, while they described the other only as "homeless."

Alleged Brookline Village attacker arrested

adamg — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:00:46 +0000

At Logan Airport, where he was allegedly harrassing people.

Earlier:
Woman attacked near Brookline Village T stop.

Woman attacked near Brookline Village T stop

adamg — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:55:31 +0000

UPDATE: Suspect arrested at Logan Airport.

Around 1 this morning, she fought off man who followed her on the trolley all the way from Government Center, then tried to rape her.

Dognapping in Brookline Village: Maybe leave your dog at home when going out for a bite?

adamg — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:37:30 +0000

A diner at the Village Fair restaurant on Washington Street told police last Thursday that somebody made off with his dog:

The dog was last seen by witnesses in the possession of four teenage Hispanic males, the dog is described as a 3 year old female pit-bull mix black with white markings.

Doesn't handle disappointment well

adamg — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:25:28 +0000

Brookline Police report that when a man exiting the Brookline Village Starbucks Wednesday morning declined to give a panhandler money:

[T]he suspect kicked over a newspaper stand which subsequently fell and struck the victims vehicle.

The panhandler was subsequently arrested.

They also report on a traffic incident at Parkman and St. Paul streets:

Victim reports that while she was taking a left turn a man crossing the street deliberately and repeatedly smashed his briefcase against the hood of her car damaging it. The suspect is described as an older man around 65 years of age, 6'2, wearing glasses and a gray suit.

Somehow, I'm betting that if they find that man, he's going to have a dramatically different version of the story.

D Line reopening ahead of schedule

Arborway — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:09:58 +0000

This Saturday as opposed to Monday, per The Boston Globe.

This will certainly ease the coming weekend of hell brought about by several Red Sox games, college move-ins and Labor Day tourist traffic.

Trains will be able to run faster, and the handicapped-accessible Breda trolleys should theoretically be able to traverse the line at full speed without derailing now that the track renovations are complete. The T expects the latter to enter service on the D Line by the end of the year.

The news isn't all good however. Renovation projects at Longwood and Brookline Village stations will not be finished until next Spring.