The Boston Business Journal reports part of the Everett site Steve Wynn took a look at for a possible casino is actually in Boston - whose mayor has long and loudly backed a casino at Suffolk Downs. Wonder how long it would take the BRA to draw up casino-only zoning that would cover only one particular part of East Boston?
The Boston Public Library's posted this ad for the Providence and Boston train station that once sat where Columbus Avenue today enters Park Square - and which replaced an even older station. Note on this map that its tracks crossed the line of the Boston and Albany just before the station.
Here's a photo from sometime after its construction in 1872 - note the Lincoln statue, which remains in the square, although not in the same prominent location:
Remarkable project, the Urban Ring. The Mission Hill Gazette reports on a quiet little meeting at BRA headquarters to kick off planning for a study on linking the Blue and Silver lines as part of the Urban Ring - the crosstown subway bus line the state nailed to its perch in 2009.
"The project is dormant," Read explained. "Like trees, it'll come back to life when the season is right."
The formal announcement comes tonight, BPS tweeted, and removes a potential objection to rezoning by parents who already have kids in a Boston public school. School officials had earlier said they were considering lifting grandfathering - in which younger siblings are given preference at schools their older brothers and sisters already attend.
Michael Mercogliano, the founder of Mike's Pastry in the North End, passed away this week. The restaurant posted the news to their Facebook page on Tuesday.
According to his remembrance page from the Boston Harborside Home, a visitation and the funeral Mass will be open to the public on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
That's the latest National Weather Service thinking for a storm that could hit us starting Sunday night.
However, the NWS warns us a much stronger storm might whack us Tuesday into Wednesday, which no rhyme can handle: "SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RAIN AND/OR SNOW WOULD BE POSSIBLE."
The Globe reports Gov. Patrick plans to make Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral his new public safety secretary.
Deadline Hollywood reports AMC is working on a series called "We Hate Paul Revere:"
It centers on two brothers living in Colonial Boston who are not fans of local industrialist and activist Paul Revere.
Could be worse: At least they're not doing a comedy about lunkhead townie bank robbers (yet).
Maybe they can get Paul Revere and the Raiders to do the soundtrack.
CBS reports it's hired a guy named Joe Breezy out of Atlanta to serve as music director at Amp 103.3, which means they might be about to expand their current playlist, which now consists of "Titanium," "Gangnam Style," that new song by Taylor Swift and that new song by Rihanna.
WBZ reports some international aptitude test showed Massachusetts eighth graders are among the best in the world - the Massachusetts kids ranked second in math and sixth in science. And that makes them the wicked smartest kids in the US, at least as judged by this particular test.
David notices Boston transportation services tend to be built in fives and then the powers that be eliminate one of them: There used to be five Green Line branches, five Silver Line routes and five terminals at Logan.
What's going on here? Do the planners have spooky Mickey Mouse hands? Does Boston overbuild then scale back? Shrinkage?
David Bernstein reports on the first person to announce a race for one of the four at-large council seats next year:
The Herald reports Gov. Patrick is looking at replacing toll takers with electronic systems.
WBUR rounds up the top highest salaries for college presidents in Massachusetts.
How has the MBTA changed / grown / shrunk during the past 117 years?
Check out the visualization below to see the birth of the Green Line in 1895, the expansion of the Red Line through 1985, and the "repositioning" of the Orange Line. Descriptions of the changes included under the map.
http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2012/04/an...
(Permission granted by author)
Boston Police report a man walking down Joy Street shortly after midnight was jumped from behind by a guy wielding what appeared to be a taser:
The victim told officers, he was walking in the area of Joy Street and he heard footsteps behind him. As the victim turned to acknowledge the person, he was grabbed from behind and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, the male suspect began swinging an unknown object with a blue light on the end of it, which the victim believed was a taser. The victim was able to break free and the suspect ran in the opposite direction.
The tugboat Liberty suffered an engine fire off Georges Island shortly after 8 a.m. today - just as a man was falling off a fishing boat.
The Boston Fire Department promptly summoned its dive team, which promptly got stuck in traffic because it's not based on the water. However, the Coast Guard reports the fire was declared out before the BFD marine unit got out to the tugboat and that a passing boater picked up the person in the water.
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