Kenmore Square
Police to lock down North Station, Fenway Park areas at halftime
By adamg - 2/2/12 - 2:54 pmBoston Police say anybody not ensconced in a bar in those areas by the time Madonna starts to sing on Sunday will be turned away from the area. And people who are in a bar who leave after she starts belting it out will be escorted out of the area.
In its listing of Important Super Bowl Safety Tips for Patriots Fans Looking to Behave Like Champions, police say that in addition to massive presence around North Station and Kenmore Square, they will also "employ extensive use of video-cameras" to capture evidence of hooliganism.
The document warns that five or more people "tumultuously assembled" on the street can be ordered to disperse immediately.
Backhoe takes out electricity to parts of Fenway, Back Bay, Kenmore Square
By adamg - 2/2/12 - 9:27 amFirefighters, police and NStar workers are on scene on Massachusetts Avenue by the Berklee construction site, where a backhoe took out some underground power conduits around 9 a.m., causing a power outage that extends to Northeastern and Bay State Road. The backhoe operator was apparently injured, but not critically.
Roving UHub reporter Chelsea reports:
Saw flashes then puff of smoke at mass ave and belvedere
DA: Hungarian couple held as badda pests who swindled eBay users with phony vehicle deals
By adamg - 11/30/11 - 7:10 pm
Somodi (l) and Lendvai A pair of Hungarians living at the Buckminster Hotel who allegedly managed to swindle eBay visitors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars were ordered without bail until Roxbury District Court can find a Hungarian interpreter, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Zsold Lendvai and Eniko Somodi's scheme, which involved advertising a goulash of vehicles from cars to bulldozers, began to unravel when somebody noticed his car for sale on eBay and contacted Boston Police, the DA's office says. BPD began surveillance and notified local banks to beware of people attempting to use Greek or Portuguese passports as IDs to open accounts, from which money would then be wired to overseas accounts.
Teens sought for grabbing woman in Kenmore Square
By adamg - 11/6/11 - 10:27 amBoston University Police report a woman was indecently assaulted around 8:25 a.m. on Thursday at the parking lot at Commonwealth Avenue and Deerfield Street:
Two teenage boys rode by on their bikes. One of the suspects grabbed her buttocks squeezing it. The victim screamed at them and then started to chase the suspects. The suspect that assaulted the victim was wearing the grey knit hat and black sweatshirt. The second party was possibly a teenager wearing a black sweatshirt with a red embellishment.
Fire at Kenmore stops Green Line service
By adamg - 10/9/11 - 5:21 pmAn electrical fire in a utility room at the station means no service on the B, C and D lines, Local 718 reports.
How bicycle cops secure their bikes
By adamg - 8/30/11 - 9:37 am
Douglas McGregor watched a two-wheeled BPD officer secure his ride outside the Kenmore Square Dunkin' Donuts, notes:
The bike cops are smart to not carry the weight of a superfluous bike lock! It was the fastest bike lockin' I have ever seen... at perp-arresting speed.
Bank robber has a thing for Sovereign Bank branches
By adamg - 8/19/11 - 8:50 am
The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force is looking for a guy they say robbed at least two Sovereign Bank branches this week. Mr. Goatee first hit the Sovereign branch at 1442 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner on Tuesday.
He took a break on Wednesday - when police were busy with another bank robber - then popped up again yesterday to rob the Sovereign branch at 552 Commonwealth Ave. in Kenmore Square. After demanding and getting money, he fled on foot, the task force reports.
Brookline man charged as post-Sox Green Line groper
By adamg - 8/5/11 - 12:56 pm
A Brookline man was arrested at Kenmore station last night on charges he grabbed a teen's crotch on the crowded platform following the Red Sox game.
According to a report by MBTA Transit Police, a 16-year-old from Greenfield was walking down the platform with his parents and grandfather shortly after 11 p.m. when Scott Moore, 44, got in between them. The teen's father thought Moore was about to try to pick his father-in-law's pocket, but instead watched as Moore "stopped short, turn his palm toward [the teen] and grab [his] crotch."
The family quickly found a police officer and Moore was arrested on a charge of indecent assault and battery, police say.
Innocent, etc.
Is the outcome of this hearing already in the cards?
By adamg - 7/27/11 - 12:54 pmThe Boston Licensing Board holds a hearing next Wednesday on a fortune teller's proposed studio in Kenmore Square.
Angela Mitchell will be asking for a license to read palms and tarot cards at 485 Commonwealth Ave.
Unlike with liquor and food licenses, in which prospective operators are required to explain their experience in their fields, the board does not ask would-be seers about their training, let alone the accuracy of their predictions. Instead, they ask them if they plan to use neon signs to advertise their services and post their prices prominently. In the past, the board would reject license holders who said yes to the first and no to the second.
Board hearings start at 10 a.m. in City Hall Room 801.
Thanks to Bill Bradshaw for noticing this.
What, the Globe's never heard of Kenmore Square?
By adamg - 7/18/11 - 10:43 amOne of those people who read the Globe even on Saturdays noticed this story, in which the region's paper of record says the closing of the Downtown Crossing Borders would leave Boston with "only one chain bookstore in Boston: the Barnes & Noble in the Prudential Center."
