Longfellow Bridge

Crossing the Charles on the Red Line after dark

adamg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:50:51 -0500

Dan Tobin was facing the Citgo sign on the way home from Cambridge this evening:

... It's a landmark I invariably associate with the Red Sox and tonight I realized that, no matter how the season ended up - with us as champions or the hated Yankees taking the crown - this is the time of year when baseball is in hibernation. It won't be long before being outside itself is a chore and means braving the nasty winter that comprises half the Boston year. It made me a little sad facing up to this reality. But it also made me thankful to know that one day the Sox will come back, the cold weather will lift, and the city will become a beautiful place once again.

Suspicious package hanging off the Longfellow causing delays

adamg — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:47:57 -0400

State Police are at the Longfellow Bridge right now, checking out a "suspicious package," Boston Police tweet. Presumably, it is not made of Lite Brites.

Why would you jump off the Longfellow?

adamg — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:47:09 -0400

But that's what somebody did early this morning - and after he was fished out of the Charles, he was taken away in the custody of the State Police, Boston_Fireman tweets.

Report: Alleged Longfellow Bridge iron thieves to ditch the 'alleged'

adamg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:43:37 -0400

Channel 5 reports the two alleged yutzes charged with selling 91,000 pounds of ornamental scrollwork from the Longfellow Bridge as scrap last year are expected to plead guilty.

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Whatever happened to the two state workers accused of selling the trim off the Longfellow Bridge?

adamg — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:17:43 -0400

According to the Middlesesex County District Attorney's office, Richard Stewart of Saugus and Joseph Falzone of Nashua, NH are scheduled for trial on Aug. 11

The two are, of course, charged with selling almost 100,000 pounds of decorative trim for scrap last year - using a state-owned dump truck to haul the metal from the Stoneham yard where it had been stored while the state repaired the bridge - to a scrap-metal yard in Everett.