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Police: Hood-jumping South End road rager damages taxi

By adamg - 3/19/10 - 4:54 pm

Boston Police report an argument between a cab driver and the occupants of a car pulled up next to him at Harrison Avenue and Herald Street around 2:40 this morning ended when one of the car's passengers got out, jumped on the cab's hood and started jumping up and down.

Officers on routine patrol noticed the commotion and wound up arresting Emmanuel Taylor, 29, on a charge of willful and malicious destruction of property.

Police did not specify what allegedly got Taylor so heated up.

Innocent, etc.

Early morning argument at South End gas pump ends in stabbing

By adamg - 3/13/10 - 2:09 pm

Boston Police report a man pumping gas at the Sunoco station at 895 Mass. Ave. got into an argument with two other men that ended with one of them stabbing him, around 12:30 a.m. on Friday.

The victim was taken to nearby Boston Medical Center with injuries not considered life threatening.

Undertaker finally arrives to pick up mouldering remains of Columbus Center project

By adamg - 3/10/10 - 7:49 pm

So those steel girders can just slowly turn to dust now - unless some enterprising soul puts some boards across them and turns the ex-construction site into a teeter-totter park.

Court: Cops who find themselves outnumbered by suspected drug dealers in a dark alley are allowed to frisk them

By adamg - 2/25/10 - 12:09 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that a gun found in the pants of a suspected drug dealer in a South End alley can be used against him at his trial.

A lower-court judge had ordered the gun dismissed as evidence, saying two Boston detectives had no probable cause to frisk Enrique Cabrera on Oct. 15, 2007. The appeals court, however, said a series of events gave the detectives reason to conclude Cabrera was involved in a drug deal and that officers who feel their safety is at risk can frisk suspects for weapons even in the absence of bulges that might indicate a weapon. The judges add, though, that such cases are showing the strain between conflicting sections of the federal and state constitutions: Read more

Quincy man charged with sidewalk rage in the South End after he puts woman in hospital with head injury

By adamg - 2/18/10 - 6:28 pm

Boston Police report John Harris was about to cross paths with a 60-year-old woman at E. Concord and Albany streets around 8:30 this morning when he shoved her to the ground. Read more

The natives grow restless

By adamg - 2/10/10 - 1:31 pm

Jed braved the elements to take this exclusive photo of, er, um, a non-snow-covered Columbus Avenue in the South End around noon.

UPDATE: Rapidly deteriorating conditions on the waterfront. And look at these near-whiteout conditions in Dorchester, captured at no small risk by Matt Vaitiskis:

How things have changed on Thayer Street

By adamg - 2/8/10 - 2:45 am

Stephanie Rogers checks out the first Cabin Fever indie gift show on what used to be a fairly desolate South End street.

South End bank held up

By adamg - 2/5/10 - 8:08 pm

Boston Police tweet the Hingham Institute for Savings at 540 Tremont St., was held up late this afternoon.

When restaurants talk back: Is Myers + Chang pushing poor people out of the South End?

By adamg - 2/1/10 - 4:27 pm

Joanne Chang of Myers + Chang responds to a Yelp review that not only accuses it of de-grittifying the South End but of being offensive to Asians, to boot.

What's wrong with East Berkeley Street?

By adamg - 2/1/10 - 2:25 pm

Chinatown Blog reports some residents and merchants along East Berkeley Street want to change its name to Dover Street, and that there's a public hearing on the matter on Feb. 9th 6:30 p.m. at Project Place, 1145 Washington St.

Could somebody explain why this is necessary?

Three robbed at knifepoint near Northeastern

By adamg - 1/28/10 - 9:50 am

The Huntington News reports two students and a guest were robbed near Tremont Street and Douglas Park while on a liquor run around 7 p.m. on Jan. 23. The three were robbed by two guys who'd followed them into Hollywood Liquors and then followed them down the street before flashing a knife and taking their liquor, cell phones and cash.

South End restaurant cited and chided for piling chairs in front of an emergency exit

By adamg - 1/26/10 - 5:57 pm

Aquitane, 569 Tremont St., received a citation from police on Oct. 29 because workers cleaning up after a party piled eight chairs in front of a rear exit. Boston Licensing Board members today told the restaurant not to let it happen again. Read more

Two hotels proposed for vacant South End lot

By adamg - 1/23/10 - 9:39 pm

The Chinatown Blog has the details on a proposal for 275 Albany St.

Vacant South End building partially collapses; forces evacuation of neighboring condos

By adamg - 1/15/10 - 2:21 am

The Boston Fire Department tweets the rear wall at 56 Berkeley St., from the third to fifth floors, collapsed around 11:30 p.m., Wednesday. The building is vacant and nobody was injured, but as a precaution, a nine-unit condo building at 50 Berkeley St. was ordered evacuated for the night.

Meeting tonight to help figure out how Boston can respond to the Haitian earthquake

By adamg - 1/13/10 - 1:02 pm

Meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Holy Cross Cathedral, 1400 Washington St., according to state Rep. Linda Dorcena-Forry (D-Dorchester):

At the meeting, aide organizations, government officials, Haitian Americans and concerned citizens will both mourn the devastation and begin the recovery. I hope you can join us. We will discuss search and rescue operations and have details regarding various funds where we can start channeling supplies to aide in the recovery.

South End stabbing leaves man near death

By adamg - 1/9/10 - 12:30 am

Boston Police report a man was stabbed tonight at 23 Msgr. Reynolds Way in the South End and that the homicide unit has been called in.

Police: Man steals car, goes on high-speed joy ride that ends in South End crash and death of the guy he took with him

By adamg - 1/8/10 - 4:53 pm

Boston Police report Warren Tyler took advantage of a motorist leaving his car running at a gas station to steal the car, then go on a short joy ride that killed one man and sent Tyler and a truck driver in the hospital last night. Read more

One-man crime wave gets 13 to 20

By adamg - 1/6/10 - 5:51 pm

Preston, is that you?Preston Jackson, a Mattapan man charged with continuing to rob Back Bay, South End and Fenway stores even after his photo started showing up on TV, pleaded guilty today to nine counts of armed robbery and one count each of armed assault with intent to rob and attempted robbery, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Peter Lauriat sentenced Jackson to 13 to 20 years in state prison.

Jackson never actually showed a weapon during his holdups, in which he typically passed a note to a clerk, but was charged with armed robbery because he told his victims he was armed. After his last, failed heist, police recovered a note on the street that read "Give me the money quietly and no one will be shot."

Stabbing in the South End

By adamg - 1/5/10 - 9:31 pm

Boston Police tweet somebody was stabbed this evening on Yarmouth Place, was able to get to Boston Medical Center, wound not considered life threatening.

Hampton Inn Suites Boston

By adamg - 1/1/10 - 1:00 am

Location. The Hampton Inn Suites Boston is located at the Boston Crosstown Center and stands adjacent to the Boston Medical Center in Boston, Mass. This property is positioned one mile from the Boston Ballet, Copley Place and Symphony Hall. Newbury Street is located less than two miles away. Read more

Low rate: 
$119
High rate: 
$169
Check-in time: 
3 p.m.
Check-out time: 
11 a.m.
Fitness facility: 
Yes
Meeting rooms: 
Yes
Driving directions: 

From Boston Logan International Airport:
Approximate distance to the hotel is four miles.

Take Exit 93 South Boston.
Take Exit 18 toward Dorchester/Roxbury.
The hotel is located on the right.

Hotel ID: 
220677

Globe weighs in on South End / Roxbury border

By Ron Newman - 12/26/09 - 9:51 am

That argument we have here any time there's a news story about the area behind Northeastern University? The Globe has picked it up.

My personal opinion? Sussex Street is Roxbury, since it was part of the separate city of Roxbury before Boston annexed it in 1868.

Shot to death at the height of the storm

By adamg - 12/20/09 - 3:07 pm

Boston Police report finding a black male, 22, shot to death around 3 a.m. today at 35 Hammond St..

It's the latest violent incident on the street: Read more

They manage to Coppa seat at the bar

By adamg - 12/12/09 - 5:30 pm

Penny and Ed Cherubino report they were first in line last night when Coppa, Ken Oringer and Jamie Biss's new joint, sorry, enoteca, opened its doors for its first Friday night:

... By 6:30 pm the place was jammed. Customers waiting for seats were standing in back of us getting drinks passed to them- including cans of Schaefer beer (go figure). ...

Ed. note: After all, Schaeffer. Is the. One beer to have. When you're having more than one. Sure, I have trouble remembering people's birthday's, but I can't forget that jingle.

Police: Woman bitten, tackled in South End struggle over her cell phone and purse

By adamg - 12/11/09 - 6:31 pm

Boston Police report that when Roberto Rodriguez, 24, attempted to grab a woman's purse on Upton Street around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, the woman fought back: Read more

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