Andrew Square

Is stuck somewhere near Andrew, full of increasingly cranky people who don't like being stuck underground, squashed together.

A man who started drinking at one Dorchester Avenue bar, continued across the street, then returned to the first wound up getting both hauled before the Boston Licensing Board today for serving an intoxicated patron.

The lawyer for one of the bars, the Aces, 551 Dorchester Ave., tried to sidestep the police citation by citing Andrew Square's problem with drug addicts and methadone clinics. He argued his client is operating under tremendous strains because of that - the druggies keep trying to get in - but acting board Chairman Milton Wright, a retired judge, cut him off as he was reading from a Herald article about the scourge of drugs in Andrew Square.

Casey Shockley shows off his rendition of the Red Line at the Andrew-JFK/UMass tunnel, done a year ago at Karma Tattoo in Somerville. He explains he used to live in the Polish Triangle in Dorchester. See it larger.

He joins Dot rat Adam Myerson, who has the Ashmont line on his leg (more) and Josh DeCosta, who has the Orange Line at Sullivan Square on his arm.

Kaitlin Maud, meanwhile, has the entire MBTA map on her arm - both subway and commuter rail (in the photo, north is at the bottom, Green Line on the right):

Karen asks:

Once in a while I hear what I believe is a foghorn here in Southie. Any idea where it's coming from?

Tuesday night, MBTA Transit Police had to dispatch officers to Andrew to deal with an angry man threatening other passengers with a plunger. Yesterday, police dispatched officers to the Red Line station to deal with a naked man (photo NSFW if you squint or have a decent sized monitor).

Boston Police report a fake BWSC worker got pretty pushy on Boston Street in South Boston around 10:30 a.m. yesterday.

Red Line jogger. MBTA surveillance photo.

The T had to stop inbound Red Line service from the south shortly after 7 a.m. to try to get this fool off the tracks between Andrew and Broadway. The T reports he managed to flee before police could detain him and ask what the hell he was thinking.

In the MBTA surveillance video below, he appears at around :05 (way, way at the top of the screen) and then hops onto the tracks around :35:

Remains of the break. Photo by BFD.

A water main broke around 5 p.m. on Southampton Street, sending water gushing into the Andrew T stop, buckling the road and causing headaches for area motorists and police officers trying to keep them away from Andrew Square.

The Boston Fire Department reports the main was shut off, but now Southampton will have to be dug up and the T will have to re-route buses. The Red Line stop is back open for business.

Jessica Orndorff tweets:

Just saw an MBTA bus in Andrew with "!*%?&$" on its display.

Boston Police report two women died after being hit by cars in separate incidents Friday and Saturday.

Adam J. Cassino was ordered held without bail yesterday at his arraignment on charges he beat Barbara Tagen to death in her Andrew Square apartment last month, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

UPDATE: Man charged with murder.

Boston Police report Barbara Tagen, 65, was killed in her apartment at 385 Dorchester St. sometime before her body was discovered around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Police found her body "suffering from trauma."

Boston Police report a worker at Marian Manor was attacked in Andrew Square by a co-worker's gun-wielding muscle - four guys in a car - Saturday night.

According to police, the suspect felt his co-worker had stolen "his weed and money." He was arrested, the four pistol whippers, however, escaped.

District C-6 reports a man was stabbed in the right arm and robbed of $212 around 7:15 p.m. on Thursday at 363 Dorchester St.

The victim told police he was approached by three light-skinned Hispanic males who addressed him in Spanish. One was described as 18, 6'1" and about 220 lbs., with thin sideburns and a goatee and wearing a gray hoodie and a black hat. Another was described as 18, about 5'7" and 180 lbs., in Nike wind pants and a gray sweatshirt. The victim could not describe the third assailant.

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire broke out this afternoon on the second floor of 8 Leeds St.

The department reports the occupant of the first floor is a recent Boston Fire recruit who was listening to the department radio channel in a classroom at the Moon Island training facility when he heard his own address being called out. He was excused from class and allowed to go home to deal with the damage from all the water used to fight the fire.

The department adds the fire displaced five people and caused an estimated $100,000 in damage.

District C-6 reports that when the help at the Connection, 560 Dorchester Ave., asked a particular guy to leave at closing time on May 8, he pulled out a silver handgun to object. Workers got him outside, where he pulled out his gun and stated "I'll shoot you." Instead, however, he ran down Dorchester Street.

District C-6 reports a man walking on Ellery Street around 1 p.m. on April 11, was approached by a guy who put a knife to his back and told him to "run everything you have and don't look back."

The suspect, described as a white Hispanic male, about 27, 5'6" and 170 lbs, in a black hat and sweatpants and a red hoodie, then fled into Old Colony with the man's backpack, police say.

Boston and State Police report they are looking for a guy who held up the Mt. Washington Bank branch at 501 Southampton St. around 2:40 p.m. yesterday:

The subject placed a bag on the counter and threatened the tellers, verbally demanding cash. The teller placed cash into the bag and the subject fled the bank on foot.

Get an unexpected present from grampa yesterday? Contact the Bank Robbery Task Force at (617) 223-6426.

Boston Police issued an alert that a car crashed into the Dunkin' Donuts in Andrew Square this morning. Channel 5 reports four people were injured in the crash.

Boston Police report a man was robbed of his Nokia cell phone, diamond earrings, gold chain and gold bracelet by three black males, one with a knife, around 12:30 p.m. on April 11 at 1 Ellery St. in South Boston.