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By adamg - 2/22/24 - 6:47 am

Christianity Today reports on divisions inside Park Street Church:

A years-long fight over leadership styles and decision-making processes at historic Park Street Church in Boston has boiled over into accusations of abusing spiritual authority and authoritarianism.

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:24 pm

At 8:17 p.m., the MBTA reported delays on the Orange Line, when one of the new trains exhaled its last at Community College. At 8:41 p.m., the T reported delays on the Red Line when a train died at Park. The T did no say if that was one of the new Red Line trains, one of the old Red Line trains or one of the even older Red Line trains.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 9:18 pm

First news from the T about a dead Red Line train came at 6:48 p.m.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 9:23 am
Depressed Red Line riders after they have to exit train

Johnmcboston reported on the situation on the Red Line at Park around 7 a.m.:

The joys of the morning Red Line commute. 15 minute wait, then train out of service.

By adamg - 12/26/23 - 12:32 pm
Park and Tremont during construction of the nation's first subway

In December, 1895, construction of what would be the nation's first subway was well under way along and under Tremont Street, but that didn't stop busy Bostonians from making their rounds.

Compare to the view today: Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 5:23 pm
Waiting at Park Street

Waiting for Godot, um, the Red Line, at Park.

The MBTA reports 20 minute delays on the Red Line that won't be helped by the elimination of slow zones because a train is deader than a doorknob at Charles/MGH, and, say, whatever happened to those brand-new Red Line trains, anyway? Read more.

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 2:35 pm

A Weymouth woman was ordered held without bail at her arraignment today on second-degree murder charges for the fatal stabbing of Jazreanna Sheppard outside the Park Street T stop July 20, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 10/22/23 - 12:27 pm

The MBTA reports some yahoo threw something on the tracks at Park Street that came into contact with the third rail around 7 a.m., shorting out the system and forcing the T to run shuttle buses between Harvard and Broadway until a maintenance crew could undo the damage. Service resumed around 8:20 a.m.

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 1:24 pm
Photos of Red Line suspect

Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say started rubbing his penis against a woman from behind on a Red Line train between Charles/MGH and Park Street around 7:55 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 9/12/23 - 5:03 pm
Nine minutes for the next train to Alewife on the Red Line

Roving UHub photographer Raymond P. Ausrotas shows us the arrival board at Park Street at rush hour today.

And then he shows us what's under the arrival board at rush hour today: Read more.

By adamg - 6/20/23 - 9:58 am
Photos of alleged attackers

Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a pair of allegedly angry Green Line riders for an attack on a trolley between Park and Boylston in which the man repeatedly punched the victim in the head around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Police provided this account: Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 12:09 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Nickoyan Wallace has to stand trial on charges he shot a man to death on Park Street in Dorchester in 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/23 - 9:40 am

Christopher Schmidt reports that when the Red Line opened in 1912, some MIT students took measurements of how long a train took to get from Harvard to Park Street (then four total stops, since Charles/MGH hadn't been built): 7.3 minutes. Read more.

By adamg - 2/24/23 - 9:38 am

WFXT reports the T had to run shuttle buses between Harvard and Broadway after some maintenance equipment derailed at Park Street. The Red Line is now back to as close to normal as it gets these days.

By adamg - 1/31/23 - 2:20 pm

Red Line service in both directions was shut after a man wound up on the tracks at Park Street around 1:45 p.m.

The T is now running shuttle buses between Harvard Square and Broadway.

By adamg - 1/25/23 - 4:15 pm

The MBTA advises Green Line service is currently delayed due to the fact that a trolley just refused to move one inch further near Park Street.

By adamg - 1/20/23 - 4:48 pm

A man with a criminal record dating to 1990 was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail at his arraignment on a charge that he robbed the TD Bank branch at 250 Cambridge St. on Beacon Hill on Tuesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/22/22 - 4:29 pm

The Globe reports a two-car Green Line train with just two passengers onboard derailed near Park Street shortly before midnight, Monday. No injuries, the train was put back on the tracks and the tracks repaired before the start of service Tuesday, the Globe reports.

By adamg - 9/11/22 - 9:51 pm

We saw it on July 21, when flames started going up the side of that Orange Line train And we saw it again today, not during the rapid-fire roof-top flash bangs on a B trolley at Park Street, but afterwards, when the T swapped in shuttle buses. Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/22 - 3:25 pm

Update, 9:32 p.m. MBTA says service has resumed, but with delays.

Shortly before 3 p.m. sparks exploded atop a B Line trolley at Park Street. Don't worry, though: No fire - and definitely no shots fired - although the station filled with some light smoke. Read more.

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