A roving UHub correspondent reports a gaggle of LaRouchies were out in front of the Park Street T station this morning alerting the public to the perfidy of evil old England. Kind of impressive considering ol' Lyndon finally kicked the bucket in 2019.
As Garrett Quinn reminds us, there's always a Massachusetts connection. In 2015, then London Mayor Boris Johnson came to town for some conference at Harvard, and got on the Red Line for the trip across the river. But it was the middle of one of our blizzards that year, so he wound up having a chat with some random chap at Park Street.
A Riverside Line trolley had some pantograph performance issues in the tunnel between Haymarket and Government Center shortly before midnight. Not long after, Transit Police reported numerous drunk young men running on the tracks from Government Center to Park after one train was evacuated to Government Center. Before the dead train was emptied, Charles reported:
A bunch of fellas are yelling at each other and I think they’re about to do the Good Will Hunting bar scene.
Firefighters and EMS responded to Park Street station around 10:15 p.m. due to a person on the southbound tracks. He was quickly determined to be dead, and firefighters removed his body. Read more.
In 1843, William Sharp created this lithograph of a Boston street scene, specifically, Tremont Street, looking past the Park Street Church and Boston Common on the right.
From the BPL arts department. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
Whatever happened happened around 10 p.m. The T initially said a trolley derailed at Park Street, but then said, nope the trolley "split a switch" but didn't actually go off the rails. Photo of non-derailment switch splitting.
In either case, no injuries, but also no service between Arlington Street and North Station. Riders can use the Orange Line instead, the T says.
Oh, look: The T has cameras everywhere.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who went up to an 83-year-old man and "forcefully grabbed the victim's wallet and cell phone out of his hand" on the eastbound Green Line platform at Park Street around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 24. He then ran out of the station, police say.
If Orange Vest Guy looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 87383.
Joe Ruscio was in line at Park Street around 5:20 p.m. for one of the alleged Red Line shuttle buses to JFK/UMass supposedly running due to this morning's Broadway derailment. No buses in sight, he reported.
Boston Police report arresting Nickoyan Wallace, on charges he gunned down Ivanildo Barros, 37, of Dorchester, at 590 Park St. in Dorchester shortly before noon on Friday. Read more.
Victim identified as Ivanildo Barros, 37, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was murdered at 590 Park St., near Millet Street, around 11:50 a.m. He was declared dead at the scene.
This is the third murder in Dorchester this week. Boston murders in 2021.
Robert Grover posted this photo of a mortally wounded trolley at Park Street at 4:26 p.m., adds: Read more.
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