Brookline

The Green Line as poetry in motion

adamg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:33 -0500

Michael Sesling has been writing about his daily commute on the C line - in poetry. From his latest poem:

and they stared
everyone looked at this seat
and then looked at everyone else
looking at the seat
but not a soul moved toward it
it just stayed
empty

some days an empty seat is like
an injured animal
being circled by hungry vultures
but this day
who knows why nobody made a move
maybe we were all too aware of our own selves

the woman in green sweater
seated in the adjacent seat
surely wondered why
everyone stood around
as she turned
looked
with a momentary stare
before she drifted back into
her shuffled papers

Dorchester's 'kissing bandit' wanted for attempted rape at Brookline T stop

adamg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:39:08 -0400

Yesterday, Boston Police reported a man arrested after he was spotted sitting in some woman's lap by her boyfriend was wanted on unspecified warrants.

Channel 4 reports one of those warrants was for an attempted rape near the Brookline Village T stop in 2007. In that incident, Samuel Prado allegedly chatted the woman up from Government Center to Brookline Village, then attacked her as they both left Brookline Village. Channel 4 says he was released on bail, then never showed up in court.

After the Brookline arrest, the Globe described him as "a homeless drifter," who drifted up here from New York because Boston was "quieter."

MBTA installs electronic signs on the Riverside line that do absolutely nothing

adamg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:19:52 -0400

No, that's not quite true, Paul Levy reports: They do warn you that fare evasion is a crime so you better pay your damn fare:

I have to give the MBTA something for truth in advertising. It describes this capital improvement project (or one like it) as follows: This project will install new LED information signs on the platforms and lobbies of busy subway stations. These signs will provide visual equivalent of audio information on train arrival times and destination information.

In that sense, the signs are the visual equivalent of the public address system on this line, which for years has also failed to give audio information about delays or train arrivals.

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Newton, Brookline lose their glossy magazines

adamg — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:54:54 -0400

Ian Lamont reports the publisher of Newton Magazine, Brookline Magazine and MetroWest Magazine, has thrown in the towel and ceased publication.

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Car rolls over in South Brookline

adamg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:30:16 -0400

Stephen Walsh was there after the 8 a.m. accident on Newton Street.

ZipCar: Customers aren't rowdy college students out to destroy Brookline

adamg — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:56:51 -0400

The company responds to the hubbub over its parking spaces in Brookline.

Brookline considers restricting ZipCar

adamg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:05 -0400

Seems some of its parking spaces violate town zoning codes. Town Meeting turns the key on the issue next month. At least one Town Meeting member says if you let ZipCar park wherever it wants, who knows what unspeakable things could happen next.

Brookline police claim they proved motorist didn't contact cyclist

Brett — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:59:34 -0400

Despite a motorist stopping at the scene and telling police that he struck Tracy Milillo (who died of her injuries), Brookline police claim that unnamed magical "forensic tests" prove that his vehicle didn't contact Tracy or her bike. “We’re not sure why the bike fell.”

For a change, a Green Line trolley dies somewhere other than Government Center

adamg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:05:15 -0400

Dead D train inbound at Reservoir, the T reports.

Anti-Israel protesters choose a Saturday to protest Israel in Brookline

adamg — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:28:48 -0400

Gosh, why would they do that? Martin Solomon posts some e-mail from one of the organizers:

The effect of a silent march through the (mostly but not entirely) liberal Jewish neighborhood on the Sabbath with a banner saying Freedom and Equality for Palestine! should be strikng indeed...

And yes, there will be pro-Israel counter march, with people standing outside the temples along the route.