Newmarket Square

New name for local wiener wagon

adamg — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:52:16 +0000

With new wheels comes great responsibility, or something: Newmarket Square institution Boston Speed Dog reports it rolls out a new truck tomorrow - along with a new side of Grillo's Pickles - and that by the end of the month it will change its name to Boston Super Dog.

Via Grub Street Boston.

Why, Santy, why?

adamg — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:58:31 +0000

4/22/12 - 2:40 pm

Boston Police are looking for a heavyset white guy in his 50s with white hair, a white beard and a red T-shirt for a holdup at the Mass. Ave. Market, 962 Mass. Ave. this afternoon. He may have made good his escape in a cab spotted heading toward Melnea Cass Blvd.

Local eatery announces: No, no, a thousand times no!

adamg — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:50:56 +0000

A roving UHub photographer who used to frequent Victoria's Diner reports:

Reading the weekly specials board on the way in, we decided the new owners don't want much business and certainly aren't getting ours.

Speed in retirement

adamg — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:55:25 +0000

Penny Cherubino catches up with Speed at his eponymous hot-dog stand.

Masked man robs woman of $10,000 in cash in Newmarket Square

adamg — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:14:43 +0000

1/25/10 - 3:52 pm

District C-6 reports a woman walking from Victoria's Diner to a nearby Citizens Bank to make a deposit Monday afternoon was held up by a man in a black face mask who told her "I have a gun. Let's go for a walk."

The suspect is described as a black Hispanic male, 5'11" to 6', who also wore a black jacket and dark pants. After taking the woman's red tote bag with the cash around 4 p.m., he ran down Mass. Ave. toward Columbia Road, police said.

We don't need global warming for the streets to flood

adamg — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:52:07 +0000

Local 718 tweets a "major water-main break" has flooded Newmarket Square tonight.