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By adamg - 3/12/14 - 3:50 pm

Wicked Local Cambridge reports the landlord booted the long-time pizza place because it didn't want to pay to upgrade the "mechanics" of the eatery in an old building.

By adamg - 3/7/14 - 10:21 am

It's Cambridge Shred Day tomorrow at the Central Square post office.

By adamg - 2/26/14 - 7:50 pm

Paul Chicarello reports the following happened on a stalled Red Line train (of course) at Central Square around 7:25 p.m.:

Oh god ... someone just pushed the emergency button to ask the train driver why we are standing by. She was obviously pissed.

Person: "I've got somewhere I need to be!" Motorman: "this button is for emergencies ONLY!"

By adamg - 1/24/14 - 7:30 am

Cambridge Day reports on efforts to build a crowdsourced "laser-cutting, laser-engraving and 3-D printing workshop where customers can come in and etch pretty much any design onto any object without having to buy their own gear" in Central Square.

Danger!awesome.

By adamg - 1/2/14 - 2:23 pm
Hard-core shoveler

Meredith captured a snow shoveler hard at work in Central Square this afternoon.

By adamg - 12/31/13 - 3:16 pm

Around 2:50 p.m. at Charles/MGH as cops swarmed the station looking for somebody who might have robbed a bank in Central Square.

UPDATE: Cambridge Police report:

By adamg - 12/6/13 - 7:33 am

Cambridge Day reports the location where the old club was set to return to now looks set to become a pet store instead.

By adamg - 10/5/13 - 11:04 am
Kenny

Transit Police report arresting a Boston man on charges he groped a woman on a Red Line train around 3:30 p.m. yesterday.

Police say officers responded to Central Square, where they found the woman who said she'd been attacked, and who then pointed out the suspect, still on the train:

Other passengers who witnessed the Assault also came forward and positively identified the perpetrator to officers.

Adrian Kenny, 34, was charged with indecent assault and battery.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 10/2/13 - 6:39 am

Cambridge Day reports the owner of the Middle East in Central Square wants to buy the building the club is in. To pay for the purchase, he says he'd want to add four or five stories of residential units above the club.

By adamg - 9/17/13 - 4:48 pm

Updated.

And just in time for rush hour. Although Red Line riders at Central and Harvard reported a strong odor of smoke, the MBTA reports the smoke was from locked brakes on a train that became like one of those obstreperous puppies that refuses to go the way you want it to:

No fire. Disabled train removed from service.

Erica Mattison was among those getting to know their neighbors a little better at Park Street:

Park Street

By adamg - 8/20/13 - 3:15 pm

Seized. gun. Photo by CPD.Seized gun. Photo by CPD.

Cambridge Police report a plainclothes officer spotted a man appearing to be packing a gun around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. When the officer noticed the man and another man engage in a street transaction of some kind on Mass. Ave. near Sidney, he identified himself, an act to which the pair reacted by trying to run away, only they proved unable to outrun Cambridge officers, police say:

By adamg - 5/1/13 - 8:34 am

A two-alarm fire erupted shortly before 7 a.m. in the block housing India Pavilion and Bedworks, Brian D'Amico reports. Sam Hammer reports:

There wasn't apparent fire damage but the glass was shattered in front of Bedworks.

By adamg - 3/8/13 - 1:33 pm

The T worker in question walks through car. Photo by Christopher J. Ternus.The T worker in question walks through smokey car. Photo by Christopher J. Ternus.

An inbound Red Line train that left Harvard at 11:54 this morning finally made it to Central at 12:37 p.m. - pushed there by another train - the MBTA reports.

Christian J. Ternus tweets:

Just got off Red Line train that caught fire. Train filled with smoke.

MBTA operator lost her keys and couldn't get into cab to call for help. Operator told passengers not to ride Red Line in bad weather. "MBTA doesn't spend enough to make it safe." Passengers were having asthma & panic attacks. MBTA op described this as "passengers complaining." Train was *On Fire.*

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says there was no fire on the train, adds:

The train operator did not lose her keys nor make any safety-related announcements on the intercom. The tweet was in reference to another MBTA employee who had boarded the train to investigate the cause of the power problem. The employee attempted to open a door at the end of a Red Line car, but was unable because she did not have a key. This employee made some comments to another employee that were picked up by one or more customers (one of whom then tweeted). Both employees have been identified and both have submitted statements to supervisors. The head of the Red Line is investigating.

By adamg - 1/10/13 - 11:53 am

MBTA Transit Police report officers on patrol at the Central Square Red Line stop yesterday morning spotted a couple making their way onto the platform without paying. Police report this was the third time the male half, Christopher Reed, 26, of Cambridge, has been caught fare evading. He did, however, get a free ride - in the back of a cruiser to T police headquarters - because, police say, he was also wanted on a Cambridge drug charge. The woman? With no outstanding criminal charges, she was captured and released.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 1/3/13 - 12:52 pm

They've been workin' on the railroad. Repairs at Central. Photo by MBTA.They've been workin' on the railroad at Central. Photo by MBTA.

UPDATE: The T reports service resumed around 2:10 p.m., with, of course, residual delays.

Ruddy S. reports a broken rail. The T says it's now busing between Kendall and Harvard.

Dani B., who took the photo below, tweets:

One lousy bus waiting for us at Kendall #shocker

Red turns yellow at Kendall.Red turns yellow at Kendall.

By adamg - 11/29/12 - 4:39 pm
Can you spot the Cambridge/Boston line on the North Point bridge?

Can you spot the Cambridge/Boston line on the North Point bridge? Photo by Matthew Woolf

UPDATE: Power began coming back on around 6:20 p.m.

Reports pouring in of power outages from across the city: Kendall, Central and Harvard squares all without lights. Cambridgeport is dark. The Cambridgeside Galleria and the Museum of Science? Powerless. Even the Harvard Business School across the river might be out.

Some people got stuck in an elevator at Harvard. A family with a baby got stuck in an elevator at the River Street Whole Foods.

Cambridge Police report:

By adamg - 8/11/12 - 11:13 pm

After seeing "Car Talk, the Musical" there tonight, Paul Levy has the bruises to prove it. But he says what's worse is the theater's apparent indifference to a problem that can send people just sitting in their seats plummeting to the floor:

[I]nstead of talking with friends about the wonderful show we had seen and the great performance by talented actors and musicians, we found ourselves talking about the unsafe condition at the theater and what we felt was a poor response to harm that had occurred.

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