So the Boston Business Journal informs us. Can those of us of the wrong gender, who still have to put up with "train station grade" facilities, get a report from those of the lucky gender?
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By adamg - 11/17/13 - 11:36 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Newton man on charges he stabbed one man and beat another after being refused entry to Coogan's Bar around 12:35 a.m.
Police say that after the attack, Peter Damelio, 38, took a cab to Charlestown - where he was arrested.
Police say that when Damelio first showed up at the bar, he tried to gain immediate entrance. A bouncer told him he had to get at the back of the line. Damelio complied, but then tried cutting in line:
By adamg - 11/15/13 - 12:59 pm
Keytar Bear has been making the rounds of downtown and Back Bay T stops, but he came above ground today to play and mug for the camera by the Old State House, where Jocelyn snapped his photo.
By adamg - 11/15/13 - 11:50 am
The Boston Licensing Board ruled yesterday the Bell in Hand did nothing that contributed to the death of a Canadian man in its men's room in September.
By adamg - 11/14/13 - 3:35 pm
Transit Police have released this video of a guy stealing a bicycle from the bike cage at South Station around 10:40 p.m. on Oct. 24.
Contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text tip to 873873
By adamg - 11/12/13 - 1:33 pm
Police say they are continuing to investigate just how a visiting Canadian came to die in the men's room at the Bell in Hand early on Sept. 18, his cell phone dropping to the floor after he had called a friend in Canada to complain he wasn't feeling well.
By adamg - 11/9/13 - 12:43 pm
Not because he's Jimmy Kimmel, but because he recently aired a bit in which a laughing 6-year-old said the way to solve our trade imbalance with China would be to bomb the place.
By adamg - 11/9/13 - 12:25 pm
A fire that started in a downtown basement around 7 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1872, quickly spread and destroyed 776 buildings. Firefighters were hampered by the flu many of the horses that pulled fire wagons had come down with - and by the poor water pressure and bad zoning that Fire Chief John Damrell had earlier warned the city about.
Photo from the BPL 1872 fire collection posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 11/6/13 - 1:22 pm
A fuming citizen spokes up about the situation on High Street downtown:
By adamg - 11/6/13 - 8:07 am
A limo driver got out of his car outside the Ritz around 7:15 a.m. Somebody else then jumped in and drove away. Police tracked the vehicle GPS to Storrow Drive. Scott Breaker reports he made it all the way to Rte. 1 in Saugus, where the local constabulary stopped and arrested him at the Main Street exit off Rte. 1.
By adamg - 11/5/13 - 1:16 pm
A man charged with "upskirting" a woman on the Green Line in 2010 - and captured the next day by a decoy T cop in a skirt of her own - wants the Supreme Judicial Court to toss the charges, saying the law used to prosecute him was only meant to protect women in the shower or dressing rooms, not to people practicing the First Amendment in public.
By adamg - 11/5/13 - 10:05 am
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who helped himself to $20 from the wallet of a person in a wheelchair at the Downtown Crossing T stop on Oct. 17.
He's described as Hispanic, with black and grey hair, about 5’8" and 165 lbs.
If you know him, contact Transit Police detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.
By adamg - 11/2/13 - 6:03 pm
Brian D'Amico went from photographing the Sox parade to photographing the remains of a 200-person post-parade smashmouthing in the area of Milk and India streets. He reports three people had to be taken to the hospital with injuries they should recover from and that police shut the bars in that vicinity, including, of course, Coogan's.
By adamg - 11/2/13 - 5:20 pm
On the Longfellow Bridge.
What a great day for a parade.
From Fenway Park to the banks of the Charles, Bostonians lined up early for a chance to see the 2013 World Champion Boston Red Sox - and doesn't that sound good to hear?
When the procession of Duck Boats got to the Boston Marathon finish line in Copley Square, it stopped. Jonny Gomes put the World Series trophy and a Boston 617 Strong jersey on the finish line. Then the players and fans listened and joined in a chorus of "God Bless America."
Glenn Cabo shows more of the scene:
By adamg - 11/1/13 - 11:44 pm
Jeannette Andre photographed Bill Russell at the unveiling of his statue outside City Hall today.
This wasn't Russell's first viewing of the statue, though. On Wednesday, he and President Obama took a look:
By adamg - 11/1/13 - 1:05 pm
District 2 (South Boston, South End, downtown, Chinatown), incumbent City Councilor Bill Linehan is shocked almost beyond belief about a mailing from opponent Suzanne Lee, which includes a snippet from a column in which the Globe's Yvonne Abraham called him a dinosaur.
By adamg - 10/30/13 - 12:08 pm
Freddie Francis needs to know where she can get fake mustaches downtown.
By adamg - 10/30/13 - 11:34 am
The mayor is asking businesses to let employees out at 4 p.m. and there are a series of planned road closings and parking bans.
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