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By adamg - 9/10/23 - 9:32 pm
St. Anthony's Shrine on Arch Street wrapped with the names of 9/11 victims

The St. Anthony Shrine on Arch Street downtown was wrapped today with the name of all the victims of 9/11, Anthony Castiglioni reports.

9/11 commemorations on Monday.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 8:16 pm
Little Amal at the Chinatown Gate

Brooks Payne walked with Little Amal - who is actually 12 feet tall representation of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl - from Dewey Square to the Chinatown Gate today. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 8:28 pm
Remains of the vehicle

Remains of the vehicle. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that a woman in an MBTA Ride had to be hospitalized after a harrowing ride from Woburn to downtown Boston behind a guy who had jumped into the vehicle and sped off, around 3:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/2/23 - 1:11 pm
Sun rises over downtown Boston

Tony Ursillo watched the sun come up over downtown Boston this morning.

By adamg - 9/1/23 - 10:15 am
Yutz wanted for register rifling

He knows he's been caught on camera but did that stop him?

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who broke into the Boston Public Market at Haymarket about 90 minutes after it closed on Aug. 15 and committed larceny. Read more.

By adamg - 9/1/23 - 8:58 am
Sunrise over the Charles and Boston

Handmaid watched the sunrise over the Charles River, Back Bay and downtown Boston.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 9:52 am

Hours after Boston and State Police broke up a huge brawl at the South Bay AMC complex, police broke up another brawl that erupted outside the AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street, then moved down Avery Street towards the Ritz-Carlton, around 11 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/25/23 - 11:19 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Boloco is closing its outlet on Boylston Street near Berklee College at the end of the day and that it plans to close its other Boylston Street location and one on Congress Street downtown by the end of the year.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 9:15 pm

Boston Eater rips the shell off this tale: Two visitors up from Houston, where they eat crawfish on purpose, ordered a cold lobster salad roll at Boston & Maine Fish Company and realized "what they were eating was not the rich, meaty flavor of an oceanic bug, but rather the lighter, more rubbery flavor of a mudbug."

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 8:34 pm

Roving UHub photographer Michael Campbell couldn't help noticing the majestic sky from East Boston around 5:20 this afternoon.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 9:04 am
The view of the fog from the top of Peters Hill

Chris Ferry gazed long into the abyss at the top of Peters Hill on the Roslindale side of the Arnold Arboretum this morning, rather than looking out over downtown Boston.

Down the hill, on the other side of Bussey Street, the fog began to envelope the trees: Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 9:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old and two 14-year-olds on charges they jumped and stomped a man in front of the Steps on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing and left him bruised and bleeding as they and their pals ran away - except for the one who pedaled away on a Bluebike - around 8:15 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 1:37 pm

Update: Licensing board says Estella's not to blame for what happened.

Boston Police say that when officers responded to a report of a large fight outside Estella's on Temple Place, they found a crowd of people on the street, up to 50 people, many of them shoving and yelling at each other, around 9:20 p.m. on June 18. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 2:34 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a teen they say punched a man in the mouth on an Orange Line car at Downtown Crossing around 9 p.m. on Friday after he asked the kid and his pals to stop threatening other passengers and blocking the train's doors with their Bluebikes. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 8:33 pm
Photos of suspected carjacker

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say used a knife to rob somebody of their car at the Laz parking lot at 37 Merrimac St. around 10:25 a.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.

By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:01 pm

Boston Police report arresting three teens in two separate knife incidents yesterday, at the Downtown Crossing Macy's and near City Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 8/5/23 - 10:47 pm
Cop slide on a map

Somebody's added the Cop Slide to Google Maps as a local attraction.

Via Handmaid and Jamaica Plain.

By adamg - 8/2/23 - 1:36 pm

By now, we've all seen the video of the BPD cop who took spilled out of the City Hall Plaza slide, no? No? OK, take a look (with bonus Phil Collins soundtrack).

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large), however, beat him to it by several months: Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 11:23 am

Engineering News-Record takes a spin through the Sumner Tunnel project, now running 24 hours a day and including 783 pre-cast arches, weighing six tons apiece and brought down into the tunnel one at a time.

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