Solmon and Rokeya Chowdhury, who own the Shanti restaurants on Dorchester Avenue and in Roslindale Square and Kendall Square, alerted their customers today that they've temporarily closed the restaurants: Read more.
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By adamg - 1/29/20 - 6:14 pm
Shortly before 2:30 p.m., Tim found this scene in Cambridge.
Bad news for last-minute plague-preppers at the Galleria mall CVS.
By adamg - 12/13/19 - 7:14 pm
It's pretty bad when people are camped out on the steps at Downtown Crossing.
A ride on the Red Line became a nightmare after a train developed one of those "mechanical problems" on the inbound tracks after pulling out of Kendall around 7:15 p.m.
Jed Hresko saw the horde recreating a Beckett play on the southbound side of Downtown Crossing, then walked away. Read more.
By adamg - 11/14/19 - 9:15 am
Tom was among the passengers ordered off an inbound Red Line train at Kendall Square around 8 a.m. because the train just couldn't take it anymore. "Smells of burning rubber/oil," he reported. The T reported the newly ill train caused delays of up to ten minutes southbound.
By adamg - 9/5/19 - 8:51 pm
Blowing a shofar against ICE at 101 Main St., Kendall Square. Photo by Ron Newman.
Jewish protesters and their allies marched across the Longfellow Bridge during the evening rush hour for a protest against companies that sell technology to ICE, including Amazon, whose Kendall Square lobby at 101 Main St. was briefly occupied before police arrested 13 of the Never Again Action demonstrators. Read more.
By adamg - 7/24/19 - 6:21 pm
The MBTA reports the Red Line is not quite deader than a doorknob, but it's getting there, this time due to a train with "low air pressure" at Kendall/MIT, which we suspect isn't something you can fix with a bicycle air pump.
By adamg - 7/22/19 - 9:00 am
Carty Castaldi ran across this flipped over car around 8:10 a.m. at 3rd and Binney streets in Cambridge.
Wicked Local Cambridge reports two people were injured in the crash, which involved another vehicle.
By adamg - 7/14/19 - 10:02 am
Cambridge Police report a woman walking on Loughery Walkway was "struck in the head with a blunt object" by a guy on a bicycle around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. A passerby found her bleeding from the head and called police. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/19 - 2:16 pm
Serge spotted this rather odd looking pigeon hanging out outside the Friendly Toast in Cambridge's Tech Square today.
C. Scott Ananian had to show he didn't have any succulent mice in his order: Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/19 - 10:43 pm
The MBTA reports Alewife-bound delays of up to 20 minutes due to a train that has gone to meet its maker at Kendall Square.
By adamg - 1/20/19 - 7:17 pm
Hazed and confused at Kendall. Photo by Luke Ward.
The MBTA reports Red Line delays of up to ten minutes due to a train with "mechanical issues" at Kendall that belched a lot of smoke.
By adamg - 12/4/18 - 12:51 pm
Following this morning's delayapalooza on the Red Line, the MBTA reports new delays on the Red Line, of up to 15 minutes, due to a train that kicked the bucket at Kendall. Well, more like a train that got just a tiny bit out of Kendall, then expired, as Tyler E. reports:
Redline 747 sitting at Kendall waiting to back up for >10mins now? Get us off this train, I’ll walk from here, at least that’s reliable.
By adamg - 5/31/18 - 12:50 pm
The Cambridge Historical Commission shows us what the new Longfellow Bridge looked like in 1908 - a couple years after it opened - as the Cambridge Bridge. Look at those gasometers in Kendall Square on the Cambridge side. Read more.
By adamg - 5/9/18 - 11:13 am
Blue Bikes, the renamed Hubway, began unleashing its new blue bikes today, as Stephen M discovered on Main Street in Kendall Square. The renaming comes via an infusion of cash from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Also in the works: More bikes and bike-rental stations.
By adamg - 2/14/18 - 8:53 am
Firefighters at the scene. Photo by Jesskowski.
Cambridge firefighters made short work of a fire on the first floor of 88 Ames St., around 8:15 a.m., Matt Carter reports.
By adamg - 1/10/18 - 11:14 am
A roving UHub photographer sent in these two photos from Cambridge squares this week - on the left, Kendall Square, on the right, Central Square - and wonders why one gets the ultimate plow and shovel job and the other doesn't. The Central Square photo is from Monday, but the photographer reports there are still mounds and mounds of snow there today.
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