Kendall Square

Sandwich chain doing its part to destroy the wallet industry

adamg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:38:16 +0000

Street Fight interviews Mike Conley, director of marketing at Sebastians Cafe, which now has 2,200 people signed up for its phone-based payment and loyalty programs - customers use their phones rather than old-fashioned cash or credit cards to pay for lunch. Naturally, the chain started with its Kendall Square location first.

It's just an easier, great way to pay. I forgot my wallet one day, going into a meeting, and I was like: "Oh, crap. I can't pay for food. Oh, wait a minute. I have my phone. I have LevelUp." It's interesting that everyone is starting to realize how this is a very usable tool for payments.

Fitchburg man charged with indecent assault on the Red Line

adamg — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:44:12 +0000

A Harvard manTransit Police have made an arrest for a November incident in which a guy allegedly poked a woman's crotch with a finger as their Red Line train pulled into Kendall Square.

Bradley J. Spencer, 36, was arrested Friday, Transit Police report.

The Globe reports that Spencer, is a Harvard grad student and teaching fellow. His CV.

Transit Police report the victim, despite being shocked by the assault, managed to take his photo with her cell phone before they both got off the train at Park Street.

Innocent, etc.

Man sought for poking woman in the crotch on the Red Line

adamg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:08:04 +0000

MBTA Transit Police say they're looking for a 40ish guy for an indecent attack on an inbound Red Line train pulling into Kendall station on Monday.

According to police, the man intentionally poked a female passenger in the crotch with his finger - and then stayed on the train until Park Street - during the morning commute.

He's described as 6 feet, 185 lbs., wearing a gray tweed sport coat, a blue collared shirt, and a red and gold "college type" ring. If he looks familiar, contact Det. T.J. Leonard at 617-222-1052 or the Criminal Investigations Unit at 617-222-1050. The photo was taken by a passenger in the car.

It's always Labor Day weekend along the Charles

adamg — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:14:31 +0000

MassDOT reports a truck got stuck under the Longfellow on Memorial Drive around 6:00 a.m., shutting the road, of course. And not just any truck: A big-ass truck.

Cafe venture in Cambridge

adamg — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:18:25 +0000

Welina Farah reviews the weekly Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, which serves as a sort of welcome party for Kendall Square's technopreneurs:

The overall feel of the Café is one that puts a kind of nervous college student walking into a room full of established women and men doing what she one day aspires to do- at ease. I look forward to the next time I have a chance to attend Venture Café.

Occupy Google

adamg — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:14:49 +0000

Forget Wall Street and Whole Foods - this is important: A group of users of Google Reader are planning "a wake" outside Google's Cambridge offices at 5:30 p.m.

We'll be mourning together outside the closest Google office, in Cambridge, near Kendall Square, where perhaps a Google employee or two will briefly notice our useless grief.

Bring flowers or signs or memes or eulogies. Wear black if you can.

Google Reader is a service that lets you organize and read headline feeds from Web sites.

This week's winner in the license-plate game

adamg — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:03:31 +0000

Joe spotted this plate on Binney Street near Kendall Square last night (so anyone know a sultanette attending MIT?).

Compare to this plate from Guam, once spotted at the Burlington Mall.

Been dying to buy a popular Kendall Square breakfast place?

adamg — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:31:09 +0000

The Friendly Toast is for sale as the owner gets ready to move to Detroit, with which she and her husband have fallen in love.

Turkey babies in Kendall Square

adamg — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:28:22 +0000

Jess Riley reports a turkey and her seven poults (that's babies to you) have taken up residence in front of 55 Broadway in Kendall Square. Kendall Square, you grizzled turkey veterans may recall, was home to Mr. Gobbles, back in the day when turkeys were still an unusual sight inside 128.

Copyright Jess Riley.

And the Kendall Band plays on

adamg — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:43:06 +0000

The MBTA posted this video from the re-dedication of the Kendall Band at the Kendall Square Red Line stop today.

Bomb squad blows something up in Cambridge

adamg — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:56:12 +0000

Outside the Novartis building at 100 Technology Square, shortly before 10:30 a.m., Amy Pritchard tweets. Mike Munsell took this photo of the robot shortly before 10:26, when he tweeted:

BOOOOOOMMMMM

UPDATE: Wicked Local Cambridge reports the box contained laboratory materials sent to the wrong address.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for T

adamg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:30:21 +0000

Soon you'll be able to get it on and bang a gong - again. Photo by the MBTA.

The MBTA reports some MIT students got up wicked early on Sunday to begin re-installing the tubular-bells part of Paul Matisse's aural sculpture at the Kendall Square T stop. When the work is done, riders will once again be able to play the the Kendall Band - bells, a large ring and a large metal sheet - through levers controlling gongs.

In addition to the bells, known as Pythagoras, the restoration work also includes the ring-based Kepler and the large metal sheet called Galileo. A re-opening ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m. on April 30.

Today would be a great day for a walk

adamg — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:27:25 +0000

Like, say, this one, from Copley Square to Kendall Square, as described by Colleen Cunningham.

Kendall Square nightlife: One day, no longer an oxymoron?

adamg — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:27:38 +0000

The Crimson reports Cambridge officials want to use some money from MIT to study ways to turn Kendall Square into a nighttime destination. The Tech has more, says the study area will actually stretch from Kendall Square to Central Square.

You might not want to stand just outside the Kendall Red Line station

adamg — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:57:09 +0000

And for heaven's sake, nobody start yelling when exiting the station! Ana stays a safe distance away.

7:15 p.m. UPDATE: The MBTA reports the snow has been removed.