Boylston Street
FBI hunts two robbers who hit the same TD Bank branch on Boylston Street
By adamg - 11/30/11 - 7:27 am
The FBI reports the TD Bank branch at 535 Boylston St. was held up Sunday afternoon by a man who gave a teller a note.
He's described as black, about 6 feet tall, mid 40s and heavy, and was wearing a brown knit hat with a stripe, white button down shirt with a white tank top underneath, dark colored pants and black sneakers.
The FBI is also looking for a white guy who pulled the same basic maneuver at the bank on Nov. 17. He's described as 5'8" or 5'9" with a medium build and in his 20s.
The branch was also held up on Aug. 4.
The new iPhone speaks to them
By adamg - 10/14/11 - 8:28 am
CKP took this photo this morning on Boylston Street, where iPhoniacs began lining up last night to be the first to get a new phone. No doubt it would be pointless to attempt a Venn diagram showing the overlap between this group and the group of Verizon workers and Occupy Boston supporters outside the Verizon Store on Washington Street downtown yesterday evening:
Lots of apples with bites taken out of them on Boylston Street
By adamg - 10/6/11 - 9:43 pmOutside the Apple store, of course.
Outside the Boylston Street Apple store
By adamg - 10/5/11 - 8:53 pm
Jed Hresko walked by the Apple store tonight.
Lynn man charged with wasting slice of pizza
By adamg - 9/3/11 - 6:56 pmBoston Police report arresting a man they say took exception to a cab at Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street early this morning and attacked it with his fists and a slice of pizza.
Robert Bragan, 27, of Lynn, was charged with being a disorderly person shortly before 2 a.m., after, police say, he refused to get out of the way of a cab trying to turn onto Mass. Ave. from Boylston.
Witnesses say the suspect began hitting the front of the cab and threw a slice of pizza onto the hood of the vehicle. When asked to step out of the street, the suspect refused and began to verbally disparage the officers.
Innocent, etc.
Firefighters make quick work of downtown fire
By adamg - 3/23/11 - 9:00 amBoston Fireman reports firefighters responded to 62 Boylston St. around 9:30 a.m. for a sixth-floor fire. Fire quickly doused, no injuries. The Boston Fire Department reports the cause was some flammable materials coming in contact with the top of an electric stove that had been left on. The department estimated damage at $20,000.
Feds: Members of violent JP gang traveled to shooting range to improve their aim
By adamg - 3/18/11 - 3:04 pm
Alleged Mozart gang member Christian Green making his gang sign, from federal affidavit.
Three alleged members of the Mozart Street gang - which has been tied to murders and violence from the Dominican Republic to a Jamaica Plain pizza place - were indicted this week on federal gun charges after they were allegedly observed shooting "three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at paper targets in an apparent effort to improve their marksmanship."
Christian Green, Jeffrey Medina and Sherwin Garcia were indicted in US District Court in Boston on charges of being felons in possession of firearms following their arrest on Dec. 22 as they left a shooting range in Salisbury. All three are convicted felons, which makes it illegal for them to handle guns, but police watched them enter and leave a Salisbury shooting range, at which they paid their $333 tab in cash after shooting hundreds of rounds at eight paper targets in two shooting lanes, the indictment alleges, adding they all signed a waiver saying they had no prior felony convictions.
In an affidavit filed against Green, Boston Police Officer Manuel Blas wrote he was surprised when he learned of their trip north:
Apple fans in the mist
By adamg - 3/11/11 - 3:02 pmBlock-long line of people along Boylston Street who need to own an iPad 2 right this second.
Three treated for smoke inhalation after Green Line train starts leaking hydraulic fluid
By adamg - 1/6/11 - 7:45 amBoston Fireman tweets a Green Line trolley began leaking hydraulic fluid at Boylston station this morning. It began to smoke and three people required treatment after breathing that in.
