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Drunk guy with a gun arrested after parade festivities at Andrew T station, police say

Transit Police report arresting a "highly intoxicated" man with a gun at Andrew station in South Boston at the conclusion of yesterday's parade. Read more.

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 15:16
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The Roslindale thrift shop that supports the Home for Little Wanderers

GBH takes us on a tour of the Thrift Shop of Boston, now on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square, which has been around since 1926.


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At the old Progressive Club in East Boston, the lights were on and somebody was home, which made police suspicious

Boston Police report arresting a man on drug charges after finding him and another guy at home inside the Progressive Club, 234 Maverick St. in East Boston, which has been abandoned for awhile now, in fact is slated to be torn down for condos. Read more.

Sat, 03/16/2024 - 22:00
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Move on to change name of road in the Arboretum that now honors a man with ties to slavery

Jamaica Plain News reports on efforts to rename Bussey Street, which splits the two main halves of the Arnold Arboretum and which is named for the man whose estate eventually became the arboretum, which he assembled in part on profits from businesses that profited from slavery.

Proponent on both the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sides of the street have came up with five people whose names could be used to replace Bussey's - who would continue to be memorialized in the name of the brook that flows through the Arboretum: Three people who were held as slaves in the area - Cuffe, Dick Welsh and Flora - 19th-century feminist and Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller and Shiu-Ying Hu, a Chinese native who became a research at the Arboretum, who focused on both the flora and rural poor of China.


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In Charlestown, two developers win approval for new life-sciences complex while another readies plans for new residential complex

Rendering of proposed 66 Cambridge St. by SGA and DREAM Collaborative.

The BPDA board last week approved plans for a two-building life-sciences complex at 66 Cambridge St. in Sullivan Square, an Orange Line stop away from where another developer says it will soon file detailed plans for a 700-unit residential complex.

Approval of The Owens Companies and the Fallon Co.'s 800,000-square-foot life-sciences complex comes just as demand for life-sciences space in the Boston area is slowing.
SGA and DREAM Collaborative

In addition to lab and related office space, their proposed four-acre project will include 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and nearly an acre of publicly accessible open space, as well as 482 parking spaces. The site would include sidewalks aimed at re-stitching the Lost Village with the rest of Charlestown.

Also last week, Trinity Financial submitted a "letter of intent," signalling it will soon submit formal plans to replace what are now parking lots near the Community College T stop with four buildings with a total of 900,000 square feet of space for "approximately 700 residential units, artist live/work space, gallery space, commercial space, indoor recreational space, and early childhood education space," along with 245 parking spaces, a public plaza and playing fields. The residential units would be split between apartments and condos.

The BPDA selected Trinity last fall to redevelop the city-owned lots, based on an application that promised that 58% of the apartments would be rented to people making no more than 50% of the Boston area median income - with 100 of the apartments going to people making no more than 50% of that level. Some 56% of the condos would be sold to people making between 80% and 100% of that level, under the company's winning bid.

66 Cambridge St. filings.
Austin Street Lots redevelopment filings.


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Police in Newton investigate defacing, destruction of signs supporting Israelis taken hostage by Hamas as a hate crime

Newton Police report on the signs along Homer Street:

Initial reports revealed several lawn signs were defaced with spray paint, and personal property was damaged; The incident is being investigated as a hate crime due to the underlying crimes specifically targeting the victims of a protected class.

The signs, many of which showed photos of Israelis taken hostage on Oct 7, were part of a 100-foot-long mural two residents erected on the street.


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Citizen complaint of the day: Drunken idiots ripping a sign pole out of the ground in South Boston

A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about the situation at D and Bolton streets in South Boston at 4:34 p.m.

These drunken idiots ripped the sign for D street and Bolton out of the ground (and filmed themselves doing it).

At 7:16 p.m., the disgusted citizen filed another 311 complaint:

Just watched another group of degenerates steal the damaged D St and Bolton street sign that was taken down earlier today. Watched them walking down the street with it and yelled for them to put it back, but they were too busy filming themselves committing a crime to care. I have footage of the first idiots who damaged it if anyone’s willing to do anything about it but seems like there are no legal repercussions for anything that took place today. This day was a nightmare for residents of South Boston; everyone coming here and quite literally destroying our neighborhood & leaving trash (& vomit!) everywhere. Everyone who participated should be embarrassed.

Another concerned citizen reported that as the signs and pole were just lying there, they spotted yet another group just go up to the signs and stomp on them.


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Commuter-rail operator looks to run battery-powered trains for more frequent Fairmount Line service

Streetsblog Mass gets the scoop that the MBTA and Keolis are going to try to get battery-operated trains running on the Fairmount Line within 3 1/2 years in a pilot aimed at increasing the frequency of trains, shorten trip times and replace some antiquated old diesel-powered trains.

Last week, the T solicited possible bids from other railroad operators that might want to try to match Keolis's proposal. Would-be Fairmount Line battery-powered train operators were given until April 12 to submit proposals.

Keolis says it would run battery-powered "electric multiple units," in which every car would have its own batteries and motors, like subway cars, but unlike the T's current fleet of commuter-rail trains, in which a single diesel not only pulls or pushes coaches, but provides power for their lighting and ventilation.

Keolis says that with the new cars - and charging stations at either end of the line - it could increase increase the frequency of trains to one one every 20 minutes on weekdays, offer quicker trips to and from downtown and help begin "decarbonizing" commuter rail.

The Fairmount Line, which has subway-like fares - except for people going to the end of the line in Readville - currently has trains running once every 45 minutes during the week and 90 minutes on weekends. Although 20 minutes would still be painfully infrequent compared to subway service in many world-class cities, it would get the line closer to what now passes for rapid transit on the T's subway lines.

According to the T's fact sheet for operators who want to try to drop everything and prepare and submit a proposal by April 12, Keolis has assured the T it can have the brand-new cars and related equipment ready to roll by the end of 2027, a speed that would prove amazing to riders of the Red and Orange Lines, who have had to endure rides on increasingly superannuated cars as the manufacturer selected by the T missed one delivery deadline after another.

Transit advocates have long advocated electrification of the only commuter line that runs exclusively in Boston as a way of providing subway-like service, but the problem has been that the MBTA absolutely hates the idea of overhead power lines anywhere but on the Green Line and part of the Blue Line.


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Chinatown fire leaves one firefighter hurt, nine residents displaced

Firefighters on roof make sure fire isn't still spreading. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 15 Hudson St. for a fire that started in Great Barbecue and spread to the roof of the three-story building.

The department reports one firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Nine people living above the restaurant and a business on the first floor were displaced.

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 00:00


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The return of the turtles to San Juan Jamaicapondo

This afternoon, there were at least five turtles that climbed out of the water for some sun at the traditional turtle sunning spot on the northernish side of Jamaica Pond, including these two, which got a bit more vertical than the three lazing about on a more horizontal tree branch.


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