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By adamg - 3/14/24 - 11:52 am
Kendall station headhouse

At Kendall Square Red Line entrance, sign would go under the red-and-white "Kendall" sign

The MBTA and the company that handles its electronic ad boards inside subway stations have begun a program to bring the boards above ground, at the entrances to stations. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee.  The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement

Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 11:32 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect

Surveillance photos of suspect via Cambridge PD.

Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed two people at the Porter Square Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and who they say is "a person of interest in multiple assaults in Boston and Cambridge." Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:59 pm

One man was stabbed in the stomach and the other twice in the arm during a fight involving a third man at the Halal Guys in Porter Square around 7:40 p.m. WFXT reports both victims were taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 1:13 pm
Window sign announcing the closing of Little Bak

Ari Ofsevit snapped the front of Little Bake, 1925B Massachusetts Ave. in Porter Square, which closed for good yesterday.

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 9:38 am

Cambridge Day reports that Rockler Woodworking and Hardware in Porter Square is closing next month - and has already marked down everything by 30%.

By adamg - 11/1/23 - 1:36 pm
Man in white Harvard cap and jacket, with white beard, sought for indecent exposure at Porter Square MBTA stop

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for an older guy they say exposed himself at the Porter Square Red Line stop around 11 p.m. on Oct. 15 and that he reacted to somebody telling him to zip it up by kicking the person. Read more.

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 11:10 am

The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 12:01 pm

The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.

By adamg - 5/29/23 - 9:51 am
Water falling on the third rail at Porter

A roving UHub Red Line passenger took a photo this morning of the water spilling onto the third rail at Porter Square. He also took some video: Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 2:15 pm

Update: The T says it had to send in another train to push the dead one all the way to Cabot Yard in South Boston.

The MBTA is reporting delays up to 30 minutes on the Red Line as "our crews remove a train that was disabled at Porter Square."

By adamg - 4/7/23 - 11:55 am
Surveillance photos of man with cast on arm

Surveillance photos by Cambridge PD, one of which helpfully points out his cast.

Cambridge Police report they are still looking for a man who didn't let an apparent broken arm stop him from breaking into two lockers at the Porter Square Planet Fitness - from which he made off with wallets and car keys back on Feb. 14. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 8:39 pm

Cambridge Police report a guy grabbed $300 worth of Red Bull from the cooler of a Porter Square store Tuesday morning, then rushed out.

By adamg - 2/2/23 - 5:09 pm

The MBTA reports southbound delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line due to a train suffering a coronary at Porter Square.

Video of a train being taken out of service at Park Street, no long after, with special guest appearance by a leaking ceiling in the station.

By adamg - 7/17/22 - 11:57 am

An Uber driver and his two passengers suffered apparently minor injuries after their vehicle crashed into a Citizens Bank branch on Somerville Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue around 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Cambridge Police report. Read more.

By adamg - 4/14/22 - 9:52 am

Porter Square groping suspect

Surveillance video of the suspect, via CPD.

Cambridge Police are investigating a report by a woman walking Roseland Street towards Massachusetts Avenue that she was groped around 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/17/22 - 9:07 pm

Cambridge Day reports on the impending closing of the bar and restaurant, which opened in 1966, and which will be replaced by "a new Asian concept."

By adamg - 2/28/22 - 2:46 pm

Cambridge Police report arresting a local man they say responded to a request by a manager at the Porter Square CVS to put on a mask early Friday by shoving him. And when officers summoned by 911 arrived, he responded by going after them as well, police say. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/21 - 11:07 pm

Jess Fox posts a photo of the flaming white "ghost bicycle" in Porter Square, a memorial to Joe Lavins, hit and killed by an 18-wheeler as he rode to work in 2016.

By adamg - 2/8/21 - 5:47 pm

Cambridge Police report a man who objected to being told to put back items he was trying to shoplift from the Porter Square CVS early Saturday responded by punching "an elderly employee in the face and head multiple times with a closed fist." Read more.

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