The MBTA says it's resuming Red Line service to Alewife starting tomorrow - but that the trains will only be reachable via the Russell Field entrance, about a two-minute walk from the garage, where somebody rammed out a five-ton concrete barrier that fell onto large windows overlooking the main station entrance, which remains shut. Read more.
Alewife atrium at 11 a.m. today. Photo by Barb.
Updated with new shutdown time.
The MBTA reports workers overnight removed the five-ton concrete barrier a guy in a Civic knocked loose from the Alewife parking garage yesterday but that the station will remain shut until engineers can figure out how to create a safe passageway from outside to the fare gates - which could take the rest of the week. Read more.
Josh Borrow took a walk along the insta-frozen Charles River this afternoon.
But kids, the National Weather Service reminds you to stay off the ice.
Cambridge Police report arresting a man who set a bush on fire in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Avenue early yesterday - and also charged him for a dumpster fire in an alley off Mount Auburn and Athens streets the day before. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports on a city meeting about the death of Sayed Faisal on Jan. 4.
Vanyaland reports that, after two decades of being closed, ManRay will re-open on Jan. 18.
Note for young'uns: The club came before the SpongeBob villain.
A senior technology officer at the Lexington-based US branch of Takeda Pharmaceuticals and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday for allegedly setting up a fake consulting company that then billed Takeda for services it never actually provided. Read more.
Cambridge Police report two people were shot shortly after 8:15 p.m. on Washington Street near Windsor Street. Both were taken to local hospitals.
Preliminary information indicates that the victims were shot while sitting inside a car. The car was damaged and a number of casings have been recovered. At this time, the injuries to the victims are serious, but not believed to be life-threatening.
The Bangladesh Association of New England plans a protest in front of Cambridge City Hall at 3 p.m. on Monday over the death of Sayed Faisal, 20 last week. Faisal remembered.
Updated with latest account from Cambridge PD.
A Cambridge police officer fatally shot a local man police say was advancing on him and other officers with a large knife after leading them on a foot chase for several blocks and after a "less lethal" projectile failed to stop him, Cambridge Police say. Read more.
Surveillance photos via TPD.
Transit Police report they are looking for an alleged yutz who, on leaving a Red Line train at Kendall/MIT around 7:30 p.m. yesterday, punched a train window, causing a spider crack that force the T to take the train out of service, in case you were wondering why service was even a bit slower than usual yesterday evening.
If the bare-knuckle window fighter looks famiilar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 873873.
From CPD surveillance video..
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a bicyclist who responded to a request from a pedestrian in a crosswalk at Cambridge Common by circling around and ramming into her. Read more.
WBUR recounts 32 years of effort to get the Green Line Extension built.
Video of suspect walking in same area an hour before the attack via CPD.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man they say attacked a woman, then grabbed her dog's leash and made off with the pet in the area of Market and Windsor streets early Monday. Read more.
Cambridge Police report a Gore Street man will face several charges when he's released from the hospital following an attack on a woman last night. Read more.
Pfizer and its German partner today filed a counter claim against Moderna's patent-infringement suit over Covid-19 vaccines, saying that not only didn't they use Moderna's patented technology to develop their own Covid-19 vaccine, they're not a bunch of greedy money-grubbers seeking to re-write the history of mRNA technology - which they say started long before Moderna even existed. Read more.
Patrick Knight forwarded a couple of photos his neighbor, Erin H., took of the bald eagle that landed in his backyard on Woodbridge Street in North Cambridge, near Davis Square, today.
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