A developer has proposed replacing an auto-repair garage and parking lot at 3458 Washington St., across Kenton Road from Hatoff's gas station in Jamaica Plain with a 37-unit, five-story apartment building.

About half the apartments in Adam Burns's proposal would be studios, with 15 one-bedroom units and 4 two-bedroom apartments. The ground floor would have commercial space.

Eight of the apartments would be rented as affordable.

The proposal calls for seven parking spaces.

Burns hopes to begin construction on the $8-millon project, just up the street from the Doyle's condo project, early next year, with completion targeted for the end of 2026.

Filings and meeting schedule.

The US Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in Lebanon, NJ at 10:23 a.m. and not long after, people across the Boston area began reporting a bit of shaking.

At 10:26, Handmaid in Jamaica Plain asked: "My apartment building just shook for a couple seconds. Anyone else feeling this in Boston???"

"Was messaging a co-worker on Slack who lives in NJ who said they were having an earthquake. Seconds later I felt it here in Boston," Darryl Houston reports.

"I felt in in Mission Hill!" JessO reports.

"Long, rolling quake - 20+ seconds in Winchester" Lori Magno reports.

"Felt it in South Boston - the chair I’m sitting in shook," LSR827 reports.

"Felt it in the South End," Johnmcboston reports.

"A coworker in Stow just felt his house shaking the same time as me in Watertown," Grahams reports.

Richard Smith reports from his Boston office: "My office chair started going back and forth for about 10 seconds. It felt different than an Amtrak train going by which vibrates my desk."

"Felt it for over a minute in Boston (North End), shaking sensation," Jessica Dello Russo reports.

"Felt it in West Roxbury. Felt like heavy machinery pounding the ground outside," Karl Seibert reports.

And yet, life went on: "Yup - and it still didn’t stop street cleaning here in Grove Hall," Chantelle617 reports.

Earlier:

In 2011, an earthquake in the Washington, DC area was felt up here as well. Some buildings were even evacuated, including 111 Devonshire St., after it was spotted leaning on a neighboring building - only it turned out it had always done that, it's just nobody noticed before.

Going further back, there was the Earthquake of 1755, which toppled the grasshopper at the top of Faneuil Hall.

GBH reports on a City Council hearing on the state's and Boston Medical Center's proposal to rebuild the Shattuck Hospital site into the nation's largest substance-abuse-recovery campus.

Watch the hearing:

What's now a little used alley across Tremont Street from Lagrange Street (so obscure the Google Street Views car has never been down it) was once an entrance to a nightclub that was part of a restaurant complex where Boston's elite would meet to greet and eat - and until 3 a.m., if you can imagine.

The Schneider brothers, Joseph and Max, opened Steuben's 114 Boylston St., in 1932, after emigrating from Vienna - by way of New York.

Their new place featured what was then Boston's longest soda bar. After Prohibition was repealed the next year, Steuben's became one of the first restaurants in the city to win a liquor license - they kept the bar, but changed the beverages offered at it.

Their space stretched to Van Rensselaer Place, an alley they shared with three theaters off Tremont Street.

Eventually, they expanded Steuben's to include five separate rooms, including Club Midnight - open until 3 a.m. - and the Cave, which opened in 1942. At first, the Cave described itself as "Boston's Gayest Night Spot - in the earlier sense of the word - but eventually it became "Boston's only authentic Latin-American room," featuring Jack Fisher's Latin Band and weekly "Cha-Cha-Cha Jamborees."

In addition to Van Rensselaer Place, patrons could also get their cha-cha-cha on via an entrance on Boylston Place.

Steuben's and the Cave continued on through the 1960s and the advent of the Combat Zone. Steuben's closed sometime between April, 1966, when it took out its last help-wanted ad in the Globe, and 1968, when the Boston Licensing Board - one of whose members was Dapper O'Neil - approved a license for a new place called the Sugar Shack.

On April 22, 1965, meanwhile, the city officially renamed Van Rensselaer Place as Allen's Alley to honor Cambridge native (but Boston Public Library regular) Fred Allen, who had a regular segment on his radio about life on Allen's Alley in a fictional small town.

In addition to Steuben's, Max Schneider also operated restaurants at Suffolk Downs and at a track in Lincoln, RI - where he died of a heart attack in 1975. Joseph died in 1986.

The Steuben's name lives on - in Denver, where Max and Joseph's grand-nephew, Josh Wolkon, runs a restaurant with that name in honor of "the center of the Boston dining and nightlife scene" his uncles created.

Nishan Bichajian took the photo of the Cave's entrance sometime between 1955 and 1959 as part of a five-year MIT project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation called Perceptual Form of the City, focused on urban planning, in particular how individuals navigate large cities (photo posted under this Creative Commons license).

The Revere Journal reports that the city public-health director said last week a resident had been diagnosed with brucellosis, a bacterial infection more commonly seen in farm animals, but which people can get by drinking unpasteurized milk. She urged residents to be aware that's a risk of drinking the stuff.

CommonWealth Beacon reports on the ruling involving the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center on Fisher Avenue, whose current owners want to close it by July 1.

A woman suffered possibly life-threatening injuries when hit by a large box truck at Essex Street and Atlantic Avenue around 6:30 a.m. The truck driver remained at the scene.

Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.

Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building under construction at 860 Broadway in Saugus. All workers accounted for.

John Hanzl came across a bowled-over tree at Harrison Avenue and East Dedham Street in the South End:

Phil R. shows us the huge tree limb that plunged to the pavement on Roosevelt Road in Newton, adds, "Good thing this didn't happen during school rush hours."

As of 9:45 a.m., Eversource was reporting 525 businesses and homes without power in Boston.

A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.

Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.

WCVB gets the scoop: The weather lights are out for several months of modernization, including the installation of more energy-efficient LED bulbs (so just like the Citgo sign).

Cambridge Police are reporting some details on the incident with the police officer and self-discharging gun at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School yesterday.

It was reported that while Officer Frank Greenidge was in a single-stall staff bathroom of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, Officer Greenidge removed his department issued firearm from its holster and it unintentionally discharged. There were no injuries and the school day continued uninterrupted. Officer Greenidge promptly reported the incident to his supervisor allowing the Police Department to quickly respond and process the scene. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and Massachusetts State Police were also notified in connection with this incident. Officer Greenidge has been reassigned within the Department pending a complete and thorough review of the incident.

Officer Greenidge has been with the Cambridge Police Department since 1987 and he is a highly regarded member of the school community for his work in the school district and youth sports programs.

Until yesterday, Greenridge had been a CPD youth resource officer, "selected and trained to promote safety within schools."

The department adds:

The Cambridge Police Department has strict policies regarding the use, maintenance, and storage of all department issued firearms. The department is investigating whether there was a violation of those policies. As part of the department’s commitment to transparency, the findings of the investigation will be released once completed.

Students at the Curtis Guild School on Leyden Street, the Bradley School on Beachview Road and Excel Academy on Bremen Street and Moore Street kept their students inside as police searched for a man with a rifle that a passerby had alerted an officer he'd seen on Leyden near the Guild around 2:25 p.m.

As some police officers searched Orient Heights - including the Orient Heights and Suffolk Downs Blue Line stops - others stood guard at the schools, just in case.

By 3:15 p.m. or so, with no man with a rifle spotted, police let the schools release their students.

So no snow (so what else is new?), but the National Weather Service has a high-wind warning in place between 8 p.m. and 2 p.m., Thursday, with possible gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. here in the Greater French Toast Region:

Remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Watch for falling debris and tree limbs. Use caution if you must drive.

Also, there's a coastal-flood warning for low-lying areas between 6 and 10 a.m. on Thursday, so you might want to reconsider that trip to Malibu Beach:

One to two feet of inundation above ground level expected in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways

The Globe today has has an editorial about the supposed dangers of a legal cottage industry in suits over what some organizations may or may not be doing with data from Facebook "tracking pixels." As Dan Kennedy notes, the editorial lists some examples, but omits one very close to home: The Globe itself settled just such a suit (and so we got a payment for $158.03 in February).

City councilors today agreed with a move by Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) to look at doing way more to keep pedstrians alive - the day after a man in a wheelchair died under the wheels of a concrete truck on Frontage Road and the week after a 4-year-old girl died under the wheels of a pickup behind the Children's Museum.

Flynn said the city's current "safety surge" program, in which BTD installs speed humps and takes other measures to slow drivers on side streets just isn't enough, and the proof is in the continued death and mayhem on our streets. "It's one of most critical issues we face in the city of Boston," he said.

He said the city should look at not just speeding up installation of the speed humps, but look at putting them on the wider roads even in key shopping areas where people speed and said that if it were up to him, the citywide speed limit would drop from the current 25 m.p.h to just 15 m.p.h. He said the city needs to eliminate its current practice of building traffic signals that allow drivers to take turns even as pedestrians are trying to cross an intersection. This "concurrent" travel is "a recipe for disaster," he said.

And he said Boston needs to look into systems that would include installations of governors in vehicles that would work with street-wide sensors to slow the vehicles should their drivers try to speed.

Other councilors agreed Boston needs to do more.

Councilor John FitzGerald, who has a four-year-old child himself, said the death of Gracie Gancheva outside the Children's Museum was a parents' worst nightmare. "The worst part about it is they're so preventable," he said. Council President Ruthzee Louijeune agreed, recalling last year's death of 4-year-old Ivan Pierre, killed on Wood Avenue in Hyde Park by a driver who then sped away.

Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton) said her district is now bedeviled by Waze-fueled cut-through drivers. "Tens of thousands of cars come through our neighborhood at a very fast clip every day" in their driver's lust to avoid traffic on the turnpike, she said. She added Allston/Brighton has a unique problem: The neighborhoods have been promised extensive road-safety improvements by developers of thousands of housing units - but those only go in after the projects have gotten their certificates of occupancy.

Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury), said statistics show that pedestrian fatalities in Europe decreased 80% in Europe between 1990 and 2020, while going up 25% in the US over the past ten years.

"This is a problem we can solve," he said.

Both Councilors Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) and Sharon Durkan (Mission Hill, Fenway, Back Bay, Beacon Hill) praised Mayor Wu and BTD's commitment to improving pedestrian safety. Durkan, however, said there are currently limits to what the city can do because of a shortage of both engineers to re-design roadways and to build all the speed humps.

Former Transit Police officer Jacob Green yesterday sued TPD Chief Kenneth Green, TPD Superintendent Richard Sullivan, the MBTA, former Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins and former Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, alleging he was forced into early retirement in 2022 because Green hates white people and veterans and because Rollins and Arroyo conspired to make a big deal out of what he claims was a road-rage run-in with an angry Black guy on his way to work one day.

In his suit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Green is seeking back pay, the money he would have kept making had he not been fired, lost pension contributions and enough damages to make the defendants think twice before doing what he alleges they did ever again.

Green, who quit after 23 years as a patrolman, and no relation to the TPD chief, alleges that "Chief Green fired and retaliated against many White Caucasian officers based on race and veteran status."

Superintendent Sullivan and Chief Green discriminated against Plaintiff on the basis of his race by coordinating with Defendant Rollins, Defendant Arroyo, and the Boston Globe reporters to promote the narrative of racially based police misconduct in order to benefit Defendant Arroyo's and Defendant Rollins' political candidacy.

Superintendent Sullivan and Chief Green retaliated against Plaintiff on the basis of his race and veteran status and targeted his first amendment protected political speech and retaliated against him by falsely and baselessly accusing him of bribery and criminal acts and for threatening to terminate his employment on the bases of said speech. All of these allegations were mere fabrications to couch the rampant discriminatory practice in the MBTA TPD.

Green is at least the third white Transit Police officer to sue over alleged racism in Transit Police, and like the other officers, brings up an interview Chief Green, who is Black, had with a Black-oriented radio station in 2016, in which he said he wanted to increase minority representation in his ranks.

In the earlier cases, a federal judge concluded that while Chief Green might have used better phrasing than to say he wanted to "darken" his force, neither of the two were fired because of racial animus. In one case, she concluded, a lieutenant got caught sleeping on the job - in a locked room he had equipped with a sleeping bag at TPD headquarters - while in the other, another lieutenant was fired for overtime violations.

However, Jacob Green also brings up what happened after he got into a beef on Blue Hills Parkway in Milton with a Black driver - which he claims eventually played into the scandal involving the way US Attorney Rachael Rollins tried to tip the election for her replacement as Suffolk County DA towards her pal, then City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, by feeding stuff to Globe reporters.

The Respondents coordinated together to make the Complainant the sacrificial lamb to pursue their agenda(s) on the basis of race and veteran status.

Green provides his side of a traffic beef with a Black guy that started on Blue Hills Parkway in Milton and ended near the MBTA station in Mattapan, to which Green was driving to start his daily shift, on the afternoon of April 11, 2021.

According to the complaint, Green was driving to work at the Mattapan T stop from his home in Raynham around 3 p.m. on April 11, 2021 when he "observed a red car driving erratically behind him, weaving in and out of traffic and tailgating him and other motorists" on Blue Hills Parkway in Milton. He said that when both he and the red car's driver had to stop at a red light, he got out his phone to take a picture of the guy's license plate.

At that point, he said, the guy got out of his car and approached Green's car in "an agitated and aggressive manner."

In response to [Jason Leonor's] aggressive and scary conduct, Plaintiff unholstered his TPD-issued service firearm and laid it down in his lap in case Leonor attempted to attack him while in his vehicle. As Leonor approached Plaintiff's window, Plaintiff pointed at [him] and warned him to "get the fuck back into his car." Leonor eventually returned to his vehicle.

The guy then got in front of Green and kept driving like a moron, until Green spotted an on-duty TPD cop near Mattapan station and used his radio to have the guy stopped. He says he then took off the off-duty sweatshirt he had over his uniform, walked over to the guy's car and issued him a ticket for "unsafe lane change" - as the guy was on the phone with 911 complaining how Green had pulled a gun on him - and that he was "TikTok famous" with a specialty of talking about police brutality and Black Lives Matter. Green says he later wrote a report on the incident, including explaining why he got his gun out for safety.

At no point, the complaint alleges, did Green point his gun at Leonor. Transit Police, however, charged that Green did point his gun at Leonor - and that he conspired with another TPD cop to write a false report about the incident.

Green says Sullivan put him on administrative leave two days later - not, Green alleges, because of what happened but because as Chief Green's lackey, he was using the incident as a pretext for getting rid of yet another white officer. Green charges he was put back on duty - but without his gun or badge, then put back on leave. The Globe then started reporting on the case. Then, in April, 2022, he alleges, Hayden, as acting DA, said he would not prosecute Green - but that internal-affairs detectives told him he had to quit to further Green's campaign of getting rid of whites.

Green's wife, a defense attorney, made a contribution to Hayden from their joint checking account and what Green says is a "sexist" state Office of Campaign and Political Finance listed him in public records as the contributor rather than her - and that Sullivan allegedly threatened to charge him with bribery, the complaint states. Then Chief Green and Sullivan then threatened to refuse to certify Green as OK to a new state agency charged with overseeing police activities, which meant he could never work again as a police officer in Massachusetts.

The Globe started writing stories about the case, fed, Green alleges, by Rollins to help Arroyo's campaign by making Hayden look bad.

Finally, on Sept. 2, 2022, Green "was forced to resign in lieu of termination due to the Defendants' unlawful discrimination," the complaint states.

The complaint does not detail the alleged hatred towards veterans in the department, but notes that while he is a Marine Corps veteran, Chief Green, Sullivan and Arroyo did not serve in the military. The complaint does not mention whether or not Rollins is a veteran.

The complaint formally charges racial discrimination and creating a hostile work environment, retaliation, interference with the right to be free of racial discrimination and interference with the right to be free from threats, intimidation and coercion. He specifically charges Rollins and Arroyo with aiding and abetting, because they "aided, abetted, incited, compelled and/or coerced MBTA and/or TPD into retaliating against Plaintiff."

The people and agencies named in the suit have until July 31 to file responses.

In a ruling last month the state Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, which certifies police officers for work in the state, reinstated Green's eligibility to serve as a police officer, concluding that while Green should have identified himself as a cop during the initial confrontation with Leonor, Transit Police failed to show he did anything criminally wrong and that he "possesses the requisite good moral character and fitness for employment in law enforcement at this time."

Complete complaint (4.9M PDF).

Update, Wednesday: Updated with new information from State Police.

State Police report a Boston man in a wheelchair was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash with a Boston Sand and Gravel truck hauling concrete at Frontage Road and Traveler Street around 10:10 a.m. today.

Fernando Pizzaro, 57, was declared dead at the scene, State Police say:

The investigation to date indicates that, immediately prior to the crash, he was moving in and around stopped vehicles in his wheelchair at the intersection of Traveler Street and Frontage Road.

Mr. Pizarro was in front of the concrete truck as traffic began to move and was struck by it.

The driver of the truck and Boston Sand and Gravel representatives have been cooperative with investigators. The truck was towed to a State Police facility where it will be examined by Troopers from the MSP’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section. Troopers thus far have found no evidence suggesting impairment or distraction on the driver’s part. Per federal Department of Transportation regulations, the driver was screened for alcohol or drug use.

Cambridge Police and Cambridge Public Schools report on the discharge at Cambridge Rindge and Latin this afternoon:

At approximately 1:45 this afternoon a Cambridge Police Department Youth Resource Officer assigned to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School accidentally discharged their firearm while using a staff bathroom inside the school. There were no injuries. The officer immediately notified department supervisors and the school administration. CPD then responded to the scene and are currently investigating. The school day was not disrupted and there were no other injuries.

The two departments did not detail how the officer accidentally fired the gun; add they're not going to let the incident harm their relationship:

CPS and CPD value their longstanding partnership as the Youth Resource Officer program is a vital aspect of maintaining safe and welcoming learning environments within our school communities.

East Boston Social Centers has set up a fundraising drive for the 30 people who lost their homes in the fire on Meridian and West Eagle streets in East Boston this morning - which also claimed one resident's life.