NorthEndWaterfront.com reports the North End Waterfront Residents' Association voted to support the Living Room's request for a DJ license so it can play tracks from iPods, but said it can't support its bid to extend its closing time from 1 to 2 a.m.

Press Pass Tv is a nonprofit organization that engages youth in advocacy journalism to tell the stories of communities working for change. Jean Grae performed at the 3rd Eye open 11th Hip Hop Festival. Press PassTv was able to catch Jean before her performance. She discussed her record sales and her old school flavor. Jean described how she maintained her own identity and how we all have a responsibilty to ourselves to follow our bliss.

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire broke out around 7 a.m. in an apartment on the sixth floor of Casa Maria, 130 Endicott St.

Fire inspectors are trying to figure out the cause of a basement fire that erupted around 4 a.m. in the basement of Goody Glover's, 48-50 Salem St., the Boston Fire Department reports. Food and electrical inspectors will be on scene this morning as well.

The Globe reports some North End business types have begun talking up the idea because they could cram in more tourists in a neighborhood that's been bustling like nobody's business since the Central Artery came down. Some residents, though, say the last thing the neighborhood needs is more tourists.

BU Today reports on the findings of a professor and students who have been studying the remains of a 19th-century brothel privy unearthed during Big Dig construction on Endicott Street in the North End.

Around 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 17, 1950, the Brink's garage at 155 Prince St. was held up and robbed by a gang that got away with $2.78 million in cash, checks and securities.

The mask-clad hoods spent more than a year casing the joint - they even staged several overnight break-ins to steal locks from which to make keys, then returned the locks to their doors - and left behind few clues. But an embittered Specs O'Keefe turned on the other ten gang member after three failed attempts to rub him out and when he realized - while sitting in a jail in Springfield on other charges - that they'd taken all his money.

Most of the money was never recovered; the FBI says a good chunk was spent on legal bills as the feds and the state slowly closed in on the gang.

The Brink's facility still stands, although it's now a common run-of-the-mill parking garage, with an address of 600 Commercial St.

• Short version from Wikipedia.
• Longer version from the FBI, which focuses on the hunt for the robbers.
• Even longer version - Stephanie Schorow's "The Crime of the Century."

NorthEndWaterfront.com explains why you need to avoid the spaces on Commercial Wharf West.