District B-2 reports several gunpoint robberies over the past two weeks in the area between Centre Street and Columbus Avenue in Jackson Square and Tremont Street in Roxbury Crossing:
Most of the robberies have occurred between the hours of 11:30PM and 1:30AM. The suspects have been described as two black males armed with a black handgun. One of the robbery victims noticed a white SUV motor vehicle with occupants inside.
Mark Parkinson and AlertNewEngland report a moped driver was hit and killed by a car around midnight on Tremont Street near the Roxbury Crossing T stop.
About 25 residents and Roxbury Community College students and professors gathered across the street at the Roxbury Crossing T stop this evening to protest the way a 16-year-old wanted on various charges was subdued by Boston Police a week ago.
Ruth Kiefson, a professor at Roxbury Community College, discusses her outrage at the arrest, urges people to use cameras as their weapon against police brutality:
Rob Larsen has posted hundreds of photos of Boston-area graffiti.
Meanwhile, Jonas Prang sighs that people like the ones Larsen follows are the reason we can't have nice things, specifically, a mural at the Roxbury Crossing T stop.
Late-night Orange Line riders had their trip through Roxbury Crossing delayed shortly after midnight when a man fell on the tracks at Roxbury Crossing and the MBTA stopped service to let EMTs get him off the tracks. T spokesman Joe Pesaturo said he was not hit by a train and did not come into contact with the third rail.
Four people face knife-related charges after a dispute yesterday afternoon that started at the entrance to the Orange Line station and ended with one of them bleeding from a stab wound inside a nearby Domino's, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man in Roxbury on charges he tried to hold two people at the Orange Line station shortly after midnight today. According to police:
Coin toss, MBTA style, as captured by a bus surveillance camera.
A Dorchester woman faces assault and battery charges after allegedly throwing a bunch of coins at a driver on a Route 66 bus who wouldn't let her board because the amount of coins wasn't enough for one fare.
Boston Police report somebody was stabbed on the Orange Line platform around 3:15 this afternoon.
So the Roxbury Crossing T stop now has a stylized mural-like thing of the nearby mosque and some people are upset:
As the photographer points out, the Boston public transportation system does not sport crosses, stars of David, or other religious insignia. How did this exception come about? One hopes that Bostonians are not so beat down by ISB litigiousness that they have lost all curiosity about that institution's activities.
Looks like Boston's not an Irish town anymore. This reminds of gang colors and insignia posted all over American buildings, roadways, etc., used as "turf markers."
Oy. I have no love for the the Jew-hating First Amendment deniers at the Islamic Society of Boston, but really, turf marking? Should criminals get outraged that Forest Hills station has a stylized iconish sign pointing to the nearby West Roxbury District Court?
UPDATE: Teen arrested for the stabbings on March 11.
Two stabbed at Roxbury Crossing around 5:30 p.m.
On One Smoot Short of a Bridge, eeka reports:
... I called the MBTA police to tell them I was at Roxbury Crossing and the elevator and escalator were both out. The officer said he'd transfer me to the right place.
He transferred me to customer service voicemail.
I called back, stated that voicemail wasn't going to get me out of the station. He stated that he'd send over an inspector.
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