Two people were stabbed at the Liberty Diner, Massachusetts Avenue and Magazine Street around 9:10 p.m. Read more.
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By adamg - 8/15/24 - 11:54 pm
Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 9:31 pm
A man was stabbed in the chest shortly before 4:25 p.m. at Mass and Cass. He walked into the McDonald's at 870 Massachusetts Ave., where staffers called 911. Not long after BPD officers arrived, the homicide unit was called in, due to the severity of his injuries.
By adamg - 7/29/24 - 7:29 pm
Rendering of the Mass. Ave. side by RODE Architects.
A local developer has proposed a six-story, 45-unit residential building at 1274 Massachusetts Ave. that would also have an entrance on Boston Street, not far from the Giant Pear and the mega-intersection of Edward Everett Square. Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/24 - 11:53 am
Boston Police report officers arrested a local man on armed-robbery charges for the way he tried and failed to hold somebody up at knifepoint at Massachusetts and Shawmut avenues around 5 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 7/9/24 - 1:24 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Brockton man and a younger accomplice on charges they beat a food deliverer in the face with gun Monday night, then took his scooter for a little adventure through the alleys and streets of the Fenway and Audubon Circle before ditching the scooter near Beacon and St. Mary's streets in Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/24 - 5:14 pm
Jonathan Cohn captured the epilogue of a flaming Honda at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues this afternoon.
By adamg - 6/10/24 - 2:34 pm
Boston Police report they are looking for four people they say made off with a large quantity of alcohol from Quality Mart, 21 Massachusetts Ave. in the Back Bay, Sunday morning after displaying a knife and a bat.
If they look familiar, contact detectives at 617-343-5619 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting the word TIP to CRIME (27463).
By adamg - 5/18/24 - 11:21 am
WCVB reports on the attack outside 169 Massachusetts Avenue on May 10. She had to be taken to the hospital because her head slammed onto the curb when she fell, but she was able to graduate the next day.
By adamg - 4/2/24 - 1:54 pm
Rendering of new hotel by CBT.
The developers who have been trying to do something with what's left of the Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street at Massachusetts Avenue for six years now have asked the BPDA for re-grant them permission to put up a 13-story hotel inside the original building's facade - after concluding it no longer made financial sense to build condos in the space. Read more.
Daughter of bicyclist dragged and run over by a dump-truck driver in the Fenway sues driver, company
By adamg - 3/28/24 - 9:25 pm
The daughter of man dragged and then crushed by a dump truck at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues in 2022 today filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against both the driver and the New Hampshire company that owned the truck. Read more.
By adamg - 1/26/24 - 10:17 pm
For the third day in a row, the MBTA had to halt service on the Orange Line because of something that made Boston firefighters have to get on the tracks at Massachusetts Avenue, sometime before 8:25 p.m. Firefighters were off the tracks by around 8:50 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 1/25/24 - 1:46 pm
For the second time in less than 24 hours, Mass. Ave. on the Orange Line forced an Orange Line shutdown because of something that, once again, forced firefighters to get down on the outbound tracks at the station. Firefighters arrived around 12:15 p.m., then waited for the T to shut down power so they could get onto the tracks. Whatever it was got fixed and the MBTA reported at 1:38 p.m. that service was back to what now passes for normal.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 10:27 pm
The elevator at the Orange Line's Mass. Ave. stop stopped working around 4:25 p.m., trapping two people inside. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 2:00 pm
WCVB reports on the fatal crash around 3 a.m. at Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street. The driver remained on scene, WCVB reports.
By adamg - 1/14/24 - 11:15 pm
Imagine all these lights blinking on and off over and over and over.
A concerned citizen files a 311 report about the blinking lights along Chester Park on Massachusetts Avenue: Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/24 - 11:16 am
Boston Police report they are looking for a man who tried lifting a couple of bottles from Quality Mart, 21 Massachusetts Ave., got chased out by a clerk and then, before he made his way towards Kenmore Square, flashed what appeared to be a gun at the employee, around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/23 - 9:47 pm
The remains of the kiosk on the right. See it larger.
Marcos surveyed the damage at Massachusetts and Westland avenues in the Fenway, after somebody slammed into the Boston map kiosk that had long stood there early this morning: Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/23 - 12:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing both a gun loaded with ten bullets and "five plastic bags of what they believed to be crack cocaine" outside 941 Massachusetts Ave. shortly before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/23 - 12:25 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say claimed he had a bomb and he'd set it off if a clerk at Wild Duck, 86 Massachusetts Ave. didn't give him all the money in the register shortly before 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
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