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By adamg - 3/23/24 - 2:07 pm

State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) is now offering his support for the proposed Small Victories tavern on Dorchester Street in South Boston, two days after he angrily denounced it as a potential home of date-apping "vidiots" being pushed by buttinsky East Bostonians. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 3:37 pm

Entertainment Application Hearing 03-21-24

The entire hearing. See below for Collins's statement.

Update: Collins offers conditional support.

State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) unleashed a barrage of invective yesterday against plans by the owner of the Quiet Few tavern in East Boston's Jeffries Point to open a similar tavern at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, calling it a potential hellhole catering to the very sort of losers the neighborhood doesn't need - despite testimony from people in Andrew Square they can't wait for it to open. Read more.

By adamg - 3/18/24 - 2:41 pm
Seized gun

Seized gun. Photo by Transit PD.

Transit Police report arresting a "highly intoxicated" man with a gun at Andrew station in South Boston at the conclusion of yesterday's parade. Read more.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 3:00 pm

Boston Police report arresting a teenager Thursday for the armed holdup of a delivery person at 40 West 7th St. in the West Broadway development around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 25. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 12:23 pm

Boston Police report a bystander who noticed red smoke pouring out of a woman's hoodie pocket held her in place until police could arrive to arrest her on charges she had just held up the Rockland Trust branch at 501 Southampton St. in South Boston around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/3/24 - 11:31 am
Josh Weinstein

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, where Backyard Betty's was meant to go. Read more.

By adamg - 10/12/23 - 6:00 pm

A roving UHub correspondent found his roving suddenly coming to a halt on an outbound Red Line train just before Andrew around 4:40 p.m. due to a wheelchair just sitting in the tracks at the station. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/23 - 11:28 am

Transit Police report arresting two men they say used a metal baton to beat a man at Andrew seriously enough around 9 p.m. on Thursday that he had to be hospitalized. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/23 - 5:54 pm

The MBTA does not say if it fixed a recalcitrant door on a Red Line train at Andrew, or just hauled the poor train away, but says service is back to what passes for normal these days.

By adamg - 1/27/23 - 9:43 am

An inbound Red Line train at Andrew had to be taken out of service when it began to get more than just a tad smoky. The T reports: "The train had an issue with the heating/AC unit on top of one of the cars. The unit has been shut off and the train was sent to the yard," no doubt to think about what it had done.

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 12:17 pm
Alves

Transit Police report arresting Dason Alves, 33, of Dorchester, for shooting a woman on a T bus near Andrew station on Dec. 30.

Alves was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and numerous firearm violations, police say.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 12/30/22 - 10:25 pm
Shooting suspect

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Update: Police say they found the guy, have talked to him and that their investigation continues.

Transit Police have released a photo of the man they say may have shot a woman in the stomach on a bus outside Andrew station around 5:25 p.m.

By adamg - 11/17/22 - 10:05 am

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day suspension for Red Line Pizza, 582 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston, after licensing cops found it open past its closing time on Sept. 3, the third such violation to come before the board over a three-month period. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/22 - 6:29 pm
Andrew stompers

One of these men is behind bars, the other is still loose.

Aiyoub Alsallak, 29, was arraigned today on various charges for a Sept. 5 attack on a Red Line platform at Andrew station that left the 56-year-old victim with head injuries, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/22 - 2:00 pm
Red Line Pizza says it's open until 2:30 a.m.

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered Red Line Pizza, 582 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston, to start complying with its license and close its doors to walk-in customers at 11 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/8/22 - 9:18 pm
Wanted for Andrew attack

Surveillance photos via Transit PD.

Transit Police report they are looking for two men they say attacked a 56-year-old man at the Andrew Red Line stop around 9 p.m. on Monday, sending him to a local hospital for emergency care. Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/22 - 10:13 pm
Current Supreme House of Pizza

From Supreme House of Pizza to Simplicity Dispensary?

A North Grafton man's proposal to turn the decrepit and now closed Supreme House of Pizza at 313 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston into a modern recreational-marijuana shop met with heavy opposition at a community meeting this evening - just a day after the owner of the pizza place withdrew his application to deliver pizza until 2:45 a.m. on weekends. Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/22 - 9:41 am

In the face of overwhelming neighborhood opposition, the owner of an Old Colony Avenue pizza place yesterday withdrew his request to extend its weekend delivery hours from 11 p.m. to 2:45 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/28/22 - 10:56 pm

Transit Police and Boston firefighters responded to the inbound side of the Andrew Red Line station around 10:40 p.m. after a man somehow wound up on the tracks, bleeding from the head, next to the third rail as a train was coming in.

The man was not under the train, so firefighters were able to quickly get him off the tracks and hand him over to Boston EMS for transport to a local hospital.

By adamg - 3/15/22 - 6:05 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Newton man on charges he used a knife to threaten an MBTA worker who tried to shoo him out of Andrew on the Red Line around 1 a.m. on Monday. Read more.

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