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By adamg - 1/29/24 - 9:18 pm

First news from the T about a dead Red Line train came at 6:48 p.m.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 9:50 am

There's a switch near South Station that's decided to take the day off, so delays are starting to pile up on commuter-rail lines into and out of the station. Read more.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 4:08 pm

WCVB reports on the body found near East India Row around 10:25 a.m. on Saturday.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:47 pm

Nichole Davis gets the scoop: The be-tuxed bird spotted moving around the harbor wasn't a penguin but a thick-billed murre, a black-and-white Arctic bird that is not completely unheard of in these parts in the winter. So it also wasn't a heron.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 2:07 pm
Three light cycles that play music as you pedal

The Fort Pointer reports coming across these three lightcycles that play music as you pedal: Read more.

By adamg - 1/20/24 - 12:32 pm
Old Boston Stone on Marshall Street

Boston Stone (lower left) on Marshall Street sometime before 1930.

The Boston Landmarks Commission resorts to pesky facts to show that the Boston Stone might have had a more mundane origin than being the point to which all Boston-area mile markers refer - although it is possibly an indicator of how long Masshole drivers have been around: Read more.

By adamg - 1/16/24 - 1:05 pm
Jeffrey Stewart

Transit Police report arresting a man at Haymarket station on Sunday night because, they say, he was "harassing other passengers" with his pet rats - Tom and Jerry. Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 1:11 pm
Flooding outside the New England Aquarium

This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.

Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
Dark and stormy on the Charles

It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.

Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:09 pm
Giant head stuck in alley off Washington Street in Downtown Crossing

Walking down Washington Street this morning, Antonio Caban couldn't help but notice the giant head wedged into the alley (technically, Harlem Place) next to where Felt used to be.

"Boston, what is going on here?" he naturally wondered.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 9:23 am
Depressed Red Line riders after they have to exit train

Johnmcboston reported on the situation on the Red Line at Park around 7 a.m.:

The joys of the morning Red Line commute. 15 minute wait, then train out of service.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 10:03 pm
Fireworks over Boston Common

Myron Freeman took in the family fireworks over Boston Common tonight - after first watching some ice skating under the lights at the Frog Pond.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 1:11 pm
Tremont Street stabbing suspects

Photos of Tremont Street suspects by BPD.

Police have released photos of two men the suspect were involved in stabbing a worker at Royale on Tremont Street in the Theater District around 2:10 a.m. on Christmas Day. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:50 pm

The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:

Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.

By adamg - 12/26/23 - 12:32 pm
Park and Tremont during construction of the nation's first subway

In December, 1895, construction of what would be the nation's first subway was well under way along and under Tremont Street, but that didn't stop busy Bostonians from making their rounds.

Compare to the view today: Read more.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 9:34 am

After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 6:27 pm

A local developer has filed plans to convert a small Franklin Street office and retail building into housing, under the city's new program aimed at bringing life back downtown through tax breaks for office-to-residential conversions. Read more.

By adamg - 12/16/23 - 4:58 pm
Whale sculpture in Downtown Crossing

Boston Pilot had a bird's eye view of construction of artist Mathias Gmachl's "Echoes - A Voice from Uncharted Waters," which is an 11,000-pound, 56-foot long statue that asks us to ponder our affect on nature and the environment, at the Downtown Crossing Steps at Washington and Franklin streets.

Echoes is the first of a series of sculptures to be installed by mid-January as part of a Downtown Boston Business Improvement District public-art show that will then run through March.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 9:54 am
Surveillance photos of man with large juice container, gray jacket with OW in big letters and peach sneakers

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy in a rather distinctive getup who they say "struck another passenger without provocation/warning" on a Green Line trolley near Government Center around 6 p.m. on Nov. 13.

If Letter Guy looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 9:50 am
Tea Party mural at the State House

J.L. Bell compiles a chestload of links to videos and articles about the Boston Tea Party in advance of Saturday's 250th anniversary.

Baldwin Coolidge's 1908 photograph of a State House mural from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.

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