Back Bay

Some 900 members of UNITE HERE Local 26 went on strike this morning at the Hilton Park Plaza, Hilton Logan Airport, Hilton-Hampton Inn Boston Seaport, and Fairmont Copley Plaza over wages and against staffing and service cuts.

Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).

CommonWealth Beacon reports the owner of the Earl of Sandwich kiosk on Boston Common has had enough of all the money it keeps losing and so is closing it down at the end of next month. The city plans to look for a new operator for the one-time men's room, with beer and wine a possibility, although that would add more than $100,000 to the initial costs, given the state Legislature has once again refused to give Boston more alcohol licenses.

First up, we have the Globe's Brian McGrory, who argues Boylston Street bike lanes are a major mistake, that even pedestrians love the sheer exuberance of a traffic-clogged thoroughfare full of life and the essence of Boston, and man, who doesn't love just driving down the boulevard looking up at all the tall buildings and it's where the Marathon bombings were and besides, there are bike lanes on parallel streets, leave Boylston Street alone! Read more.

Boston Police report seizing more than 20 scooters in take-out-heavy areas in the Back Bay, Fenway and the South End yesterday. Read more.

A new show called Orphan Black: Echoes, which is just like "Orphan Black," only sideways, is set in Boston in 2052, as Brad Searles discovered.

And as you can see from this screenshot from one of the trailers downtown and Beacon Hill will look a tad different in 28 years, so get cracking, developers. But the Red Line will always be the Red Line, even if now a bit rusty on top. Read more.

A man charged with exposing himself in Brookline and Boston after getting out of his pickup with Oregon plates has been ordered to undergo observation to see if he is competent to stand trial. Read more.

A concerned citizen files a 311 request that somebody come rescue the turtle that is now shelling around where it doesn't belong, in the Public Garden lagoon: Read more.

Local 718 posted photos today of firefighters' cars at Engine 33 and Ladder 15 at Boylston and Hereford streets after the firefighters "returned to the firehouse to find their personal vehicles severely damaged and vandalized." Read more.

Wednesday night, BPS notified parents of kids at Snowden International High School, the Josiah Quincy (both lower and upper schools) and the Eliot School (all three schools) that the last day of classes for the year is today, because there was no way to get kids to school and have a Celtics championship parade, NorthEnd.page reports, adding that state officials signed off on the move which "left parents scrambling to find childcare and reschedule end-of-year activities."