Fenway

Northeastern looks at replacing venerable arena

By adamg - 5/9/24 - 11:18 am

Boston Arena in the early part of the 1900s

Boston Arena in the early 1900s (source).

The Huntington News reports that Northeastern is considering whether to build a new arena to replace Matthews Arena, which in its more than 100 years of history has been home to not just Northeastern teams but, back when it was called the Boston Arena, the Celtics and Bruins. Read more.

Woman went on an auto rampage, driving like a maniac and smashing into the Coast Guard base and Fenway Park, police say

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 3:41 pm

State Police report a Salem woman this morning led police from the North Shore into Boston on a wild chase full of crashed cars and gates - at the Coast Guard base in the North End and at Fenway Park, both of which police say she rammed into with her 2024 Honda Accord. Read more.

Small Fenway music hall shuts down

By adamg - 5/2/24 - 9:03 pm

Vanyaland reports the demise of Rockwood Music Hall this week.

Police move in on Northeastern encampment

By adamg - 4/27/24 - 10:30 am

The Huntington News reports. Protesters with Northeastern IDs were released, although they could face disciplinary action; people without Northeastern IDs were arrested. Read more.

Dumpster fire in the Fens sends smoke through area

By adamg - 4/26/24 - 9:52 am

Fire and firetrucks light up the sky. Photo by Ryan.

Boston firefighters responded to the Fens off Boylston Street around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday for what turned out to be a dumpster fire, not the more traditional spring brush fire, which may have become a thing of the past, anyway, now that the reeds have all been cut down.

Berklee student from China gets nine months in federal prison for harassing and threatening another student from China over pro-democracy flier

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 10:38 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Xiaolei Wu to nine months in prison for reacting to a flier another Berklee student posted calling for democracy in their homeland by threatening her with death - maybe even by being eaten by a homeless person at South Bay - and by reporting her and her family to Chinese officials, including his mother, a government functionary. Read more.

Two bouncers learn you can't strike patrons even if they are being complete assholes

By adamg - 4/2/24 - 12:57 pm

A bouncer at Game On in the Fenway lost his job after smacking one alleged jerk of a customer in the forehead with his flashlight, while a bouncer at Candibar in the Theater District was suspended for a week after punching a customer who made a particularly crude remark about his 11-year-old daughter. 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.

Boston University grad students go on strike

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:50 am

The Daily Free Press reports that the BU Graduate Workers Union, affiliated with the SEIU, will start their strike today with a rally at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue following unsuccessful negotiations over wage increases, better working conditions and funding for childcare for grad students with young children.

Fire at homeless encampment shuts a Charlesgate ramp off Storrow Drive

By adamg - 3/23/24 - 10:36 pm

Photo by George Lewis.

Boston firefighters responded to a ramp from Storrow Drive at Commonwealth Avenue for a fire under the ramp around 6:20 p.m. Read more.

MBTA: Green Line derailment had nothing to do with all the track work

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 9:55 am

The MBTA is blaming a faulty trolley for Saturday morning's derailment on the outbound B Line, rather than the track and other work that was completed just the day before: Read more.

Seafood place that replaced a seafood place gets the hook in Kenmore Square

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 3:37 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the impending end of Pescador, which replaced Island Creek Oyster Bar in the Hotel Commonwealth. No word yet if it will be replaced by a seafood place.

Police snag suspected Fenway, Back Bay cigarette stealer at Mass and Cass

By adamg - 2/24/24 - 10:56 am

Boston Police report arresting the man they say robbed smoke shops in the Fenway and the Back Bay earlier this week. Read more.

Cigarette addict sought for Fenway, Back Bay smoke-shop holdups

By adamg - 2/23/24 - 10:36 am

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.

Texan gets three months for calling a Boston doctor to threaten to kill her during anti-trans frenzy against Children's Hospital

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 10:48 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Matthew Jordan Lindner, 39, of Comfort, Texas, to three months in federal prison for calling a doctor at Fenway Health who focuses on "gender nonconforming youth" to tell her she would "burn" and that a posse was on its way up to kill her on Aug. 31, 2022 - the day after a woman from western Massachusetts locked down Children's Hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area by calling in a bomb threat. Read more.

Screenshot from the latest Boston-based video game, Dark Trolley

By adamg - 2/19/24 - 9:02 pm

Inside a Green Line trolley with no lights on

Michael A. Burstein reports he was on an inbound C Line trolley this afternoon when it dipped into the tunnel between St. Mary's and Kenmore and suddenly the lights went off and all the riders were plunged into a nightmarish world where they had to outgun all the other riders - and a series of underworld wraiths, each worse than the one before. OK, OK, the driver rebooted the train, the regular lights came back on and the rest of the journey proved uneventful.

Driver was in duress, the E Line was a mess

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 12:36 pm

Car on the E Line tracks at Brigham Circle

RadRebe captured the scene near Brigham Circle shortly before 6:30 a.m., when a driver in a car with Connecticut plates had somehow gotten onto the Green Line tracks. Read more.

Berklee student from China convicted of stalking, threatening a pro-democracy student

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 3:17 pm

Flier calling for various freedoms in China

The flier that outraged Wu, via the FBI.

A jury in federal court in Boston today convicted Xiaolei Wu, 26, on one count of cyberstalking and one count of interstate transmissions of threatening communication for the way he threatened and harassed another Berklee student from China who'd posted a flier posted on Mass. Ave. calling for various freedoms in their dictatorial homeland. Read more.

After night of drinking in the Fenway, woman stomped her own sister into unconsciousness, DA says

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 4:11 pm

A woman who got into an argument with her sister after a night on the town punched her to the ground, then ground her footwear into her head, which she then slammed into the pavement several times on Dec. 8, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.

Driver slams into two pedestrians in the Fenway then keeps going

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 1:13 pm

Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck they say plowed into two pedestrians on Ipswich and Boylston streets in the Fenway, then just kept on driving down Ipswich, shortly after midnight. Read more.