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By adamg - 5/19/24 - 7:31 pm
Steps inside the Cochituate Standpipe

Looking up at and through the standpipe steps.

The Roxbury Historical Society and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department opened the Cochituate Standpipe on Roxbury's Fort Hill for its annual public inspection. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/24 - 11:56 am

At 11:08 a.m., the MBTA reported delays on inbound Green Line service due to a deceased trolley at Kenmore.

Earlier in the morning, the T reported similarly pining-for-the-fjords status on the Mattapan Line due to a no-longer-functioning trolley there - but that one was bad enough that the T was advising riders to just forget about it and take the Route 24 bus instead.

By adamg - 5/19/24 - 11:47 am
Extinguished flaming trash

Doused trash in basement. Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters evacuated the residents of some 300 apartments at 75 St. Alphonsus St., Mission Hill, after a basement trash fire send smoke all the way up to the top floors through a trash chute, around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 10:59 pm
Pita scattered on cars in Roslindale

Photo by Conor Davies.

Some vandals up early this morning decided it would be fun to steal the pita that Bob's Pita Market on Washington Street in Roslindale Square gets delivered overnight and then toss the bread all over the area. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 10:07 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old after he returned to the Mr. Pleasant Play Area to retrieve the handgun with 10 loaded rounds somebody had left there Monday morning - along with another young teen and a Charlestown man. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 7:29 pm
D Line train heading into Boston tonight

Mbcrowley snapped an inbound D Line trolley just past Waban around 7 tonight:

No One is using the T … yes some will board but they have a ton of work to do to get people back and spending $$$ on consultants to figure out how to save money is not going to get riders

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 4:59 pm

Cambridge Police report they are investigating a sexual attack in the restroom of an office building on Cambridgepark Drive around 9:15 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 4:52 pm

Andy asks:

Do you know if anyone around here sells maple bar/long john donuts? Doesn't seem very common around here!

By adamg - 5/18/24 - 11:46 am
Red Line car with smashe- in window

Head car with smashed-in window. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report officers responded to North Quincy on the Red Line on a report of a woman using "a metal object" to smash windows on a Red Line car around 8:30 p.m. on Friday. She will be charged with malicious destruction of hospital, was brought to a local hospital after officers "determined she was in need of psychological services," police say.

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 - 5/18/24 - 11:00 am
Snoozing duck and ducklings

A family of ducks settled in for a snooze on the northern shore of Jamaica Pond yesterday afternoon (dad was equally asleep, a foot or two away).

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 10:11 pm
acts like Karen Read, Rosemary Scapicchio, Marty the Robot, Nancy Kerrigan, Bill Galvin's Eyebrows, Your Cousin from Boston, Smiley Face Killer, Carcasses of Michael Dukakis, Kevin's Mom from No on Question 4, Caldor, Fenway Bullpen Cop, Jesus Is Lord Guy, the Dunkings

Megan Johnson had some spare time today, so she came up with the bill for the Boston Calling for folks who keep up with the weird and wonderful world of Boston, with a playlist that stretches from the '90s to today. See it larger.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 3:15 pm

A Weymouth man who was rounded up in a February sweep of alleged members of the gang that has long terrorized residents in and around the Mildred Hailey Apartments pleaded guilty this week - not to being a member of a criminal gang but to lying on an application for a Covid-related loan aimed at helping small businesses about whether he was facing any criminal charges at the time, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 1:39 pm
Crewmen and officers aboard the USS Constitution

Lee Toma got some photos of the USS Constitution - and some of its officers and crew - on one of its periodic turnaround cruises on Boston Harbor this morning.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 1:19 pm

The BPDA board yesterday approved giving a piece of land at 34 Drydock Ave. in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park to the Boston Public Health Commission for construction of a new ambulance station. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 12:08 pm

TransitMatters reports that while, yes, Blue Line trains now trundle along in less without slow zones, the peak-times trip between Wonderland and Bowdoin still takes longer on average than in February, 2023, before the T announced zillions of slow zones everywhere.

TransitMatters says that's because while the tracks are now in good shape, the Blue Line is still suffering "due to a switch issue, a signal issue, or a more significant ops issue altogether."

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 9:53 am

Tom Lehrer - The Subway Song

No, of course we're not referring to "Skinhead on the MBTA," which is, basically an updated Charlie (oi, oi, oi!). In 1965, Tom Lehrer went on WTBS, back when that was still the MIT student radio station, and sang a brief ditty he composed back in 1944 about what we now call the Red Line.

Via Nonelvis.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 9:28 am

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, under the Goodridge decision by the state Supreme Judicial Court. Read more.

By adamg - 5/16/24 - 9:43 pm
Mushrooms on a tree at Millennium Park

Some bloomin' mushrooms on a tree at Millennium Park along the Charles River this afternoon, after the rain had stopped.

By adamg - 5/16/24 - 1:46 pm

The city announced today that Newbury Street will be open only to pedestrians for ten Sundays in a row starting June 30 and running through Sept. 1. Read more.