State Street

When kids who love chalk grow up

adamg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:01:34 -0400

They become construction engineers for projects in downtown Boston. Faegirl photographed the marked-up chaos on State Street by the Old State House the other day.

Police: Guy mistakes downtown bar for driving range; guy is shot in Dorchester

adamg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:07:00 -0400

A self-proclaimed golf pro from Woburn found himself in the rough early this morning at the Black Rose Bar on State Street:

According to an on-duty security guard at the bar, Mr. Gaffney used a golf club to smash the bar's windows. He appeared to be extremely intoxicated, and yelled various lewd insults at the officers on the scene. He threatened to "beat them" once he was freed from their handcuffs. He also demanded that he be let go since he was "a golf professional".

Police, no doubt a bit teed off, declined his request and instead made him one in a hole.

Meanwhile, police say a man, 20, was shot around midnight on Magnolia Street in Grove Hall. The man reported hearing three shots, he started to run, then collapsed. Police say his injuries are not life-threatening.

State Street's sub-prime mess

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:33:48 -0400

Stephen Rosenberg discusses lawsuits against State Street Corp. by pension funds that say the company improperly invested their money in risky real-estate funds - which could leave the company vulnerable to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damages if it loses:

... [I]t may well be that the administrators' fiduciary duties under those circumstances require them to then try to remedy their initial mistakes by suing to recover the losses, rather than compounding their own fiduciary breaches by simply absorbing the loss; that latter course of action would likely just make the administrators themselves targets for breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits based on their own mistakes in investing in the State Street funds. ...

Oh, those? Those are just the fire alarms, going off for no good reason

adamg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:12:40 -0400

One of these days, alarms will start blaring at a T stop and people will actually pay attention. But not today, and not at Downtown Crossing, Jenny Frazier reports:

... It took me my entire walk up to the Orange Line to realize that not a single person, including myself, batted an eyelash at the heinously loud alarms. Instead we all just continued on our merry Bostonian way. ...

However, there's good news at State Street, where Fabulously Out There reports on how the MBTA has fixed the ankle-twisting stairs between the Orange and Blue lines.

Whoa, '50s flashback at State Street

adamg — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:05:02 -0500

Third Decade reports spotting three guys playing craps - and a fourth acting as a lookout - at the State Street T stop today:

... At first I thought the location was a little weird (a dark, dirty, stairway at State), then it kind of hit me that they were playing craps. I didn't know people still played that.

No public restrooms near State Street station?

adamg — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:15:09 -0400

Lewis and other Blue Line riders this morning get a nice view of a guy relieving himself on the outbound platform:

... Making Niagra Falls look like a mere faucet drip. Even with the sound of my iPod filling my ears the seemingly collective groan of the people who saw you was clearly audible. And to make it even worse is the fact that there were three MBTA "police" standing on the same platform at the other end. Obviously being really oblivious to what they are paid to do. Police the station. ...