Congress Street

For a change, local road not slick due to rain

adamg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:56:55 -0400

Slick due to an overturned oil truck, instead: Congress and D streets in South Boston.

Gullible

adamg — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:23:54 -0400

Gull near the Hood milk bottle at the Children's Museum.

Congress Street bridge death on pedestrians

adamg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:02:38 -0500

Fabulously Out There wishes to know which frickin' agency is responsible for taking care of, or rather, not taking care of, the sidewalks on the Congress Street bridge:

... And so I skipped along to the beat of my ipod, made it through Eastie without falling on said ass, got to my T-stop downtown, got off, no problems, all dry and clear and then came the Congress Street bridge.......and it's entirely possibly that yours truly wiped out on the bridge.

I am not even kidding. WIPED OUT. ...

Former owner of Fort Point Channel hardware store charged with defrauding customers

adamg — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:36:15 -0500

A Fort Point Channel building made infamous two years ago with the strange death of an MIT-trained artist is once again the focus of a criminal investigation - this time for massive credit-card fraud.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office today charged Erik Joseph, former owner of Seaport Hardware, 369 Congress St., with defrauding customers across New England out of several hundred thousand dollars since 2005.

The store is in the same building as that meth lab that turned out not to be a meth lab where artist Kevin McCormick died in unusual circumstances in 2005.

Joseph, a Belmont resident, pleaded innocent at his arraignment this morning in South Boston District Court, according to the DA's office. Bail was set at $75,000.

According to prosecutors, Joseph set up a series of bogus companies to suck out and launder money from the accounts of people who paid for hardware purchases with credit cards. In a statement, the DA's office cited one example:

Joseph allegedly used a dummy business – for which he had obtained an American Express merchant number, a post office box, and a bank account – to bill the customer's credit card for $8,087 in 43 separate charges of less than $200 in the weeks and months that followed. That money, [DA Dan] Conley said, was deposited into a corresponding bank account, which Joseph later emptied and closed.

Prosecutors said they, a statewide financial-crimes task force and the US Postal Service were not done investigating Joseph, but that they sought charges against him now because he sold the store last month and was emptying his legitimate bank accounts, making them worry he was getting ready to flee the area. Boston Police arrested him in Belmont on Tuesday.

Even before the indictment, Joseph, a 1980 Emerson College graduate, got a couple of bad Yelp reviews.

Dead body on Congress Street

adamg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:13:34 -0400

Rob Bellinger wonders what happened this morning?

Fire at Tea Party museum on Congress St. / Fort Point Channel

Ron Newman — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:55:53 -0400

Adam Salsman took a series of photos at today's Tea Party fire, such as the one above.

Being reported right now at b0st0n LiveJournal, well before any news media.

Some video of the flames.

A good photo. Still more photos.

Photo by Fabulously Out There.

The Milk Bottle is back

adamg — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:49:26 -0500

Jonelle notices that the Milk Bottle is back at the Children's Museum and that it's been re-capped:

... The recapping of the Hood Milk Bottle is a somewhat comforting reminder that everything will be patched back up someday.