Beacon Street

Night light

adamg — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:20:30 -0400

Aaron Donovan photographs the State House at night.

Elephant Smash

adamg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:18:35 -0400

Cindierock reports an accident at Park Drive and Beacon Street yesterday involving:

[A] smashed gray car against a median thing in the middle of park drive going towards BU and then a taxi cab that looked like it jumped through the air and smashed into the side of the elephant walk restaurant. ...

Beacon Street as empowerment zone for tween girls

adamg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:28 -0400

Beacon Street Girls (although who knew there was an apartment atop that movie theater on Harvard Street?).

The company behind the site (and the books from which it comes) says it is aimed at "quality parent-approved literature, media, and gifts for preteen girls who are between toys and boys TM."

If a tree falls on Beacon Street ...

adamg — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:10:51 -0400

Andy photographs the "rather large" tree branch that fell last night on Beacon Street between Brandon Hall and Summit Avenue.

A guy in a Ferrari. Drinking a Starbucks. Talking on an iPhone.

adamg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:20:24 -0400

And that's why he couldn't signal to let Sean Roche, bicycling behind him on Beacon Street in Brookline, know that he was about to cut in front of him to get a parking space. No free hands, you see, sorry about that, old chap.

No, Green Line drivers are not like halibut because halibut don't fall asleep

adamg — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:21 -0400

This is the sort of thing that doesn't exactly inspire confidence in trolley drivers:

Several people, including a Boston magazine staffer, witnessed a T driver repeatedly drifting off to sleep between Hynes and Coolidge Corner shortly after 6 p.m on June 17.

Nobody was hurt, but the story gets even better when that staffer attempts to report the incident to the T.

Spring madness on the roads

Paul Levy — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:13:50 -0400

Living here, I am ready for anything on the streets of Boston, whether I am biking, walking, or driving. But what is it about beautiful weather that seems to bring out the nuts? Two cases this morning:

(1) Driving in on Beacon Street down the long hill in front of BC, and I see in my rearview mirror an "adult" bicycle rider drafting off of my car -- roughly 6 inches from my rear bumper. I finally get him off my tail and suggest through my open window that he is crazy and that what he is doing is REALLY dangerous. (What if I have to stop suddenly, for example.) He says, "No, it's fun."

(2) Upon arriving in town, I park at Landmark and need to crossing Park Drive by foot. There is no turning traffic, and I have the walk signal, but it changes to flashing "don't walk" as I am halfway across. A T bus driver (bus #0257) turning into the intersection blasts his horn at me for getting in his way and points to the flashing sign in support of his action.

The Brookline Stairway Liberation Front

adamg — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:32:26 -0400

Andy reports from the front lines of a battle between an evil hulking bureaucracy and a ragtag band of rebels intent on liberating the stairways that have been closed for months now along the hilly section of Beacon Street:

... Now, one can assume there is a reason for this (my guess is the issue of safety what with no handrails and all). Still, the one thing us Brooklinians won't take, it's some annoying MBTA traffic cone telling us when we can and cannot use a stairway. So, one bold Saturday, the people took action. A anonymous group in the grand tradition of radical patriots claimed the stairwell in the name of the people. May their famous proclamation live with the likes of Luther, Fawkes, and Jefferson. ...

Attacked in a dressing room

adamg — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:26:59 -0400

Brookline Police report that a woman was trying on clothes at Mint Julep, 1302 Beacon St., around 1:45 p.m. yesterday when a man walked in and "indecently assaulted her." Described as a light skinned Hispanic man in his 30s, 5'5", medium build, with dark short hair, wearing sunglasses, white dirty sneakers, an old grey t-shirt, with blue writing that the victim believes had "Nike" imprinted on it and blue jeans.

NoNo!

adamg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:02:49 -0400

Seems the brokers are now referring to a rapidly condoifyin' part of Brookline as SoBe (not to be confused with Sobro).

Only problem, aside from the general stupidity of it all: In the past, brokers came up with these MoNiKers to try to disguise an area's crime-ridden/desolate/poor-people past. And I'm just having trouble conjuring up any mean streets in Brookline these days - especially in SoBe, CoolCor, WaSqua, EaHa or WeHa, let alone BrookVill or PuttHam.