Kenmore Square

MBTA frowns on alleged effort by worker to give himself another raise

adamg — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:13:39 -0400

A veteran MBTA worker was arrested this morning on charges of skimming money from fare boxes after Red Sox games, the MBTA reports.

Gilberto Carrasquillo, 43, of Dorchester, will be arraigned tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of larceny over $250.

The MBTA says Carrasquillo, a senior revenue collection agent in charge of returning post-Sox "drop boxes" to a T vault, was caught in a sting operation last night.

The T sets up these boxes at Fenway and Kenmore stations to expidite fare collection for passengers without cards or tickets after Sox games. Last night, police put marked bills in the fare boxes. When an audit this morning showed all but one of the bills missing, police arrested Carrasquillo.

Carrasquillo has worked for the MBTA for 22 years, the T said in a statement.

You get more with a Kenmore

adamg — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:19:33 -0400

More delays, more mess, more excuses.

Stephen Laniel adds this to a list of T construction and maintenance issues. And as somebody who moved back to Boston because he missed it so much, he gets frustrated:

... It all smells very much like politics: buried deep within the MBTA and the city government, someone has paid someone else off; or the union won't fix something because one of its members is pissed at Grabauskas; or there's a feud going between the Italian wing and the Irish wing of city government. Something. If someone knows the politics, I'm sure that's 99% of the story; I would love to hear it. And I would love for the Globe to dig down to this next level. When a bridge is effectively running at 25% capacity for a few months, I want my local media to explain the root cause, rather than constantly turning to "MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo."

What I want to know is: as someone who loves this city very deeply, what can I do to fix what's broken? I'm not leaving this place. I want to make it better.

New England Coffee is not cool

Sean — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:39:56 -0400

New England Coffee ad(d)s to the pre-game congestion in Kenmore Square buying time on a fuel-guzzling, carbon-spewing billboard truck.

What is it with cool drink vendors and hating-on-the-environment? At least New England Coffee doesn't pretend to be a green company.

E-mail them at and suggest that they try some less annoying ad campaign. Like pop-unders or tele-marketing.

Stab 'n Flagon

adamg — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:04:52 -0400

Boston Police report a man was stabbed in the men's room at the Cask 'n Flagon around 1:30 this morning:

According to witnesses, they observed a male suspect (5'07", light skinned black male wearing a light green shirt, jeans and sneakers) run out of the bar holding a small knife. Witnesses further stated that the suspect appeared to have blood on his hands.

The victim was taken to Brigham and Women's for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Think of the tourists

adamg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:57:36 -0400

Tom Fulry wishes the Sox would forget about gentrifying Boylston Street for a moment and turn their attention to that steaming whale excavation site in the ground that is Kenmore Square:

... At least slap a coat of paint on the old bitch Kenmore Sq and dress her up in her fancy hooker skirt so that the first sight these morons coming to Fenway see isn't akin to Snow White giving herself a brazilian before the Icescapades at Disney.

Bubba the bakery bandit bites bullet; pleads guilty

adamg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:33:42 -0400

Alan "Bubba" Daughtry of Dorchester pleaded guilty last week to a string of robberies of bakeries, convenience stores and other small shops last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.

Guarded condition

adamg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:24:24 -0400

Steve S. gets that real secure feeling when he notices the armed security guard asleep at the Bank of America kiosk - and he explains why, in the end, he decided not to knock over the bank.

Citgo sign in beads

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:57:15 -0400

The Lone Beader presents her latest opus.

When meters and signs conflict

adamg — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:11:14 -0400

Steve Garfield discovers why parking seemed so easy on that road behind Eastern Standard along the turnpike in Kenmore Square today. And now he owes the city of Boston $40.

Oh, that sign

Sean — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:06:24 -0400

Don't tell my kids, but it turns out I might not be as bright as I've been leading them to believe. For weeks, I've been reading the yellow sign on the right each morning, wondering, "What the hell is 'that sign'?"

Finally, it hit me.

Duh!