Downtown

Google Moves City Hall

Brett — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:09:33 -0400

(Google Maps has a history of getting landmarks in Boston wrong. A year or two ago, they had Kendall Station about 2 blocks east of its real location.)

Godawful state building turns maneater

adamg — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:18:58 -0400

For the second day in a row, a pedestrian has fallen into a 30-foot-deep hole by the hideous Hurley Building on Staniford Street, the Herald reports.

Police: Man who preys on women looking for rides downtown struck again last month

adamg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:43:32 -0400

Boston Police report DNA testing shows one man is responsible for three sexual assaults late at night since August, 2007, and that he could be linked to two more attacks.

In all three cases, the victims were women who accepted rides from the man "in the early morning hours." He then drove them to Charlestown and attacked them. In the most recent incident, on Aug. 5 of this year, a woman picked up at Boylston and Arlington streets fought back when he attacked her near Terminal Street in Charlestown and he fled.

The other incidents involved women picked up near State Street on Nov. 22, 2007 and a woman picked up on Aug. 8, 2007 near Stuart Street, who was also attacked near Terminal Street.

Approximate pick-up locations and Terminal Street:

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Earlier:
Cops enlist bars to try to stop downtown predator.
Sketch of alleged North End attacker.

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.

'He kept throwin' these uppercuts and hittin' me in the head and it was annoyin' me'

adamg — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:39:01 -0400

An interview with Mark Columbo, a veteran MBTA police officer, on what it's like to have a suspect (in this case, a guy breaking into a car at rush hour in downtown Boston), try to punch his way out of an arrest:

Part 2, in which the tide turns when Columbo applies a "guillotine hold" that began cutting off the flow of blood to the guy's head and he gets some bystanders to help subdue the guy.

Get to Marliave before it becomes popular

adamg — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:02:41 -0400

Limeyg says the revamped place is destined for greatness.

Discovering Haymarket

adamg — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:00:57 -0400

After eight years in Boston, G reports on his first shopping expedition to Haymarket and shows off what he got for $18:

... it was packed, but awesome - not only were the bargain prices enough to make you want to take up arms the next time you're poking around the priced-up pallid produce piles at the neighborhood supermarket, but the experience of being amongst the crowd, buying uberfresh yums from the hard-working crew was fabulous - i'd much rather leave my $ there. ...

John McCain's welcoming new Boston headquarters

adamg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:39:33 -0400

Lori Magno notices that before you get to the friendly balloons at John McCain's Massachusetts headquarters on Tremont Street, you first have to make yourself presentable and not look like a common bum.

If only Evening Magazine were still on

adamg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:43:03 -0400

Yes, that's Barry Nolan listening in rapt attention as some guy describes his anti-gravity invention on Tremont Street. 16WadeSt captured the action yesterday.

Spare jobs? Got any spare jobs?

adamg — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:28:27 -0400

The Boston Business Journal reports on a guy with an MBA, who, apparently enamored of the successful money-raising efforts of panhandlers, spent Friday seeking a job by walking around the Financial District with a homemade sign around his neck.