West End

City confirms: No penguins escaped the Aquarium

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 pm

Rachel Dolores was along the locks near Lovejoy Wharf Sunday night when she suddenly had to do a double take: Read more.

Crazy weather we've been having, huh?

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 8:29 am

Traffic barrel topped by sign reading: CAUTION Falling Ice and snow

Roving UHub photographer Pete Hutchinski reports he was down on Friend Street, looking to pick up some lock cylinders at Benton Locksmiths, when he spotted this sign atop a traffic barrel. "I thought everything would have melted by now!" he muses.

After one man died under a trolley at North Station, another man stole his property, police say

By adamg - 6/7/23 - 1:24 pm

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Updated with new photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say stole property belonging to a man who died under the wheels of a Green Line trolley early on May 30. Read more.

West End latest to get outlet of JP-based Mexican chain

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 1:04 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Chilacates is planning to move into the Staniford Street space vacated by Viva Burrito.

Man tries kicking moving trolley at North Station, loses balance, falls under trolley, dies, police say

By adamg - 5/30/23 - 9:42 am

Transit Police report a man died on the outbound Green Line tracks at North Station around 12:18 a.m.

In a statement, police say: Read more.

Couple of kids could be about to find out just how harmful cigarettes are

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 11:58 am

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Not from smoking them, but from getting caught stealing more than $1,000 worth of tobacco products by breaking into a stand at North Station, as Transit Police say these two did at North Station on May 14.

If the alleged wet-behind-the-ears thieves look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.

And how would you build a path from the Greenway to the Esplanade?

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:58 am

The Beacon Hill Times reports on initial proposals for a "West End Green Corridor" to connect the Rose Kennedy Greenway with the Esplanade. One proposal: A sort of mini-High Line path 15 feet up.

Green Line was no lark due to dead train at Science Park

By adamg - 4/29/23 - 6:01 pm

But the MBTA reports "this delay has been cleared," which we assume means something other than that they shoved the train off side of the viaduct.

Fire under Charles/MGH delays Red Line

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 10:17 pm

Fire under a Red Line train. Photo by Fuad.

A fire that broke out in Charles Circle underneath the Charles/MGH station shortly before 9 p.m. sent smoke billowing into the station and caused delays on the Red Line of up to 20 minutes.

West End man who left his apartment door unlocked murdered by New Yorker who snuck in, slashed his throat, ate some of his food, DA says

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 4:20 pm

A Brooklyn man was arraigned today on charges he walked into an apartment at the West End Apartments last month and fatally slashed the throat of a 75-year-old man who often kept his door unlocked so neighbors and caretakers could check on him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Spock fans have raised enough to live long, now they hope to bring in enough so they can also prosper

By adamg - 3/2/23 - 10:12 am

Rendering via Museum of Science.

The Boston Sun reports backers of a proposed Leonard Nimoy memorial at the Museum of Science have raised more than half the $500,000 they need for a 20-foot-tall steel hand doing the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" sign. Read more.

No matter how obnoxious an ejected bar patron gets, a doorman shouldn't just kick him in the balls, board concludes

By adamg - 2/2/23 - 11:29 am

The Boston Licensing Board today formally warned Bodega, 69 Canal St., that the correct response for a staffer being harassed by somebody who'd just been ejected is to call 911, not kick him in the crotch. Read more.

Worker dies from fall off roof of Mass. General building

By adamg - 1/9/23 - 8:29 pm

WCVB reports.

More loud banging reported, but probably not F15s this time

By adamg - 1/2/23 - 11:35 pm

At 10:37 p.m., Archivehive reported:

Did anyone hear two loud bangs? Cambridge Street West End Boston area.

It sounded like something falling out of the sky and then bang. Then it happened again

Sure enough, others heard them, too: Read more.

Randolph motorist charged with hitting woman outside North Station, then running her over

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 2:49 pm

A Randolph man faces a variety of charges after he allegedly ran a woman down outside North Station early this morning, while a couple of his pals face charges that they made asses of themselves at the scene and then again at the police station, where they were arrested after allegedly chest bumping cops and challenging them to a fight, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Early morning commuters at North Station greeted by a man yelling racist slurs, at least until he was arrested

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 12:23 pm

Transit Police report that around 5 a.m., a man from Lowell began yelling racial epithets at commuters and station workers, and that he refused entreaties from officers to shut up or leave, so they arrested him for trespassing.

Causeway Street shut for more than an hour by what turned out to be a pressure cooker sitting on the sidewalk

By adamg - 11/18/22 - 11:44 am

Bomb-squad member near the pressure cooker. Photo by Live Boston.

In a city with a bad history with pressure cookers, police took no chances when a report came in about a suspicious device just sitting on Causeway Street in front of the Garden and North Station around 1:30 a.m. Read more.

A Woburn developer that won approval for a 90-room hotel at 104 Canal St., at Valenti Way, is seeking city approval again to begin construction, but this time for a hotel with 98 rooms. Read more.