John Carroll posts crime-scene photos.

John Carroll, who lives in Brookline Village, wonders why elected officials didn't do much to stop a Borg cube from landing on Harvard Street while they are battling to do something about a proposed Mormon church off Rte. 9 in leafy Fisher Hill:

So: Fisher Hill gets to pick and choose but Brookline Village gets stuck with the Horror on Harvard Street?

Gotta ask: Is more than somebody in Brookline government getting greased here?

So how about that giant cube now rising on Harvard Street?

... The cube itself is a monolithic presence, kind of like a big stereo speaker in a room of antique furniture, as we look across the street to the fine historic red brick buildings, with their inviting doors and windows, fine detailing and timeless simplicity. It would have been entirely possible to design a modern structure that nonetheless fit in this setting. Had it had some elements remotely in common with the structures in the vicinity, namely the original church, the house on Holden, or the brick buildings on Harvard, be it materials, height, massing, roof height and angle, the rhythm of windows, shape, form, etc. But these structures have none of these. ...

Via Neal Simpson.

Brookline Police report that Horai-San Book and Crystal Shop, 242 Washington St. in Brookline Village, was held up around 6:42 p.m. on Friday.

UPDATE: Suspect arrested at Logan Airport.

Around 1 this morning, she fought off man who followed her on the trolley all the way from Government Center, then tried to rape her.

Brookline Police report that when a man exiting the Brookline Village Starbucks Wednesday morning declined to give a panhandler money:

[T]he suspect kicked over a newspaper stand which subsequently fell and struck the victims vehicle.

The panhandler was subsequently arrested.

They also report on a traffic incident at Parkman and St. Paul streets: