So there's this annual event called New York Bagelfest and they always pick a "best of the fest" bagel and this year, the award went to Bagelsaurus, which New Yorkers will have to take Acela and then the Red Line to try in the wild.
Sean Hennessey shows us the human chain moving books through Porter Square today from Porter Books' old location to its new one.
A roving UHub photographer snapped the situation this morning at Porter Square, where both escalators - and one of the stairs - were blocked for some sort of repair work.
The Cambridge Fire Department reports a man was extricated from under the first car of an inbound Red Line train Wednesday night.
Firefighters arrived shortly before 11 p.m. and guided the man - who remained conscious - out from under the train around 15 minutes later, after getting confirmation that the power to the third rail had been shut. He was treated at the scene for some injuries, then transported to a local hospital.
At Kendall Square Red Line entrance, sign would go under the red-and-white "Kendall" sign
The MBTA and the company that handles its electronic ad boards inside subway stations have begun a program to bring the boards above ground, at the entrances to stations. Read more.
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via Cambridge PD.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed two people at the Porter Square Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and who they say is "a person of interest in multiple assaults in Boston and Cambridge." Read more.
One man was stabbed in the stomach and the other twice in the arm during a fight involving a third man at the Halal Guys in Porter Square around 7:40 p.m. WFXT reports both victims were taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
Ari Ofsevit snapped the front of Little Bake, 1925B Massachusetts Ave. in Porter Square, which closed for good yesterday.
Cambridge Day reports that Rockler Woodworking and Hardware in Porter Square is closing next month - and has already marked down everything by 30%.
The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.
The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.
A roving UHub Red Line passenger took a photo this morning of the water spilling onto the third rail at Porter Square. He also took some video: Read more.
Update: The T says it had to send in another train to push the dead one all the way to Cabot Yard in South Boston.
The MBTA is reporting delays up to 30 minutes on the Red Line as "our crews remove a train that was disabled at Porter Square."
Surveillance photos by Cambridge PD, one of which helpfully points out his cast.
Cambridge Police report a guy grabbed $300 worth of Red Bull from the cooler of a Porter Square store Tuesday morning, then rushed out.
An Uber driver and his two passengers suffered apparently minor injuries after their vehicle crashed into a Citizens Bank branch on Somerville Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue around 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Cambridge Police report. Read more.
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