Sullivan Square

MBTA returns lost wallet with lots of cash to anxious owner

By adamg - 10/26/14 - 12:34 pm

MBTA driver and the woman whose wallet he found

Richard Cooper and Jazmine Tucker. Photos by MBTA.

On Thursday morning, a rider on the 93 bus handed driver Richard Cooper a wallet that was just sitting there - a wallet with $1,735 in it. Cooper, who has worked for the T for 28 years, gave the wallet to an inspector at Sullivan Square station, who handed it over to a supervisor at the Charlestown garage. The T reports:

On Friday, the wallet's owner, a Charlestown woman, was reunited with her wallet and the $1,735. She had called the T to report the missing wallet. After the woman verified her name and the wallet's contents, Bus supervisor Michelle Smallcomb handed it to a very happy Jazmine Tucker. She told the supervisor she was on her way to the bank when she left the wallet behind.

Police say Sullivan Square panhandler beat man who wouldn't give him money

By adamg - 8/27/14 - 10:54 am

UPDATE: Noor ordered held without bail pending a Sept. 17 hearing on violating conditions in his conviction on the attack last year, the DA's office reports.

Transit Police report arresting a Malden man they say began beating another man who wouldn't give him money at the Sullivan Square T stop around 12:15 a.m. today.

Orange Line shorts out, makes riders want to shout

By adamg - 7/31/14 - 10:18 am

Some sort of electrical problem at Sullivan Square means the T is now busing Orange Line riders between Wellington and North Station.

Three badly hurt in crash outside Sullivan Square firehouse

By adamg - 7/18/14 - 10:55 pm

Remains of car outside Sullivan Square firehouse

Aftermath of the crash. Photo by Boston EMS Incidents.

Boston EMS Incidents reports at least one person was ejected from a vehicle and at least two other people are in bad shape outside the Engine 32 and Ladder 9 fire station at 525 Main St.

BPD homicide detectives are on scene due to the severity of injuries - two people were taken to hospitals in critical condition; one in non-critical condition. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extract one of the people.

Liston617 drove by the scene, reports one car was "smashed to pieces."

No criminal charges against driver whose garbage truck struck, killed bicyclist in Sullivan Square

By adamg - 6/30/14 - 1:48 pm

A Suffolk County grand jury has declined to return an indictments against Ricky Prezioso, 42, of Swampscott, whose garbage truck struck and killed Owen McGrory of Chelsea in April.

The move surprised prosecutors at the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which in a statement, says:

Bicyclists remember one of their own in Sullivan Square

By adamg - 4/14/14 - 2:02 pm

A "ghost bike" now marks the spot at Cambridge and Spice streets where Owen McGrory of Chelsea died in a collision with a garbage truck earlier this month.

Some people wanted to leave something besides flowers to remember the crash for which the driver was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death:

Sullivan Square bicyclist identified

By adamg - 4/5/14 - 8:05 pm

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office tonight identified the bicyclist who died in a collision with a garbage truck on Thursday as Owen McGrory, 30, of Chelsea,

Truck driver charged with fleeing fatal collision with bicyclist in Sullivan Square

By adamg - 4/4/14 - 9:00 am

UPDATE: Authorities have identified the victim as a 30-year-old man from Chelsea. They have yet to publicly release his name to allow for family notification.

Ricky Prezioso, 42, of Swampscott, told police he thought he hit a pothole at the intersection of Cambridge and Spice streets while making trash pickups around 1:40 p.m. yesterday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Person hit and killed by garbage truck in Sullivan Square; truck leaves scene

By adamg - 4/3/14 - 2:12 pm

UPDATE: Truck found in parking lot in industrial area along Railroad Street in Revere, towed to Boston as evidence. NECN reports the driver has also been found and is being questoned; Boston Police say no charges at this time.

Orange, Green, Red, Silver lines don't wait for the snow to fail

By adamg - 12/17/13 - 8:15 am

A dead train at Sullivan Square around 8:20 a.m. quickly cascaded into commuting hell for Orange Line riders heading into the city from the north. At Malden, riders were told to ~~abandon all hope~~ get on commuter rail. At Community College, riders were told to ~~just go home~~ walk to North Station.

A train died earlier in the morning on the Red Line. Two trolleys were taken out and shot on the Green Line. A Silver Line bus suffered an existential crisis at Mass. Ave. and Washington Street and could go no further.

Good things take time - like the commute on the Orange Line this morning

By adamg - 11/13/13 - 7:34 am

A dead train gave Orange Line commuters extra time to check e-mail or read the Metro cover to cover and back again. Around 7, Ford Inbody tweeted:

Overall from Sullivan Square to Back Bay took me 52 minutes. Normally around 20 in the morning.

That included waiting 20 miunutes at Sullivan just for a train to show up and 10 minutes just sitting at Downtown Crossing.

There was also a dead train on the Red Line, but that was around 6 a.m., when hardly anybody was awake to notice.

All that's missing is the olive oil

By adamg - 11/7/13 - 9:13 am

Signal problems at Sullivan Square mean sardine-level packing on inbound Orange Line trains this morning.

Meanwhile, there are major delays on the Worcester Line due to a train hitting and killing somebody.

At least we get a rainbow out of all the rain - actually, two of them

By adamg - 6/12/13 - 8:02 pm

Fletcher Lang captured the double rainbow over Huntington Avenue from the MFA this evening.

Cycle Style Boston captured the double rainbow over the Pru:

Somerville man with history of violence on the Orange Line indicted for alleged intimidation campaign against T worker

By adamg - 6/12/13 - 3:36 pm

Alleged attacker A man convicted of beating up two women on the Orange Line in 2010 allegedly spent two months this year spitting racial insults at an MBTA worker at the Sullivan Square stop - and punched out a CharlieCard machine - the state Attorney General's office charges.

Joseph Balistreri, 39, faces three counts of violating a permanent injunction, two counts of making threats and one count of criminal harassment, according to the AG's office. In 2010, he was arrested for attacking two women on the Orange Line he accused of being lesbians.

In a statement, the Attorney General's office recounts what led to the new charges:

Maybe he got tired of being called Owen

By adamg - 6/8/13 - 10:26 am

Transit Police report arresting a man from a Pittsburgh suburb at the Sullivan Square Orange Line stop last night before he could ~~get the tar beaten out of him~~ strangle a local following the end of the Penguins' O-4 series.

According to police, officers arrived at a disturbance around 11:30 p.m. at the station to find Ryan Baessler, 29, of Carnegie, PA, with his hands around another man's throat and screaming insults at him: