The City Council yesterday approved holding a hearing at which to consider ways to combat what some said was drug use and related violence that are so bad they are making some residents think of moving away and of threatening Boston's tourism industry. Read more.
NBC Boston reports on the fatality which happened after the man fell on the tracks and came into contact with the third rail on the southbound tracks shortly before noon.
A man was ordered locked up today when he couldn't make $2,500 bail on charges he sent one Transit Police officer to the hospital with a "serious bite wound" and attacked another when awoken on the floor of a Red Line train at Park Street yesterday morning, according to Transit Police and court records. Read more.
They'll be working on the railroad, all the live long day. Photo by Just Some Dude.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Nickoyan Wallace, 49, of first-degree murder for gunning down Ivanildo Barros on Park Street in Dorchester in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect and escape car via BPD.
Boston Police have released photos of the man they say stabbed two people in a fight that also sent two other people to the hospital near the main entrance to the Park Street T stop on June 13. Read more.
The MBTA reports if you're heading west on the Green Line, brace for delays because there's a trolley that sighed, clutched its chest and went to meet its maker at Park Street.
A fight turned into a double stabbing near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
At 7:02 a.m., the MBTA reported an outbound trolley was pushing up daisies at Park Street. It's since been given a more proper burial and service is back to normal, the T says.
A roving UHub photographer spotted this guy slowly driving around the Common this morning, reports the guy has been circling Beacon Hill for a couple months now.
Update: Transit Police report they've IDed the guy.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
Christianity Today reports on divisions inside Park Street Church:
A years-long fight over leadership styles and decision-making processes at historic Park Street Church in Boston has boiled over into accusations of abusing spiritual authority and authoritarianism.
At 8:17 p.m., the MBTA reported delays on the Orange Line, when one of the new trains exhaled its last at Community College. At 8:41 p.m., the T reported delays on the Red Line when a train died at Park. The T did no say if that was one of the new Red Line trains, one of the old Red Line trains or one of the even older Red Line trains.
Johnmcboston reported on the situation on the Red Line at Park around 7 a.m.:
The joys of the morning Red Line commute. 15 minute wait, then train out of service.
In December, 1895, construction of what would be the nation's first subway was well under way along and under Tremont Street, but that didn't stop busy Bostonians from making their rounds.
Compare to the view today: Read more.
Waiting for Godot, um, the Red Line, at Park.
The MBTA reports 20 minute delays on the Red Line that won't be helped by the elimination of slow zones because a train is deader than a doorknob at Charles/MGH, and, say, whatever happened to those brand-new Red Line trains, anyway? Read more.
A Weymouth woman was ordered held without bail at her arraignment today on second-degree murder charges for the fatal stabbing of Jazreanna Sheppard outside the Park Street T stop July 20, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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