Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say was the leader of a pack that tried to steal another guy's moped in the area of Lee's II Market at Commonwealth Avenue and Allston Street around 11:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
The MBTA is reminding Green Line riders that the B Line will be shut between Boston College and Babcock Street between Aug. 2 and 11 for some of those accelerated track repair sessions.
Bustitution, of course, except the buses won't stop at Allston Street, Griggs Street or Packards Corner for accessibility reasons.
The MBTA reports B Line delays of up to 15 minutes due to a trolley that got to BU Central and then would go no further.
Somebody drove a Tesla Cybertruck all the way from Washington state to Allston, parked on Comm. Ave. near Harvard and immediately got boxed in, as a roving UHub reporter out for a stroll discovered this morning. She reports she did not pour any water on it.
Transit Police report that around 3 this morning, somebody in a 2015 Hyundai drove onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Packards Corner, and then, realizing he couldn't escape the clutches of the sarlacc pit there, got out with a pal and ran away. "TPD Detectives to follow up," police say. "Vehicle towed from scene, no damage to tracks."
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Leon Robinson got a fair trial on charges he gunned down Recardo Robinson in Robinson's Commonwealth Avenue barbershop during an argument in 2001, which means Robinson will spend the rest of his life in prison. Read more.
Around 8:45 a.m., Boston's Leslie Knope reported this potentially fowl problem on the Green Line in Brighton, but based on the lack of T alerts, the gaggle was gone by the time any trolleys pulled through.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let City Smoke Shop, 957 Commonwealth Ave., add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.
The Green Line's day started inauspiciously per an MBTA announcement at 5:59 a.m. about 20-minute delays due to an earlier deceased trolley at Chiswick Road in Brighton.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a rat that is both injured and blind and yet still managing to scare passersby on Commonwealth Avenue near Exeter Street in the Back Bay:
Rat seems to have been in a fight and is blind. Has been wandering in this area all morning scaring people and pets.
Photo by Stanley Forman, from the BPL Brearley Collection.
On Jan. 25, 1971, a nearly finished 16-story apartment building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., near Boston College, collapsed, killing four construction workers and injuring a couple dozen more in a slow domino-like pancaking that started with a roof collapse. Read more.
Photo of the offending Versa by TPD.
Transit Police report the B Line was knocked out of commission for about 45 minutes around 9 p.m. on Wednesday after a driver somehow wound up facing towards Newton on the inbound tracks at Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road. The driver of the diminutive sedan told police "he took a wrong turn and ended up stuck on the tracks." No injuries, at least.
Rendering by CBT Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a six-story, 206-unit apartment building at 1270 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, where the lights currently remain on at what is a long vacant former CVS. Read more.
A grossed out citizen filed a 311 complaint from the fire swamp that is Commonwealth Avenue at Strathmore Road this morning:
WE'VE HAD RATS FOR A WHILE BUT THIS ONE WAS THE SIZE OF A SMALL HORSE
Protesters block bridge in Cambridge. Photo via Cambridge PD.
Protesters with signs calling for an end to the Israeli invasion following the Hamas massacre of Israelis blocked both sides of the BU Bridge this morning.
Cambridge Police alerted motorists to "please find an alternate route to avoid delays."
Northeastern (l) and Simmons suspects.
Boston and Simmons University Police report two sexual assaults on women near the Simmons and Northeastern campuses in recent days, while Boston University Police report making an arrest for two sexual assaults along their campus yesterday. Read more.
An apparent dispute over a parking space between two Fidelis Way residents on Washington Street at Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton ended with one stabbing the other in the chest shortly after 12 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
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