Boston Restaurant Talk alerts us to the opening of Machu Chifa, which specializes in chifa, "Cantonese-Peruvian style fried rice bowls that can be ordered with steak, pork, shrimp, or chicken."

Kelley Hand reports traffic on Court and State streets is now a mess, of course. Read more.

UPDATE, 10:28 p.m. Roads, T stop being re-opened.

Police surrounded the New England Center and Home for Veterans on Court Street and shut down surrounding streets, the State Street T stop and part of City Hall Plaza as they investigated a possible threat made by one person around 9:45 p.m. The person was quickly taken into custody, but the bomb squad was requested to check out his back pack.

Steven McVerry reports:

Major cop/SWAT action downtown near gov. center. Guns out, yelling at pedestrians to turn around and go several blocks.

Mike Kix looked down on Court Street this afternoon. Unlike the dudes, he reports, the octopus was not moving.

WBUR takes a look at the history of 26 Court St.:

The building, on a busy side street in the Financial District, sits on what city records say is "believed to be the oldest plot of land continuously owned by the City of Boston."