Crushed boat on right. Photo by BFD.
Rigging on a crane being used to lower a floating dock or "barge" into the water at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal St. in East Boston, failed at 11:08 a.m., sending the dock slamming into the water - and a boat that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Boston Fire Department and the shipyard report.
Nobody was injured, but the shipyard reports it shut for the day, to await a second crane to help right things.
Surveillance photo via Transit PD.
A Cambridge man is being held in lieu of $5,000 bail following his arraignment last month that he went up to an Asian-American woman in Chinatown and punched her in the face last April 2 and then about two hours later punched out another Asian-American woman downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint at 12:45 a.m. about the sprinklers going full blast in the middle of a torrential downpour on Lewis Mall in East Boston.
Not sure who controls Lewis mall but please turn off. This grass does not need watering!
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about this "illegal graffiti" at 290 Marginal St. in East Boston.
Somebody spray painted street
UPDATE: Ermilov tells NBC Boston the guests attacked him first and he grabbed the knife in self defense..
A man who manages an Airbnb short-term rental at 140 Marginal St. in East Boston attacked a person renting a room and his guest with a kitchen knife early Saturday and stopped only when one of them smashed a glass teapot over his head, police say. Read more
Two teenagers are behind bars for their alleged roles in a robbery turned murder in East Boston Sunday afternoon.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, Duncan Ketter, 21, of East Boston, tagged along with a woman who'd agreed to sell some pot to a 16-year-old Sunday, only to wind up fatally shot in a small SUV, his body dumped out at Orleans and Marginal streets. Read more.
Steve Holt lives where police say Duncan Ketter's body was pushed out of a car after being shot yesterday. He writes:
"Did you know him?" I ask.
The boy looks up from his morning prayers at the shrine he’s just lit at the base of the street lamp on my corner, his eyes brimming with tears.
"Yeah," he replies, his lip quivering. ...
At Orleans and Marginal streets around 4:40 p.m., Chargemyline reports.
WCVB reports the victim, Duncan Ketter, may have been shot in a car, then dumped there. Ketter was 19.
In 2014, Ketter ran across Orange Line tracks at North Station to help save a man who'd fallen on the tracks.
— BAC Library (@BACLibrary) March 13, 2017
The Boston Architectural College Library does the then-and-now with Marginal and Little Pearl in East Boston (which we discussed a couple months back).
Boston Police are continuing to investigate an incident early Sunday in which a car wound up in Boston Harbor mud at the end of Sumner and Marginal streets in East Boston. Read more.
A lot of smoke. Photo by Liam Elliott.
Boston firefighters are at the Boston Harbor Marina off Marginal Street, where a 16-foot boat erupted into flames around 10:15 a.m. One person suffered burns.
Paul Nutting captured the scene from across the harbor.
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