Fenway

The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.

A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.

Clauclauclaudia caught both a bus and a trolley in flagrante delicto at Huntington Avenue and Fenwood Road shortly after 8 p.m.

"I guess expect E line delays inbound," she summarizes. Sure, enough, the T is reporting 15-minute delays on the E Line, suggests the more flexible 39 as an alternative.

Our own Ron Newman took in the BSO's free Concert for the City, which featured Mayor Wu performing a piano solo of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." Before the main event, the Pops Gospel Choir performed.

Around 10:30 this morning, roving UHub photographer Phil B. came across an unusual sight as he headed inbound on Storrow Drive just before the Kenmore exit: A truck facing inbound but on the otherwise empty outbound side. Read more.

Two non-profit groups have filed plans to convert and modernize a six-story lodging house at 20 Charlesgate West in the Fenway into an 86-unit apartment building, with all the units renting at "affordable" rates below what the city normally considers "affordable." Read more.

The Boston City Council this week agreed to consider a proposal by Councilor Sharon Durkan (Fenway, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill) to amend an ordinance aimed at preventing some city parks and parkways from being overwhelmed by tall buildings next to them to allow a tall residential building next to the Charlesgate section of the Emerald Necklace. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to 421 Park Dr., now under construction as a 13-story addition to the former Landmark Center, for a fire that started by welding and construction debris on the fourth floor but spread several floors upward, around 5:10 p.m. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a Brockton man and a younger accomplice on charges they beat a food deliverer in the face with gun Monday night, then took his scooter for a little adventure through the alleys and streets of the Fenway and Audubon Circle before ditching the scooter near Beacon and St. Mary's streets in Brookline. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for the city's third upscale Taco Bell, in what used to be a T-Mobile shop at 1084 Boylston St., just around the corner from Mass. Ave. Read more.