So which is worse: Monkey spanking or crab scratching on the Red Line?
A Quincy man charged with masturbating on an inbound Red Line train before reaching a crescendo just before Broadway at first denied he was playing his flute, according to the Suffolk County District...
View ArticlePolice: Marlboro men arrested after heist at South Boston gas station
Boston Police report arresting two South Boston men on charges they broke into the L Street Gulf station early this morning and stole numerous cartons of Marlboro cigarettes.Police add that even if...
View ArticleCar drives through South Boston real-estate office
Boston firefighters rushed to East Broadway around 9:35 a.m. when a car drove into Jack Conway Realty.It is a Mercury Marquis. The driver put it in reverse in the Rite Aid lot across the street. It...
View ArticleSouth Boston cone vigilante: Hero or goat?
The Globe interviews a guy who's taken to going around Southie after storms, removing traffic cones from saved spaces.Although some have taken to calling him Capt. Cone, he says he prefers BROhibitor.
View ArticleSevere delays on the Red Line
An inbound train passed to the other side at Broadway; another train developed door issues at Charles/MGH.Shawn Whitlock reports:Just took 20 min to go from Broadway T stop to South Station. That's ONE...
View ArticleGoing with the floe
Joanna Rieke shows us the ice patterns on Fort Point Channel today.Earlier:Channel ice.
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Who's responsible for the execrable traffic in...
A citizen stuck in traffic complains:Please do something about the traffic out of the Seaport. It's taken almost 30 minutes to drive from the WTC to Vertex. Insane. It is literally crawling. But mostly...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: 15 spaces savers in 3 blocks
A fed-up citizen reports that not only did city action fail to dislodge space savers in the area of Sumner and Maverick streets in Boston, they are multiplying, several days after the last snow...
View ArticleTrains fail, commuters wail
Jason Rowe snapped this photo around 5:20 p.m. at Broadway where, naturally, an inbound Red Line train had to be pulled out of service:Distinct smell of overheated brakes. The smell quickly made its...
View ArticleSouth Boston restaurant would feature food trucks that never move
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let local restaurant contractor John Childs open his own restaurant on W. 3rd Street that would feature two food trucks that can't actually drive...
View ArticleIf he can't have his cake, he'll just fly to Ireland instead
Rather than just sitting there at the St. Patrick's Day roast while that woman from Dorchester MCs, City Councilor Bill Linehan will instead be in Limerick, Ireland, the Globe reports.
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Space saving has just gotten completely out of...
A concerned citizen reports from E. 3 Street in South Boston:Toddler left as space saver. Oh my!H/t Dan Adams.
View ArticleAbominable conditions in the Seaport and, well, pretty much everywhere else
Melissa B. looked out her office window around 2 p.m.
View ArticleSouthie man charged with Cumbie's holdup
Boston Police report Peter Farrell, 22, managed to rob the Cumberland Farms at 628 E. 5th St. on Sunday even though the gloves he was wearing meant he couldn't operate the touch-screen cash register to...
View ArticleLow cost of New Hampshire insurance makes up for the cost of parking tickets...
In response to a complaint about an SUV with New Hampshire plates that is basically perma-parked on W. 7 Street, the Boston Transportation Department reports:This vehicle has been ticketed 15 times in...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: The space saver is a real gas
A concerned citizen complains about this propane space saver on E. 4 Street:New definition of "don't mess with my space". Rather dangerous!
View ArticleWest Broadway bank held up
The Eastern Bank branch, 470 W. Broadway in South Boston, was held up around 9:30 a.m. by a white male in his late 30s, 6' with a stubbly face and wearing a navy-blue hoodie. He showed a note, ran out...
View ArticleCar vandalized for being parked in Southie space; owner protests there wasn't...
Capt. John Greland at C-6 in South Boston tweets somebody got angry enough about finding somebody in "his" space on E. 6 Street near P Street yesterday, he vandalized the car.Only he didn't stop there....
View ArticleCar owner's status as veteran saves car parked in Southie from usual fate
SouthieNEC noticed this angry note on a car parked on Gates Street tonight.Earlier:Another Southie car owner gets both note and vandalism.
View ArticleDamn the snow: Sullivan's to open Saturday
The Castle Island food stand throws caution to the winds:Let's tempt fate and tell mother nature we've had enough of this winter! Opening EARLY-this SATURDAY, Feb. 22. Getting the grills ready now...
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