Drive-by gunfire on Dorchester Street in Andrew Square; nobody hit
Around 3:25 p.m., somebody, possibly on a scooter, fired three shots on Dorchester Street in the area of Rogers Street. He didn't hit anybody, but three vehicles got fresh bullet holes.Sat, 06/04/2022...
View ArticleBoston's largest fountain, if only for awhile
See it larger.Handmaid had a great view on Fan Pier this morning of two fireboats, one an active BFD vessel, the other a retired 1940s fireboat seen above, shooting water high into the air, as part of...
View ArticleCollins vows to fight proposed changes to South Boston bus routes
Caught in Southie reports state Sen. Nick Collins is vowing to fight a proposal by the MBTA to end 11 service at Broadway, which would force people who now use it to get to Tufts Medical Center and...
View ArticleThere once was a packie from Nantucket ...
And there we stopped, unable to come up with a family-friend limerick to report on a Nantucket food/liquor outlet planning an outlet on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston.Fresh Nantucket, which sells...
View ArticleBlack Falcon Pier named for a tragedy caused by a careless mistake in Antwerp
Aline Kaplan revisits a 1953 fire onboard a docked ship, named the Black Falcon, that killed several longshoremen, which might not have happened had more than 100 drums of sodium peroxide been stowed...
View ArticleOne bus hits another in South Boston
Plutor spotted the aftermath of a collision on East Broadway at O Street around 8 a.m.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleOne worker dead, one injured in latest Boston construction mishap
WBUR reports a worker died in a construction incident at 65 Northern Ave. in the Seaport around 6:30 this morning.The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health reports the man died...
View ArticleConley Terminal crash kills man
State Police report a 41-year-old Billerica man was struck and killed by a trailer being hauled in the Conley Terminal in South Boston yesterday morning.State Police report the man, himself a truck...
View ArticleNo kidding: JOKR shutting down
Lessons not learned? From an earlier generation.Caught in Southie reports the imminent demise of JOKR, the grocery-delivery service out of South Boston.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Cars getting towed, ticketed for street...
Upset citizens from Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston filed 311 complaints this morning about ticketing and towing for street cleaning even though they got e-mail from the city street-sweeping list...
View ArticleIt's good to live in a city where you park for a client meeting and some...
See it larger.W. Ian Blanton reports from the Black Falcon Pier:So I’m pulling in to park at a client and this is what I see at the end of the parking lot.Nice to see @USSConstitution underway now on...
View ArticleRed Line train derails in South Boston yard
The front wheels of a Red Line car came off the rails in a mishap yesterday at the MBTA's Cabot Yard in South Boston.According to an initial internal account, a driver was moving four cars:Train was...
View ArticleNine-story R&D building proposed for Fort Point
Rendering by Perkins + Will.The owner of a long vacant and boarded up former Boston Wharf Co. building at 7 Channel Center St. has filed plans with the BPDA to replace it with a nine-story building...
View ArticleKa-ping!
Jim Gavaghan watched this young American kestrel launch itself off the top of a 65-foot pine tree in South Boston around 6 p.m. on Sunday: I’ve been watching them off my third floor porch for about a...
View ArticleA 21-gun salute
Out at Deer Island, Matt Frank watched the USS Constitution fire a 21-gun salute off Castle Island this morning.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleTwo people sexually attacked in South Boston's Perkins Square
Boston Police report they are investigating two recent incidents of indecent assault and battery in the area of Dorchester Street and East Broadway in South Boston.Indecent assault and battery can...
View ArticleMan arrested on South Boston groping charge
Boston Police report the arrest of a local man on charges to one of the two cases of indecent assault and battery they were investigating in the area of Perkins Square.WCVB reports the initial...
View ArticleGuy beats man up in South Boston, then gets arrested for the gun loaded with...
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston man, not for beating somebody up on Costello Way in the West Broadway development around 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, but for the "Springfield Armory model XDM-9...
View ArticleFirst Lady drives through the Seaport
Shamus Moynihan watched Jill Biden's motorcade come down Congress Street this evening.Looks like the First Lady is grabbing some dinner in the seaport. @universalhubpic.twitter.com/9zFLzb8G9r— Shamus...
View ArticleBoston Bike Party takes to the streets for first time since the Before Times
Erica Mattison was among the scores of bicyclists yesterday evening in Copley Square who set off for the first Boston Bike Party in a long time.The Fort Pointer captured the procession through the...
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