Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 15, 1942 - a fire broke out in the ceiling above the first-floor kitchen of Luongo's Tap on Henry Street in East Boston - just 2 1/2 hours after some 200 couples had gathered for some dancing in the place's second-floor dance hall. Boston firefighters responded to what grew into a three-alarm blaze in the five-story brick building. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the back on the Jacobbe Road side of the Maverick Square MBTA station shortly after 9:20 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital.
A Boston man with a history of whipping it out in public was ordered held without bail for at least 90 days his arrest for outbound masturbating at Beachmont on the Blue Line in full view of a woman heading inbound Tuesday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Transit Police report arresting a 56-year-old man they say "committed a lewd act" in the direction of women at both Beachmont and Maverick on the Blue Line yesterday morning - and that he's been pulling the same stunt since at least 2016.
East Boston Municipal Court records show that Francis Costa, Jr. was scheduled for arraignment today on a charge of open and gross lewdness, subsequent offense.
Innocent, etc.
Ten people were arrested in drug raids on Tuesday that centered on 44 Border St. in the Maverick Landing development in East Boston, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Abandon all hope - or take the ferry between Maverick and downtown - the T advises.
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on a rally in Maverick Square this week for Marco Flores, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to a charge of voluntary manslaughter for strangling the man who had raped him for years when the man began threatening to do the same to a younger sibling of Flores's.
WFXT reports a man was stabbed at Sumner and Paris streets in East Boston around 1:15 p.m. today.
Suffolk County prosecutors will not be able to use audio and video from a police officer's phone against the man he arrested for drug distribution on an East Boston street in 2019, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.
Incipient Lake Maverick.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the sinkole of unusual size forming at Maverick and Orleans streets in East Boston: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board agreed today to give John Tyler one last chance to show he can actually run a restaurant in the Maverick Street building he and his ex-wife co-own and if he can't, it'll yank the place's liquor license and give it to somebody else. Read more.
An East Boston man who lives right above the now closed Maverick House Tavern on Maverick Street at Bremen Street, says he is getting it ready to re-open next month as a Latino-themed restaurant with consulting help from another local restaurant operator - who could take over as the place's manager if he works out. Read more.
Update: Board decides neither incident was foreseeable so no violation for either bar.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about incidents at bars in the South End and East Boston in which patrons apparently looking for trouble found it. Read more.
A federal judge has sentenced a member of the Sinaloa cartel who set up housekeeping in East Boston to ten years after he pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and cocaine from Maverick Square to Hyde Park - sometimes with his wife and young children in tow. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two 14-year-olds they say stole 23 phones and 3 digital watches in two trips into a phone-repair shop at 201 Sumner St., across from the Maverick Square T stop in East Boston. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Pomona Cafe and Wine Bar is looking to open its third Massachusetts outlet at 18 Meridian St. in Maverick Square. They'll start out with coffee, smoothies, salads, sandwiches and grain bowls, then add alcohol if they can get a liquor license.
What the T calls a "signal problem" near Maverick has caused a morning commute from hell on the Blue Line.
There was a "medical emergency" at Maverick serious enough that the T had to bring in shuttle buses to replace service, only as RadRebe shows, there weren't enough of them. Here, she's at Airport, where she got on a Silver Line bus to downtown - where she was further delayed by Red Line problems.
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