Boston Police report arresting a man who robbed the Brookline Bank branch at 33 State St. shortly after noon yesterday. Read more.
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By adamg - 9/16/24 - 5:47 pm
Update, Dec. 4, 2024: The bar voluntarily dismissed its suit.
The Black Rose bar on State Street today sued a Westborough bakery - which now has an outlet on Newbury Street - for also calling itself Black Rose. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 4:05 pm
Photo by Tim Lawrence.
Police shut State Street around 11:15 a.m. on a report of a a suspicious packages at 75 State St. Tim Lawrence captured the scene at State and Broad streets shortly before noon. Police re-opened State Street around 12:30 p.m., after the bomb squad said the object, whatever it was, was not a threat.
By adamg - 3/14/24 - 11:52 am
At Kendall Square Red Line entrance, sign would go under the red-and-white "Kendall" sign
The MBTA and the company that handles its electronic ad boards inside subway stations have begun a program to bring the boards above ground, at the entrances to stations. Read more.
By adamg - 2/23/24 - 9:20 am
A man screaming about masks attacked a 69-year-old woman at the State Street Orange Line stop Wednesday afternoon, ripping her mask off, knocking her to the floor and trying to drag her to the tracks before a bystander intervened, Transit Police and WBZ report. Read more.
By adamg - 11/4/23 - 11:00 am
It sounds like a charming children's story, but this is the T we're talking about, so it's probably chewing through the wires that keep the Blue Line running or something: A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the trash panda at State Street: Read more.
By adamg - 10/17/23 - 2:51 pm
Somebody called Transit Police to report a couple involved in flagrante delicto in an elevator at the State Street T station last night. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/23 - 11:01 am
NBC Boston reports Boston firefighters were able to free the woman around 5 p.m. on Friday, after which Boston EMS transported her to a local hospital. The T notes it did not move the train until after the woman was freed.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 4:15 pm
Today's the first Monday in June and that means it was once again time for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, founded in 1638, to hold its annual march through downtown to commemorate its changing of the guard. Read more.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 4:13 pm
The MBTA reports one of the exciting-and-new Orange Line trains was held at State Street for about ten minutes so workers could whack the hell out of get a recalcitrant door on one car to work again.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 10:39 am
Man in act of kicking somebody onto train tracks. Surveillance photos via TPD.
By adamg - 3/14/23 - 2:17 pm
A Big Belly trash receptacle and the bricks it was bolted to on State Street downtown proved no match for the wind this afternoon, as Adam Balsam shows us.
By adamg - 2/10/23 - 1:50 pm
Adam Castiglioni was walking down State Street this morning when he looked up and saw a gigantic ship in Boston Harbor. It was the Iberica Knutsen, a Norwegian LNG tanker that had probably pumped out a huge load of LNG along Chelsea Creek and was now heading back across the Atlantic, or perhaps to Trinidad and Tobago, to pick up some more.
By adamg - 1/3/23 - 5:39 pm
The T reports Blue Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to a "power issue near Wood Island," which, like many such power issues on the above-ground part of the Blue Line, probably means the overhead power line got ripped down somehow, or the top of a car began sparking.
To make matters worse, one rider reports: "There is a busker tunelessly crooning Christmas carols at State. God save us."
By adamg - 8/26/22 - 11:59 am
A roving UHub photographer with a keen memory for bizarre cult news looked up the other day while getting a salad at the State Street Sweetgreen and saw this anodyne quotation about creativity by somebody named Osho. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/22 - 4:16 pm
Around 3 p.m. in the little plaza in front of the Staples between State Street and City Hall Plaza. A bystander found the victim in front of the Citizens Bank branch around the corner at State and Congress streets. Injuries not considered life threatening.
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