A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint today about "adult toys and other garbage left on sidewalk" at Warren Avenue and Clarendon Street in the South End. With a photo of said adult toys, in case you're unfamiliar with what they look like.
Earlier:
Citizen complaint of the day: Is that a traffic sign on your pole or are you just glad to see me?
On April 25, 1968, South End residents held sit-in at what was then a Boston Redevelopment Authority office in an old fire house on Warren Avenue in the South End, to protest the authority's large-scale South End urban-renewal plans that would force thousands of residents to move.
The former fire house (on the right) and the neighboring building with one of the area's wholesale florists, remain to this day, now as condos: Read more.
Mayor Wu and School Superintendent Mary Skipper will formally rename the McKinley schools - four schools in one complex in the South End after longtime Boston civil-rights activist Mel King tomorrow. Read more.
A judge set bail at $5,000 today for a man charged with a series of traffic violations - and for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon - after he allegedly drove through a barricade set up for the Puerto Rican Festival parade, sending them flying into officers who had been trying to get him to stop, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Rasheem Christian got a mandatory sentence of life without parole yesterday following his conviction for first-degree murder for the 2013 death of Brianna Bigby, gunned down as she sat in a car in Egleston Square, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Found around 7 p.m. on Warren Avenue near Clarendon Street. Four suspects: Three husky black men, one scrawny white man, all in gym clothes.
An annoyed citizen complains about one of the streetlights along Warren Avenue between Clarendon and Dartmouth in the South End:
Third light pole from the right was replaced with a pole that is 1-2 ft taller than the others. It looks ridiculous. Please replace it with the correct size. I know it sounds petty, but this shouldn't have happened. Whoever installed it clearly wasn't paying attention.
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