There is always something happening in Boston. This weekend's somethings forced the Boston Police to issue a pedestrian and vehicular Traffic Advisory on behalf of the Department of Transportation. Saturday's Fenway Park concert doubleheader featuring Aerosmith and J. Giels Band will force roads near Fenway to close from 2:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. today. On Sunday, the August Moon Festival is in Chinatown and the Dominican Festival and Parade takes place in Franklin Park. Please visit BPDNews.com for details.
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--A truck crashed on the Revere Beach Parkway last night. No one was hurt, but the incident shut down the parkway in both directions. According to WBZ, "State police officials said a truck went under the overpass on Route 107 North heading toward Chelsea and smashed into the top of the Route 16 bridge, bringing concrete down onto the roadway and damaging Route 16." The road has since been reopened. [WBZ, WHDH]
Upon realizing that large chunks of Boston neighborhoods were left unmapped by Google Street View, Bostonist e-mailed Google HQ to find out why. We received a fairly standard response that the neglected areas would be mapped soon:
So many big court cases went down this week, so we're wrapping up the latest. --The first witness testified Tuesday in the Franklin Park Zoo Amok Ape Trial, which will determine the amount that will be awarded to a 2-year-old girl was attacked by an ape in 2003. The girl's mother, Terrasita Duarte-Scott, is suing Zoo New England because her daughter was injured and probably has a flood of nightmares thanks to the episode. Courtney...
--Three men started shooting into a home in Dorchester last night, hitting an 8-year-old boy in the abdomen. LaQuarrie Jefferson later died of his wound. The Globe said police don't have a motive. (The Globe also said it happened in Roxbury, but most other outlets are saying Dorchester - it was near Franklin Park.) The Herald said it was gang-related. Ed Davis said in a press conference that "There are people who are in the...
--In a Tremont Street parking garage early this morning, some alleged thugs from Worcester started a fight and proceeded to beat on their opponents with belts. Usually, when the BPD writes of a perp reaching for something in the ol' waistband, you know they're bracing for a gun. But these guys really were using their waistbands as weapons. In more ordinary crime, someone got shot in Roxbury overnight. --In Spencer, police found the body of...
I've been hearing about a tapir named Seamus on the news. What's a tapir?
--The Commish has talked tough before, but Ed Davis says that he will deploy more police to town "hot spots" (also known as places where people get shot), and the police will start tailing persons of interest. The "hot spots" are as follows: Bowdoin/Geneva, Franklin Field/Franklin Park, and Grove Hall in Dorchester. Egleston Square in Roxbury is also included. Davis didn't mention bringing gang members to the negotiating table, at least not as far as...
Today the Globe ran a piece on Jackson Square. Void from the coverage was any mention of "cultural center," ample coverage was given to "crime stricken area." Jackson Square a precarious area between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain has been discussed as the anchor to the stretch of Centre Street to be renamed "Avenue de las Americas." Though we haven't heard much about the renaming initiative since it was first floated back in August. Avenue de...
The not-so-secret secret that a ride around the lagoon on a swan boat on a steaming New England afternoon is a great way for a tourist to feel comfortable or a Bostonian to feel nostalgic for childhood when they first climbed aboard the bike pedal style powered boats. The Swan Boats launch every May and are taken out of the water and stored at Labor Day – USA today reports, via the AP, that the...
On this day 112 years ago, in Springfield, Mass., the brothers Charles and Frank Duryea offered for sale the first commercially successful gasoline-powered car. Were the state of the world a little bit different, Bostonist would expect this date to be the cause of some celebration (at least on the Springfield tourism site, which has absolutely no mention of it) - after all, we are Americans, and cars are what we're about. But gas costs a gazillion dollars, ninety-nine cents, and nine-tenths per gallon right now, making many folks turn to the product that the Duryea boys manufactured before they got into the car game: bicycles. To that end, local do-gooder organization Digital Bridge has put together Hub on Wheels, a bicycle festival with guided rides around town, which will take place in Franklin Park this coming Sunday, September 25. There will be rides around Boston of 15, 25, and 40 miles and various bike-related spectacles in the park - and it's all cheaper than a gallon of gas ('cause it's free). They also need volunteers earlier in the week to help with preparations and such. What better way to celebrate the birth of the American automobile than by doing some bike-friendly work for your fellow Bostonians?
Out for a leisurely stroll today with Toddler Bostonist, we couldn't help but notice an unusual preponderance around town of cars bedecked in the flags and colors of various Carribbean nations. We saw two Haitis, one Jamaica, one Panama, and one Trinidad and Tobago, all highly polished and looking ready for a party. For a while, we kept asking ourselves, what's up with these cars? Then we walked by City Hall Plaza, where a...
This past weekend Franklin Park again played host to the annual Puerto Rican Festival. Boston seems to have lost interest in the festival overall. The only imagery, besides our own, found in local media came in the form of a single picture run in black and white in the Boston Globe and in color in the Metro. The Boston Herald used some imagery from the parade to discuss the recent filing in U.S. District Court that Boston failed to fulfill it's obligation to furnish election related materials in Spanish as well as English. The festival spanned three days in Franklin Park filled with food (some really good food), music, carnival rides, and anything you could ever want with the flag of Puerto Rico on it. Anything you could want, and more, that is, from hats and shirts, to Sponge Bob, to items heavily lacquered which, as best as Bostonist could tell, were meant for mantle decoration all carried the flag.
Bostonist should have mentioned it sooner, but better late than never: this is Bike Week (sometimes known as Bike to Work Week). That means tons of bike-friendly activities all over the state, which are listed at the helpful website of Massbike, our favorite tireless champion of two-wheeled transport. Being great lovers of free stuff, we especially recommend the free breakfasts for bike commuters. There's one tomorrow in front of the Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square from 7:30 - 9:30, and two on Thursday at the same time: one on Main Street in Kendall Square and one on Boylston by the Pru (where the Duck Boats queue up). There will also be a city-funded, bicycle-related giveaway on Friday morning in Cambridge (at Kendall, Central, Harvard Square, and the Minuteman bike trail), and we have it on good authority that even non-Cantabrigians can partake (last year, Bostonist got a bicycle bell).
This week in Boston has been pretty dismal; the news stories hitting the airwaves are all bad news...two local teachers being killed by their own family members, Schilling and Wells on the injured list, a gloomy, rainy forecast. The most disturbing story this week is the rise in rapes in and around the city; In the first two months of 2005, rapes are up 13% from 2004. Three rapes were reported this past weekend alone. On Friday night, a 14-year-old girl in Mission Hill reported being pulled into a beige car and raped at gunpoint before being left behind. On Saturday morning, a 40-year-old woman said she was pulled into a maroon car in Hyde Park, then raped at gunpoint in Franklin Park. And on Sunday, a woman in her 20s from West Roxbury said she was raped by a man who was driving her home from a bar.
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