Boston ranks second to New York for the country's most expensive parking. Parking in downtown Boston was a median of $438 a month in June. Parking in New York’s midtown neighborhood was $541, and $533 in the city’s downtown market. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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Brookline is considering a change in public parking rates to hit Sox fans on game days. [NESN]
Former Yankees tenor is moving to Boston after allegations of anti-Semitism soured his singing career. [NY Times]
The giant Celtics banner across from the Garden should've legally been removed years ago. [Boston Channel]
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Found on a street in Jamaica Plain. The car was parked about three yards away from a driveway.
Wicked Local Somerville's blog reports that, anecdotally at least, Somerville's parking enforcement has gone all ED 209 on the people of Somerville, spraying them with the parking ticket equivalent of unjustified machine gun bullets. With that in mind, we wonder how the writers at Wicked Local Somerville feels about the prospect of some $500 journalism whore scooping them on the potential parking ticket abuse story.
Remember how the entire city of Somerville freaked out over the city's new parking rules, and Our Favorite Mayor told them to chill out? Well, chill out they will not because the new parking regulations are a done deal. The Somerville Journal found one woman who claimed that she couldn't get anybody to split the cost of her artist's studio "because prospective renters are scared off by the city's fees and parking rules." Seriously? Are prospective renters streaming over to the straightforward and always fair parking situations in Boston and Cambridge, where nobody has ever gotten a parking ticket?
Mayor Joe reminds us that "we don't have the big open lots and empty curbs associated with suburban sprawl. Parking is a scarce and valuable resource here, and we need to treat it that way." He didn't answer Bostonist's question of why the heck anybody would drive to Davis Square instead of taking the T in the first place, but he did tell people to stop whining about having to pay to park there:
Jason is psyched to see parking options thawing out all over Southie, home of the lawn chair and "waterlogged cardboard boxes or mangled ironing board," which mark parking spots. But then there's Douglas Street, desperately clinging to winter. [Platinum Elite]
--Everyone needs money, so it's not a surprise that Mayor Menino wants to increase fines for illegal parking in the city: "The largest increase will be for parking in a fire lane, which would rise from $40 to $100 under the mayor’s plan. Parking in front of a handicapped ramp would go from $50 to $100, while parking in front of a hydrant would rise from $75 to $100." [Boston Herald]
We don't like to think back to the final moments of Super Bowl XLII. If we could, we'd erase the name Plaxico Burress from our memory, and we'd focus on the good times we've had with Ellis Hobbs.
Despite what Bostonist is now calling "The Debacle" of last night, other stuff happened today.
reports. Evening and weekend rates will rise to $11. The weekday rate will go up to $27.
--Why merge the blotter with snow emergency announcements? 2007 appears to be ending quietly, blotter-wise, and, if the incoming storm is going to be as bad as the weatherheads say it is, someone's gonna get arrested for a parking-related problem.
The space-saver war continues. Yesterday, Donovan Slack followed up on the city's attempts to get a few residents of South Boston to stop saving parking spaces after a snowstorm, even though they can keep the space for 48 hours.
Matt Viser at the Globe did a report today on how a few South Boston residents are hogging parking spots with chairs, trash barrels, and whatever is laying around. The city of Boston explicitly states that a person can save his or her spot for 48 hours after a storm. After that, it becomes hogging.
When it snows in Boston, the rule is clear--you don't park in a spot that another person has shoveled out. The Mayor's Office backs this up:
After a brief flash of clarity in which City Councilor Marjorie Decker suggested things might be getting a bit out of hand, Cambridge has up and banned the leafblowers, for five months of the year, anyway.
--Maybe Fung Wah isn't so bad after all. The local press picked up on a b0st0n LiveJournal story that a Peter Pan bus driver felt that his passengers on a trip to Boston should be punished and forced to stay on the bus in Framingham because one of them called the company about his poor driving. The driver's sorry ass is about to get fired. [WBZ, b0st0n Live Journal]
Snow emergencies have been declared in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Here's the dirt on parking and getting around:
--Yesterday evening, a woman was caught driving in East Boston Memorial Park--on a pedestrian path. The BPD Blotter writer, obviously thrilled to be back on the job after the recent technical difficulties, adds, "As the name of the path suggests, it is designed and designated for pedestrian traffic only." Yes, she was allegedly drunk. And in a Big Lebowski move, she showed officers a Liquor ID card when asked for license and registration. She was...
--Fires ran rampant yesterday. A mother and her son were injured last night in a fire in Somerville. One firefighter was treated and released at the hospital. [Boston Globe] --Another fire broke out in Haverhill last night, and people were injured jumping out of the windows. No one died in the blaze, but 24 people have lost their homes. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --The state Supreme Judicial Court is letting Heidi Erickson, who kept...
--An 18-month-old baby girl from East Somerville was kidnapped, allegedly by her own aunt. WBZ reports that Somerville police found the baby today. Four people were arrested in the kidnapping of Hayden Augustin-Laurent, and one of them was her aunt, Ketia Valmont. Two detectives were hurt because one of those arrested went after them with a baseball bat. Auditi Guha at the Somerville Journal reports that the kidnapping may have resulted from a fight over...
The Transportation Department and Mayor Tom Menino want you to know that, if you get a parking ticket, you can pay for your ticket if you donate a toy "of equal or greater value than the fine on the ticket." As Amy Derjue at Boston Daily points out, "some lame toy from Family Dollar" will not do. If you have a parking ticket that you've been putting off paying, the offer doesn't apply to you....
--John Edwards, the Harvard sophomore whose body was found yesterday at Harvard Medical School, committed suicide. People who knew him, such as a professor and his roommate are mystified. Eva Wolchover lists Edwards' many accomplishments. He was a top science student (and that's saying something around here), a stem cell researcher, and a guitar player. A Facebook group named "In Memory of John Edwards" has already been established. --Michele McPhee reports that a State Trooper...
Other -ists, such as Chicagoist, Houstonist, and Austinist, regularly peruse Craigslist's "Missed Connections" for the good stuff. Boston's Missed Connections have been fairly straightforward, with the exception of the guy who thought he found Fung Wah Love. But this has been a good week for impressive Missed Connections. First, a love note to a "meter maid" caught our eye: You waited until I backed into the parking space to tell me that in the future...
--An employee at the TGI Friday's at the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley in Millbury was stabbed to death in broad daylight in the restaurant's parking lot. Ronda Healey, 27, of Worcester, was a mother of three. Her boyfriend, 30-year-old Justin Hiser, has been arrested for the crime. The Herald described the weapon as a "large hunting knife." According to the Globe, he led police on a chase but was arrested after hitting traffic in Southborough,...
--On Saturday morning, a construction worker in Watertown went on a crazy trip to Brookline. The worker, 24-year-old Kevin Lasquade, happened to be drunk at the time. According to WHDH, Lasquade got noticed when "he allegedly hit a parked car on Beacon Street in Brookline." He also took the backhoe into a Stop & Shop lot and almost did some damage there. As if driving drunk weren't bad enough, WHDH pointed out that Lasquade didn’t...
The Globe got misty-eyed today over the closing of Liquor Land in Roxbury, which will soon become a CVS. Liquor Land's demise is a plus-minus kind of story. The people who actually live in the neighborhood might be happy at the thought of one less liquor store and the arrival of a pharmacy. Others are saying it's gentrification. Alas, the liquor store's neighbors never get to decide what they want within walking distance, do...
-- A pair of shootings remain mysteries. At 10:13 Friday, police responding to calls in Roxbury found a black male in his 20s suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. And at 2:45 this morning, police found a man shot multiple times on Torrey Street in Dorchester. Both victims are at Boston Medical Center being treated. No suspects have been arrested in either case. -- A Taunton man was found by police shot dead inside a parked...