Massport is announcing that Rich Davey, the local boy who made good as state transportation secretary, then made meh as head of the failed Olympics effort but who later found true transportation love running the subways and buses in the city so nice they named it twice, is one of two finalists for the job of Massport CEO. Read more.
The MBTA this week sued Hitachi Rail, hired to install systems to keep commuter-rail trains from slamming into each other for $50 million for delays in finishing the system on routes in and out of North Station. Read more.
MassDOT said this week that it's now looking at, maybe, the end of 2024 to re-open the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square to cars and trucks. The state had originally set a target of roughly right now to re-open the bridge it shut in May, 2022 as unsafe. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer stumbled across this scene in Tombstone, um, on Sacramento Street in Cambridge yesterday: Read more.
Let's start with the telephone museum Verizon has, here in the town where the telephone was first used, but almost never lets anybody in to see. Read more.
First responders and pedestrians along the Summer Street Bridge. Photo by Neil.
A woman who called 911 to report what appeared to be a license plate in Fort Point Channel near where the Summer Street Bridge starts downtown sparked an influx of Boston firefighters - some donning wet suits - and BFD, BPD and State Police boats around 4:15 p.m. Read more.
A man was shot at Radcliffe Road and Taunton Avenue around 5:10 p.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.
Transit Police report arresting four teens - all 15 or 16 - on charges related to an attack on a Silver Line bus at Washington and Herald streets in the South End around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Maya and Gabby, who run the Jadu series of wine-focused pop-up events in Boston, report they've bought Espresso Yourself, 767 Centre St., near the Monument and plan to stay coffee by day, under their Jadu name, but turn wine bar by night ("liquor license pending," they say).
Romero waving around some ill gotten cash, via US Attorney's office.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Kenny Romero to 7 1/4 years - 87 months - in federal prison for violating the RICO law and for selling cocaine and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition - 63 months for the charges to which he'd pleaded guilty and another 24 months for doing all that while on probation for an earlier gun-possession charge. Read more.
Some residents living near a church-owned "reading room" in Readville that once served as a BPL branch have gone to court to counter the church's own court court effort to win approval to replace the building with a six-unit apartment building even as the Hyde Park Historical Society is offering to buy the building to keep it a public site. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon takes a look at the controversy over ShotSpotter, the expensive system police in Boston and other cities use to locate the source of potential gunfire: BPD Commissioner Michael Cox stood by the system at a Monday hearing, but critics say it has a large number of false positives, which means people in the minority neighborhoods where the sensors are located are more likely to be grilled by police investigating false leads. Chicago announced earlier this year it's abandoning the system.
A spinout from Harvard's Wyss Institute announced today it's now licensing its microbe-based system to turn carbon dioxide into a component of a variety of foods and other substances, including chocolate. Read more.
WBZ Newsradio reports that Dick Summer, who worked as a DJ at WBZ in the 1960s and 1970, where he developed an overnight talk format that he eventually brought with him to New York, has died.
Dick Summer bio by Boston radio historian Donna Halper.
The New York Daily News reports that Rich Davey, who once ran the T and then MassDOT before heading up the effort to bring the Olympics here this year, is denying reports that he's going to leave his job running the New York subway system to take the head job at Massport, in what the financially flailing News called "the small town on the Charles River."
Passerby took this photo of the mangled bike still by the side of the road about 25 minutes later.
A woman bicycling through Charles Circle at Cambridge and Charles streets was hit by the driver of a dump truck who kept going - until he was flagged down by state troopers around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm have given notice that they will shut Marian Manor, which they have operated since 1954, in 120 days.
A London resident was sent to the Suffolk County jail yesterday after she couldn't make the $1,500 bail set at her arraignment for trafficking between 50 and 100 pounds of marijuana, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Three men who are charged with ending brutal murderer Whitey Bulger's life in a West Virginia prison by smashing his head in 2018 in have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Read more.
Rendering by R&B Design.
A Newton developer has proposed replacing a two-family house and parking lot at 470 Western Ave. in Brighton with a six-story, 39-unit apartment building. Read more.
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