The Flushing-to-Boston prostitution pipeline
Pink-haired woman with three phones in a Queens supermarket at the center of an Allston/Brighton brothel chain, BPD and feds say
July 1
A woman from Flushing, NY faces charges she helped run a chain of brothels in Allston/Brighton that employed women from East Asia to service mainly Chinese-speaking visitors to Boston.
Even as one Queens resident was running a pricey brothel chain in Allston/Brighton, another was running bargain-basement tricks at a Morrissey Boulevard hotel, DA says
July 1
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office moved yesterday to take control of $6,039 it says investigators from Boston and State Police and the FBI seized in April at two rooms at the Ramada Inn, 800 Morrissey Blvd in Dorchester being used by a Flushing, NY woman who was offering other women for sale there.
Golden Temple closing seemed rather abrupt, huh?
July 1
Brookline.news gives us what might be the story behind the sudden end of the venerable Washington Square Chinese place:
Siblings feud in court, allegations of stolen millions and a federal labor investigation.
The MBTA says it's really sorry for the Blue Line train turned memento mori
July 1
The MBTA is reporting 15-minute Blue Line delays due to a train at Wonderland that has become a reminder that life is fleeting and death comes for us all.
Where there's smoke, there's fire, at least on Monday in the Blue Hills
July 1
Matt Frank happened to be up in the air on Monday when his plane flew over the Blue Hills Reservation, so he got an aerial view of the seven-acre wildfire that got people across the area wondering what was burning.
One Boston councilor wants to see 3 a.m. bar closing time made permanent, but another says not so fast, not when people are getting shot in the Theater District and lemonade stands are being knocked over
July 1
City Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale) says later last calls during the World Cup have been a success and that Boston should seek permission from the state legislature to make it permanent.
Hyde Park ice-cream place to open third branch in Westwood
July 1
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream is adding to its Hyde Park and Dedham locations with a new outlet in Westwood's Islington neighborhood, although presumably not with candlepin lanes.
