Hyde Park

Channel 4 reports on a May 24 crash that sent a woman to the hospital with a broken neck, allegedly caused by an off-duty Boston cop who blew through a stop sign but was not given a breath test or arrested.

Boston Police report a surveillance camera recorded the Jeep that hit and killed Tinesha Julien, 22, of Somerville, early Saturday on River and Rosa streets in Hyde Park. The car sped down River into Hyde Park rather than stopping.

Anybody with info can contact the homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

These signs are pretty much the first thing you see after turning onto Truman Parkway from Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park.

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Boston Police report finding a woman with severe head trauma around 4:45 a.m. at River and Rosa streets. She was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was declared dead.

Police say they're looking a black Jeep Liberty that raced toward Cleary Square without stopping. It has a black wheel cover with red and blue lettering.

Anybody with info can contact the homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

Mike Ball, these days hobbling around with several broken ribs and his arm in a sling, recounts what happened when he dared yell at a driver who almost took him out at a crosswalk on River Street in Hyde Park today: A cop came out of nowhere and started yelling at him:

Unbelievably, he told me:

• He would have gotten to it and handled it, if only I had not turned and pointed at the driver
• I had no right to point at her
• My actions, inexplicably by geometry and time, caused him not to apprehend the driver for the crimes he had witnessed
• Even though my walking through the crosswalk had slowed the aggressive driver, his not bothering to take two or three strides toward her and stop her was somehow my fault and not that of his indolence

Nancy Bloom writes she was scheduled to be fired on June 1 in an annual ritual at her Hyde Park charter school. Instead, she quit May 31, tired of working 10-hour days for lower wages than her BPS counterparts, the mistrust by administrators, the weeks of dread leading up to June 1:

At least public schools and their unions have transparent guidelines for tenure and enough respect to let teachers know they won't be rehired for the next school year by March or earlier. June 1 is late to jump into the teacher hiring season. I suspect the administration keeps it a secret to the bitter end because they don't trust us to keep working hard. They are suspicious and we are paranoid. It's part of my school's culture.

Boston Police report arresting two Hyde Park brothers for a gunpoint robbery outside the Hyde Park BPL branch early this morning.

A mostly abandoned warehouse complex at Boston's southernmost point was once one of the nation's first speedways, where drivers from across the country came to compete. See some photos of the Readville Racetrack.

From the BPL Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

The largest city in New England still has some areas wild and remote enough to require "No Hunting" signs, specifically, Meadow Road in Readville.

Channel 5 reports State Police are looking for three men who jumped a woman on Truman Parkway late Sunday night, showed a gun, punched her to the ground, then kicked her repeatedly.

A woman walking home from her job at Annabelle's in Cleary Square around 10:30 p.m. when she was attacked by the footbridge over the train tracks and the Neponset - across which her attackers fled. She then had to walk a half mile home to get help.

Separately, Boston Police are investigating a hold up on River Street near the YMCA around 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday, when another woman walking home was held up by two young teens armed with a baseball bat.

The Globe reports a state authority has stopped paying Boston for renovations to Hyde Park High School because the school is shut.

When BPS officials realized shutting the school meant they were going to lose millions of dollars over several years for work they'd already paid for, they scrambled to find a way to re-open the building - at first announcing plans to relocate Boston Latin Academy there, then dropping that and announcing plans to move New Mission High School and Boston Community Leadership Academy.

State officials remained unconvinced they were getting their money's worth and stopped a scheduled $1.5-million annual payment, the Globe reports.

Meanwhile, the plans to move the two high schools to Hyde Park - and a series of other musical-chair moves - could be in jeopardy because city councilors, who must sign off on $20 million in borrowing for the work, have started raising questions about parts of the move, such as relocating the Mission Hill K-8 School to Jamaica Plain.

Spring Seedling Sale May 19th and 20th 9am-3pm
Wake up the Farm Pancake Breakfast May 19th 9am-11am

Join us to celebrate the start of the 2012 season. Enjoy delicious pancakes with friends and stock up on seedlings for your home garden.

Town bylaws limited fun.

As 1912 began, Boston expanded by 15,000 people when it took over the town of Hyde Park. The annexation, approved by Hyde Park voters the previous fall, marked the last time Boston grew by swallowing up a neighboring community.

The City of Boston Archives has posted documents, maps and photos related to the founding of the town and its annexation, including a copy of some of the town's bylaws.

On Saturday, local historian Anthony Sammarco, gives a free talk on the 100th anniversary of the annexation at the Hyde Park BPL branch - which originally opened in 1899 as the Hyde Park town library. The noon lecture also includes a slice of annexation birthday cake.

Stony Brook fire from Buck Hill in the Blue Hills. Photo by Boston Strolls.

Boston firefighters are battling a brush fire in the forest, near where it runs along the George Wright Golf Course. So far, the smoke is white, not like the dark stuff from yesterday.

The fire marks the trifecta of Boston brush fires - Stony Brook, the Fens and Dorchester Lower Mills along the Neponset.

The man who wound up fatally wounded outside a Hyde Park supermarket had connections to Jamaica Plain's violent Heath Street gang, according to sources.

It's the second time in seven months violence linked to gangs in other neighborhoods has hit Hyde Park. Last September, an alleged associate of Roxbury's H Block gang was unloading groceries outside his girlfriend's Readville apartment when he was shot repeatedly. Prosecutors at the time said the shooting was part of a feud between H Block and a gang based at Roxbury's Orchard Park project.

Wednesday's victim, 20 but otherwise not yet identified by police, was not shot outside the Price Rite supermarket on River Street, near the Mattapan line. A source says he was a bit further down River, between Rosa Street and Reddy Avenue when shot. He then ran toward the Price Rite, where a Boston Police officer on detail called for an ambulance. The store overlooks Wood Avenue, home of Hyde Park's own violent gang.

Big fire, viewed from the Neponset. Photo by Drew.

Firefighters in Boston and several nearby communities are battling brush fires that all seemed to erupt around the same time this evening, in Dedham, Milton, Norwood and Westwood - with the largest off Sprague and Hastings streets in Dedham, just past the Readville line, in a normally marshy area accessible only by the Northeast Corridor train tracks.

Jen reports:

Huge brush fire near route 128. Just went past it on the 5:40 from Boston. Was literally a wall of fire.

Sandy O'Keefe was on the same train:

Heat pouring into car. Terrifying. Life just flashed before eyes. Fire in brush near 128 mere feet away from train. Could feel heat from seat. We just missed it.

Bianca Vazquez Toness at WBUR reports Boston Police told her the media is only asking about the Allston murder, not the one in Hyde Park.

Note: The Globe did have a short piece on the Hyde Park murder.

Update, 12:50 p.m.: Boston Police report the victim, 20, died at Boston Medical Center.

Brian D'Amico reports a man was shot shortly before 9 p.m. outside the Price Rite, 871 River St., and was taken to Boston Medical Center in bad shape. Police are looking for a white Subaru spotted driving down River Street into Hyde Park.

Takes a look at the new bridge installed over the weekend across the Fairmount Line, instead of piecemeal over the eons, like, oh, that bridge on American Legion Highway over Morton Street.

For some reason, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has been flitting about the Boston area the past couple of days. Today, as Sheeps Eating Me shows, it appeared in Hyde Park. Truman Parkway, to be exact.

Why there? No doubt to help open the newly rebuilt Stop & Shop there.

We took a spin around the place (after the wienermobile had left, though). It's a vast improvement over the old store there, but then, almost anything would be, given that that store was the Stop & Shop that time forgot, forever stuck in the 1970s, right down to the old Stop & Shop sign out front.

UPDATE: Franklin High School officials say the actual pugilists on the train were Franklin High alumni, not students, the Milford Daily News reports.

The 7:20 Franklin train last night pulled into Forge Park 63 minutes late because MBTA Transit Police had to board it twice to quell rambunctious Franklin High students returning from a hockey match at the Garden (which the Franklin Panthers lost). MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo relays this account:

After receiving a report of fighting aboard the train, Transit Police responded to Readville Station, where more than a dozen high school-aged teens were removed from the outbound train. As the train approached Norwood, Transit Police received another report of more disturbances aboard the train. Transit Police boarded the train in Norwood and rode the train. There were no further incidents. There were no reported injuries nor any arrests, but one or two individuals may face charges for vandalizing the inside of a passenger coach with graffiti.

Some kids live-tweeted the activity. One wrote:

They're peeping away at the George Wright Golf Course and Stony Brook Reservation tonight.

While perusing the city's photos of boundary checking in 1896, I noticed several were of markers with "HP" on one side, from back when Hyde Park was still an independent town. Hmm, could they have a photo of the one a couple blocks away from us?

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UPDATE: The licensing board rejected the request for a liquor license.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a license to a liquor store on Fairmount Avenue across from the fire station.

At a hearing today, Joel Nunez said his Fairmount Wine and Spirits at 59 Fairmount Ave. would meet a public need for a liquor store that nearby residents could walk to, rather than having to get in their cars to drive the four or five blocks to ODB Liquors on Hyde Park Avenue.

But representatives from both the mayor's office and district City Councilor Rob Consalvo told the board they oppose Nunez's store - roughly kitty corner from the site of the failed Albert Winestein - because Hyde Park already has enough liquor stores. In addition to ODB, they pointed to alcohol emporiums on Hyde Park Avenue and Truman Parkway and in Wolcott Square.

The mayor's office said it is also concerned about public safety because of the store's location across from the fire station. Human nature being what it is, people would park in front of the store to dash in for a bottle - potentially blocking in fire trucks on their way out of the fire station on the narrowest part of Fairmount, the mayor's rep said.