Boston's only polite intersection? Maybe that's what happens when you put an intersection in the middle of a forest. Mike Ball hails the intersection of Enneking, Turtle Pond and Dedham parkways deep in the woods of Stony Brook Reservation, where drivers not only obey the four-way stop but are actually courteous to one another:

... Could it be something in the oxygen from all the foliage? Might some nearby unknown native American burial ground be affecting Bostonians as they arrive at the intersection? Would the bucolic nature of the park all around calm the savages?

The cause is far less important than the mere existence of the magic intersection. ...

Anybody know what was going on on Belgrade Ave, upper 200 block near Ardent St., this morning? About 7 BPD cars and a Dedham car surrounded an apt. building. Scary scene.

The Jamaica Plains Gazzette has an article about how Forest Hills Station has run out of Bike Charlie Cards. In it, mention is made (in passing) that this cage for 100 bikes cost $4,800,000 (4.8 million!!!!)

http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/node/3733

Is this a mispint? Or an indication of Boston graft on an even more massive scale than usual?

More info.

Boston Police tweet "gun shown" in attack at 105 Rowe St..

The recent opening of Jerusalem Trading on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square (where that African discount store used to be) ends the giant-ceramics drought that's plagued Roslindale ever since Nancy's on Belgrade Avenue shut down this past spring.

The store looks to carry a complete line of life-size and near-life-size ceramic animals, including a ceramic peacock for only $119.99, and, naturally, snarling ceramic tigers. Also in stock: Ceramic figures of 17th-century European nobility and, of course, ceramic-flower-bedecked ceramic pillars on which to display all your ceramics. Also available: Furniture, which appears to be made of non-ceramic materials, such as wood.

Swamp Thing awaits next victim trick-or-treater on Glendower Rd.

Even on Halloween, it's kind of weird talking to a guy who looks like he just climbed out of a fetid swamp, surrounded by body parts and giant vampire bats. He said it took him about a week to get ready for tonight. As I was leaving, he gave me a wave, as much as his condition allowed, and muttered "Have a good Halloween!"

The sign's still lit up, but the bakery itself is now dark.

Joe Murphy says he tried, he really did. He'd show up at the bakery he'd just bought on Washington Street every day at 2 a.m. despite the vertigo from an accident that so bad doctors had put him in a coma for nine weeks. When the economy went south and people stopped buying non-necessities like hand-made cakes, he made plans to add a cafe. When red tape at the city Inspectional Services Department delayed that for months, he still persevered.

Before (10/5) and after (today).

When the city released plans for the new Washington-Beech project, the renderings showed builders would keep a huge tree right at the corner of Washington and Beech streets. And, for a while, it looked like that really was the plan - workers even surrounded it with a protective wooden "hula skirt." But for some reason, they tore down the tree today and carted away its remains.

This is what the neighborhood was promised:

Boston Police tweet the bomb squad is at 57 Tyndale St. to deal with a grenade.

Ed. Roslindale explosive note: The Rialto barbershop in Roslindale Square has a grenade on the counter and an artillery shell they use as a doorstop. Stop in and ask about 'em.