The Franklin Park Coalition meets wth Boston 2024 organizers at 6:30 p.m. to consider the possible impact of the Olympics programs proposed for the park.
The session is at the Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, 1 Circuit Dr.
In its filing with the US Olympics Committee, Boston 2024 proposed fencing off much of the park for equestrian events and the pentathlon - along with a major renovation of White Stadium.
Shaun Harrison, 55, is scheduled for arraignment this morning on charges he shot a 17-year-old at 100 Magazine St. around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
A police detective said today an investigation into a stabbing outside the Hen House on Mass. Ave. in January has "stalled" because neither the victim nor his friends waiting for him to bring out some food want to tell police what they know.
Sgt. Det. Kenneth O'Brien told the Boston Licensing Board today the man was stabbed around 4:05 a.m. on Jan. 10, when he and several friends drove over to the Hen House from a "tattoo party" in Roxbury. The man was stabbed in the stomach, badly enough to have the BPD homicide unit called in, just in case.
WBUR reports on a Boston 2024 community meeting in Roxbury:
"Let me talk about jobs specifically," Fish said. "When you talk about hosting an Olympic and Paralympic Games, there will be over 100,000 to 125,000 jobs, between volunteers and newly created jobs. This can be, we feel confident, benefit the entire community."
But asked how many will be paid and how many will be volunteer, Boston 2024 CEO Richard Davey didn’t have an answer.
Ryan captured the ice formations on the back of his apartment building in Roxbury today.
The US Attorney's office in Boston reports the leaders of the Hendry Street and Woodward Avenue gangs pleaded guilty Friday to a variety of drug and gun charges that will see them hustled off to a federal penitentiary for at least ten years.
Suya Joint, which had a beer and wine license when it was on Poplar Street in Roslindale, wants to sell that license to a downtown pizza place rather than use it at its new location at 185 Dudley St.
A new law that expanded the number of liquor licenses in Boston with the goal of bringing more restaurants to neighborhoods just like Dudley Square has so far failed to result in any new liquor licenses in Roxbury.
Suya Joint had an older license, which could be re-sold - with the Boston Licensing Board's approval - anywhere in the city.
Boston Police report officers responding to a call about a person shot around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday found a man had, in fact, been shot, at Normandy and Intervale streets.
As roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko noticed on Townsend Street in Roxbury, the key is digging out the sidewalk next to the space you dug out and voila: Two parking spaces. Because, really, who needs a sidewalk in the snow?
Stanley Staco reports a man was shot around 7:40 p.m. outside 368 Warren St.
Speaking on the WGBH program Boston Public Radio Friday afternoon, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said the city would not take property by eminent domain to facilitate a 2024 Olympics bid.
Police are asking for help from the public to find the people who fatally stabbed Charles Floyd, then dumped his body out of a car on Shetland Street Monday night.
Floyd, 28, was known to his friends as Ceaz and HD Eazy.
Anybody with information can contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
Updated.
Boston Police say a man whose body was found around 9 p.m. at 8 Shetland St. died of stab wounds.
The stabbing happened across the street from the headquarters of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association.
Ed. note: I've closed the comments on this post because a post about a murder is not the place for racist spewing.
Some Bostonians are fighting to keep the 2024 Summer Olympics out of their city due.
In think teach transform Molly Richard writes:
"The debate around Boston hosting the Olympics has many asking, “What makes a world-class city?”
Stanley Staco reports a man and a woman were shot around 7:30 p.m. at Ziegler and Bethune streets.
Officers arriving at the scene after an alert from the BPD ShotSpotter system did not find them there, however - they walked into a local hospital's emergency room, after being dropped off by somebody in a rental Hyundai riddled with apparently fresh bullet holes.
White Stadium entrance might need a bit of paint.
The Boston 2024 organizers have proposed using Franklin Park for equestrian events and for the pentathlon, a sport whose athletes run, ride horses, swim, shoot a gun and fence each other, in emulation of the skills that might be needed by a 19th-century European soldier behind enemy lines.
White Stadium would host some equestrian events - dressage and jumping - and part of the pentathlon. According to Boston 2024, the city has promised to refurbish the little used facility, which could seat 10,000 spectators.
Boston Police report that Dr. Michael Davidson, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital from Wellesley, died tonight from being shot this morning.
Police say Stephen Pasceri, whose mother Davidson had operated on, shot Davidson twice at close range in the Shapiro Cardiovascular Center shortly after 11 a.m., then killed himself.
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