Melnea Cass Boulevard

New Melnea Cass recreation center opens

adamg — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:26:47 +0000

Replaces a dilapidated old hockey rink, now features non-skating recreational facilities, including a pool (open?), track, classrooms and space for events.

Bicyclist down: Accident by Boston Medical Center

adamg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:53:02 +0000

Around 7 a.m. at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Mass. Ave., Boston Police tweet. No word on his condition.

The Roxbury Tollbooth

adamg — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:01:07 +0000

Miss Von Schtoop reads this Globe story about panhandling at Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard and finds it pretty funny, from the Bulwer-Lytton opening sentence to the lack of any mention of all the Boston Chargers kids who equally annoy motorists:

... They open the article with such a cheeseball line: "The call went out: "Yo, po-po!" and within seconds, the panhandlers who meander with regularity through the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard near Boston Medical Center scattered to parts unknown." Really quite unforgivable writing.

Pretty soon someone there is going to start an article with the line "It was a dark and stormy night.." at which point we can just hire a few wreckers to tear down 135 Morrissey Boulevard because all hope will have been lost. ...

Stabbed to death at a Roxbury bus stop

adamg — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:59:00 +0000

3/7/08 - 11:30 am

A fight at a Silver Line bus stop at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Washington Street around 4:30 p.m. yesterday ended with the stabbing death of one man: Yiovany Gazmey, 37.

Two people who fled on a bus were arrested: Juan Ramirez, 25, will be charged with murder, and 29-year-old Aida Rodriquez will be charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

The knife fight came less than a day after two teenagers were stabbed at the Roxbury Crossing T stop (both are expected to live).

Miss von Schtoop, who works in the area, reports traffic was an absolute mess and wonders if the two incidents were related:

... Hopefully it's not just random. I walk in that direction to go to work and one time I did see a very angry man waving a big kitchen knife. I crossed the street and wound up walking the rest of the way home with a neighbor. ...

It's a Dunkin' Donuts world and we're just living in it

adamg — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:00:45 +0000

Carpundit reports a new Dunkin' Donuts has opened near his office - which makes four within a one-block walk:

... If Dunkin' Donuts put a shop on every corner, that would be fine with me. I love the place. And it's good to have all those cops around. ...

John Daley, however, says he hopes the dysfunctional new Dunkin' Donuts on Melnea Cass Boulevard can get its act together:

... There's no foot traffic, nowhere to park and yesterday I waited while the crew argued among themselves about how to make a black coffee. ...

What Melnea Cass Blvd. has in common with the Orange Line

adamg — Mon, 08 May 2006 00:28:17 +0000

Like the current Orange Line, it came into existence because of the plans for the Southwest Expressway, that cancelled road that would have cut through Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury (among other neighborhoods), Charles Swift explains.