The Board of Appeal today approved Mordechai Levin's proposal for a 45-unit, six-story building at the corner of Green and Washington streets in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
Green Street
More apartments proposed next to where apartments are proposed on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 3/13/17 - 10:06 am
Architect's rendering.
City Realty of Brookline is proposing two apartment buildings, one on Washington Street near Green, the other around the corner on Green Street near Union Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/16 - 12:06 pm
Oh, Sidney: Green Street became the last stop for an Orange Line train and now inbound riders get to sit or stand with no place to go.
By adamg - 11/20/16 - 12:05 am
A dilapidated house on Green Street in Jamaica Plain has become a canvas for street artists while its new owner figures out just what to do with the property. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/16 - 10:55 am
Jamaica Plain News reports the impending demise of Canto 6 on Washington Street, across from the police station.
Ed. question: Given what else is happening at and near that intersection, how long before a developer files plans for a six-story apartment building there?
By adamg - 5/9/16 - 4:50 pm
After he was charged with spray painting his tag on the old trolleys at Boylston station, police say, Marc Meadowcroft of Revere promised to never do it again. In exchange, authorities agreed to a plea deal that kept him out of jail.
He lied, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 3/26/16 - 12:36 pm
Proposed building as seen from outside Canto 6, across from the police station.
A developer is proposing to tear down some old buildings at Washington and Green streets, across from the E-13 police station and put up a 44-unit apartment building that would feature private terraces for some units and a rooftop deck. Read more.
By adamg - 1/15/16 - 9:03 am
Kate Latak had a ringside seat for a car fire on Green Street near the Orange Line station around 8:40 this morning.
Emily Waggoner also saw the fire: Read more.
By adamg - 11/30/15 - 8:55 am
An E Line trolley gave up the ghost at MFA, a Red Line train went express to Valhalla on the Braintree branch and an Orange Line train turned blue at Green. Or as MBTA Haiku put it:
Holiday season
Kicks off with a delayed train.
Cyber Monday gift.
By adamg - 7/13/15 - 10:07 pm
Around 8 p.m., BPD officers tried to stop a car in the area of McBride Street in Jamaica Plain as part of a drug investigation. Seems the driver didn't want to be stopped, so he took off, with officers in pursuit. Just as a supervisor was about to call off the search, officers managed to box the car in near English High School.
They collared one of the cars occupants, but another took off down through the Southwest Corridor Park. Read more.
By adamg - 6/11/15 - 9:53 am
Archtect's rendering.
Developer Chris DiSisto says the condos he built at Amory and Green streets in 2012 worked out so well he wants to replicate their success across the street. In a filing with the BRA, DiSisto is proposing a 15-unit apartment building across Amory from the T stop that would also have retail space - including for a restaurant DiSisto says he wants to run. Read more.
By adamg - 4/22/15 - 8:45 pm
Kate Lockwood reports:
It's not every day you see someone get on the T carrying a live 6-foot snake. So that happened.
She says the woman had the snake around her neck and that the pair got off at Green Street. She adds the snake:
Was a kind of light brown with black spots I think. I was trying not to stare!
Has Penelope moved to JP?
By adamg - 3/30/15 - 10:42 pm
Around 10:30 p.m. The robber put a knife to her back as she was on her phone, took the phone and fled. He's described as Hispanic, about 5'6" and 170 lbs with a chinstrap beard. He wore a black and yellow Bruins winter cap with a pom-pom on top, a white track suit and sneakers with pink laces. He may have fled on an inbound Orange Line train.
By adamg - 2/25/15 - 11:51 am
At 9 a.m. on Saturday, Darryll Fernald will be at the Green Street T stop with a shovel. And then he'll go out in search of people who still need help digging out. He's taking requests - and hoping other folks will join him in a roving JP cleanup squad.
By adamg - 12/21/14 - 6:06 pm
Mike Fedore caught up with some carolers on Green Street in Jamaica Plain this evening.
By adamg - 12/7/13 - 12:06 pm
Ezra Freedman wonders:
For years there have been cans of Tab at the end of the Green Street platform, what's the deal?
Ed. note: So that's what happened to Steve Slyne's stash after his place in West Roxbury got turned into the Real Deal!
By adamg - 7/6/13 - 12:37 pm
Around 12:15 p.m. on the inbound side. Photo of the scooter on the tracks.
John reports he watched the guy get helped up and his scooter retrieved, says he almost drove off the platform a second time.
A T spokeswoman says the person declined medical attention and that service was delayed for about 18 minutes.
By adamg - 3/22/13 - 8:32 am
Transit Police report arresting a Mattapan man on charges he masturbated on an Orange Line train on Tuesday afternoon.
Police say Ramon Antonio Baez, 25, got on an inbound train at Green Street shortly after 3:30 p.m., and sat across from a woman who'd boarded at Forest Hills:
Shortly thereafter the male removed his penis from his pants and began to masturbate while leering at the reporting party.
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