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By adamg - 5/2/24 - 9:18 pm
Boston Police report arresting two alleged package thieves and one shoplifter over the past week, two at Washington and Morse streets in Dorchester and one at 108 River St. in Mattapan. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/24 - 12:59 pm
Rendering by Timothy Burke. The apartments approved this week are on the left.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a plan by the owner of the building housing JP Kitchen, 3510 Washington St., across from English High School, to add two duplex apartments on top. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/24 - 10:25 am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday issued a warning to Napper Tandy's, 4187-4195 Washington St. in Roslindale, for a Dec. 5 incident in which two guys playing pool went into a men's room that was supposed to be closed to snort some coke, then came out and collapsed to the floor - one as EMTs and firefighters were already on hand to help the other - because their powder turned out to be laced with fentanyl. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/24 - 1:42 pm
Rendering of new pumps off Kenton Road; current garage is where the shrubs are.
Hatoff's, where gas is gas at 3440 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, has filed plans with ISD to add eight more gas pumps - and opening access to them from Kenton Road. Read more.
By adamg - 4/20/24 - 10:11 pm
Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver for speeding in the area of Washington and Erie streets Friday night wound up arresting him for the gun with the "extended magzine" and the 22 bullets loaded into it they found in his car. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/24 - 12:36 pm
No birds in rendering by Balance Architects, but a vintage VW Bug.
A developer has proposed replacing an auto-repair garage and parking lot at 3458 Washington St., across Kenton Road from Hatoff's gas station in Jamaica Plain with a 37-unit, five-story apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 4/2/24 - 1:54 pm
Rendering of new hotel by CBT.
The developers who have been trying to do something with what's left of the Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street at Massachusetts Avenue for six years now have asked the BPDA for re-grant them permission to put up a 13-story hotel inside the original building's facade - after concluding it no longer made financial sense to build condos in the space. Read more.
By adamg - 3/6/24 - 3:11 pm
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A Walpole developer has filed plans to replace a string of low-slung stores on Grove Street at Washington Street with a five-story, 30-unit apartment building that would have ground-floor retail space. Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/24 - 12:53 pm
One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.
By adamg - 2/28/24 - 3:38 pm
Carina Flynn reports she was walking down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing shortly before 3:15 p.m. when she heard a loud crashing sound and turned to see the remains of a second-floor window from HomeGoods, 350 Washington St. lying all over the sidewalk. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/24 - 9:43 pm
Update: WHDH reports the person died.
A person on a moped suffered serious head trauma in a crash with a motor vehicle outside the Target store on Washington Street in Roslindale shortly before 7 p.m.
Washington Street was shut so first responders could tend to and then transport the victim while detectives investigated the crash.
By adamg - 2/21/24 - 3:59 pm
A New York developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace offices in three adjoining buildings it owns on Washington, Water and Washington, Water and Devonshire streets in Downtown Crossing with apartments, under a city pilot aimed at giving tax breaks to building owners who do just that. Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/24 - 2:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting Jerome Brown, 43, of Brockton, on charges he stabbed a man on the Washington Street side of Ramsay Park across from Newcomb Street in Roxbury around 10:35 p.m. on Feb. 1. Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/24 - 11:25 am
Tim Lawrence looked out his window on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing to see a line of flaming trash outside the DSW store on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing shortly after 7 p.m. He reports BFD quickly arrived and doused the burning rubbish.
By adamg - 2/12/24 - 9:31 am
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say held up BNC Market, 226 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing, around 1:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/24 - 3:16 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 3557 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain for a fire on the second floor around 9:55 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/24 - 11:07 pm
WCVB has the video from the Alfa gas station on Washington Street in Roslindale, where a woman in an SUV slammed into a gas pump around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
By adamg - 2/6/24 - 9:58 am
Boston.com reports police say a man who was standing on the sidewalk in front of the Emporium gas station and car wash on Washington Street in Roslindale "inexplicably" ran into the street around 5:30 p.m. on Monday and was hit by a 30 bus.
By adamg - 2/4/24 - 12:58 pm
WBUR reports the role Futura Productions in Roslindale Square (at the top of the building where Distraction Brewing is) played in the production of A Gentleman of Istanbul, which is up for a Grammy tonight for best engineered classical album. Read more.
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