Blue Hill Avenue

Charkeem Hyatt, a.k.a. Maurice Mattocks, was indicted on fourteen counts today for a shooting that left three women and a man with bullet holes as the bar emptied out at closing time on July 17, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more

Blue Hill Avenue near Packy Connors has become "an open air market of crime, filled with drugs, alcohol and prostitution," and that cannot be allowed to continue, according to Carlos Henriquez, running against incumbent Councilor Chuck Turner. Read more

But the Boston Licensing Board voted to roll the Blue Hill Avenue bar's closing time back to midnight - and could still revoke its license permanently if police prove the alleged underage shooter in a violent incident outside the bar early Friday was inside the bar moments earlier.

Packy Connors' supporters showing the licensing board they want the bar to stay open.

Boston Police officials told the licensing board this morning they have at least one witness who would place Charkeem Hyatt, 19, of Dorchester, inside the bar before it closed. They say he had words with somebody there and that he allegedly gunned down a man with whom he had a beef and three women who simply got in his way. Read more

The Boston Licensing Board decided today to take no action against the Blue Hill Avenue bar for two serious incidents in recent months, including a melee that shut down Blue Hill Avenue.

At a hearing yesterday, the bar argued it had nothing to do with either incident, both of which occurred on the street outside the bar. Police said bar patrons contributed to the melee as they poured out at closing time to watch what started as a fight between two women down the street and ended with three stabbings and four arrests.

The board did issue a warning to the bar for an incident in which a man left with a cup of beer tucked under his armpit. At yesterday's hearing, board Chairman Daniel Pokaski said that while he realized there's only so much the bar can do to stop people who hide drinks under their clothes, managers and bouncers still need to be vigilant. He jokingly suggested staffers make exiting customers "do the chicken dance" as they leave to shake out any hidden drinks.

According to its owners, that would be Packy Connor's, 205 Blue Hill Ave., which today found itself before the Boston Licensing Board - again - for three more alleged infractions, from a guy walking out of the joint with a cup of beer to the involvement of its patrons in an all-out melee that shut down Blue Hill Avenue as the cops tried to restore order. Oh, yeah, and five to six gunshots fired in its vicinity one night. Read more

Culinary diversity continues to spread across Dorchester: A Blue Hill Avenue motorist passes along the news that Grove Hall is getting a Gyro King, which will offer, yes, gyros and felafel.

The Globe reports police want the city licensing board to shut down the Blue Hill Avenue bar.

One example of what has the cops tired of the place.

Ophis takes a 7 a.m. shot down Blue Hill Avenue that makes it look like the main street in some Oregon logging town - if they used T buses to move the logs.

You might want to avoid Blue Hill Avenue in Grove Hall, where police report arresting seven gents (from Dorchester, Roxbury, Medford, Quincy and Everett) last night on charges they attempted to pay a plainclothes officer for sex.

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... When I take a Sunday drive, after church, to brunch with my girls, my quest for a "real" restaurant serving varieties of food, other than fried chicken; what's been labeled soul food, on Blue Hill, is null and void. I want a black owned restaurant. "Blue Black, Support Black", wasn't that once our motto? Call it upscale, call it fine dining, whatever you want to call it, it is unreachable on Blue Hill Avenue. ...