Roslindale

The politest intersection in Boston

adamg — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:51:55 -0500

Boston's only polite intersection? Maybe that's what happens when you put an intersection in the middle of a forest. Mike Ball hails the intersection of Enneking, Turtle Pond and Dedham parkways deep in the woods of Stony Brook Reservation, where drivers not only obey the four-way stop but are actually courteous to one another:

... Could it be something in the oxygen from all the foliage? Might some nearby unknown native American burial ground be affecting Bostonians as they arrive at the intersection? Would the bucolic nature of the park all around calm the savages?

The cause is far less important than the mere existence of the magic intersection. ...

Boston, Dedham police/Belgrade Ave., 10:25 am Sat. Nov. 7th???

newchristine — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:23:35 -0500

Anybody know what was going on on Belgrade Ave, upper 200 block near Ardent St., this morning? About 7 BPD cars and a Dedham car surrounded an apt. building. Scary scene.

$4.8 million bike cage at Forest Hills

Michael Kerpan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:35:31 -0500

The Jamaica Plains Gazzette has an article about how Forest Hills Station has run out of Bike Charlie Cards. In it, mention is made (in passing) that this cage for 100 bikes cost $4,800,000 (4.8 million!!!!)

http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/node/3733

Is this a mispint? Or an indication of Boston graft on an even more massive scale than usual?

It's Open Studios time in Roslindale

adamg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:40 -0500

More info.

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Armed home invasion in Roslindale this afternoon

adamg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:31:21 -0500

Boston Police tweet "gun shown" in attack at 105 Rowe St..

Rozzie residents no longer have to drive all the way down to Cleary Square for their ceramic tchotchkes

adamg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:36 -0500

The recent opening of Jerusalem Trading on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square (where that African discount store used to be) ends the giant-ceramics drought that's plagued Roslindale ever since Nancy's on Belgrade Avenue shut down this past spring.

The store looks to carry a complete line of life-size and near-life-size ceramic animals, including a ceramic peacock for only $119.99, and, naturally, snarling ceramic tigers. Also in stock: Ceramic figures of 17th-century European nobility and, of course, ceramic-flower-bedecked ceramic pillars on which to display all your ceramics. Also available: Furniture, which appears to be made of non-ceramic materials, such as wood.

Roslindale is hardcore on Halloween

adamg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:12:15 -0400

Swamp Thing awaits next ~~victim~~ trick-or-treater on Glendower Rd.

Even on Halloween, it's kind of weird talking to a guy who looks like he just climbed out of a fetid swamp, surrounded by body parts and giant vampire bats. He said it took him about a week to get ready for tonight. As I was leaving, he gave me a wave, as much as his condition allowed, and muttered "Have a good Halloween!"

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Roslindale Square loses landmark bakery

adamg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:37:30 -0400

The sign's still lit up, but the bakery itself is now dark.

Joe Murphy says he tried, he really did. He'd show up at the bakery he'd just bought on Washington Street every day at 2 a.m. despite the vertigo from an accident that so bad doctors had put him in a coma for nine weeks. When the economy went south and people stopped buying non-necessities like hand-made cakes, he made plans to add a cafe. When red tape at the city Inspectional Services Department delayed that for months, he still persevered.

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A tree dies in Roslindale

adamg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:25:29 -0400

Before (10/5) and after (today).

When the city released plans for the new Washington-Beech project, the renderings showed builders would keep a huge tree right at the corner of Washington and Beech streets. And, for a while, it looked like that really was the plan - workers even surrounded it with a protective wooden "hula skirt." But for some reason, they tore down the tree today and carted away its remains.

This is what the neighborhood was promised:

Bomb squad pays a visit to Roslindale home

adamg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:36:49 -0400

Boston Police tweet the bomb squad is at 57 Tyndale St. to deal with a grenade.

Ed. Roslindale explosive note: The Rialto barbershop in Roslindale Square has a grenade on the counter and an artillery shell they use as a doorstop. Stop in and ask about 'em.