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Southwest Corridor Park

By adamg - 10/30/23 - 9:58 pm
Pumpkin house and pumpkin car

Peter Cheungshows us the Halloween-ready scene on Boynton Street near the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain.

By adamg - 5/6/23 - 8:45 pm
Puppets at Wake Up the Earth

Handmaid took in Spontaneous Celebrations' annual Wake Up the Earth festival today along the Southwest Corridor Park near Stony Brook station. Read more.

By adamg - 11/6/22 - 3:53 pm

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about parents of toddlers forcing kids over 8 to leave the playground at the Lawndale Garden Terrace Park off the Southwest Corridor Park so their rugrats can play there: Read more.

By adamg - 8/17/22 - 2:23 pm

Update: Work shortened to just three days, starting Thursday.

In the run up to Friday's month-long Orange Line shutdown, one of the alternatives touted by officials, at least for people south of downtown, was riding a bike up and down the Southwest Corridor. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/22 - 10:20 pm
Tromboinists do slides on a slide at Wake Up the Earth

A pair of trombonists worked on their slides while on the homemade slides at the return of the Wake Up the Earth Festival in the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain today. Greg Cook took the photo along with many other photos of both the festival and the parade that proceeded it.

By adamg - 8/28/21 - 4:14 pm
Squirrel and the vertebra it was munching on

Possinger's before and after shots.

Chris Possinger reports:

Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.

By adamg - 2/9/21 - 9:04 am
Prudential building through snow-covered trees

Matthew Ireland snapped the Pru through the snow-frosted trees of the Southwest Corridor Park at Holyoke Street after the snow stopped on Sunday.

By adamg - 11/24/20 - 12:02 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 20-year-old and a 17-year-old on charges they shot at somebody on the Southwest Corridor behind Boston Police headquarters around 6 p.m. yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 11/6/20 - 11:43 am

State Police report a 15-year-old from Dorchester was shot in the Southwest Corridor Park in the area of Prentiss and Albert streets around 11:25 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 3:50 pm

State Police report they and Boston Police are looking for "a group of around 10 juveniles, ranging in age from elementary-school age to teenager" they say have been attacking people along the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain. Read more.

By adamg - 5/4/19 - 8:14 pm
Tall woman at Wake the Earth in Jamaica Plain

The rain mostly held off for Spontaneous Celebrations's annual Wake the Earth festival on the Southwest Corridor in Jamaica Plain today, although the fields were pretty smushy. Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/19 - 9:14 am
Surveillance photo of suspect

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say smashed a woman in the back of the head in the Southwest Corridor Park near West Canton Street around 1:35 a.m. on Saturday, then took her purse and ran away. Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/18 - 9:27 am

WCVB reports that a man walking home from work through the Southwest Corridor Park late Friday was punched repeatedly in the face and head by two men after he refused to just hand over his belongings to them.

By adamg - 11/20/18 - 8:58 am

Jamaica Plain News barks out the news that DCR has chosen land along Oakdale Street north of Green Street for a possible dog park.

By adamg - 8/15/18 - 10:24 pm

UPDATED, 8:45 a.m., Thursday.

Stanley Staco reports a man was shot around 9:50 p.m. behind the Massachusetts Avenue T stop. Read more.

By adamg - 8/4/18 - 12:09 pm
Largest proposed dog park

Largest proposal for land just north of Green Street.

DCR says it has identified three potential spaces for a dog park along its Southwest Corridor land in Jamaica Plain, roughly between the Green Street and Stony Brook Orange Line stops. Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/17 - 9:43 pm

A guy put a gun to a man's chest to make him hand over his wallet, phone and backpack around 8:40 p.m. outside 410 Mass. Ave., kitty-corner from the Orange Line station. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/16 - 6:17 pm
Hula hooping to music at Jamaica Plain's Wake Up the Earth festival

Parades from both ends of Jamaica Plain converged today, as they do every May, to march to the Southwest Corridor for the neighborhood's annual Wake Up the Earth festival in front of Stony Brook station, where residents converged for arts, music, progressive politics and all sorts of food and stuff to buy - as well as the usual ad-hoc slide for kids down one hillside.

J.S. Hummel spotted some of the many musicians in the parade: Read more.

By adamg - 9/15/15 - 8:50 pm

Collin Fedor thought they were great, wonders if anybody knows who they are.

By adamg - 7/13/15 - 10:07 pm
Search along the Southwest Corridor in Jamaica Plain

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.

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