The owner of 1420 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, until recently home to a 7-Eleven, has filed plans with the BPDA to build a four-story, 41-unit residential building with 33 underground parking spaces and a tree. Read more.
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Mayor Wu today announced an expanded "Open Streets" program in which Newbury Street in the Back Bay will be closed to motor vehicles every Sunday between July 2 and Oct. 15 and five streets in other neighborhoods will be shut to cars and trucks for one-day celebrations. Read more.
"Morrissey Boulevard" apparently isn't upscale sounding enough for Beacon Capital Partners, the developer behind that new life-sciences complex where the Globe used to be, so they've decided it's now located in "Seaport South:" Read more.
WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools plan to merge the Shaw and Taylor schools in Dorchester into a single school and a similar proposal to do the same thing with the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale.
Live Boston reports an argument between two brothers at 34 Oldfields Rd. in Dorchester around 8 p.m. on Tuesday ended with one stabbing the other in the neck and back.
The victim's injuries were serious enough to have the BPD homicide unit called in just in case. Further details unavailable because state law bars the release of information on domestic attacks.
The Dorchester Reporter reports some Fields Corner merchants have asked BTD to look at installing meters as a way of freeing up some spaces from day-long freeloaders who park, then get on the Red Line.
Update, 5:10 p.m.: T says fire extinguished, service to resume.
The MBTA reports even longer than usual delays on the Ashmont branch of the Red Line due to a brush fire near Savin Hill.
The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop: Frank Baker will not run for re-election this fall for the mostly Dorchester District 3 city-council seat he's held since 2012. Read more.
Police: Dogs attack officer helping to arrest their owner in Dorchester, another officer shoots them
Boston Police report two dogs owned by a man on Michigan Avenue near Erie Street in Dorchester attacked and bit one of the officers involved yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Boston Police report officers responded to 64 Mascot St. in Dorchester on a call for gunfire around 9:10 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
Boston Police report gang-unit officers who were looking for a teen who might have a gun found him on Devon and Laredo streets in Dorchester around 2:30 p.m. yesterday and decided to have a chat when they spotted him with his "hand in his pocket, and a rectangular bulge near his waistline." Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved builder Neil Guilden's plans to construct a three-decker with three parking spots on what has long been a vacant lot at 17 Longfellow St. in Dorchester - in part because the city sold the lot 23 years ago with a condition it not be built on. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the third 7-Eleven to be shuttered on Dorchester Avenue - although this one will be replaced by another convenience store.
"What a day," Joe Blankenship exclaimed as he watched a crew take down the old Bayside Expo Center in Dorchester. The sign advertised the exposition center that UMass Boston long ago tore down after it bought and shuttered the place in 2010. Last month, part of the sign plunged to the ground.
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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved Boston College High School's plans to build a $49-million "wellness complex" on its Morrissey Boulevard campus. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the status of work at Harambee Park, where people have been playing cricket for 100 years.
Boston firefighters are at 105 Cushing Ave., which has multiple apartments and a day care, where what is now a four-alarm fire was reported shortly before 12:50 p.m. Firefighters were ordered out of the building. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Dorchester in East Boston yesterday on charges he used a gun to murder Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury on Sept. 29. Read more.