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By adamg - 10/16/23 - 10:34 am
Mattapan Line without tracks

Trackless Mattapan Line.

Lee Toma surveyed the Mattapan Line and the Red Line Ashmont branch, now in the thick of the MBTA's 16-day repair "surge." Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 9:02 pm

The Dorchester Reporter urges riders to plan ahead - and consider the Fairmount Line, which will be free to CharlieCard holders during the shutdown.

Tips from the city of Boston.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 3:16 pm

Update: Victim identified as James Jones, 30, of Dorchester.

A man was shot on Corona Street between Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue around 2:05 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 10:20 am

Boston Police report arresting men from Dedham and Mattapan on gun charges at Geneva Avenue and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester after gang-unit officers spotted one of them tossing something out of their car and then noticed the car seemed to have excessively tinted windows. Read more.

By adamg - 10/12/23 - 12:13 pm
Tony Vance

Boston Police report arresting Tony Vance, 39, of Roslindale (in photo) on charges he shot and killed Derrell Russell of Brighton at Blue Hill Avenue and Westview Street in Dorchester around 5:40 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2022.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 10/12/23 - 11:25 am
Rendering of possible bus and bike lanes on Blue Hill Avenue

Rendering of possible bus and bike lanes on Blue Hill Avenue.

The city is out with a comparison of two basic approaches for improving Blue Hill Avenue between Mattapan Square and Grove Hall - a massive re-build with construction of dedicated bus lanes and a more modest plan with a massive increase in traffic enforcement by police - and says it expects Mayor Wu to announce a final plan for the road by the end of the year. Read more.

By adamg - 10/10/23 - 3:04 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old on charges he fired a round outside 60 Southern Ave. around 5:10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

By adamg - 10/5/23 - 11:09 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the dispute over possibly renaming a playground at Ronan Park after Maryann Hanley, who was just 11 when she was murdered in the park in 1983 by her older sister's boyfriend.

By adamg - 10/3/23 - 1:10 pm

Boston Police report arresting Gianni Johnson, 24, of Dorchester for his role in shootings on Ames Way in Dorchester that sent five people, including an 11-year-old, to the hospital on Sept. 17. Read more.

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 9:05 pm

78 Glendale St. in Dorchester seems like just the place for a large family, with seven bedrooms and three bathrooms. And one Red Line room. Scroll through the interior photos at that link. Keep scrolling. It'll hit you: A wall-size mural of a Red Line train, only one that then extends into the hallway with a door that lets you enter a "train" room that looks like what you'd get if you turned a Red Line car into a room (only with a giant circled F instead of a T).

Via Ari Ofsevit.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter talks to John Dunlap, Jr., who has expanded the offerings at his Dorchester Used Bicycle and Thrift Shop to include custom-written poetry for any occasion.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:10 am

The MBTA announced today that the Fairmount Line will be free between Oct. 14 and 29, at least to people with CharlieCards - as a possible replacement for the Mattapan Line and Ashmont service on the Red Line, which will be shut then for track repairs. The T will also be running shuttle buses along the Mattapan and Ashmont lines then.

By adamg - 9/26/23 - 1:56 pm

Two men arrested by Boston Police on child-sex charges in June - and still held in a Suffolk County jail - were arrested again this week on federal charges related to the same incidents involving 14-year-old girls in an apartment in a Dorchester three decker. Read more.

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 2:30 pm
Rendering of proposed Hillsboro Street building

Rendering by Icon Architecture.

A developer that helped preserve artist studios in an old industrial building on Humphreys Street in Dorchester filed plans today to build a 21-unit condo building nearby in which all the units would be sold to people making no more than 80% to 100% of the Boston area median income - with 18 of them marketed to artists. Read more.

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 1:40 pm
Smashed Red Line window

Photo via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for "several juvenile males" they say taunted a woman of Asian descent - then went after other passengers who tried to intervene, before they smashed a train window and fled at JFK/UMass around 11 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

By adamg - 9/20/23 - 11:18 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston Police are now shutting Old Road - a shortcut between Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road - on weekend nights following the Sept. 2 murder of Xavier Rivas. Read more.

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:44 am
Rendering of Dorchester Bay City

New development in the front, UMass and JFK Library in the back. Rendering by Stantec.

The Dorchester Reporter reports the BPDA last week approved the 36-acre Dorchester Bay City project, which will include 1,950 apartments and enough offices, labs and stores to employ up to 17,000 people. Read more.

By adamg - 9/17/23 - 9:31 pm
Police swarming Ames Street

Police swarm Ames Street. Photo by Gavin Schoch.

Update: One man arrested, second sought.

Five people were shot - including a 14-year-old shot in the ankle and an 11-year-old - on Ames Street in the Franklin Field development around 8:40 p.m., Boston Area Public Safety Alerts and Stanley Staco report. Read more.

By adamg - 9/15/23 - 1:41 pm

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester, to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place. Read more.

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