Boston Police report arresting a Cape Cod man whose attempt to rob bank branch inside the South Bay Stop & Shop, 1100 Massachusetts Ave., failed when a teller refused to give him any money. Read more.
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By adamg - 3/12/23 - 4:49 pm
This morning, the MBTA reported delays of up to 20 minutes, atop the more usual delays, on the Red Line's Ashmont branch due to a "track problem" at Ashmont. You may recall that the decision to turn the entire T system into a slow zone last week was due to track problems state inspectors found on that branch.
By adamg - 3/9/23 - 12:05 pm
Rendering by Context.
A pair of developers have proposed a four-story, 18-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot that stretches between Dorchester Avenue and Boston Street in the Polish Triangle, just south of Andrew Square. Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/23 - 9:50 pm
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports somebody was shot in the head Thetford Avenue near Evans Street - and the Thetford-Evans Playground - shortly before 10:45 a.m.
By adamg - 3/8/23 - 9:26 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Puritan Pizza, 735 Morrissey Blvd. in Dorchester, approval to extend its closing time from the current 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/23 - 12:57 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Watertown man they say robbed the Santander Bank branch at 535 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester around 1:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/7/23 - 1:22 pm
GBH takes a look at ridership figures from the 23, 28 and 29 lines, which are now free under a two-year Boston pilot that started in March - several months after the city first started paying the T for fares on the 28.
By adamg - 3/3/23 - 12:15 pm
Surveillance photos via TPD.
A Red Line train at Ashmont had to be taken out of service at rush hour yesterday after some guy on the platform attempted to show his anger at somebody inside the train by slamming his shoulder and elbow into a window hard enough to crack it, Transit Police report. Read more.
By adamg - 3/3/23 - 9:22 am
Mandercamp spotted a seal just hanging out on a dock on Dorchester Bay yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/2/23 - 3:37 pm
Rendering of proposed billboard, which board noped out on.
For the second time in a year, the Zoning Board of Appeal has rejected a proposal by a billboard company and the Polish American Citizens Club to erect a digital billboard on club property to beam ads at Expressway drivers - and to help financially support the non-profit club. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/23 - 12:45 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Omay Tavares, convicted of a 2010 murder on Rosseter Street in Dorchester, because his attorney, leading his first ever murder case after serving a two-year suspension for "gross incompetence" that got two other clients imprisoned, failed to act on a document from prosecutors that seemed to another man as the killer. Read more.
By adamg - 2/23/23 - 2:05 pm
Rendering by RODE Architects.
A developer has filed plans to replace a car wash at 247 Hancock St. in Dorchester with a six-story, 47-unit residential building. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/23 - 11:37 am
Bill Walczak makes the case that the state should pay to relocate the Dorchester Yacht Club to move to the Dorchester Bay side of the venerable Bedes Bridge rather than spend all the money it will take to put in a new drawbridge just so people with enough disposable income to buy and maintain a boat can continue to inconvenience motorists.
By adamg - 2/22/23 - 10:55 am
Transit Police report two "juvenile females" punched and spit at a 50-year-old woman and pulled her hair around 5 p.m. on Feb. 19 on a T bus in the area of Washington Street and Columbia Road. The teens then fled.
By adamg - 2/21/23 - 9:49 pm
Victim identified as Mario G. Santos, 21, of Dorchester.
Police found two men shot on Wilrose Street between Westwood Street and Puritan Avenue in Dorchester, around 7:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/23 - 2:46 pm
Possibility for a Fort Point Channel barrier. See it larger.
A consultant hired by the Boston Water and Sewer Commission is recommending a new barrier system where Boston Harbor meets Fort Point Channel, to keep rising sea levels and more intense storms from letting the ocean reclaim what was once South Bay - a large swath of Dorchester, South Boston and Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/23 - 1:00 pm
A man known as "Dog Bite" was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Dorchester court today on charges that he stabbed Urvin Gerald to death outside the Mount Horeb Lodge at Harvard and Norwell streets in Dorchester last July, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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