Hyde Square

Aw: No Jamaica Plain World's Fair this fall

adamg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:53:42 -0400

Not enough organizers with enough time.

Looking for Peace One Block at a Time

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:37:56 -0400

Promo for a documentary by the Hyde Square Task Force's Health Career Ambassadors on youth violence in Boston:

Info on the documentary's premiere, May 29 at the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute, Northeastern University.

Click it like you mean it

adamg — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:18:32 -0400

Liz writes that the Hyde Square Task Force could win a $100,000 grant if enough people click in a competition that begins July 9. Hey, if you can do it for Hideki, do it for Hyde Square (and no cracks about what this says about the state of American philanthropy that it's been reduced to popularity contests).

The bicycle non-thief

adamg — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:05:30 -0400

Elizabeth Albritton noticed an interesting sign at a Hyde Square tree where a bike used to be chained (e-mail address is not blanked out on the actual paper):

Community meeting re. Blessed Sacrament Church in Hyde Square, JP

mythicflow — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:34:28 -0500

Continuing dialog about the development of the Blessed Sacrament Church and Campus. The effect of the project on traffic, parking and density will be discussed.

When: Thursday, January 19, 2006, 6:30 - 9:00PM (food at 6:00PM)

Where: Cheverus School (behind the church), 365 Centre St., Hyde Sq., Jamaica Plain

Info: 617-524-2424 x279 or kbarnett[at]jpndc.org

Home again - for the first time

adamg — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:52:18 -0400

Sarah comes back to Boston from California for a visit:

... I got off the T at a station I'd never been to before, Stonybrook, and felt a huge wash of happiness as soon as I saw the three-story Victorians quietly absorbing summer rain under a row of tossing green trees. Those houses really do a number on me in a kind of primordial way. They say "home," and "why don't you rearrange your life right now so that you can live in one of us, because what else could be more important?" My friend Emily G lives in a wonderful apartment in one of those houses, in what seems to be a really great neighborhood in Jamaica Plain called Hyde Square (because every place in Boston is a square). It's funny that it's so familiar even though I've never been here before. ...