Fields Corner

Pro-census hands under the Red Line and sultry eyes over a lingerie shop in Dorchester's Fields Corner.

The Dorchester Reporter takes a tour of foreclosed properties in Fields Corner that are becoming neighborhood trash dumps - including 225 Westville St., from which an entire family of squatters was evicted this week. Most of the properties are owned by out-of-town banks, which don't seem to much care about cleanliness, but the Reporter also says neighbors had been complaining about 225 Westville for two months before the city finally did something. With a photo of the property and some details of just how gross the building had become.

Candelaria congratulates the MBTA for the new look of the Fields Corner and Shawmut stops on the Red Line:

... The new Fields Corner and Shawmut Stations on the Red Line in Dorchester are great examples of how good design can transform. They new stations are so beautiful, in fact, that they almost ... almost obliterate the memory of just how dreary and depressing these stations were. ...

Santa was down at Fields Corner this morning handing out CharlieCards with money on them to celebrate the re-opening of the station there:

... Mine had $10, others got $2.50 or $5, and some probably had even more stored value. I also heard that a few of the gift CharlieCards had a LinkPass on them. ...

Mister Goat moved from Davis Square to Fields Corner in Dorchester a year ago. He's not regretting it and says that while, yes, it has problems, it's time to cut the negative stereotype stuff:

... [E]arlier tonight, I was out on the street, along with people from at least half the houses on the block. Some of the kids next door were playing outside, and adults from their household were playing Latin music from their car. Fireworks were going off somewhere nearby, with a good view from our place. And I had to notice that the street here is a much more social place than my old block in Somerville. ...

C1tyw0rker offers photographic evidence from Fields Corner.

After reading about the fatal fight at the Fields Corner station, Matt wonders:

Why aren't there a pair of MBTA police officers at every station in the system? What are we paying for if not to know that we'll be safe in the subway? Security cameras do not do the same job. ...