Fields Corner
Gunpoint robbery at Fields Corner T stop
By adamg - 12/23/11 - 10:50 pmAround 9:40 p.m. Suspects are two Hispanic males, one 18 or 19, 5'8" and wearing a black and gray North Face jacket, the other about 5'6" and dressed in a black top and pants.
Trees plunge on Red Line
By adamg - 8/28/11 - 11:44 am
The MBTA forwarded this photo of a tree down on the Red Line just south of Fields Corner and this photo of a tree down just north of JFK/UMass:
Bank robber has a thing for Sovereign Bank branches
By adamg - 8/19/11 - 8:50 am
The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force is looking for a guy they say robbed at least two Sovereign Bank branches this week. Mr. Goatee first hit the Sovereign branch at 1442 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner on Tuesday.
He took a break on Wednesday - when police were busy with another bank robber - then popped up again yesterday to rob the Sovereign branch at 552 Commonwealth Ave. in Kenmore Square. After demanding and getting money, he fled on foot, the task force reports.
Lewiston, ME man charged with attempted armed robbery in Dorchester
By adamg - 8/8/11 - 11:04 amBoston Police report officers stuck in traffic on Dot. Ave. near Adams Street yesterday afternoon watched a suspicious looking guy run out of a doorway, knock a woman down, grab her purse, then run away.
Officers immediately exited their unmarked cruiser and chased the suspect on foot through several streets and alleys and eventually caught the suspect on Lincoln Street. Once caught with a knife and after being "Mirandized", the suspect stated, "I wasn't going to use the knife... I would never hurt her, I just need to feed the kids."
Jamie Brown, 22, of Lewiston, ME, will be arraigned in Dorchester District Court today.
The arrest is the latest example of the crime link between Lewiston and Dorchester and Roxbury. In 2010, Boston Police linked two Boston murders to Lewiston: In one case, a Lewiston man was charged with helping to gun down a man in Roxbury, in the other, a Boston man was arrested in Lewiston on charges he murdered a Lewiston woman and shot up her drug-dealing acquaintance in a car in Dorchester. In 2008, a Boston man was convicted of selling cocaine in Lewiston.
Innocent, etc.
Doe, a deer, a Dorchester deer
By adamg - 6/11/11 - 12:14 amCandelaria Silva reports she and her granddaughter were waiting at Fields Corner for an Ashmont train last Saturday when a woman on the inbound side began yelling:
"Oh, my God, did you see that? Is that a deer? A deer just ran up the bus ramp!"
We looked behind us through the glass that separates the bus ramp from the train tracks and there it was - a deer. We saw it running back and forth three times.
Red Line proves unreliable - as getaway route for alleged bank robber
By adamg - 3/24/10 - 1:07 pmBoston Police report arresting a man on charges he held up the Citizens Bank branch at 217 Adams St. in Fields Corner yesterday afternoon.
Police say Magdy Wasif, 41, didn't get far:
Coming soon: Indian food downtown, pasta at Rowes Wharf and bubble tea on Dot. Ave.
By adamg - 2/3/10 - 11:50 amThe Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant licenses to three new eateries:
New design for Red Line in Fields Corner released?
By adamg - 1/25/10 - 7:15 pmWhalehead King posts what he says is an exclusive photo for a dramatic new design for where the Red Line crosses Dot. Ave.
Hand-eye coordination in Fields Corner
By adamg - 11/12/09 - 3:39 pm
Pro-census hands under the Red Line and sultry eyes over a lingerie shop in Dorchester's Fields Corner.
'The encroachment of decay' in Fields Corner
By adamg - 2/26/09 - 10:50 amThe 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.
