Fields Corner

Gunpoint robbery at Fields Corner T stop

adamg — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:50:01 +0000

12/23/11 - 9:40 pm

Around 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

adamg — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:44:03 +0000

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

adamg — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:50:06 +0000

8/18/11 - 3:00 pm

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

adamg — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:04:12 +0000

8/7/11 - 2:12 pm

Boston 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

adamg — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:14:19 +0000

Candelaria 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

adamg — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:07:01 +0000

3/23/10 - 3:44 pm

Boston 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.

adamg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:50:02 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant licenses to three new eateries:

New design for Red Line in Fields Corner released?

adamg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:15:19 +0000

Whalehead 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

adamg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:39:25 +0000

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

adamg — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:50:43 +0000

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.

Man with knife stabs one, fails in effort to commit suicide by cop

adamg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:51:55 +0000

1/30/09 - 6:53 pm

Boston Police report a Dorchester man went on a rampage with a knife Friday night after he called a friend out getting some food and the friend hung up on him.

Police say that when officers arrived at 1544 Dorchester Ave. around 11:50 p.m., they were met by a woman screaming hysterically and yelling: "Hurry and get upstairs before he kills them!"

Two fine-looking T stops in Dorchester

adamg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:14:15 +0000

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. ...

Dorchester ACORN offices torn apart

adamg — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:52:24 +0000

10/16/08 - 11:00 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports police are investigating a break-in at the offices of the community-activism group at 196 Adams St. in Fields Corner sometime late yesterday or early this morning:

ACORN Massachusetts' head organizer Noemi "Mimi" Ramos arrived at the organization's offices in Fields Corner Thursday morning, Oct. 16, to find the front door unlocked, three desktop computers missing, internet and phone lines ripped out of the walls and general disarray. ...

Yes, it's the group that John McCain last night accused of trying to bring down American democracy.

Big heads on the way to the MFA?

adamg — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:51:39 +0000

Massmoga walks around Fields Corner.

What? You missed the free CharlieCards?

adamg — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:18:44 +0000

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. ...