Inside the old library in the 1930s, by W. Jordan, from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.
A Readville church is asking a judge to let it ignore a restriction in the 1897 deed that limits the use of a side building to "a free and public reading room and library" so that it can put up a six-unit apartment building in its place. Read more.
Boston is holding one of its periodic waste-collection events on Saturday, this time at the DPW facility on Dana Avenue in Hyde Park, between 8:30 a.m. and noon. Read more.
Sen. Warren called LGBTQ Senior Housing Executive Director Gretchen Van Ness with the good news today. Read more.
Rendering by O'Sullivan Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Elias Akiki to build a four-story, nine-unit residential building at 1015 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, currently a parking lot and home of one of the larger Madonna shrines on the street. Read more.
Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.
A man who lives in Hyde Park on the Dedham line pleaded guilty today to charges he used Facebook Messenger to hurl racial insults at an interracial couple - and to threaten to murder and dismember them should they go to authorities, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass gets the scoop that the MBTA and Keolis are going to try to get battery-operated trains running on the Fairmount Line within 3 1/2 years in a pilot aimed at increasing the frequency of trains, shorten trip times and replace some antiquated old diesel-powered trains. Read more.
A federal jury yesterday convicted the one-time head of the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park of helping to run a long running overtime scam in which officers would routinely put in for overtime they never worked. Read more.
Boston Police responding to 911 calls about gunfire in the area of Iaconno Playground in Hyde Park around 8:40 p.m. found two houses with gunshot damage - one at Readville Street and Como Road, the other further up Como, past Reynold Road.
Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men who held up the Hyde Park Market at River Street and Wood Avenue around 5:50 p.m. and then, about an hour later, the CVS on Hyde Park Avenue, about a mile away. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old for last Wednesday's gunpoint holdup of a Domino's delivery person on Fairmount Hill n Hyde Park. Read more.
Photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two teenagers they say held up a Domino's delivery driver outside 21 Woodglen Road in Hyde Park around 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday.
Ron's manager Jay Covitz at hearing from the ice-cream shop and candlepin alley.
Update: Approved, but pending the board finding an available license in a drawer or something.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve a proposal by Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling on Hyde Park Avenue in Cleary Square to add beer and wine to the soft drinks it now offers keglers. Read more.
WCVB reports a man trying to get from one side of the Hyde Park train station to the other around 3:10 p.m. was hit and killed by a commuter-rail train on one of the busiest stretches of train tracks in the Boston are - used by both commuter-rail and high-speed Amtrak trains. A fence separates the two sides of the station to try to keep people from attempting to cross the tracks.
Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling, 1231 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, is seeking a beer and wine license. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon reports on yet another effort by Boston lawmakers to convince the T to change the Hyde Park, Readville and West Roxbury commuter-rail stations to the same zone as the Fairmount one - which could save riders hundreds of dollars a year. But T officials say they're more interested in an overall reduced-fare system it's looking to set-up for low-income riders across the entire commuter-rail network.
Coffee Break Cafe, 680 Truman Parkway in Hyde Park, announced tonight it will serve its last cup at 3 p.m. on Jan. 27. Read more.
Around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, a crying man called 911 to report that when he came home, he found his girlfriend cheating on him, so he shot her dead and was now standing there wanting to die. Read more.
Jan drove through some creepy pea soup in Readville's Wolcott Square last night.
Mike shows us the view out his Back Bay window this morning - and reports the barely visible crane in the center pane is just a block away: Read more.
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