An alarmed citizen files a 311 report from suddenly dangerous Goff Street in Hyde Park, where coyotes have eaten two dogs and, he or she reports ominously, "reportedly tried to snatch a child at the bus stop." Read more.
ATF agents today arrested three men in connection with an alleged illegal gun sale by a Revere man who owns a Littleton gun shop: The dealer, the man he allegedly sold three guns to, who was one of three victims of a November shooting near Ross Playground in Hyde Park, and the legal gun owner who arranged the purchase, according to federal court documents unsealed today. Read more.
With Angelo Scaccia no longer in power to block its removal, DCR has taken down what was once a state-of-the-art play area for kids with disabilities but which over the decades after its closure had turned into a bunker used mainly by local graffiti artists to highlight their skills and drug addicts to shoot up, as Jake discovered on a walk in Stony Brook Reservation today. Read more.
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint that all the cops who now stand in the middle of some Hyde Park intersections at rush hour due to the closure of the River Street Bridge have done nothing to tamp down the outrageous aggressiveness of local drivers: Read more.
Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports that an SUV driver drove right into the side of a house at 829 Hyde Park Ave. around 3 a.m. on Saturday, and that the driver got out and tried fleeing on foot when he saw blue lights approaching, only "about a dozen residents of Hyde Park Avenue restrained him to prevent him from leaving."
Tony shows us the suddenly sagging trailer of an 18-wheeler whose driver found out what happens when you hit a guard rail at the intersection of Milton Street and Hyde Park Avenue by the Readville train station. Hyde Park rush-hour traffic, already a daily mess due to the closing of the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square, got even worse.
Rendering of proposed building by EvB Design.
The owner of 3 Dana Ave. in Hyde Park yesterday sued the Zoning Board of Appeal for approving variances for a 27-unit apartment building next door, saying there's nothing odd enough about the lot to warrant overruling its zoning and that the owner has done a terrible job with landscaping another apartment building he put up on the other side of the lot. Read more.
Darryl Houston couldn't help but notice the unusual sunset flaring from the Hyde Park library today.
The former owner of Edu & Den's Bakery in Mattapan is looking to move into the old River Grille space at River Street and Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park's cleary Square to open an American restaurant with liquor service and hours starting at 5 a.m. Read more.
This historical marker on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park beckons you to another time, when people rummaged through their pockets for a dime or quarter to call for a ride home or, failing that, made a collect call (station to station, of course, so much cheaper than person to person). Read more.
Boston Police report that as part of their investigation into a triple shooting at 1 Rosa St. at River Street in Hyde Park Sunday night, they obtained a search warrant for one of the victim's homes and found: Read more.
You're driving down Hyde Park Avenue from Roslindale into Hyde Park's Cleary Square when the new giant mural on the side of Ron's hits you - an entire wall of monsters cheerily welcoming you to the heart of Hyde Park. Read more.
Three people were shot at Rosa Street and River Street in Hyde Park around 9:45 p.m. Police found one victim at the scene; a relative drove two others to a local trauma center. Read more.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the intractable noise from the train yard in Readville: Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 40 Maple St. in Hyde Park around 6:30 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The fire, which broke out on the second floor in the rear sent one firefighter to the hospital and displaced 15 people, the department reports.
Rendering by Phase Zero Design, showing view from the middle of what used to be the open River Street Bridge.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace the former Junior's garage at River and Business streets in Hyde Park with a four-story apartment building with ground-floor space for a coffeehouse. Read more.
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