Around 9 p.m. on Thursday, a roving UHub photographer snapped the long abandoned building at 499 Geneva Ave., at Vinson Street, in Fields Corner after parts of it collapsed to the sidewalk. Fortunately, she reports, nobody was hurt (unlike what happened last fall in Allston).
Fields Corner
By adamg - 1/12/19 - 1:01 pm
VietAid announced it's shutting its after-school program because of financial issues, but says it hopes to re-open them at some point. Read more.
By adamg - 1/11/19 - 9:04 am
Firefighters look to extricate person under train. Photo by BFD.
Red Line service came to a halt on the Ashmont branch around 8 a.m. after a person wound up under a train at the Fields Corner station. The T is using buses instead between Ashmont and JFK/UMass.
NBC Boston reports the person was extricated shortly before 9 a.m., conscious, with possible broken bones.
By adamg - 12/6/18 - 9:25 am
Vivian Gerard's security camera caught a pedestrian getting mowed down at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street in Fields Corner about 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/18 - 9:07 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a proposal to designate a formal Little Saigon district in Fields Corner to celebrate the area's large Vietnamese population. Not everybody is thrilled:
"How does the Blarney Stone fit into Little Saigon, or Antonio’s Pizza?" he asked. "It's an exclusive name, and you can be certain there’s gonna be signs going up that are going to drop the Fields Corner identity."
By adamg - 8/1/18 - 1:52 pm
The Board of Appeals ruled yesterday a Fields Corner resident has to get a school bus he's turning into a camper out of his driveway. Read more.
By adamg - 8/1/18 - 9:44 am
After finding a bit of cable on the sidewalk on the way home last night, a Fields Corner resident took a look at the day's video from her surveillance system - and watched this slob getting the bike ready for the taking, only he couldn't cut through the second chain securing it and gave up.
She adds she knows the bike's owner, who told her he had not asked for help from this Lance Armstrong doppleganger to free it.
By adamg - 5/25/18 - 9:09 am
Cambridge Police report arresting Jean Griffin, 41, of Fields Corner, on a variety of charges - including armed assault to murder - for an incident Saturday in which several rounds were fired into a second-story residence at Elm and Cambridge streets. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/18 - 3:36 pm
Bobert Fallon reports the station lobby is filled with water, but that you can still catch the train there, as long as you don't mind wading through a few inches of water to get to the track level.
By adamg - 11/28/17 - 10:22 am
The Board of Appeal today gave provisional approval to plans by the owners of Churrascaria Vulcao, 203 Adams St. in Dorchester, to bring in a violinist and one or two guitarists to serenade patrons. Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/17 - 5:16 pm
Fields Corner Main Street shows us the sunset over Dorchester Avenue tonight.
Teen charged with series of armed holdups and is a suspect in a sexual assault in Fields Corner area
By adamg - 9/23/17 - 4:43 pm
By adamg - 8/11/17 - 3:07 pm
Crime scene extends to Adams and Dorchester Ave. Photon by Ryan Somerfield.
In the back, around 3 p.m. at Draper and Westville streets. There's a related crime scene on Adams Street, just north of Dorchester Avenue.
By adamg - 7/19/17 - 2:48 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports a man was shot around 11:35 a.m. at Adams Street and Neponset Avenue.
By adamg - 5/14/17 - 9:46 am
Tim Smith joined the annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace from Fields Corner to City Hall this morning.
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