The Dorchester Reporter reports the mini-Target will replace a closed clothing store. People who need to make larger Target runs will still be able to head up to the full-figured store up in South Bay.
Fields Corner
By adamg - 6/24/19 - 6:06 pm
Police Commissioner William Gross said tonight that one of two men running away from a possible shooting at Town Field in Dorchester around 5:15 p.m. turned on bicycle cops who had pursued him a couple blocks and began firing at them. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/19 - 9:00 am
Joel Pettigrew was not expecting to be personally attacked by a scrawl on a pillar at the Fields Corner Red Line station this morning.
By adamg - 5/10/19 - 8:43 am
Shortly after 5 a.m. on Dorchester Avenue near Leedsville Street, NBC Boston reports.
By adamg - 4/30/19 - 9:15 am
Rosanne Foley recounts an incident on the Red Line Monday morning: Read more.
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By adamg - 4/10/19 - 9:37 am
Architect's rendering.
The owners of a Fields Corner cafe have filed plans with the BPDA for a building with 14 studio apartments they say would rent for between $650 and $850 a month - heat and hot water included. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/19 - 3:30 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started on the second floor of 184 Adams St. spread to the third floor.
Firefighters responded around 1:15 p.m., the department says. Damage was estimated at $100,000 and the cause is under investigation.
By adamg - 1/25/19 - 9:38 am
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).
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.
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