Mission Hill

Cancel the E Line past Brigham Circle? Officials vow to fight MBTA and say, if anything, the line should be extended to Centre Street

By adamg - 11/11/20 - 9:36 pm

With trolley behind her, Pressley says transit justice is racial justice.

Elected officials gathered at the Green Line terminus at Heath Street today to demand the MBTA rescind its plan announced this week to end the E Line at Brigham Circle. Read more.

Boston Apartment Availability Percentage Spikes in Key Neighborhoods - Reveals Ominous Trend

By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm

The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.

Confrontation between two groups in Southwest Corridor Park near police headquarters ends with teen shot

By adamg - 11/6/20 - 11:43 am

State Police report a 15-year-old from Dorchester was shot in the Southwest Corridor Park in the area of Prentiss and Albert streets around 11:25 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

Court upholds man's prison term for abducting, raping women in Forest Hills, Mission Hill in 2004

By adamg - 11/5/20 - 10:54 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld Dwayne McNair's 16-year prison sentence for raping two women he pulled into a car and raped with a pal, rejecting his argument that the five years between his indictment and his trial violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial. Read more.

The giant pumpkin of Mission Park re-emerges

By adamg - 10/16/20 - 10:44 am

Don't Panic captured the city's biggest pumpkin at Mission Park off Huntington Avenue the other day.

Citizen complaint of the day: The fireworks are back

By adamg - 9/20/20 - 10:39 pm

Several annoyed citizens have filed 311 complaints about fireworks returning, from Forest Hills to Mission Hill, including this one from Parker Hill Avenue:

Enormous m80 sounding fireworks.

Teen shot on Parker Street on Mission Hill

By adamg - 9/7/20 - 5:19 pm

A 17-year-old was shot at Parker and Smith streets shortly after 4:10 p.m. Injuries not considered life threatening.

College student, possibly under influence of hallucinogen, jumps through Huntington Avenue window

By adamg - 9/5/20 - 10:58 am

Working on the patient on Huntington Avenue

Stablizing the patient before his transport to the hospital. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports a college student apparently tripping on a hallucinogen with friends jumped though a Huntington Avenue apartment window and fell 40 to 50 feet to the ground around 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

Why so many unpaved roads?

By vernonfarm - 8/31/20 - 9:47 pm

I've always enjoyed exploring Boston on foot, especially gardens and smaller roads. During the quarantine we've explored more of Roslindale, West Roxbury, Hyde Park and Mattapan than before. Everywhere we walk, we find unpaved roads. Read more.

BPL to partially re-open computer room at central library, boost WiFi at some branches

By adamg - 8/26/20 - 12:51 pm

The Boston Public Library announced yesterday it's partially re-opening the computer room at the Copley Square central library, where people can now sign up for two-hour slots to use socially-distanced computers. Read more.

Masked geezer sought for Mission Hill bank robbery

By adamg - 8/20/20 - 10:09 am

Wanted for bank robbery: Man wearing Got Old shirt

State Police report they are looking for a man who held up the Needham Bank branch at 1457 Tremont St., near the Roxbury Crossing T stop, around 12:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

Boston city councilor to BU, Northeastern: Keep your students at home

By adamg - 8/4/20 - 2:12 pm

City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who represents the normally student-heavy Fenway and Mission Hill, is urging the city's two largest universities to reverse course and not let any students come to Boston for at least the fall semester - saying the greatest potential risk to Boston is "the sheer influx" of people from out of state, many from places with far higher Covid-19 rates. Read more.

Roxbury man who served five years on a crack conviction now faces ten years on a gun charge

By adamg - 7/24/20 - 11:51 am

A man arrested by Boston Police on gun charges after gunfire on Mission Hill in April now faces up to ten years in federal prison because, as a convicted felon, he wasn't supposed to ever possess a gun again, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

Police charge Mission Hill man with whacking dog in the head with a baseball bat

By adamg - 7/21/20 - 12:20 pm

Boston Police report a man who has had issues with his roommate's dog allegedly responded to the dog attempting to nip him by going up into the attic and getting a baseball bat with which to bash the dog in the head. Read more.

Mission Hill bank robbed, suspect arrested

By adamg - 6/25/20 - 2:26 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she held up the Eastern Bank branch at 1413 Tremont St. shortly after 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

White suburban school superintendents kneel to support black students, colleagues

By adamg - 6/5/20 - 2:54 pm

Among those kneeling: Metco CEO Milly Arbaje-Thomas and Bedford School Superintendent John Sills.

Suburban school superintendents and Metco officials gathered in McGann Playground on West Street in Hyde Park this afternoon to decry the continued extrajudicial killings of black men and women and to call on educators to work even harder to ensure that black students can grow up to their full potential and that white students learn to not be racists. Read more.

Making the current situation a bit more bearable

By adamg - 5/15/20 - 3:32 pm

Disgruntled Essential Peasant reports that benches at Mission Park off Huntington Avenue are now occupied by several large plush bears, all wearing masks, of course.

Two shot in Mission Main

By adamg - 4/19/20 - 9:40 pm

One victim being loaded into an ambulance

Boston EMS staffers get one of the victims into an ambulance. Photo by Live Boston.

One in the back, one in the neck, around 9:30 on Turquoise Way near Horadan Way. Shell casings found behind at 30 Horadan Way; a building on Turquoise Way had fresh bullet damage.

Both victims are expected to survive.

Police: Guy tried shooting two other guys on Mission Hill, but missed

By adamg - 4/17/20 - 3:11 pm

Boston Police reports arresting two men after they apparently tried to gun down a couple of other guys on Halleck Street on Mission Hill around 6 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

Shots fired in Mission Main

By adamg - 4/12/20 - 10:32 am

Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports somebody fired between five and eight shots around 2:30 a.m. behind 5 Cornelia Ct. in the Mission Main development. Nobody hit, but one building and one car suffered ballistic damage.