Mark Smith walked under the Needham Line arch at the end of Archdale Road in Roslindale and into a snowy Arnold Arboretum this morning.
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By adamg - 12/28/22 - 9:36 pm
Boston firefighters responded shortly before 9:30 p.m. to the Emporium service station/convenience store/carwash/offices, 3875 Washington St., for a car fire that extended to the building. The fire was reported knocked down at 9:37 p.m., although firefighters remained on scene to make sure it wasn't spreading through walls or ceilings.
By adamg - 12/24/22 - 10:52 pm
The Alfa gas station, 4139 Washington St. in Roslindale, was held up at gunpoint shortly after 10:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/22 - 1:32 pm
Robert Orthman reports work is ongoing in the half of the Corinth Street building that a driver smashed into early Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/22 - 9:44 am
A GoFundMe set up by Roslindale resident Chris Lang has already gotten $26,000 in pledges to help the barbershop, threading salon and nine other businesses destroyed or shut yesterday when somebody drove into their Corinth Street building yesterday morning. Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/22 - 9:19 am
Photo by BFD. See it larger.
Update: GoFundMe set up for the ruined businesses.
The Boston Fire Department reports a driver plowed into Threading for Beauty and Sebastian's Barber Shop on Corinth Street, just around the corner from Belgrade Avenue in Roslindale, this morning, destroying the businesses and taking out a good part of the building. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/22 - 3:30 pm
The Boston Licensing Board voted unanimously today to allow Lorenzo Mercado to sell a full range of alcohol products at his Punta Cana store on Belgrade Avenue at Walworth Street in Roslindale - and to change its name from Punta Cana Beer & Wine Market to Punta Cana Market. Read more.
By adamg - 12/3/22 - 10:09 pm
Some Boston firefighters didn't have far to go to respond to a fire around 9:45 p.m: It was on the sixth floor of the apartment building at 855 American Legion Highway, right across the street from the firehouse for Engine 53 and Ladder 16 at the intersection of American Legion, Cummins Highway and Canterbury Street. Read more.
By adamg - 11/30/22 - 10:55 am
Blakemore Street last night. Camera made it look more lit up than it really is.
A group of residents living near the Blakemore Street Bridge, which connects Hyde Park Avenue with Brown Avenue and Florence Street over the Northeast Corridor train tracks have won a city grant to try to turn the darkened, rusty span into a more welcoming entrance to the Prospect Hill neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 11/29/22 - 10:22 am
Cyrillic alphabet in Roslindale.
Serbian font designer Jovana Jocić has released a Cyrillic version of David Jonathan Ross's Roslindale font - yes, named for the Boston neighborhood.
Roslindale is home to a Russian Orthodox church (and neighboring Jamaica Plain has two Ukrainian churches).
H/t Daniel Cantwell.
By adamg - 11/27/22 - 12:26 pm
Sullivan's Pharmacy on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square will be closed Monday morning so that employees can attend the burial of owner Gregory Laham, who transformed what had been a basic neighborhood drugstore into a supplier of specialized prescriptions and medical equipment able to stay open even as chains forced the shutdown of other independent pharmacies across the state. Read more.
By adamg - 11/19/22 - 2:41 pm
A commuter-rail train waits for passengers.
People lined up on South Street in Roslindale today for the open house at the Bay State Model Railroad Museum, what will once again be a twice-yearly event where museum members get to show off their O, HO and N-gauge trains and layouts to the public. Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/22 - 8:46 pm
After the fire. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 3927 Washington St. in Roslindale around 5:45 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 11/7/22 - 8:52 am
Jamaica Plain News presents a photo of a fisher cat in the Arnold Arboretum, to go with the deer and the coyotes and the owls. Spotted in the wilder Bussey Brook woods.
By adamg - 10/28/22 - 11:53 am
Retired BPD officer Francis Foley, who died Oct. 23, at 80, was to be buried today in Mount Benedict Cemetery in West Roxbury, 31 years to the day after he and his fellow bomb-squad member, Jeremiah Hurley, responded to 39 Eastbourne St. in Roslindale to investigate a suspicious package. Read more.
By adamg - 10/28/22 - 9:25 am
BTD is looking at extending the shared bus/bike lane along the inbound side of Washington Street from Albano Street to Corinth Street in Roslindale Square, a BTD planner told the Roslindale West Village Neighborhood Association on Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/22 - 5:17 pm
Two developers, including one that rebuilt and expanded the former Arsenal Mall in Watertown, say they will soon file plans for a six-story, 230-unit apartment building with 124 parking spaces along the Needham Line train tracks between Lochdale and Arboretum roads in Roslindale, near Forest Hills. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/22 - 9:45 am
Rendering by Sousa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans to replace the shuttered 100% Delicias restaurant at Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street in Roslindale with a four-story, 27-unit apartment building and a small ground-floor retail space. Read more.
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