Roxbury
By adamg - 10/4/19 - 9:40 am
Mayor Walsh today released details of a plan to clean up Methadone Mile and Newmarket Square through additional resources and workers aimed both at "deconcentrating" addicts and homeless people by getting more of them into treatment and shelters - some created outside those areas - and through faster cleanup of the needles and other detritus they leave behind and stepped up police presence. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/19 - 11:16 am
Jamaica Plain News reports Zoo New England has been using Franklin Park to train Koda to find eastern box turtles, an increasingly rare species in New England, so that researchers can better figure out ways to keep them around.
By Rosabri Mejia - 10/2/19 - 1:10 am
Pill Man and Huntley.
Stand at the intersection of Mass Ave. and Washington Street long enough and you'll see a lot of unusual things. But even there, Frank Huntley and Pill Man stood out. Read more.
By adamg - 9/30/19 - 10:55 pm
The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology announced today it has purchased the former Harrison Supply Co. site at 1011 Harrison Ave., off Melnea Cass Boulevard, to create its new home, one that will include "an advanced manufacturing center and walk-in optical shop" among its other features. Read more.
By adamg - 9/30/19 - 10:44 am
Architect's rendering of proposed 135 Dudley Street buildings.
Developers last week filed plans for three mixed-use buildings on Dudley Square land awarded them earlier this year by the city as part of a program to turn city-owned parking and vacant lots into affordable housing, stores and offices. Read more.
By adamg - 9/27/19 - 3:17 pm
Architect's rendering
The Madison Park Development Corp. this week filed plans with the BPDA to use both land it owns and a city-owned vacant lot for a four-story, 20-unit condo building at 75 Dudley St., at Guild Row - next to another condo building it is currently constructing. Read more.
By adamg - 9/24/19 - 10:06 am
Stanley Staco reports somebody was stabbed around 1:20 a.m. near the O'Bryant on Malcolm X Boulevard.
By adamg - 9/19/19 - 11:14 pm
Multiple shots fired on Maple Street between Sonoma and Schuyler streets around 11 p.m. At least two cars hit.
The location is in roughly near where six people were shot in July.
By adamg - 9/19/19 - 2:31 pm
Councilor Flaherty discusses the ballot question as former Councilor Chuck Turner listens.
The City Council yesterday approved a non-binding question on this November's ballot that asks voters whether they would approve formally changing Dudley Square's name to Nubian Square. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/19 - 5:57 pm
A state trooper who was part of a highway-shutting blockade to corral stunting dirt bikers and ATV riders on I-93 last year now faces felony charges for shooting one of them in the foot with a rifle. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/19 - 9:35 am
A two-car crash this morning at Washington and Northampton streets in Roxbury sent one of the cars into the front of Shamso, a new hair salon that is the first in New England for women who wear a hijab.
The other car in the crash ... Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/19 - 1:34 pm
Steven Huntley got greedy around 11:30 yesterday morning, police say: An employee at Pizza Stop, 851 Harrison Ave., near Massachusetts Avenue, gave him a slice of pizza even though he didn't have enough money, but then Huntley started asking other customers for spare change and demanding more food. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/19 - 9:33 am
CommonWealth surveys the life of the Rev. Michael Haynes, former pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, who died this week at 92.
By adamg - 9/7/19 - 2:23 pm
Architect's rendering of view from Southwest Corridor Park, with birds.
A pair of developers have filed plans for a 6-story, 47-unit residential building off Northampton Street and the Southwest Corridor Park in which all the units would be marketed as affordable. Read more.
By adamg - 9/7/19 - 1:39 pm
Architect's rendering.
A developer is proposing 51 condos on a vacant lot between Regent and Fountain streets that the city cleared for urban renewal in the 1960s and then never did anything with. Read more.
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Man shot on Warren Street in Roxbury, 8/16/19