Greg Cook photographed (and took part in) yesterday's Joy Parade, in which Nick Cave's inflatable "Augment" art installation was moved from the Boston Center of the Arts in the South End to 555 Columbia Rd. in Uphams Corner, where it'll be on display through April.
Architect's rendering.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA for a five-story, 26-unit building on what is now a vacant lot at Dudley and Humphreys streets in Uphams Corner. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the change of plans and operators for the long dormant structure.
Boston Police report the man shot to death at Dudley Street and Columbia Road Sunday night was Adilson Barbosa, 22.
His brother, JoJo, has set up a GoFundMe page to help the family pay funeral expenses.
Victim identified as Adilson Barbosa, of Dorchester.
A man was shot in the head at Columbia Road and Dudley Street around 11:40 p.m. Read more.
UPDATE, 7/12: Two arrested.
NBC Boston reports both a man and a child were shot on Folsom Street at Dudley Street just before 11 p.m. Read more.
Architect's rendering.
The Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp. has filed plans for a 43-unit, $20-million apartment building at 9 Leyland St. in Dorchester, with all the units to be rented to senior citizens making no more than 60% of the area median income. Read more.
A federal judge today rejected a Boston man's argument that the Second Amendment lets him walk around with a gun if he feels like it and upheld his three-year jail sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Read more.
State Rep. Liz Miranda (Dorchester) and city officials say they've brokered a deal between Uphams House of Pizza on Columbia Road and a teenager who got into a beef with an employee there that could calm a tense situation that had spread into the community via videos on social media and sparked calls for a boycott of the 30-year-old pizza place. Read more.
Boston Police report officers asked to check on the well being of a man at 614 Columbia Rd. found the man dead, around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Police are treating the death as suspicious. Anybody with information can contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
Greg Cook reports on educator and video star Tory Bullock and the Gentrification Game installation he set up for today and tomorrow between 4 and 7 p.m. at Dudley Neighbors, 572 Columbia Road:
One neighborhood is home to a liquor store while the other has a wine emporium. One side has a check cashing business and a torn-down theater, while the other has “an actual bank” and a pristine theater. Bullock asks, “Can you survive in my fictional transitional neighborhood?”
The scene this morning. Photo by Chris Dunn.
NBC Boston reports a driver seems to have plowed through a red light and right into an MBTA bus shortly after 6 a.m. at Columbia Road and Dudley Street. The Globe reports seven injured.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the proposed shop on the site of the Kriola restaurant on Hancock Street.
The city is soliciting bids from people who think they could really do something with the old Bank of America branch at 555 Columbia Rd. in Uphams Corner for the 12 to 18 months it would otherwise sit empty until the city puts up a new library branch there.
UPDATE: Victim identified as Anthony Young, 33.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed at 7 Cushing Ave. in Dorchester around 3 a.m. The victim, a man in his 20s, was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The victim is Boston's 10th murder victim this year.
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