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By adamg - 12/3/23 - 12:23 pm

Boston Police report the arrest of four men who got into several cars in the area of Beaver and Cleveland streets around 5 a.m. on Saturday - because their owners had left them running to warm them up - and even drove some of them a short distance up the street. Read more.

By adamg - 11/19/23 - 6:15 pm

Residents in Hyde Park have started sending e-mail and letters to Shaw's to try to get April Ricci re-instated as manager of the Hyde Park Avenue store. Read more.

By adamg - 11/11/23 - 10:58 pm

Boston Police responding to reports of gunfire around 5:15 p.m. found three shell casings at the intersection of Hyde Park Avenue and Dana Avenue, possibly after two guys got into an argument.

By adamg - 10/31/23 - 12:19 pm
Rendering of 931 Hyde Park Avenue

Drone's eye rendering of 931 Hyde Park Ave.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to turn the long closed Serino's pasta plant at 931 Hyde Park Ave., across from the America's Food Basket strip mall, into a new home for Gourmet Caterers, which currently does catering out of space on Washington Street in Forest Hills. Read more.

By adamg - 10/22/23 - 1:41 pm

Update: Ye unobservant ed somehow completely forgot about the America's Food Basket-adjacent Dunk's!

Via the Hyde Park Facebook group comes news that the Dunkin' Donuts across from the 7/11 (where the Store 24 used to be) on Hyde Park Avenue is closing for renovations (i.e., Scandinavian design and those frou-frou coffee taps) tomorrow,

Fortunately, there's another Dunk's just up Hyde Park Avenue, less than a mile away, in the America's Food Basket strip mall.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 7:53 pm
Plan for property showing the old oak tree

Plan submitted to zoning board by the developer last year shows the old oak tree in the upper right.

The oak tree

Residents say the BPDA has jumped into a battle - in which it's yet to take sides - to save 72 Hyde Park Ave., across from the Forest Hills station parking lot, where a developer who tore down a two-family house to replace it with a six-unit building has hired a tree service to take it down. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/23 - 8:43 am
Seized drugs and cash

Seized drugs and cash.

A Roslindale man was one of three people arrested this week on drug charges following an investigation into drug dealing in Randolph, police say. Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 6:35 pm
Two damaged cars on Desteafano Road

Two of the damaged vehicles.

A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint this afternoon imploring the city to do something about all the reckless speeders on Hyde Park Avenue between Cummins Highway and Blakemore Road in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/23 - 9:14 pm

Public Coffee, 182 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, announced today it's shutting down on Saturday. It opened (with protests) in February.

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 10:30 pm

WFXT reports on a crash involving Mayor Wu's city Mustang EV and another car on Hyde Park Avenue at Blakemore Street in Roslindale this afternoon. WCVB reports no major injuries.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 11:21 pm
Tori Japan location in Hyde Park

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Tori Japan permission to move into the space where Crab du Jour replaced the Pizza Hut that replaced the Taco Bell, in the America's Food Basket mini-mall at at 950 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park. Read more.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 9:58 am
JJ Foley's Fireside Tavern being torn down

Jesse Kanson-Benanav watched this morning as the old J.J. Foley's Fireside Tavern in Forest Hills disappeared this morning, a little more than a year after it closed. It's being replaced by a four-story, nine-unit residential building.

By adamg - 2/11/23 - 11:15 am
Protesters outside the new Public Coffee Co. on Hyde Park Avenue, who say the place is transphobic and homophobic

Public Coffee Co., 182 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, affiliated with a Wesleyan start-up church, held its official grand opening this morning - with several people standing outside protesting Wesleyan positions on LGBTQ people and abortion. Read more.

By adamg - 2/9/23 - 9:56 am

Two weeks after one developer said it wanted to change its proposed apartment building on Fairmount Avenue in Hyde Park to condos because of the current economy, another developer has filed a request to change a proposed condo building on Hyde Park Avenue from condos to apartments due to the current economy. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/23 - 2:01 pm

The US Attorney's office reports that four current and former Boston Police officers and supervisors at the department evidence warehouse in Hyde Park have had a new charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud added to their existing charges related to an alleged scheme in which the supervisors approved payments for overtime the officers did not actually work. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/23 - 12:44 pm

A man who says he was just chilling one night at Cavan Cafe, 1406 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, when an entire family lined up, rushed him and beat him up, leaving him with two broken eye sockets and two broken ribs on Oct. 1, police, the Cavan's bartender and the victim himself told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/23 - 9:51 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the reason for the appearance of construction equipment and fencing outside the former JJ Foley's Fireside Tavern on Hyde Park Avenue is so a developer can begin work to put up a four-story, nine-unit apartment building. Read more.

By adamg - 1/19/23 - 9:50 am

Boston Police report arresting a Hyde Park man yesterday on charges he shot somebody on Hyde Park Avenue at the Father Hart Bridge around 4:20 p.m. on Dec. 2. Read more.

By adamg - 1/18/23 - 2:40 pm
One of the seized guns and bullets

Photo of one of the seized guns by BPD.

Boston Police report gang-unit officers looking for suspects for a series of violent crimes in Hyde Park arrested five people and seized three loaded guns outside the Hyde Park Avenue 7-Eleven early Tuesday morning. Read more.

By adamg - 12/22/22 - 9:46 am

Boston Police report arresting two men from Malden and one from Everett following an armed robbery on Hyde Park Avenue, near Neponset Avenue, in Roslindale, early Wednesday. Read more.

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