Coming home from downtown tonight, we saw a rabbit dart across the Jamaicaway (Arborway? Centre Street?) by the Poor Clare Nuns. The thing is, it had the light! Who knew they knew how to press the pedestrian-crossing button?
Miss von Schtoop informs us that Dominic Luberto, the Jamaica Plain guy who lights the way for returning spacecraft during the Christmas season, has put the Castle up for sale:
Single Family Property, Area: Jamaica Plain, Approximately 0.7 acre(s), Lot is 30927 sq. ft., Year Built: 1897, Parking space(s): 4, Swimming pool(s), Basement, Dining room, Laundry room, Hardwood floors
All yours for just $2.2 million.
The Castle in more sedate colors:
Michael Rosado of Hyde Park was ordered held without bail today in connection with a Sept. 26 stabbing at Jamaica Pond.
Rosado, 30, was arraigned in West Roxbury District Court this morrning, after he'd been flown back from Florida, where Boston police and federal marshals arrested him. He pleaded innocent to a charge of stabbing Robert Kelley, Jr., 32, also of Hyde Park, in a drug deal gone bad.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, the two got into an argument during a drug deal shortly after midnight. Rosado pulled out a knife and began stabbing Kelley repeatedly, prosecutors allege:
Lyss files a report from the Jamaicaway, where she visited Domenic Luberto's brighter than bright Castle and yard tonight.
In which Dominic Luberto discusses his light-related charity effort for Children's Hospital; what he does with his lights after Christmas and the bogus story about him and the fireworks. Oh, yes, and he shows off the 10-foot Star of David he's putting up this year.
You'll probably find this exceedingly hard to believe, but Nancy, Greta and I spent some time tonight with Dominic Luberto, the guy who lights up the Jamaicaway between Halloween and January. No, really: He even showed us around his home, a.k.a. the Castle - he's done an amazing job renovating what had been a decaying 8,500-square-foot stone hulk into a showpiece home you'd expect to see on HGTV or something.
Yesterday, Luberto e-mailed me; he wanted to talk.
Ben Ostrander takes a breather from complaining about all the changes on Beacon Street in Brookline (they're making it near impossible for him to get to Anna's Taqueria) to ask:
I would like to know which stretch of contiguous, straight road has the most names in Boston.
I'll put my money on the Route Formerly Known as 1 from the Fenway to 128: Riverway, Jamaicaway, Arborway, Centre Street, VFW Parkway and Providence Highway.
Can't somebody do something before the guy who owns the Arborway Castle does some real damage? Read more.
Thanks to Joye, I rushed over to JP as soon as it got dark tonight. Sure enough, the Castle was all lit up for Christmas. On the one hand, cool! Certainly makes the drive down the Jamaicaway more interesting. On the other hand, um, has anybody looked at the calendar yet?
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