A pair of trombonists worked on their slides while on the homemade slides at the return of the Wake Up the Earth Festival in the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain today. Greg Cook took the photo along with many other photos of both the festival and the parade that proceeded it.
Southwest Corridor Park
By adamg - 8/28/21 - 4:14 pm
Possinger's before and after shots.
Chris Possinger reports:
Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.
By adamg - 2/9/21 - 9:04 am
Matthew Ireland snapped the Pru through the snow-frosted trees of the Southwest Corridor Park at Holyoke Street after the snow stopped on Sunday.
By adamg - 11/6/20 - 11:43 am
State Police report a 15-year-old from Dorchester was shot in the Southwest Corridor Park in the area of Prentiss and Albert streets around 11:25 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/4/19 - 8:14 pm
The rain mostly held off for Spontaneous Celebrations's annual Wake the Earth festival on the Southwest Corridor in Jamaica Plain today, although the fields were pretty smushy. Read more.
By adamg - 11/20/18 - 8:58 am
Jamaica Plain News barks out the news that DCR has chosen land along Oakdale Street north of Green Street for a possible dog park.
By adamg - 8/4/18 - 12:09 pm
Largest proposal for land just north of Green Street.
DCR says it has identified three potential spaces for a dog park along its Southwest Corridor land in Jamaica Plain, roughly between the Green Street and Stony Brook Orange Line stops. Read more.
By adamg - 11/9/17 - 9:43 pm
A guy put a gun to a man's chest to make him hand over his wallet, phone and backpack around 8:40 p.m. outside 410 Mass. Ave., kitty-corner from the Orange Line station. Read more.
By adamg - 5/7/16 - 6:17 pm
Parades from both ends of Jamaica Plain converged today, as they do every May, to march to the Southwest Corridor for the neighborhood's annual Wake Up the Earth festival in front of Stony Brook station, where residents converged for arts, music, progressive politics and all sorts of food and stuff to buy - as well as the usual ad-hoc slide for kids down one hillside.
J.S. Hummel spotted some of the many musicians in the parade: Read more.
By adamg - 9/15/15 - 8:50 pm
- Collin Fedor (@collinfedor) Sept 16, 2015
Collin Fedor thought they were great, wonders if anybody knows who they are.
By adamg - 7/13/15 - 10:07 pm
Around 8 p.m., BPD officers tried to stop a car in the area of McBride Street in Jamaica Plain as part of a drug investigation. Seems the driver didn't want to be stopped, so he took off, with officers in pursuit. Just as a supervisor was about to call off the search, officers managed to box the car in near English High School.
They collared one of the cars occupants, but another took off down through the Southwest Corridor Park. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/14 - 5:03 pm
Boston Police report arresting Robert Christopher Baker, 28, of Livermore, CA, for last night's attack on the Southwest Corridor near English High School, in which he allegedly knocked an elderly woman off her bike and stole hner iPhone.
By adamg - 5/8/14 - 9:36 am
Transit Police report a man was sitting on a park bench in the Southwest Corridor near Ruggles around 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday when another man swooped in and " forcefully grabbed his money and fled."
Police report the victim wasn't putting up with that sort of nonsense and ran after the money grabber. And caught up with him in the Ruggles lower busway, where other people noticed the two getting into what appeared to be a rather heated argument and called police.
By adamg - 2/20/14 - 9:23 am
The Boston Cyclists Union reports DCR hopes to hold a forum on a review of the department's ice-removal policies for bicycle paths, last updated in 2006.
A DCR spokesman noted the number of bicyclists on state-owned paths, such as along the Southwest Corridor, has increased since then and that the state recognizes "the commitment" of year-round bicyclists.
By adamg - 2/18/14 - 5:45 pm
A number of bicycling groups are reacting to an e-mail exchange over the Southwest Corridor bike lane with by asking why major bike lanes aren't given the same clearing priority as roads.
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