Looks like somebody finally took off the giant top hat in Cleary Square. RighSedRed snapped the newly naked McMullen Building (who knew it had a name?), which is apparently getting prepared for, um, something.
Like the old Mario's/C.F. Donovan's around the corner, it's been vacant since 2007:
Hyde Park suspectsBoston Police report that Diaga, 1276 Hyde Park Ave. in Cleary Square, was held up around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 31 by three men.
One of the suspects then asked the clerk about a clothing item in the store and when the victim went to get the article of clothing, one of the suspects pointed a gun at the victim and instructed the victim to open the cash register. The victim opened the cash register and was then instructed to lie on the ground. The suspects took an undetermined amount of money from the cash register and fled the store before the victim could dial 911.
Anybody with information can contact E-18 detectives at 617-343-5607 or the anonymous tip line at 800-494-TIPS.
The Bulletin reports, for roughly the 67 gazillionth time, that the owner of C.F. Donovan's on Hyde Park Avenue says this time, no, really, he plans to open up, possibly as early as this week - but only for catering.
He didn't say when he would actually open the place up for the retail trade. Meanwhile, Donovan's is sitting on a liquor license while other restaurants in the area that are actually open - notably the Upper Crust and Cristelle's in West Roxbury - can't get a liquor license because the city is plum out of them.
Konteki Kitchen isn't the only new establishment that's opened in recent days in Cleary Square. A couple doors down, the Lala Market is busy with its grand opening - right across the street from the Tedeschi and right around the corner from Isamary and Star Food Market (and not all that far away from the other Tedeschi).
There was an older guy standing outside the Tedeschi on River Street this afternoon wearing yellow sandwich boards. In English and Spanish, they read:
I am a shoplifter!
I am a thief!
I steal!
That's not the kind of thing you see too often, so I asked him if he really was a shoplifter. He said he was and that part of his sentence was an unusual form of community service: Stand outside the Tedeschi with the signs after school for 90 days, as a warning to the kids from the nearby Hyde Park High School who frequent the store.
Beats the stocks, I guess.
The Herald reports nobody was injured when suspected drug dealers fired at officers who had just pulled them over at Gordon and River streets around 8:30 p.m. Channel 4 reports four people were arrrested and that an officer got off one round before they were subdued.
The new Dottie's, which has a new owner who plans on actually using its beer and wine license (who knew it had one?), or C.F. Donovan's, which has been under construction for three years now.
Roving reporter Mike Ball noticed that the best-named pizza place in all of Boston - yes, the Piece of Pizza in Cleary Square - is closed for some kind of work.
Channel 4 reports police are looking for four guys who walked into the Cleary Square Papa Gino's just after 11 p.m. on Saturday and held the place up - right around the corner from the Hyde Park police station. All wore white ski masks; two carried sawed-off shotguns:
Store employees, who were all in their teens, and a manager, were ordered to lay face down on the ground, police said. Workers told police one of the employees was pistol whipped
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