Dudley Square

Firetruck hits car in Dudley Square

adamg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:04:01 -0400

Around 11:30 p.m., Wednesday, at Warren and Moreland streets. A witness reports the truck was headed outbound, the car crossing from Moreland, was hit on the right side, spun around, its trunk hit a light pole. No word on injuries.

Opening a time capsule in Roxbury

adamg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:48:47 -0400

State Rep. Byron Rushing holds up a 1922 newspaper. Photo by Third Decade.

Third Decade reports on what was inside a 1922 time capsule opened today at the Ferdinand building in Dudley Square:

... The Mayor and Rep. Rushing pulled out copies of the Boston Evening Transcript and the Boston Post, furniture advertisements from Ferdinand's Blue Store, and a list of employees from Ferdinand's Blue Store. ...

Next up: Figuring out what to put in a new time capsule.

Blue Store, rusty sign

adamg — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:52:09 -0400

Third Decade attended the official start of Ferdinand Building renovations in Dudley Square.

Goin' down Dudley

adamg — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:07:01 -0400

Third Decade posts a video of interviews of people who remember when Dudley Square was a "downtown" and when the area had much better public transportation than it does today:

... It would be great if the neighborhoods between Dudley Square and Downtown Boston could coalesce to demand improved public transportation from the MBTA in the same way that Somerville and Medford are doing. ...

Low-cost broadband in Roxbury, Dorchester

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:11:26 -0400

Well, Grove Hall and Dudley Square, at any rate: $9.95 a month for wireless access, in the first phase of Tom Menino's citywide wireless effort.

Interesting Dudley Square

adamg — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:00:34 -0400

Miss Von Schtoop has been walking to work through Dudley Square recently:

... Dudley Square is lively in a way that reminds me of some of the places I've seen in the Caribbean & West Indies and visually interesting in an old Boston brick & painted signs way. There are lots of cool faded old painted ads on tucked away walls ...

Dismembering Roxbury

adamg — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:03:25 -0500

Somehow, I missed the Sunday Globe's report from the latest front in the gentrification wars: An entire paean to development on "the other side" of Massachusetts Avenue that only mentions the dreaded R word once, and then in passing.

... It used to be that Massachusetts Avenue acted as a dividing line. But now developers are breaching the bulwark, chasing opportunities in the neighborhood's cheaper -- and more rundown -- real estate, laying foundations for upscale projects in the direction of nearby Dudley Square. ...

Oh, yeah, Dudley Square. The heart of the West South End.

Thankfully, for those of us too busy with just Parade and the comics (oh and City Weekly, of course!) - or for people just parachuting in from Mars, the Weekly Dig is here to dissect the coverage:

... Look what a few $900,000 condos can do to a neighborhood's name - and history! ... We can't wait until somebody decides it's time to rebrand Dudley as D-Square.