The Dorchester Reporter reports Mayor Walsh will be moving from Savin Hill to Dorchester Lower Mills.
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Well from that new home he
By anon
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 1:18am
Well from that new home he certainly isn't going to become the mayor who rides the T
Why not?
By adamg
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 7:14am
Only a short walk from the Mattapan Line ...
there goes the neighborhood...
By teric
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 7:55am
...and what a great neighborhood it is and will continue to be.
congrats to the mayuh.
recommending Flat Black in the am and Ice Cream Smith on the way home and streamline for funky shopping in between..
ugh, though
By bibliotequetres...
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 8:38am
I lived in Lower Mills without a car, and catching the Mattapan Trolley could take forever, outside of rush hour. Unless the weather sucked, I was better off walking the mile from Ashmont.
I moved out of Lower Mills not long after the track repair project in 2004/5 started, so maybe this problem has been addressed with aggressive tree trimming, but branches and trees fell across the tracks pretty regularly back then. And because none of the stations were manned or had any notification system at that time, sitting on the bench at the Milton T stop, wondering if I should roll the dice and start walking, featured regularly in my commute.
Lower Mills is a great neighborhood, with lots of green space, a good farmers market, wonderful neighbors. But I also experienced more intense street harassment there than any other neighborhood I've lived in Boston. I was in school at night, and often was walking home from Ashmont sometime between 10:00 and midnight, just as the Lower Mills Pub (and Donovans, though that was rarely a problem) was in full swing. I don't know what it was exactly about those particular local drunks that made them extra surly when I'd pass without hooking up with them, but they could quickly become threatening. If I was lost in thought and forgot to cross the street at the corner in front of the Common Ground-- which was inconvenient-- it was like running a gauntlet of blueballed assholery on the corner of Adams & Dot.
Yech. Good times.
Good news - most of what you
By Bob Murphy
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 9:28pm
Good news - most of what you mentioned is not a problem now ( and hasn't been since soon after you left). I took the mattapan line from butler regularly from 2010 through last year and the branch issue was never a problem, so the mattapan line is only as terrible as the rest of the T....which is, of course, pretty terrible. And the Lower mills pub is closed and re opening as a new bar/restaurant, but hopefully a better one (could it be worse?). Even the kind of creepy Common Ground is no more - it's now a breakfast/lunch place, and a decent one at that. I think the mayor will like it there.
He lives a minute from the Savin Hill T
By anon
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 9:40am
But he never uses the T as far as I and other local residents are aware. I seriously doubt he will use Butler Station.
He lives a whole 500 feet
By tape
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 11:09am
He lives a whole 500 feet from a T stop now and never uses it.
There's a trolley stop on
By Lmo
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 2:36pm
There's a trolley stop on Butler St.
Awww.....
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 2:27am
Kingmaker? More like the Royal Fool. I would love to gift the happy couple a nice defeat of the Olympics. I wonder what extravagant housewarming gift the mail clerk at Suffolk Construction will be giving our First Couple?
There is one person that despises Walsh more than you
By bulgingbuick
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 8:24am
dvdoff. John Fish.
What do you mean?
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 12:04pm
I hear Fish loves his pets! Or is it because money can't buy brains?
Pulling the wagons into a circle?
By anon
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 8:39am
I have a feeling the king making phase may have passed its expiration date.
Here are some of the area bands Sub Pop bled money on due to this kingmaking skill.
1. Six Finger Satellite: https://youtu.be/hPH9yscPo0g
2. Combustible Edison: https://youtu.be/qdVHFf0BuGk
3. Come: https://youtu.be/goocRtNn6c0
There was nothing inherently wrong with any of these bands other than that they were not widely embraced by the music market at a time when Sub Pop really needed hits.
The ensuing fracas between the original Sub Pop employees and this Boston auslander came to a head shortly after I moved there. Poneman and Pavitt backed Joyce and fired their long standing original staff who didn't.
But it wasn't long before the label faded and Joyce ended up back here. She'll get lucky but the luck leaves her. Elizabeth Warren was her big score. Marty is a strange foist.
Warren is an empty suit PR creation
By Markk02474
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 12:56pm
Any time a reporter tries to ask her a question on a topic not on the agenda that she has been rehearsed, her people brush them off. Happens over and over again. No matter what side they are on, I respect politicians (more) who are informed and can speak on most any topic without preparation. Warren is not one of them. Even if there were not a Hilary, Warren running would be a failure.
I called Warren's office to discuss H1B visas
By moxie
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 1:28pm
Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle.. I mean the US Senate were looking to triple the number of new tech visas from the current annual 65K. Because as we all know, Americans just can't do that cody linuxy techy thingy.
It was like an Abbott and Costello who's on first routine.
Me: "I'm calling because I'm concerned about the Senate potentially increasing the number of H1B visas offered annually..."
Flack: "The Senator supports comprehensive immigration reform."
Me: "Is the Senator familiar with the H1B visa program and its impact on American tech workers."
Flack: "The Senator supports comprehensive immigration reform, including the H and Bee visa program."
Me: "Does Senator Warren support increasing the number of H1B visas offered annually?"
Flack: "The Senator supports comprehensive immigration reform."
There's no there there, believe me.
Maybe it's endemic to the field.
By anon
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 5:07pm
You have employers who are mainly a bunch of libertarian assholes and employees who are mainly libertarian assholes.
For the employers, it's great, because you'll never organize into something like a union to lobby for your interests, you'd rather be a bunch of isolated pipsqueaks whinging in the dark.
All Warren's people were telling you is you have no clout compared with the lobbying power of an entire industry.
If you have the right skill specs, you don't have to worry. Hell, my friend's kid was just scooped up by MITRE while he's only in his second year at WPI. He had a regular bidding war going.
And we have the two minute hate.
By dmcboston
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 9:55am
That didn't take long.
I wish the mayor good luck with his new house.
Now, now...
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 10:40am
Hate is too strong an emotion to waste on that idiot and his crew of morons. The sad part is Linehan thinks she will go on to have a career in politics when more than likely she'll end up managing a Newbury Comics. At the very least she achieved her goal of booking big time with all those City Hall concerts.
Then again, given that incompetence is so often rewarded in politics, I could be wrong about Linehan.
A great neighborhood
By anon
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 8:28am
Lower Mills is a beautiful diverse neighborhood with two beautiful parks Dorchester and the bike trail adjacent to the historic trolley line. The village at Lower Mills has excellent shops and eating establishments.
I am sure his neighbors in Savin Hill will miss him but they won't miss the protestors and other crazies that disrupted the neighbors on Tuttle street. It will be interesting to see if Marty takes the T to work along with the seventh graders come September.
Straight up Dot Ave
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 10:20am
A Bike Route for Mayah Mahty
If he really is doing even one day of the Pan Mass this year, this relatively flat route should be a piece of cake!
not exactly a problem.
By tape
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 11:17am
You say this like there are people there 24/7. I've never personally seen anything happen at his house, and I can only recall hearing of one actual disturbance since the election. The high school across the street is probably more disruptive.
That house is across the
By anon
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 9:35am
That house is across the street from Suzanne Bump's.
I thought Suzanne Bump lived in Great Barrington?
By O-FISH-L
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 12:10pm
At least that's where she registers her car. Cheaper insurance than Boston.
Five years ago
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 12:54pm
It also says that she has a condo in South Boston, not Dorchester.
Sounds like the information in that link isn't up to date.
So, while she was gaming the system earlier (and should have paid the taxes she owed in Boston) she may not be currently be cheating.
Sigh
By The Frying Pan ...
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 2:55pm
There goes a great neighborhood.
good luck marty
By bostnkid
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 5:16pm
nice house. the schools suck.
Smartest move he's made to
By DotDefender
Sat, 07/25/2015 - 6:31pm
Smartest move he's made to date....great neighborhood he will be welcomed with open arms.
Inside the house
By adamg
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 1:53pm
John Keith posts some photos.
Lower Mills Olympic Venue
By DapperO
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 4:42pm
I hear that the Cedar Grove Cemetery is in talks to build the Velodrome at the Butler Street end of their property.
Marty's hackerama house
By Cyclistsmustdie
Sun, 07/26/2015 - 6:09pm
The house Marty bought has a deep hack heritage. For the last forty years it has been owned by the O'Toole Family. The old man , Ben, worked for Amtrak. After Felon Finneran was elected (a close friend and neighbor) 50% of the family went to work for the MBTA. One brother, Frannie, died of suspicious causes while working as a Motorman/guard on the Blue Line. Another brother, Michael< was a lighting engineer (I'm Not Kidding ) on the RedLine. He could frequently be found at 11pm begging for coke at JJ Foleys. His number came up and he was caught and fired. Before the ink was dry he got himself job as a court officer. He was forced to resign the Court officer job when the entire scandal saw the light of day.Marty, the epitome of the hackerama, deserves this house. Let's hop[e the Karma bites him right in his drunk ass
cyclistsmustdie? really?
By greenlinetobrooklyn
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 2:29pm
cyclistsmustdie? really?
hope you're just trying to be ironic.
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