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Man found shot in the throat on Blue Hill Avenue at Glenway Street in Dorchester

By adamg - 8/26/23 - 9:08 pm

A man who may have been shot on Glenway Street got to Blue Hill Avenue, where police found him around 8:50 p.m. Read more.

Mass shooting on Talbot Avenue this morning, but police say it had nothing to do with Carnival

By adamg - 8/26/23 - 8:29 am

Update: One of the victims was also one of the shooters police say.

Eight people were shot on Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue around 7:45 a.m. as the Jouvert parade, part of the day's Carnival celebration, was passing by. Read more.

City overhaul of Blue Hill Avenue could mean end of street parking in front of churches

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:47 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.

Beware hollow sidewalks: Woman plunges ten feet through one outside Grove Hall church

By adamg - 8/20/23 - 2:07 pm
The hole the woman fell through

BFD photo of collapsed hollow sidewalk.

The Boston Fire Department reports a person fell through a hollow sidewalk outside the Bethlehem Healing Temple Church at 428 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall around 11 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

Disabled artist gets down on knees and crawls across Mattapan Square to highlight the difficulties the disabled face at many Boston intersections

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 8:49 am

The Dorchester Reporter profiles Ellice Patterson, an artist in residence at the Boston Transportation Department whose crawl was "aimed at opening eyes about the challenges within the ongoing Mattapan Square Transportation Action Plan." It took her 45 minutes to almost circumnavigate the complex intersection.

Developer proposes 36 apartments in three buildings on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury

By adamg - 8/17/23 - 12:40 pm
Rendeirng of two of three proposed buildings on Blue Hill Avenue

Rendering by Carlos Medina Lora.

A developer has proposed replacing a couple of parking lots and a "dilapidated" former storefront church that was once home to Packy Connors on Blue Hill Avenue at Southwood Street in Roxbury with three four-story apartment buildings. Read more.

Man shot to death in Grove Hall

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 11:46 pm

Victim identified as Jackson Beausejour, 33, of Mattapan.

A man in his 30s was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Washington Street in Grove Hall around 7:45 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.

Boston murders in 2023.

Blue Hill Avenue could get late-night chimis and mofongo

By adamg - 7/19/23 - 12:23 pm

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let D'Buly Chimis, 1151 Blue Hill Ave., near Morton Street, extend its closing hour from the current 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 3 a.m. Friday through Sunday. Read more.

15-year-old was hanging out on Blue Hill Avenue with a loaded gun, police say

By adamg - 7/17/23 - 12:08 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old they say was packing "a Taurus Spectrum 380 with six rounds in the magazine" Sunday evening. Read more.

Court upholds convictions in 2007 Dorchester gang murder even though one juror didn't think it mattered she had a relative behind bars and in a gang

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 1:21 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the second-degree murder convictions of three men for beating and stabbing a teenager to death at Blue Hill Avenue and Wilcock Street in 2007, rejecting arguments that a juror who answered "no" to questions about relatives involved in criminal cases or the court system meant the three couldn't get a fair trial. Read more.

Three teens shoot T bus driver with BB guns in Mattapan, police say

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:11 am

Transit Police report that when a Route 28 driver stopped to pick up three teens outside the BPL branch on Blue Hill Avenue around 1 a.m. on Monday, they whipped out pellet guns and began shooting the driver.

Despite their close range, the three did not injure the driver, police say, adding they then ran away.

Man with a limp goes up to woman about to enter church in Roxbury, rips chain off her neck that has her late husband's wedding band, police say

By adamg - 6/3/23 - 11:03 am
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a limping guy they say robbed a woman about to enter the Zion Apostolic Church, 241 Blue Hill Ave. in Roxbury, last Sunday. Read more.

Boston plans to speed up measures to slow drivers down

By Oliver Blake - 5/24/23 - 11:03 am
Speed hump on Evans Street in Mattapan

Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

Man trying to shoot somebody shoots himself instead, police say

By adamg - 5/15/23 - 11:55 am

Live Boston reports BPD officers and state troopers responding to a gunfire call at Blue Hill Avenue and Angell Street Friday night found a man with a fresh gunshot wound to his hand. Their investigation showed the man was apparently trying to shoot somebody else, but wound up sending a bullet through his own hand instead.

Two sliced in the neck on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury

By adamg - 3/8/23 - 9:23 am

Boston Police report two men were sliced in the neck at 189 Blue Hill Ave. around 2:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

Two-alarm Mattapan fire displaces eight, injures one

By adamg - 2/19/23 - 10:37 am
Fire on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to what turned into a two-alarm fire at 1553 Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

Fancy barbecue place on Blue Hill Avenue that never actually opened could be replaced by a Dominican restaurant and function room

By adamg - 2/2/23 - 1:29 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a proposed restaurant at 879-881 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester that would feature Dominican and Spanish food in a large space with 240 total seats, including in a lounge and a function room. Read more.

Part of Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury shut due to gas leak

By adamg - 2/1/23 - 9:48 pm

Blue Hill Avenue between Moreland and Dudley streets is shut so National Grid can plug a gas leak.

Group of teens attack another group of teens and a window on a T bus with bricks; two injured, windows smashed, police say

By adamg - 1/27/23 - 12:45 pm
Smashed bus window

Smashed bus window. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that one group of teens attacked another group unprovoked on a bus at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road around 3:30 p.m. Read more.

Police: Man was speeding down Blue Hill Avenue with a loaded assault rifle, a loaded handgun, a pound of pot and a bunch of counterfeit credit cards

By adamg - 1/16/23 - 11:41 pm

State Police report arresting a man on a variety of charges following a search that lasted several hours after he ran away from a traffic stop on Blue Hill Avenue at McLellan Street around 3 a.m. Read more.

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