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Shot to death at the height of the storm
By adamg on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 2:07pm
Boston Police report finding a black male, 22, shot to death around 3 a.m. today at 35 Hammond St..
It's the latest violent incident on the street:
Two stabbings around the corner from each other in South End 11/22/09.
Man arrested in shooting of anti-violence worker - 8/21/09.
Shot, 7/26/07.
Man stabbed in shoulder, 2/23/07.
Man shot, 10/9/06.
Two people shot, 5/8/06.
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Tagged as South End, but
Tagged as South End, but isn't that Roxbury?
City doesn't think so
Hammond Street has South End resident parking signs. And is 02118.
This comes up every time I write about Hammond Street
And unfortunately, it comes up way too often, because it seems to be a pretty violent place.
For what it's worth, Google Maps says today's address is 02120.
Must've changed
Person I know who lived at 35 Hammond (one of the Roxse buildings) was 02118 a few years ago. I know the South End parking signs are still up. 02120 is Mission Hill AFAIK.
Nope
I live on Hammond, it's Roxbury Crossing 02120
So ... why is it such a violent place?
That's the question I'd like to see addressed here now, rather than which side of a boundary it happens to be on. Whatever label you give it, it's at the edge of Northeastern University's campus.
violent place
There's a public housing project on one half of the street; NU students on the other. There is gang activity in the area. There's also ample open space for loitering on the border of Melnea Cass Boulevard. The project was one of Boston's earliest.
There's also a historical district right near there as well and some great architecture.
Interesting area
I've had a number of friends who've lived at Roxse, as well as families I've worked with. Roxse is interesting because it tends to be more "neighborhoody" than most HUD-assisted housing, as in, a good number of the families work and/or attend college in the area and have long-time friends/family/roots in the area, as opposed to a lot of developments (especially BHA) where people are just assigned there from all over the place and want out as soon as possible.
There's gang activity in the area like another poster said. I don't know enough about these particular gangs to know where they came from and what they're up to.
thanks for the good
thanks for the good conversations about my beautiful neighborhood.
Lots of 90's gangs starting to pick up: Lennox, Cash Ave., Hornets.
Eeka is quite right about the Roxse community, and there is some amazing work being done with open spaces. Once the snow melts, come on over for one of the amazing neighborhood BBQs.
sites to check:
unlr.org
avillageatwork.wordpress.com
bacdesignbuild.blogspot.com
peace in the 02120
Thats Definitely Roxbury!
My understanding is that it is historically called "lower roxbury". The city and property owners want it to be called the South End so they can charge more rent and taxes (higher property values). But it's definitely Roxbury!
~Stu
It's the South End. Melnea
It's the South End. Melnea Cass is the border.
Northampton Street is the border between Roxbury & the South End
That's a cartload of anonymous horseshit.
Northampton Street is the border between Roxbury and the South End.
Arriviste.
Where did you get that idea?
Where did you get that idea? The historical border between Boston and Roxbury at annexation was at about Kendell, a few blocks from Northampton. Since then, there has been no border, just the opinions of residents who were constantly turning over.
I appear to be wrong about the border of Roxbury.
My apologies. I retract my previous, intemperate post.
Pawing around in the online Norman B. Leventhal map collection of the Boston Public Library, it seems that the border of Roxbury, as early as 1832 (also available at the JPHS), was near Hammond Park, one street east of Kendall. Here is an 1867 example. Here is an 1847 map showing roughly the same thing. Caution is still due, because maps of this time also show a good chunk of Back Bay as being Roxbury.
NotWhitey, I believe the answer to your question about this aspect of my Roxbury chauvinism is "Byron Rushing."
NotWhitey, I believe the
That would explain it. Today's Roxbury historians tend to go back to the 1940s as "the old days."
The boundaries
Jonas Prang, thanks for sending us to the maps. The last official boundaries of Roxbury are the the boundaries of the City of Roxbury which are noted when it was annexed to Boston January 6, 1868. Before that there had been several smaller annexations of Roxbury land --mostly marsh and mudflats--to Boston (yes, most of Back Bay before it was filled belonged to Roxbury) . In the area now called Lower Roxbury (even by the residents who support the "South End resident parking" signs) the 1868 boundary is Hammond to Ball to Yeoman streets. Go out to Ball and Washington streets when the snow melts and you can find the remnant of the Boston/Roxbury stone boundary marker.
Byron Rushing & Ball, Yeoman, Hammond & the limits of Roxbury
For you sports fans who only leave their couches by the mode of maps.google, you will fail to find Ball Street, Roxbury, MA, for according to google, Hammond Street has a kink at Shawmut and then continues namelessly out to Washington.
Thank goodness for paper: My handy-dandy Official Arrow (6th edition!) Street Guide to Greater Boston tells that Ball Street extends from 666 Shawmut to 2007 Washington Street. Sometimes the resolution with Street View works to our advantage as it does in the case of Bell Street.
Looking for Yeoman Street? Google does know this one, but its vestigal bit is across the vast divide of Melena Cass.
byronrushing, just for the record, I don't believe you ever instructed me in person about the limits of Roxbury, as I only picked the Northampton bit as folk knowledge from someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it...from you.
Victim identified
Julian Rogers, 22 of Roxbury, Boston Police report.