Aileen Montour and Gretchen Van Ness, who helped shepherd the project for LGBTQ Senior Housing.
City and state officials joined with the LGBTQ community in Hyde Park today to formally open the new Pryde apartment building, with 74 "LGBTQ-affirming" apartments, the first such affordable building in New England, on the anniversary of the Stonewall riot and 20 years after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Read more.
Boston Animal Care and Control reported tonight that the cow or bull last seen near the Flaming Grill buffet in Roslindale continues to hoof it around the neighborhood. Read more.
OT slip showing he worked four hours one night when he left after two, via US Attorney
A federal judge this week sentenced BPD Sgt. William Baxter to seven months of home confinement, followed by 29 months of probation, for putting in for overtime for hours he did not actually work while in a position at the department evidence warehouse in Hyde Park. Read more.
Update: LoRusso Corp. confirms it conducted a blast shortly after 1 p.m. at its quarry at Grove and Centre Street in West Roxbury.
Reports are coming in from West Roxbury, Hyde Park and right here in the UHub Newsroom (OK, our dining room table) of some weird shaking going on shortly after 1 p.m. Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA for a four-story, 42-unit apartment building on the train-station side of Hyde Park and Dana avenues in Hyde Park. Read more.
A federal judge today sentenced Stephen DeBerardinis to 90 months in federal prison for threatening on Jan. 6, 2021 to carve up an interracial couple and send the pieces to their families - the sentence recommended by prosecutors. Read more.
Fully involved car.
Kelly Davidson captured a car fire and its aftermath at 37 Magee St. in Hyde Park around 6:30 p.m. Read more.
A Hyde Park homeowner and a Cambridge resident last week filed what they hope will be a class-action suit against Eversource for what they charge is constant false advertising and marketing about the supposed environmental and health benefits of natural gas, claims they say are belied by recent scientific studies and even the company's own statements, even if buried away in footnotes in documents most people will never read. Read more.
A Texas developer that wants to build a suburban-style low-rise apartment complex on 14 acres of hillside that a Mattapan church owns off American Legion Highway this week sued both Boston and the BPDA, which has now twice rejected the development proposal as inappropriate for the city. Read more.
MassDOT said this week that it's now looking at, maybe, the end of 2024 to re-open the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square to cars and trucks. The state had originally set a target of roughly right now to re-open the bridge it shut in May, 2022 as unsafe. Read more.
A man was shot at Radcliffe Road and Taunton Avenue around 5:10 p.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.
Some residents living near a church-owned "reading room" in Readville that once served as a BPL branch have gone to court to counter the church's own court court effort to win approval to replace the building with a six-unit apartment building even as the Hyde Park Historical Society is offering to buy the building to keep it a public site. Read more.
Some of the craters Councilor Pepén described on the privately owned Parrott Street in Hyde Park.
After dealing with the issue of Gaza today, Boston city councilors agreed to tackle a more traditional council issue: Potholes, more specifically, the rough shape of the surprising number of private ways the city still has. Read more.
HoofbeatsEqualZebra lives on Fairmount Hill, just perfect to catch all the sound from the train yards and tracks of Readville, including the now infamous 22-minute stuck-on-blast hornshow late in the evening of April 16. He even recorded part of it (only 40 seconds, but for full effect, just let it keep looping for 22 minutes).
A consultant's recorder at the Readville yard used by CSX last year.
Frustrated residents from Readville, Dedham and Milton told the MBTA and state Rep. Rob Consalvo (D-Hyde Park) this evening they are fed up with the overnight vibrations, humming and train horns from Readville's two train yards that they say have especially bedeviled them since 2020. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday granted Las Delicias Colombianas 2, 1231 River St. in Hyde Park, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. until 1 a.m. Read more.
Inside the old library in the 1930s, by W. Jordan, from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.
A Readville church is asking a judge to let it ignore a restriction in the 1897 deed that limits the use of a side building to "a free and public reading room and library" so that it can put up a six-unit apartment building in its place. Read more.
Boston is holding one of its periodic waste-collection events on Saturday, this time at the DPW facility on Dana Avenue in Hyde Park, between 8:30 a.m. and noon. Read more.
Sen. Warren called LGBTQ Senior Housing Executive Director Gretchen Van Ness with the good news today. Read more.
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