WFXT reports a school bus and a car collided at River Street and Metropolitan Avenue this morning. No school children were on the bus.
Hyde Park
By adamg - 10/4/19 - 1:45 pm
A Hyde Park home builder is looking to replace four two-family homes it put up in 2004 and rented out on Fairmount Avenue with a four-story, 47-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/19 - 10:39 pm
Block on the chopping block.
Two developers are looking to buy the most of the block where Dempsey's bar used to be on River Street in Hyde Park and turn it into a four-story building with 48 condos and a corner store, possibly a coffeehouse. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/19 - 10:18 pm
Architect's rendering. Business Street and train station to left, River Street to right.
A local developer is proposing to raze the recently closed Junior's Automotive at River and Business streets and replace it with a five-story, 32-unit residential building with room for a coffee shop and 19 parking spaces in the ground floor. Read more.
By adamg - 9/27/19 - 9:16 am
MassDOT reports five weeks of overnight repair work on the Father Hart Bridge in Readville begins Sunday night. Read more.
By adamg - 9/25/19 - 1:20 pm
Look at that: Pole for traffic light now in place, at intersection with Hyde Park Avenue.
Workers this week have been busy getting both sides of the Father Hart Bridge in Readville ready for honest-to-goodness traffic signals. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/19 - 3:37 pm
Damaged porches. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters responded to 1932 Hyde Park Ave. in Readville shortly before 3:30 p.m. for a house fire that started on the second floor porch and extended to the third-floor porch and the roof. The fire, in the last house before the road dead ends, was declared knocked down around 3:45 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/19 - 8:47 am
The Globe reports the officer was responding to the McDonald's on Hyde Park Avenue on a report of unruly students from nearby Roxbury Prep refusing to leave; he finally got them out, then allegedly followed them up the street calling them racial slurs.
By adamg - 9/16/19 - 6:18 pm
Restaurant this afternoon, doors locked, but tables and chairs still in place.
Hyde Park Main Streets is confirming a query from Boston Restaurant Talk that the Fairmount Grille on Fairmount Avenue suddenly shut today - even before it was due to open.
The restaurant, which brought "upscale dining at affordable prices" to the neighborhood, replaced Townsend's in 2013, after the landlord changed the locks when the older restaurant stopped paying its rent.
By adamg - 9/16/19 - 2:14 pm
The left wall in the bowling alley at Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling in Hyde Park has featured a large cartoon-like cutout of a guy bowling for several years now. Nancy Glazer Pearl, who does social media for Ron's, found the actual Mike, and his pal Bill, at the lanes the other day.
By adamg - 9/16/19 - 9:17 am
Spotted this morning at the corner of Pierce and Walter streets. Yes, the person who reported it called police and animal control - after trying to calm down her young daughter. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/19 - 8:56 am
The Ward 10 Democrats are hosting a forum for candidates for the District 8 (Fenway, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill) seat that Josh Zakim is giving up, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Tobin School, 40 Smith St. on Mission Hill. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/19 - 11:19 pm
At forum: Arroyo, Farrell, Graham, Murad, Powell, Tuchinetz.
At a candidate forum at the Blue Hills Collaborative tonight, six candidates for the District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) seat being given up by Tim McCarthy agreed in broad strokes on almost everything, differing mainly on the specifics of how they would accomplish their goals on specific topics. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/19 - 4:29 pm
Hyde Park residents living on either side of the George Wright Golf Course are increasingly reporting small marauding packs of overstuffed turkeys are making life increasingly difficult. Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/19 - 9:59 am
Mayor Marty Walsh this week endorsed Annissa Essaibi-George for re-election to one of the four at-large City Council seats up this fall.
In District 5 (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan), at-large Councilor Michelle Wu, who lives in Roslindale, endorsed Ricardo Arroyo for the seat being vacated by district Councilor Tim McCarthy. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/19 - 1:28 pm
WBZ reports a man walked into SK Convenience, 1283 River St. in Hyde Park, shortly after 9 a.m. put a gun to a clerk's head and when she couldn't open a cash register fast enough, threw her to the ground and threatened to kill her - as her five-year-old daughter was in the back of the store, which is around the corner from the E-18 police station.
By adamg - 8/26/19 - 11:56 pm
Bob Lynch, a.k.a., Redlight, vice president of he American Legion Riders Chapter 78 out of the Fogg Roberts Legion post in Hyde Park, snapped some of the scores of motorcycles and riders who gathered Sunday morning at Bose headquarters in Framingham. Read more.
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