On June 10, I posted that a man had been shot at Egleston Pizza on Washington Street in Egleston Square. In fact, he had been stabbed several times on the sidewalk outside and only went into the pizza place to seek help. Read more.
Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 6/18/19 - 7:26 pm
Boston Police report the two men fatally shot at Mozart and Bolton streets last night were Christian Green, 32, of New Bedford and Jose M. Martinez, 34, of Boston.
By adamg - 6/18/19 - 9:38 am
One of the finishing touches for the new Arborway roads at Forest Hills is this monument to Stony Brook, a Charles River tributary that now flows almost entirely underground from Hyde Park to the Charles, as Arborway chronicler Clay Harper shows us.
Earlier:
Stony Brook: Boston's Stygian river.
By adamg - 6/17/19 - 10:05 pm
Police Commissioner Gross and DA Rollins talk to reporters at scene. Photo by Stilluminati.
Two men were shot, one in the head, on Mozart Street at Bolster Street in Jamaica Plain, around 9:55 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/15/19 - 11:43 am
A concerned citizen files a complaint about unleashed dogs at the ball field off Lamartine Street in Jamaica Plain - and not for the reason you might expect: Read more.
By adamg - 6/15/19 - 11:24 am
Nikki T watched as one of the brand spankin' new Orange Line trains barreled through Green Street station this morning. It didn't stop to let anyone enjoy that new-train odor, of course - it was just on a test run getting ready, we hear, for actual service later this summer. Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/19 - 6:05 pm
Faulkner Hospital in 1905.
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain has told the BPDA it will file plans for a 45% increase in the number of its in-patient medical-surgical beds, from the current 171 to 249, by building a new five-story wing. Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/19 - 10:42 pm
Detectives investigate stabbing. Photo by Sean Ryan.
Editor's note: Post updated to reflect fact victim was stabbed, not shot, and that the stabbing happened on the street.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed repeatedly on Washington Street near Columbus Avenue, around 8:25 p.m.
According to police, two men came up to the victim and stabbed him repeatedly. He was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after getting himself into Egleston Pizza to seek help.
By adamg - 6/10/19 - 5:31 pm
For at least the third year in a row, a wood duck is raising a flotilla of wood ducklings at Jamaica Pond.
Last year:
Getting her ducks in a row.
By adamg - 6/5/19 - 11:53 am
Hope Central Church on Seaverns Avenue in Jamaica Plain isn't waiting for the current administration to be voted out: The Religion News Service reports the church has gotten an ink stamp of Tubman's profile and is using it on $20 bills:
"I'm taking such pleasure in this. Mr. Trail of Tears, gone!" laughed Ann Potter, who counts offerings for HCC, as she covered the former president’s face on bill after bill.
By adamg - 6/4/19 - 10:20 pm
Roselynn Rodríguez Manzanet reports:
Please help my little friend, M, find her Mary Pig. She is heartbroken. Last seen on the 39 bus Sunday.
By adamg - 6/3/19 - 10:13 pm
DCR alerts us that from Tuesday until Monday, there'll be "rolling lane closures" along the Riverway, Jamaicaway and Arborway in both directions between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to allow for tree pruning.
State says Shattuck Hospital won't revert to parkland after inpatient programs move to the South End
By adamg - 5/31/19 - 9:41 am
By adamg - 5/29/19 - 11:09 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve Bukhara's move from Centre Street to 3698 Washington St., across from the Forest Hills T stop, in the space where Grass Fed and Tonic briefly used to be. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/19 - 11:05 pm
A man who allegedly used the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their children in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain as his base for selling fentanyl was ordered held without bail pending a detention hearing in US District Court in Boston today. Read more.
By adamg - 5/21/19 - 9:05 pm
Katy Purington got a glimpse of Boston firefighters at Forest Hills station around 7:50 p.m. for what the MBTA called "a mechanical fire" on a train. Read more.
By adamg - 5/20/19 - 12:10 pm
Mark MacGilchrist watched (from a safe distance) the newly infamous Moss Hill Turkey Gang out for a strut in Jamaica Plain this morning.
Over in Newton, Snoofy woke up yesterday to discover she was now sharing her Newton yard with a mama turkey and eight baby turkettes (OK, OK, poults): Read more.
By adamg - 5/20/19 - 9:26 am
Jeff Durham of Codman Square says he's been certified for a spot on the fall ballot for the District 4 (Dorchester and Mattapan with small parts of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale) seat now held by City Council President Andrea Campbell. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/19 - 4:03 pm
A resident of Centre Street in Jamaica Plain (the part that's a continuation of the Arborway) shows us the damage from a driver on the southbound side who plowed through the small field there, smashed into a a fire-alarm box and then took out a hydrant near Louders Lane around 3:30 a.m. - not far from where another driver took out a light pole early one morning in December. Read more.
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