Benjamin captured by surveillance cameras at Downtown Crossing and at JP store.
A federal judge last week sentenced Royal Benjamin, 64, to five years in prison for robbing a phone store at gunpoint in Jamaica Plain last year - after the clerk refused to buy the two pairs of new Puma sneakers Benjamin carried in, which he'd acquired by robbing somebody at the Downtown Crossing T station. Read more.
Science IRL explains the ginormous Osage oranges (which are not actual oranges) that litter the ground at the Arboretum, waiting, like Puff for little Jackie Paper, for woolly mammoths that will never come again: Read more.
Three men with a knife robbed a man of his phone on South Huntington Avenue at Craftson Way outside the EnVision hotel turned shelter in Jamaica Plain around 9:05 p.m. Read more.
The view from the north side of Jamaica Pond to the south after the sun went down this evening.
Have plans on Sunday morning that involve going north or south through JP, east or west across JP? That’s great! The Arborway, Jamaicaway and part of the Riverway are closed for the B.A.A. Half Marathon from roughly 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM, with much of Franklin Park’s Circuit Drive shut too. Goofus and Gallant have been here before.
A person was stabbed in the throat in a field on the upper-busway side of the Forest Hills T station, where Washington Street crosses the Arborway to become South Street, around 4:20 p.m. Read more.
Black void at the bottom is really a hollowed out trunk. See it larger.
The old leaning tree on the Pond Street side of Jamaica Pond didn't seem like it would make it this year - the crack in its trunk widened into a mini-cavern with enough space to support several families of squirrels and it tipped even more down toward the water, enough so that you could no longer use its outer branches to gauge just full the pond was. Read more.
A tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond, with the still green willow on the pond's one island, this afternoon.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request by Galway House owner Edward Lanzillo to sell the Centre Street landmark to 12-year employee Albi Gjura, who says he is planning absolutely no changes.
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Jessi Murder-y spotted this family that storrows together at yesterday's annual canine costume parade in Jamaica Plain.
Last year:
Roslindale's first storrowing.
New Flora Way sign at intersection with Walter Street.
Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents gathered with city and Harvard officials yesterday to dedicate the new name of the street that bisects the Arnold Arboretum, in honor of an enslaved woman who lived nearby. Read more.
MassLive.com details the allegations against now suspended BPD officer Richard McDermott and BPHC security guard Luigi D’Addieco on charges they turned the basement of the storefront at 360B Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, which they'd originally leased to run an HVAC business, into an illegal nightclub. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News lobs the story over the net: Three new pickleball courts are now available at English High School, possibly ending the crisis at the South Street courts, which had seen pickleballers take over space from both tennis and basketball players.
Eric Esteves was among those calling for immediate action tonight to prevent more pedestrian fatalities around the Forest Hills MBTA station, following the Oct. 12 death of Glenn Inghram as he crossed Washington Street and was hit by an MBTA bus.
The vigil was held on Tower Street at Washington, near where Ingrahm was fatally hit.
Rendering by Helicon Design Group.
A developer is circulating plans to replace the one-story building that now houses Forest Hills Pizza at Washington and Tower streets in Jamaica Plain with a six-story, 35-unit residential building with retail space on the ground floor. Read more.
Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.
The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.
Centre Street at Allandale Street in front of the main entrance to Faulkner Hospital was shut and large parts of Jamaica Plain lost water after a Boston Water and Sewer Commision main burst around 5 p.m. Read more.
Victim identified as Braulio Castillo, 25, of Jamaica Plain.
Boston Police report a man was shot at South Huntington Avenue and Craftson Way in Jamaica Plain around 9:35 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a judge's ruling that Boston Public Schools owe nothing to an English High School student left for dead in a snowbank by an angry English High counselor turned gang leader with a gun. Read more.
Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
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