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By adamg - 11/4/24 - 7:57 pm

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.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:47 pm
Vigil participants on Tower Street

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.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 9:58 am
Rendering of proposed new building at Washington and Tower streets

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.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 10:00 pm

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.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 9:38 am

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.

By adamg - 10/12/24 - 3:39 pm

An MBTA bus turning left out of the lower busway at Forest Hills hit a pedestrian shortly before 11:55 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 8/26/24 - 9:57 am

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the simmering battles between the cemetery, which has been limiting public access in recent years and which is now chopping down noticeable numbers of trees, and nearby residents, who note the cemetery, like the less combative Mount Auburn in Cambridge, was started as a "rural garden cemetery" that was both a burial ground and public park. City Councilor Ben Weber is now involved.

By adamg - 7/22/24 - 10:35 pm

The man police say was behind the wheel of a stolen car at the Forest Hills T stop last week who injured two officers in a failed attempt to flee was ordered held without bail today pending a dangerousness hearing on several charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/24 - 8:57 pm
The SUV after it came to a stop

The SUV after it came to a stop. Photo from the upper busway by SW.

Update: Driver arraigned.

Boston Police officers were approaching a 2024 BMW SUV at the parking lot at the Forest Hills MBTA station when the driver tried to flee, running over an officer, who opened fire and hit the driver in the head. Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/24 - 11:02 pm

Victim identifed as Andy Baez Manan, 35, of Boston. He leaves his wife and four children.

A man in a car was shot in the chest on the Arborway near Washington Street in Forest Hills around 10:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/30/24 - 11:50 am
72 Hyde Park Ave. rendering

Rendering by David Choi showing the rear and front views (the right one shows the tree from the front, not the building on fire).

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-unit residential building at 72 Hyde Park Ave. in Forest Hills that preserves a large, 150-year-old oak tree on the site. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 5:26 pm

Transit Police report a 14-year-old-girl told officers she was sexually assaulted and threatened with a knife around 4 p.m. on Monday at Forest Hills. The next day, a teen, too young to be named because of his age, was arrested for the attack, police say.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 11:17 am

At 9:27 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line delays due to a prematurely deceased new Orange Line train at Forest Hills, a day after another new Orange Line train refused to leave Forest Hills.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:25 am
Orange sunrise over Morton Street

Handmaid got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Morton Street and the Arborway in Forest Hills.

Mary Ellen got a good view of those clouds, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 9:52 am

Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.

By adamg - 1/2/24 - 1:02 pm
One side of the clock at Forest Hills is about 10 minutes fast

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about one of the clock faces in the tower at the Forest Hills MBTA station: Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 5:50 pm

A 15-year-old was ordered held for 60 days at her arraignment today on charges she kicked and tripped an 84-year-old man at Forest Hills as she and her pals clowned on him Tuesday night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 11:21 am
Helicopter seen through the trees

Forest Hills awoke today to the sound of a helicopter inching its way up Hyde Park Avenue, and as one 311 reporter complained. "looking into resident back yards." Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 10:36 am

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the MBTA's latest iteration on its plans to turn the Arborway bus yard into a garage able to recharge and maintain the battery-powered buses the T is planning on buying. It's the latest proposal in more than 20 years of proposal for the facility.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 7:53 pm
Plan for property showing the old oak tree

Plan submitted to zoning board by the developer last year shows the old oak tree in the upper right.

The oak tree

Residents say the BPDA has jumped into a battle - in which it's yet to take sides - to save 72 Hyde Park Ave., across from the Forest Hills station parking lot, where a developer who tore down a two-family house to replace it with a six-unit building has hired a tree service to take it down. Read more.

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