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By adamg - 5/23/20 - 10:51 am

Boston Police report a man ordered out of a car during a traffic stop at Centre Street and Columbus Avenue Friday afternoon had an unloaded gun in his pants. Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/20 - 11:30 pm

Two men were shot at Centre and Lamartine streets around 10 p.m., according to Stanley Staco and Mark Parkinson, who reports one died. Read more.

By adamg - 4/18/20 - 9:00 pm

Update: Victim is 16.

Live Boston reports somebody was shot around 7:35 p.m. on Walden Street, across from the Stop & Shop parking lot.

On Thursday, a man was shot repeatedly on Walden Street in the Mildred Hailey Apartments.

By adamg - 4/11/20 - 10:03 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 14-year-old on Friday for robbing a 13-year-old of his bicycle on Centre Street in front of the Jackson Square Stop & Shop on Tuesday after officers spotted him riding the distinctive red-and-black bike a few blocks away on Mozart Street at Chestnut Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/20 - 9:10 am

Live Boston reports somebody was shot at Centre and Lamartine streets around 2 a.m.

By adamg - 2/4/20 - 11:42 pm

Capt. John Greland at District E-13 in Jamaica Plain reports: Read more.

By adamg - 1/14/20 - 10:46 am
1595-1599 Columbus Avenue rendering

Archictect's rendering.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Urban Edge Housing Corp. for a six-story apartment building in which all the units would be rented as affordable, at 1599 Columbus Ave., just south of Centre Street. Read more.

By adamg - 10/11/19 - 3:50 pm

State Police report they and Boston Police are looking for "a group of around 10 juveniles, ranging in age from elementary-school age to teenager" they say have been attacking people along the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain. Read more.

By adamg - 9/4/19 - 12:20 pm
Beast

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say indecently attacked a woman around 2:30 pm. on Aug. 9 at Jackson Square - and was spotted leaving the train at Forest Hills and boarding a 30 bus.

If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.

By adamg - 8/15/19 - 10:10 am

Boston Police report arresting two men, one from Jamaica Plain and one from Roxbury, who engaged in a shootout across Centre Street late Monday night. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/19 - 8:57 am
By adamg - 6/17/19 - 10:05 pm
Boston Police Commissioner William Gross at the scene

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 - 5/14/19 - 9:02 am

Work has started to revive the World's Fair that was an annual street festival along Centre Street in Jamaica Plain until it just disappeared after 2008. Now dubbed the Latin Quarter World's Fair, in honor of the designation of the area from Hyde Square to Jackson Square, it's scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 15. And, yes, there's a GoFundMe page to help pay for putting it on.

By adamg - 3/27/19 - 10:26 am

Jamaica Plain News reports that Jamaica Mi Hungry, which has been running a food truck around Boston, is looking to open a permanent restaurant in the space next to the Jackson Square T stop when the Mooyah burger place went belly up.

By adamg - 2/1/19 - 9:26 pm

Boston Police report arresting Abdirahman Abdi, 25, of Brockton, on charges he shot another man during a robbery at Columbus Avenue and Ritchie Street around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/18 - 10:05 pm

City Councilor Kim Janey (Roxbury) reports on a big problem for the residents of the 202 apartments at Academy Homes along Columbus Avenue: Read more.

By adamg - 11/23/18 - 9:00 pm

Boston firefighters responded around 8:50 p.m. to 279 Centre St. for a fire in an apartment on the fourth floor of an eight-story Hailey Apartments building. The sprinklers turned on and firefighters were able to quickly knock down the fire.

By adamg - 11/11/18 - 4:08 pm
Mooyah closed

Mooyah, next to the Jackson Square T stop, looks to be an Ex-yah now. Not only was it closed this afternoon, it's been stricken from the Mooyah Web site.

The outlet opened a little more than a year ago, several months after the second Grass Fed, in Forest Hills, closed. The original Grass Fed, on Centre Street, got a new owner, but has itself been closed for several months.

By adamg - 10/16/18 - 8:15 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the demise of Meatland in Jackson Square after 60 years. Hyde Square Main Street is looking for somebody who might want to reopen Meatland, which once inspired a font.

By adamg - 7/25/18 - 10:35 pm
Weird sign at the Jackson Square Orange Line stop

Jed Hresko captured this sign at Jackson Square this evening. Was it frustrated at all the attention area highway signs are getting, but just couldn't sum it all up in 40 characters?

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