Arx Urban is on track to begin work this spring on a mostly affordable 31-unit apartment building at Washington and Basile streets in Roslindale Square, Benjamin Moll, one of the company's principals, says. Read more.
Dragon Chef with windows papered over today.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a food-serving license for Cliff Richard to open Roslindale Market Kitchen on Washington Street at Basile Street in Roslindale Square, where Dragon Chef used to be. Read more.
Yesterday at the site, where the new jazz club and cafe will go.
The developers now turning a one-story storefront building on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square into a four-story, nine-unit condo building say they are also fitting out the first floor for what would be the neighborhood's first jazz club and a "low-carbohydrate, low-triglyceride" cafe focused on sandwiches made with lettuce wraps instead of bread. Read more.
The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.
Last night, Julia Wean was in the Roslindale Square courtyard, the cute brick patio shared by three restaurants off Birch and Corinth streets, when a new diner waddled in.
Distraction Brewing in Roslindale Square, which announced earlier this month it was closing forever tomorrow and selling its operations to another brewer, announced today that it's staying open. Read more.
Mark Smith watched the storm clouds roll in over Roslindale Square this afternoon (the Municipal Building and the Greater Roslindale medical clinic building in the lower left).
Jimmies, which closed in January, could soon be replaced by a new outlet serving New Zealand ice cream - soft serve with fresh fruit mixed in. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday issued a warning to Napper Tandy's, 4187-4195 Washington St. in Roslindale, for a Dec. 5 incident in which two guys playing pool went into a men's room that was supposed to be closed to snort some coke, then came out and collapsed to the floor - one as EMTs and firefighters were already on hand to help the other - because their powder turned out to be laced with fentanyl. Read more.
GBH takes us on a tour of the Thrift Shop of Boston, now on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square, which has been around since 1926.
Update: WHDH reports the person died.
A person on a moped suffered serious head trauma in a crash with a motor vehicle outside the Target store on Washington Street in Roslindale shortly before 7 p.m.
Washington Street was shut so first responders could tend to and then transport the victim while detectives investigated the crash.
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
A Dedham developer has filed plans with the BPDA to raze a medical office and a house to put up 15 condos at 55-57 Belgrade Ave., between St. Nectarios Church and a 31-unit apartment building now under construction where the Folsom Funeral Home used to be. Read more.
WBUR reports the role Futura Productions in Roslindale Square (at the top of the building where Distraction Brewing is) played in the production of A Gentleman of Istanbul, which is up for a Grammy tonight for best engineered classical album. Read more.
Roslindale Village Main Street reports it's cancelled the Winter Farmers Market scheduled for Sunday morning because of the forecast snow.
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CaptainRedblood used the Windows program for an homage to Birch Street Bistro, a now closed boite on, yes, Birch Street in Roslindale Square (and as you can see, it was across the street from a mural that is an homage to the street's name).
A billing clerk at the Greater Roslindale Medical and Dental Center today sued Boston Medical Center, with which the Roslindale facility is affiliated, for firing her in 2021 after she refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Lina Ghantous permission to start selling beer and wine at her Welcome Buddy convenience store at 4196 Washington St. in Roslindale. Read more.
Erica Fletcher reports Boston police and firefighters had their work cut out for them this afternoon trying to untangle two cars that careened together at the oddball intersection of Washington Street with itself and South Street at the tip of Adams Park - and dealing with the resulting traffic nightmare at the start of the afternoon rush. Read more.
The Boston Transportation Department has proposed installing parking meters along the streets of Roslindale Square as a way to help remove the area's current parking lampreys, who suck up spaces for hours at a time as they commute downtown or wherever, making it harder for people who want to actually visit the square's stores and restaurants to find a space. Read more.
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