By adamg - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 1:01pm

Harry's All American, 1420 Centre St. in Roslindale, formally asked the Boston Licensing Board today for one of the 02131-specific alcohol licenses it has to dole out, both because customers keep asking for adult accompaniments for their meals and so it can expand into dinner service. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 11:59am

Edit: Corrected to reflect that Harry's never had any plans to expand into the Kelleher's space.

Boston Restaurant Talk serves up the news that the Boston Licensing Board this week considers a request by Kelleher's Bar and Grille on Centre Street near Weld Street in Roslindale to sell its liquor license to some joint in the Hancock Building, um, 200 Clarendon St., in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 12/07/2024 - 10:17pm

A man was shot in the area of Cohasset and Albano streets in Roslindale around 11:20 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 12/07/2024 - 4:34pm

The view of downtown from the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale at 4:05 this afternoon.

And yes, the Hancock wanted to get in on the act: Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 3:40pm

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.

By adamg - Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:15am

Parents of a student with a learning disability at the Haley Pilot School on American Legion in Roslindale last week sued Boston Public Schools, the company that runs the BPS bus system and two drivers for two incidents in which they say their child was not accompanied by a required school worker on the ride home and then kicked off the bus nowhere near home. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 11/25/2024 - 9:19am

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 743 Hyde Park Ave. in Roslindale for a first-floor fire around 11:15 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 11/24/2024 - 2:18pm

Boston Police report arresting a Taunton man after finding a gun loaded with 17 rounds in his car before they had it towed away from a crash at Poplar and Dale streets in Roslindale early Friday morning. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:30am

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.

By adamg - Sun, 11/17/2024 - 12:23am

Two cars crashed at Washington Street and Archdale Road in Roslindale around 7:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 11:05pm

Boston Police report officers responding to an "officer in trouble" call from Canterbury Street off Walk Hill Street late Friday found the road clogged with more than 100 vehicles - and some party-goers jumping on the pickup of a DYS officer and banging on his windows. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 7:04pm

Update: At 7:36 p.m., the Boston Election Department reported that several precincts across the city had run out of ballots. Department said anybody in line at 8 would be allowed to vote.

Around 5:10 p.m., voting came to a halt at ward 18, precinct 10 at the Bates School in Roslindale: Poll workers had run out of ballots to give to voters. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 7:30pm

The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 10/31/2024 - 5:08pm

The DeMasi-Marx family gathered around their 12-foot Home Depot skeletons this afternoon, before the start of the annual Tyndale Street Halloween fest in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 11:58am

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.

By adamg - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 11:53am

The Globe reports a federal judge yesterday sentenced Stash's owner Stavros Papantoniadis, 49, of Westwood, to 8 1/2 years in federal prison for his conviction in June on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor after a trial that included accounts of him bullying, beating and harassing his workers for years. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 1:01pm

As a reporter, you know you've established a beat when people start e-mailing you tips.

Joseph Zyber is getting e-mail tips, four months after he started writing and publishing Waterman News, a weekly newspaper that covers his home street of Waterman Road in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 10/22/2024 - 10:04am

Guira & Tambora, 4014 Washington St. in Roslindale, is seeking to extend its closing time from 1130 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends to 1 a.m. - and to build an addition to its front to provide takeout.

The city Office of Neighborhood Services is holding a Zoom meeting for nearby residents, staring at 7 p.m., tonight. The proposed changes will need the approval of the Zoning Board of Appeal and the Boston Licensing Board.

By adamg - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 10:27am
Johnson

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.

By adamg - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 2:03pm
George Craan

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.