Roxbury

Brookline Avenue in Longwood Medical Area would get its first pedestrian bridge in plans for new Dana-Farber cancer hospital

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 1:36 pm

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this week filed a "institutional master plan" for its proposed 14-story hospital where the Joslin Diabetes Center now sits. The 10-year development plan does not have detailed renderings of the new hospital - to be built as part of a new long-term agreement with Beth Israel Medical Center - but it does call for construction of new pedestrian bridges, including one that would span Brookline Avenue from the new building to Dana-Farber's current facilities. Read more.

GPS-enabled watch leads cops to three suspects in Grove Hall barbershop robbery, police say

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 9:40 am

Boston Police report arresting three of the four suspects in the armed holdup of everybody inside Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon. Read more.

Seven charged for hunting and shooting a woman outside a Roxbury McDonald's last November

By adamg - 7/11/24 - 10:08 pm

Seven people face charges for an elaborate scheme that included two cars to hunt down and kill a woman in Roxbury, who, however survived getting shot twice outside the McDonald's at Warren and Dale streets around 8:30 p.m. on Nov 17, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Six robbed by gunmen in Grove Hall barbershop holdup

By adamg - 7/11/24 - 4:55 pm

Update: Three suspects arrested.

Four men in black ski masks and each armed with a gun burst into Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall around 3:50 p.m. and robbed the six people inside. Read more.

Person shot repeatedly on Clifford Street in Roxbury

By adamg - 7/9/24 - 11:35 am

A person was shot several times on Clifford Street at Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury around 1 a.m.

Five cars hit by early morning barrage of gunfire off MLK Boulevard

By adamg - 7/5/24 - 3:27 pm

Someone decided 3:30 a.m. was a good time to repeatedly fire a gun at the intersection of Charlame Street and South Charlame Terrace in Roxbury. Nobody was hit, but at least five cars got fresh bullet holes. Police found eight shell casings at the intersection.

Man shot to death in Ramsay Park

By adamg - 7/5/24 - 9:42 am

Victim identified as Warren Julien, 40, of Jamaica Plain.

Boston Police report a man was shot on the Lenox Street side of Ramsay Park around 1:30 this morning. Read more.

Person shot in front of liquor store on Washington Street in Roxbury

By adamg - 7/2/24 - 10:45 pm

A person was shot in front of Fernandez Liquors at Washington and Cedar streets in Roxbury around 10:05 p.m.

Police found shell casings a block away at Cedar and Juniper streets.

Alleged road rager with a baseball bat sought for Roxbury incident

By adamg - 7/1/24 - 1:29 pm

Wanted woman in white top, yellow pants, with a bat

Photos via BPD.

A possible dispute over a parking spot on Hutchings Street in Roxbury Saturday afternoon ended when one of the combatants came after the other with a baseball bat, Boston Police say. Read more.

Knife-wielding moped thief's tiredness proves his downfall at 4:30 a.m. in Roxbury, police say

By adamg - 6/30/24 - 12:46 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on charges he used a knife to keep possession of the moped he'd just stolen from somebody on Warren Street in Roxbury early Saturday. Read more.

Seven injured in Roxbury porch collapse

By adamg - 6/24/24 - 9:38 am

Where the porch used to be. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports seven people were injured - three seriously enough to require hospitalization - when a porch collapsed at 527 Dudley St. in Roxbury Saturday night.

The department reports a 4x10 section of the third-floor porch gave way around 10:30 p.m., sending people on the porch 12 feet down to the second floor, part of the Fernandez Brothers liquor store.

Early morning street party in Roxbury ends with gunfire, one arrest

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 11:40 am

Boston Police report officers responding to a 911 call about gunfire behind 58 Circuit St. in Roxbury early this morning found a large party going on - and one guy who started walking away from the celebrations while clutching his hoodie pocket when they arrived. Read more.

Scorcha

By adamg - 6/18/24 - 9:45 am

Handmaid hoped to see some brilliantly colored clouds at daybreak in Franklin Park, but instead got a sign it's time to try to stay cool for the next few days. She quotes Laurie Anderson: Read more.

Roxbury woman survives deer crash in Braintree, gets out, is killed when another driver swerves to avoid her car and slams into her, State Police say

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:17 pm

State Police report a Roxbury woman standing in the breakdown lane of Rte. 3 north in Braintree after the driver of the RAV 4 she was in hit a deer in the right lane died when the driver of another vehicle swerved into the breakdown lane to avoid the stopped car and hit her early Sunday. Read more.

Stochastic terrorism: Children's Hospital blames Libs of TikTok for the bomb threat a mentally ill woman called in; says the woman shouldn't get prison time

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 3:53 pm

Update: Sentencing rescheduled for July 18.

Children's Hospital has joined Catherine Leavy's attorney in asking leniency for the Westfield woman when she is sentenced Friday for calling in a hoax bomb threat that forced the lockdown of the hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area in 2022 - specifically, that she not be ordered to serve any prison time. Read more.

Man who was wanted for 2019 stabbing in Roxbury arrested after he drives by cops with a loaded gun on a scooter in Dorchester, police say

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 11:52 am

Boston Police report arresting a stabbing suspect they thought had fled the country but who apparently returned and was puttering around Dorchester with a handgun loaded with 14 bullets Saturday afternoon. Read more.

Northeastern details plans for $350-million arena replacement, other new buildings

By adamg - 6/15/24 - 9:20 am

New Northeastern arena, rendered by Perkins & Will.

Northeastern University yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposed replacement for Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street and laid out longer-term plans for several new buildings across its campus, including dorms and lab buildings, some 20 stories tall, that could dramatically change the look of one stretch of Huntington Avenue if built. Read more.

An orange start to the day

By adamg - 6/11/24 - 11:16 am

See it larger.

Paul Friedmann got a good view of the sunrise over Boston this morning.

Handmaid watched the sun go up over Franklin Park: Read more.

Boston Police report they are looking for a person they say robbed somebody at 22 Slayton Way between 8 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. on May 27. Read more.