Boston Police report looking for a man they say tried to stab a clerk at the Uphams Corner Market, 521 Columbia Rd., 521 Columbia Road in Dorchester, failed, then whacked him with a Hot Pocket.
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By adamg - 10/23/24 - 9:27 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports several hundred people gathered Sunday at the Old Dorchester North Burial Ground in Uphams Corner to learn more about the historic cemetery, one of the oldest in Boston, but rarely open to the public.
By adamg - 10/8/24 - 10:57 am
Rendering by Stefanov Architects
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the family that has long owned two one-story commercial building at Dudley and Virginia streets in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a six-story, 48-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 1:33 pm
A bouncer at the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner, lost her job after she pulled out some mace she wasn't supposed to have and used it to subdue an irate woman trying to barge back into the joint after being kicked out, bar managers and its attorney, told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing this week. Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 10:22 am
A Worcester developer and a local architecture firm say they will soon file detailed plans for replacing the shuttered Dorchester Trust at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a two-story Boston Public Library branch and 33 affordable condos. Read more.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 11:22 am
Boston Police report a guy pointed a gun at a man, robbed him of $140 and then beat him in the head with a gun, at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester around 12:35 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 5/24/24 - 9:57 am
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a traffic stop at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/24 - 12:55 pm
The Boston Licensing Board voted yesterday to suspend the license of the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, for one day over the way a patron was sliced with a machete last August - but then voted to hold the punishment in abeyance until the end of August to give the bar a chance to prove it's taking steps to keep it from happening again. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/24 - 11:54 am
Anthony Mazza, who watched his life pass by from behind prison walls for the 1972 murder of a bank teller in Uphams Corner, yesterday sued Boston, BPD and police officers he says framed him and railroaded him to a bogus murder conviction in part because they hated gay men. Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/24 - 2:10 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today called for a second hearing on an Aug. 29 incident at Dublin House, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, that ended with a patron needing 47 stitches to close up the machete gash in his arm. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 12:32 pm
Bogus ledger purporting to show some development expenses, via FBI.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo-development deal that never existed to feed a gambling addiction that included frequent trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/23 - 1:02 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the all-electric space hoarder in the municipal parking lot on Belden Square in Uphams Corner in Dorchester: Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/23 - 2:30 pm
Rendering by Icon Architecture.
A developer that helped preserve artist studios in an old industrial building on Humphreys Street in Dorchester filed plans today to build a 21-unit condo building nearby in which all the units would be sold to people making no more than 80% to 100% of the Boston area median income - with 18 of them marketed to artists. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 12:50 pm
Rendering with red box showing the extra floor.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a sixth floor for a five-story building now under construction at 734-742 Dudley St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Man convicted of murdering somebody who simply went out to get something for dinner in Uphams Corner
By adamg - 6/26/23 - 5:10 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Roberto Martinez-Baez of first-degree murder for killing Andrew Farley, 62, at the Uphams Corner House of Pizza, where he had gone to pick up a sub on Feb. 7, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 1:52 pm
Live Boston reports a man and woman were shot on Humphreys Street at Humphreys Place shortly after midnight. The victims managed to flee in a car, before stopping in front of the Dublin House, where police and EMTs met them for transportation to local hospitals.
By adamg - 3/14/23 - 3:10 pm
New apartment building fronted by "Glow Box," in rendering by Stull & Lee.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved two projects for two parcels on Columbia Road that will mean 113 new affordable apartments, artist space and the preservation of two historic buildings across from the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/23 - 12:30 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Comfort Kitchen has opened in a long abandoned comfort station on Columbia Road in Uphams Corner - as a cafe during the day and a sit-down restaurant with a bar at night, featuring "the flavors and ingredients of the African diaspora - global comfort food - connected from Asia to the Americas."
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