The first across the bridge.
Shortly before 7:40 p.m. MassDOT workers removed barrels on the Gordon Avenue side of the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square and let the first driver back on the bridge since it was shut in May, 2022 because it was falling apart. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to Samari's Nails and Beauty, 993 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, around 9:55 p.m. on Tuesday for a fire. With three hoses pumping water, firefighters knocked the fire down in about seven minutes, but the damage had been done and the store was boarded up today.
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.
The family of Mario Evans, 16, reports he died after his home at 1049 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park caught fire early on Oct. 29.
His cousin, Sabrina Beauzile, writes: Read more.
A motorcyclist and the driver of another vehicle collided at Hyde Park Avenue and West Street shortly before 3:45 a.m. The motorcyclist was declared dead at the scene.
Fire aftermath. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1049 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park for a fire around 4:10 a.m. Read more.
Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.
The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.
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.
Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
The man police say was behind the wheel of a stolen car at the Forest Hills T stop last week who injured two officers in a failed attempt to flee was ordered held without bail today pending a dangerousness hearing on several charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The SUV after it came to a stop. Photo from the upper busway by SW.
Update: Driver arraigned.
Boston Police officers were approaching a 2024 BMW SUV at the parking lot at the Forest Hills MBTA station when the driver tried to flee, running over an officer, who opened fire and hit the driver in the head. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let somebody buy ODB Liquors, 1253 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, and change its name to the more prosaic Hyde Park Liquors. Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA for a four-story, 42-unit apartment building on the train-station side of Hyde Park and Dana avenues in Hyde Park. Read more.
Rendering by David Choi showing the rear and front views (the right one shows the tree from the front, not the building on fire).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-unit residential building at 72 Hyde Park Ave. in Forest Hills that preserves a large, 150-year-old oak tree on the site. Read more.
Rendering by O'Sullivan Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Elias Akiki to build a four-story, nine-unit residential building at 1015 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, currently a parking lot and home of one of the larger Madonna shrines on the street. Read more.
A federal jury yesterday convicted the one-time head of the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park of helping to run a long running overtime scam in which officers would routinely put in for overtime they never worked. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men who held up the Hyde Park Market at River Street and Wood Avenue around 5:50 p.m. and then, about an hour later, the CVS on Hyde Park Avenue, about a mile away. Read more.
Ron's manager Jay Covitz at hearing from the ice-cream shop and candlepin alley.
Update: Approved, but pending the board finding an available license in a drawer or something.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve a proposal by Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling on Hyde Park Avenue in Cleary Square to add beer and wine to the soft drinks it now offers keglers. Read more.
Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling, 1231 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, is seeking a beer and wine license. Read more.
Boston Police report the arrest of four men who got into several cars in the area of Beaver and Cleveland streets around 5 a.m. on Saturday - because their owners had left them running to warm them up - and even drove some of them a short distance up the street. Read more.
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