Boston Police and EMS responded to the Starbucks/Paper Store parking lot, 1810 Centre St. in West Roxbury on a report of a man in an SUV with an apparently self-inflected and fatal gunshot wound around 7:45 a.m.
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By adamg - 3/12/24 - 3:07 pm
DCR planners told the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association last night they hope to go out to bid this spring for a contractor to add traffic signals and do related intersection changes where Walter Street meets Centre Street in Roslindale. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/24 - 10:18 pm
A federal magistrate judge today ruled Wolf Fevrier of Roslindale both a potential threat to society and a flight risk and so ordered him held without bail during proceedings on charges he robbed the Rockland Trust branch on Centre Street in West Roxbury on Feb. 16. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/24 - 12:03 am
Surveillance of suspect in Rockland Trust branch via FBI.
The FBI yesterday arrested a Roslindale man they say paid for an expensive shopping trip to the Walgreens on Centre Street in West Roxbury earlier this month by first robbing the Rockland Trust branch down the street - a week after he tried and failed to rob a Bank of America branch in Allston. Read more.
By adamg - 2/17/24 - 10:57 am
A robber claiming he had a gun got away with $1,475 at the Rockland Trust branch at 1920 Centre St. in West Roxbury yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/17/24 - 10:15 pm
The building, missing the street trees and level concrete sidewalk the developer promised the city.
The owners of residential condos in a three-year-old building at Centre and Weld streets in Roslindale today sued the developer and project manager, accusing them of handing them a building with at least $2.3 million worth of problems, including a leaky roof, uninsulated pipes, non-functioning sump and hallway ventilation systems, a cracked retaining wall and rear foundation, a smelly lobby and such poor sound insulation residents say they feel like they're in the condos of their upstairs neighbors. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:33 pm
A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
By adamg - 1/7/24 - 10:47 pm
Via Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Facebook groups comes the news that Cafe Beirut on Centre Street closed for good yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/21/23 - 8:55 pm
David Wean forwards this video of Jolly St. Nick getting into one of the new bike lanes on Centre Street in West Roxbury from the area of the firehouse: Read more.
By emac - 12/3/23 - 1:42 pm
This week the Boston Transportation Department completed the Centre Street "Road Diet" by repainting the freshly-paved West Roxbury thoroughfare.
By adamg - 12/2/23 - 10:39 am
The driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee told police that when the Ford F-150 in front of him on Centre Street in West Roxbury wasn't moving, he figured he'd just swing around into the left lane and be on his way, according to a copy of a Boston Police report on a crash at the crosswalk at Centre and Maple streets around 3:40 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/30/23 - 9:34 pm
A 53-year-old man walking across Centre Street in West Roxbury suffered head and rib injuries after being hit by an SUV near the TD Bank branch around 3:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/23 - 11:43 am
Jamaica Plain News reports the T decided it was time to remove the old poles along Centre Street before they started falling on people's heads.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 2:10 pm
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for three men in connection with the fatal shooting of a dog at 279 Centre St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain around 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 19. Read more.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 9:21 am
Andrea Doremus Cuetara captured the tree next to the firehouse on Centre Street in West Roxbury yesterday afternoon.
Earlier:
Firehouse then and now.
By adamg - 11/8/23 - 2:36 pm
As he rested his weary feet and got a bite to eat inside Cafe Beirut on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain today, roving UHub photographer Sam Greenblatt had a ringside seat to watch a crew taking down at least some of the trolley power poles that had remained up along Centre Street, South Street and South Huntington Avenue long after the T stopped running the E Line between Heath Street and the Arborway. In December, 1985. Like 38 years ago.
By adamg - 10/23/23 - 10:33 pm
Police officers responding to reports of as many as ten shots found a man shot near the basketball court at Mozart Park along Mozart Street in Jamaica Plain around 9:40 p.m.
By adamg - 10/16/23 - 9:13 pm
Thomas Gunning Kelley looks over dug-up pedestrian crossings at Centre and Hastings.
A contractor hired by BTD has begun tearing up pedestrian crossings along Centre Street in West Roxbury as the first phase of a project that will reconfigure the road from four car travel lanes to two, with new center turning lanes, pedestrian crossings and dedicated bike lanes along the sidewalks, protected from traffic by parked cars. Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/23 - 2:40 pm
El Mundo Boston reports that El Oriental de Cuba on Centre Street has closed for good. Owner and founder Nobel Garcia died in 2021 and after two years of trying to keep it going, his daughters decided it was time to say goodbye. It will be replaced by a Mexican restaurant.
By adamg - 10/3/23 - 4:05 pm
DCR crews last night began two weeks of overnight road restriping to add what is supposed to be a temporary second car lane between Murray Circle - the big rotary at one end of the Arboretum - and the main entrance to the Arnold Arboretum, about 500 feet south, as work continues to map out more permanent fixes to the Arborway that include permanent bicycle paths and safer pedestrian crossings. Read more.
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