As the city rips up the new bike lanes on Boylston Street in the Back Bay and Massachusetts Avenue in Dorchester, merchants along Columbia Road in Dorchester, now the focus of a city transportation study, are saying: Not on our street. The Dorchester Reporter reports.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:19am
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By adamg - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 11:20am
By adamg - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 10:14am
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Side Chick, 692 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody spoke against the change at a hearing yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 1:07pm
Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, sending the pole slamming down across the road and creating an instant traffic jam. No serious injuries, at least.
By adamg - Sun, 12/08/2024 - 3:27pm
Boston firefighters responded to the house next to the KFC on Columbia Road in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester around 6:50 a.m. for what was quickly announced as a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 3:08pm
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.
By adamg - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 9:27am
The Dorchester Reporter reports not everybody is enamored of a city proposal to do to Columbia Road between Blue Hill and Massachusetts avenues what happened on Columbus Avenue. Quotes one pizza-shop owner who predicts dedicated bus lanes would add 20 minutes to all his deliveries.
By adamg - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 11:42am
Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 08/23/2024 - 10:22am
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 - Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:48pm
A man who was driving down Columbia Road was shot at Columbia Road and Stanwood Street around 4 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 11:22am
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 - Fri, 06/07/2024 - 3:33pm
A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 05/24/2024 - 9:57am
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 - Thu, 04/18/2024 - 10:26am
By adamg - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 10:35am
Boston Police report arresting a worker at the Burger King at Washington Street and Columbia Road in Dorchester for the way he allegedly used a knife to try to have it his way in a dispute with a patron Thursday morning. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/16/2024 - 10:23am
By adamg - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 12:09pm
By adamg - Mon, 12/11/2023 - 1:44pm
On April 24, 1949, an employee of the Boston Transportation Department took this shot of Blue Hill Avenue outbound at Columbia Road.
Note the trolleys on both roads (the reason both have paved medians -that's where the trolleys used to go) and compare to today's view: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 12:25pm
Transit and Boston Police report officers responded to a 16 bus Columbia Road near Edward Everett Square for a report of a man who "threatened passengers" with a gun, around 11 a.m. on Monday: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 3:37pm
Zackery Grandy, 25, today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the strangulation death of his mother, Gisel Thomas, in their apartment on Columbia Road in Dorchester on Feb. 26, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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