The Boston City Archives have been poring through Boston voter records from 1920, when women could legally register to vote in Boston for the first time, and tells the story of some of the women from Lower Roxbury and the South End listed on the rolls who worked as cherry pickers helping to make boxes of chocolate-covered cherries at the United Drug Co. factory on Leon Street - now part of Northeastern University's campus.
Rendering by Monte French Design Studio.
Two developers have filed plans with the BPDA for a seven-story, 34-unit apartment on what is now a parking lot off East Lenox Street, near Washington Street. Read more.
Architect's rendering of view from Southwest Corridor Park, with birds.
A pair of developers have filed plans for a 6-story, 47-unit residential building off Northampton Street and the Southwest Corridor Park in which all the units would be marketed as affordable. Read more.
Rendering that shows six people, all white.
The Community Development Corp. of Boston has filed plans with the BPDA to make an office building at the corner of Washington and Thorndike streets taller and wider, and convert it to mainly residential space, with retail space on the ground floor. Read more.
In the back and leg on Shawmut Avenue near Lenox around 10 p.m., Scan Boston reports.
A correspondent who grew up in the South End and who now lives in Roxbury was not at all pleased with the post card he got the other day advertising a house for sale on Greenwich Street. For one thing, that's Lower Roxbury. For another, that's not the "Fredrick Douglas Historic District." Read more.
Architect's rendering.
Developers are proposing a six-story, 23-unit apartment building on what is now a parking lot on Newcomb St., off Washington Street, in lower Roxbury.
The building, to be called One Newcomb Place, would sit between two older buildings that developers Joseph DiGangi and V. William Avanessian converted into apartments, one a 1904 building at 11 Newcomb, the other a formerly fire-ravaged hulk at 1902 Washington St.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a malt and wine license for Quick Pick Convenience, 973 Tremont St. Read more.
Around 9:30 p.m. at Shawmut Avenue and Kendall Street. Shooter aimed at some people; nobody hit.
On Thursday, federal and local officials announced charges against 27 people for their alleged roles in violence and drug dealing in and around the Lenox developments.
Boston EMS Incidents reports somebody was shot shortly after 4 a.m. at 625 Shawmut Ave..
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