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By adamg - 3/9/23 - 1:42 pm
Rendering of Cheney Street proposal

Rendering of smaller Cheney Street apartment building by Icon Architecture.

A non-profit group that originally proposed building 59 affordable and assisted-living apartments for senior citizens and 15 affordable condos on and near Cheney Street in Roxbury has filed revised plans with the BPDA that decrease the number of apartments to 48 and the number of condos to 12. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/22 - 1:01 pm
Cheney Street shooting scene

Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports a man was shot outside 63 Cheney St. in Roxbury around 4:15 a.m. The victim was shot at least once, is reported in stable condition.

By adamg - 10/1/20 - 12:07 pm

The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. says it will soon file plans for 59 apartments aimed at senior citizens and 9 condos - all to be rented or sold as affordable - to replace the long abandoned Grove Hall Motor Mart property on Cheney Street. Read more.

By adamg - 4/28/20 - 5:44 pm

Boston Police report arresting a former Dorchester man now living in Rockland with shooting somebody on Cheney Street in Roxbury on April 17. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/20 - 12:44 pm

Boston Police report arresting Jermaine Grant, 36, of Jamaica Plain, on charges he shot another man on Cheney Street at Hartwell Street shortly before 11 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/20 - 11:08 am

Police converged on Cheney and Hartwell streets around 11 a.m. after reports of gunfire. The victim did not wait for police; arrived at a local emergency room around 11:15 a.m.

By adamg - 8/25/17 - 4:22 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Cheney Street teenager on charges he and a pal stole some motorcycles in the Back Bay - some six weeks after he was charged in connection with the four stolen scooters police say they found behind his house. Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/17 - 12:16 pm

Boston Police report arresting a trio of guys first spotted riding "erratically" on two scooters through Roxbury on the way to the Back Bay where, police say, they used a bolt cutter to steal a scooter parked on Boylston Street. Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/17 - 10:41 pm

Possibly as many as four shots, around 10:15 p.m. on Cheney Street at Hartwell.

By adamg - 3/11/16 - 2:37 pm

UPDATE: Bail set at $10,000 for the guy; girl ordered to house arrest except she can go to school, Suffolk County DA's office reports.

Boston Police report an alert sergeant noticed a potential setup for the robbery of a food-delivery guy on Cheney Street yesterday evening - in a neighborhood that's seen a spate of such robberies - and decided to see what happened. Read more..

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