Seven years after the Boston Conservation Commission gave him approval, a construction company hired by Ronen Drory recently began work to convert a long vacant lot on VFW Parkway southbound in West Roxbury into one of his Prestige car washes - right across from Adam Korngold's Waves car wash on the northbound side of the road. Read more.
The fire, seen from West Roxbury Parkway and Weld Street, photo by Thomas Connor.
Boston firefighters responded to the section of Allandale Woods off West Roxbury Parkway, VFW Parkway and Weld Street for a brush fire shortly before 5:45 p.m. Read more.
In 1989, The Unbearable Lightness of Being was playing at the Village Cinema in the Hancock Village Shopping Center on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury - and next door Stan Salter was serving up pastrami on rye and challah French Toast next door at his eponymous deli. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Mission on Fire, which replaced Sofia Italian Steakhouse, which replaced the Vintage steak place, which replaced Fontaine's and its neon waving chicken, has opened at 1430 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury. It promises "everything from tapas and artisanal pizzas to savory pastas and our signature rotisserie chicken" all with a "bold Latin influence."
Cabral tends to the grill while other residents chat.
Residents of the Boston Trailer Park in West Roxbury - the city's only trailer park - gathered in front of Donna Cabral's trailer yesterday for some hot dogs, beer and conversation. Read more.
There are places to be courteous and let someone in ahead of you, but a Boston rotary is not one of them. A really peeved roving UHub driver from Roslindale is worried somebody's going to get killed if people don't stop stopping in the middle of a rotary to let somebody else into the flow of traffic (reminder for outatownas: People already in a rotary have the right of way): Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal next month considers an application for a marijuana grow facility and home-delivery center at 1457 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, where Party City and Chair Fair used to be. Read more.
The line stretched back to Bertucci's.
Gary's Liquors on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury opened at 10 this morning, but by 8 there was already a line outside, people in folding chairs and sipping their Dunk's as they waited for employees to unlock the doors so they could snap up a bottle or two, or three, of the "special reserve" bourbon for sale today only. Read more
B’nai B’rith Housing, joined by city and state officials, today officially opened its 1208 Parkway complex of 60 income-restricted apartments off Baker Street in West Roxbury - with its entrance on VFW Parkway. Read more.
Newly elected State Rep. Bill MacGregor ( West Roxbury, Roslindale, South Brookline) said he will continue predecessor Ed Coppinger's work on several road-safety projects in the district. Read more.
Mary Ellen reports spotting an otter in the marsh/pond in between VFW Parkway and the old West Roxbury Education Complex today - and that she watched it eat a frog.
Trees along VFW Parkway on either side of South Street at the West Roxbury/Brookline line are currently wrapped in protective wooden slats as a contractor hired by DCR gets ready to revamp the intersection with new left-turn lanes on the parkway and traffic signals. Read more.
The owners of a three-story office building at 1208C VFW Parkway in West Roxbury say they want to replace it with a five-story, 55-unit apartment building. Read more.
Surveillance photos via FBI.
The FBI's Violent Crime Task Force has released photos of the man it saysrobbed a Citizens Bank branch on VFW Parkway on Tuesday. Read more.
Update: Photos of suspect released.
The Citizens Bank branch in the Hancock Village mall on VFW Parkway at Independence Drive was robbed around 11:20 a.m., by a man dressed in all black and wearing a black ski mask, about 5'8", who passed a demand note, got some money, then ran across VFW Parkway towards Manthorne Road.
Officers investigating the bank robbery wound up arresting another man they happened to find in the parking lot who was wanted on a warrant unrelated to the robbery.
Windows on the long empty space next to Bruegger's at the strip mall on VFW Parkway are now plastered with signs advertising the imminent arrival of Kwench Juice Cafe, which promises, among other things, fresh raw juices, power juices, fresh raw smoothies, superfood smoothies, wheatgrass and turmeric shots and juice cleanses (to go, we assume), as well as some more solid items, such as salads. Read more.
A couple of guys from Providence came up to West Roxbury Wednesday night to steal catalytic converters, but they only managed to saw one off before they crashed in the big, scary rotary at West Roxbury and VFW Parkways, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Somebody this afternoon drove into Pets Supply Plus on the southbound side of VFW Parkway just before the Dedham line. Brendan surveyed the damage. WHDH reports no injuries.
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