All-affordable apartment building approved on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan
Rendering by Arrowstreet.The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 41-unit, five-story apartment building at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. at Culbert Street in Mattapan.Eight of the units would be...
View ArticleMan shot in Roxbury
Police responding to a report of shots fired at Blue Hill Avenue and Edgewood Street around 9:20 p.m. found spent shells, a home and car hit by gunfire and an abandoned car that ended up at the front...
View ArticleTwo dead in motorcycle/pedestrian crash on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester
WCVB reports one person was pronounced dead at the scene after a crash at Blue Hill Avenue and American Legion Highway around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. A second person was taken to a local hospital,...
View ArticleNew trial ordered for man convicted of 2016 murder at a Mattapan barbershop
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for a man convicted of gunning down Marcus Hall behind a Blue Hill Avenue barbershop, where Hall had brought his four-year-old son for a haircut on...
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Busy Blue Hill Avenue intersection, then and now
See it larger.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...
View ArticleRoxbury market robbed at gunpoint in the middle of yesterday's torrents;...
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston man on charges he held up La Familia market, 64A Blue Hill Ave. at Moreland Street in Roxbury around 10:35 a.m. on Monday. Read more.Mon, 12/18/2023 -...
View ArticleBlue Hill Avenue bodega denied beer license because there are already so many...
The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from Cristian Market, 411 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall, to add beer to its inventory, because of overwhelming opposition from nearby residents about...
View ArticleEarly morning gunfire in Grove Hall followed by arrest, police say
Boston Police report officers investigating a report of gunfire at Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue around 2:45 a.m. quickly spotted and stopped a man leaving the scene and "visibly out of...
View ArticleBoston sets $44-million re-do of Blue Hill Avenue with center bus lanes
The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleNot everybody loving the plans to re-do Blue Hill Avenue
The Dorchester Reporter talks to people with reservations about the $44-million project, which would include new center bus lanes.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleSerial robber gets 8 1/2 years in federal prison for armed holdups of stores...
A federal judge last week sentenced Fernando Bost, 32, to 8 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing the RJ Smoke and Convenience Store at 844 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester on March 29,...
View ArticleState moves to seize Mattapan hot-dog stand for nonpayment of taxes
The state Department of Revenue yesterday formally moved to seize Simco's, 1509 Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan, for non-payment of $736,000 in taxes and interest.In a request filed in Suffolk Superior...
View ArticleTeen with a replica gun was robbing a convenience store a day in Dorchester -...
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he robbed three convenience stores on Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street in Dorchester - just after he entered a fourth store on Friday. Read...
View ArticleBoard approves plans for affordable housing on two Blue Hill Avenue vacant lots
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a total of 15 affordable housing condos on what are now vacant lots on Blue Hill Avenue at Intervale and Brunswick streets.The city is selling the...
View ArticleMan who was shot at 2023 New Year's party in Mattapan Square sues landlord
Melvin Gross, who says he was one of the two people shot at a party at 1601 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 6 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2023, today sued the building's owner for allegedly failing to keep him...
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