Brighton Main Streets reports that Scoop N Scootery at the corner of Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton has closed. Fans will now have to trek all the way to Linden Street in Allston for some of its ice cream. Brighton Main Streets adds, though, that another ice-cream place might be moving in.
B'nai B'rith Housing last week paid $3 million for the abandoned Bank of America branch on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square - and its parking lot with entrances on Cohasset and Washington streets - according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.
A man was shot in the area of Cohasset and Albano streets in Roslindale around 11:20 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
Rendering by Derek Rubinoff.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the owners of Spukies N Pizza at 1159 Washington St. at Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester to replace their building and parking lot with a four-story, 14-unit condo building - with ground-floor space for them to resume making pizzas and subs once construction is finished. Read more.
Arx Urban is on track to begin work this spring on a mostly affordable 31-unit apartment building at Washington and Basile streets in Roslindale Square, Benjamin Moll, one of the company's principals, says. Read more.
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace an old junkyard with a four-story, 48-unit apartment building at 251-257 Washington St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Dragon Chef with windows papered over today.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a food-serving license for Cliff Richard to open Roslindale Market Kitchen on Washington Street at Basile Street in Roslindale Square, where Dragon Chef used to be. Read more.
Victim identified as Celia Simmons, 65.
Boston Police report a woman was stabbed several times near the tennis court on the Washington Street side of Ramsay Park in Roxbury around 12:45 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Two cars crashed at Washington Street and Archdale Road in Roslindale around 7:50 p.m. Read more.
A person was stabbed in the throat in a field on the upper-busway side of the Forest Hills T station, where Washington Street crosses the Arborway to become South Street, around 4:20 p.m. Read more.
Photo by a roving UHub photographer
The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.
A Boston resident last week sued Pho Pasteur, 682 Washington St.. in Chinatown, for the way a meal there ended last month.
In a negligence suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Nathalie Murcia alleges she was finishing up a bowl of pho on Sept. 20 when she asked her server for some "fresh broth to go:" Read more.
Guira & Tambora, 4014 Washington St. in Roslindale, is seeking to extend its closing time from 1130 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends to 1 a.m. - and to build an addition to its front to provide takeout.
The city Office of Neighborhood Services is holding a Zoom meeting for nearby residents, staring at 7 p.m., tonight. The proposed changes will need the approval of the Zoning Board of Appeal and the Boston Licensing Board.
Eric Esteves was among those calling for immediate action tonight to prevent more pedestrian fatalities around the Forest Hills MBTA station, following the Oct. 12 death of Glenn Inghram as he crossed Washington Street and was hit by an MBTA bus.
The vigil was held on Tower Street at Washington, near where Ingrahm was fatally hit.
Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.
The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.
Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
Rendering (with site of current Hatoff's on right) by Choo & Company.
A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
Young python at the Boston animal shelter.
The Boston city animal shelter in Roslindale is now home to a young python, brought there after somebody found it Monday somewhere along Washington Street in Brighton - so somewhere between Brookline and Newton.
If Snakey looks familiar, contact Animal Care and Control at 617-635-1800 or [email protected].
Boston Police report arresting the man they say shot Jashun Cooley to death on Washington Street in Dorchester on Aug. 24. Read more.
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