Armand Walker shows us the fresh asphalt at the River Street bridge in Hyde Park's Cleary Square today, reports workers there are optimistic the bridge could be re-opened to traffic next week, which would end the long running nightmare for people trying to get somewhere in or near Cleary Square. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let somebody buy ODB Liquors, 1253 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, and change its name to the more prosaic Hyde Park Liquors. Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA for a four-story, 42-unit apartment building on the train-station side of Hyde Park and Dana avenues in Hyde Park. Read more.
MassDOT said this week that it's now looking at, maybe, the end of 2024 to re-open the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square to cars and trucks. The state had originally set a target of roughly right now to re-open the bridge it shut in May, 2022 as unsafe. Read more.
Ron's manager Jay Covitz at hearing from the ice-cream shop and candlepin alley.
Update: Approved, but pending the board finding an available license in a drawer or something.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve a proposal by Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling on Hyde Park Avenue in Cleary Square to add beer and wine to the soft drinks it now offers keglers. Read more.
Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling, 1231 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, is seeking a beer and wine license. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a marijuana dispensary at 1295-1297 River St., in Hyde Park, but owner Geneise Israel said that even if she now quickly gets the required state approval, she won't open her door until after the decaying and now closed River Street Bridge right next door is re-opened. Read more.
MassDOT diagram of the work needd to re-open the bridge by next year.
MassDOT has updated its plans for the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square, closed since May: Do enough repairs to the crumbling span to re-open it to vehicle traffic in the spring of 2024, while it continues to work towards a more permanent replacement in a year to be determined. Read more.
Update: Photo of suspect released.
SK Convenience, 1283 River St. in Hyde Park, was held up around 9:40 p.m. by a man who then ran across the River Street Bridge and onto Business Street. He was described as Black, in his 40s, wearing all black clothing and gloves with a balaclava over his face and about 5'8."
The former owner of Edu & Den's Bakery in Mattapan is looking to move into the old River Grille space at River Street and Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park's cleary Square to open an American restaurant with liquor service and hours starting at 5 a.m. Read more.
You're driving down Hyde Park Avenue from Roslindale into Hyde Park's Cleary Square when the new giant mural on the side of Ron's hits you - an entire wall of monsters cheerily welcoming you to the heart of Hyde Park. Read more.
Part of the underside of the current bridge, via MassDOT.
MassDOT told Hyde Park residents last night they're going to have to keep detouring around the bridge over the train tracks through Cleary Square until at least spring, 2025, which is the earliest officials say they can have a new River Street bridge built. Read more.
Part of the problem: All the trains leave little time for repair work.
MassDOT says the River Street bridge in Cleary Square is beyond repair, so it's started work on designing its complete replacement - with preliminary plans hopefully available for the public to look at in the first quarter of 2023. Read more.
MassDOT reports it shut the River Street bridge over the train tracks to vehicle traffic today after "bridge inspectors identified beam deterioration during a routine and fracture critical inspection." Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by two physical therapists to turn what used to be the Quality RX Pharmacy on River Street near Hyde Park Avenue into a function hall specializing in weddings, graduations and similar events. Read more.
In less than 24 hours, with just a couple of posts in the Hyde Park neighborhood Facebook group, Marc Lavine to pay for a free ice-cream cone with a topping for any kid under 12 who shows up at Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and 20th Century Bowling Bowling on Hyde Park Avenue with proof of vaccination. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc Studio.
A Milton developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace the closed laughlin Nichols Pennacchio Funeral Home at 34 Oak St. in Hyde Park with a three-story, 21-unit apartment building. Read more.
WBZ reports a man walked into SK Convenience, 1283 River St. in Hyde Park, shortly after 9 a.m. put a gun to a clerk's head and when she couldn't open a cash register fast enough, threw her to the ground and threatened to kill her - as her five-year-old daughter was in the back of the store, which is around the corner from the E-18 police station.
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