American Legion Highway

Greater Roslindale to regain crown as cajun-seafood capital of Boston with outlet slated for American Legion Highway

By adamg - 6/3/22 - 2:55 pm

Update: Liquor license request approved. Board also granted temporary food-service license so the restaurant can open as soon as it can, without waiting for the state's approval process for the liquor license.

The Boston Licensing Board next week considers plans by the owners of an under-construction crab shack on American Legion Highway in Roslindale to buy the beer and wine license of a defunct Vietnamese place downtown - once again giving Roslindale and Hyde Park diners the choice of three Cajun seafood restaurants. Read more.

Developer makes concessions on proposed suburban-style apartment complex in Hyde Park, but in the end it's still a suburban-style apartment complex

By adamg - 5/11/22 - 11:53 am

Newest rendering of proposed American Legion Highway development

Rendering by Heffner Architects.

The Texas developer that wants to turn a wooded hillside on American Legion Highway on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line into a nine-building apartment complex has filed new plans that call for a bit less asphalt, a bit more greenspace and some additional affordable units - along with a substantial reduction in the number of parking spaces. Read more.

Hyde Park, Roslindale residents stand out to protest proposal to turn a 14-acre wooded hillside into a Texas-style suburban apartment complex

By adamg - 3/26/22 - 5:22 pm

Two of the protesters in front of the woods along American Legion Highway.

About 75 residents gathered along American Legion Highway near the Walgreens to oppose a Texas developer's plans to carve away a big chunk of the hillside and ledge there for a complex with 270 apartments in nine low-slung buildings with 415 parking spaces. Read more.

Gunfire near Haley School on American Legion Highway in Roslindale

By adamg - 11/30/21 - 7:03 pm

Update: One of two suspects arrested.

report Stanley Stacos reports gunfire on American Legion Highway shortly after 3:30 p.m., with the gunman on a scooter. No indication of anybody hit. Read more.

Apartment building approved on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park

By adamg - 11/16/21 - 2:00 pm

Rendering of proposed Hyde Park Avenue building

Rendering by Context Workshop.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 34-unit apartment building on Hyde Park Avenue at American Legion Highway. Read more.

Hyde Park residents to get first formal crack at proposal for tree-clearing, suburban-style apartment complex on American Legion Highway

By adamg - 7/25/21 - 4:08 pm

Rendering by Heffner Architects.

The BPDA holds a meeting tomorrow on a Texas developer's plans for a 270-unit apartment complex with 415 parking spaces on what is now 14 acres of forested hillside next to the Stop & Shop strip mall on American Legion Highway on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line. Read more.

Roslindale car wash seeks to expand, says plans will get cars off busy road

By adamg - 7/5/21 - 4:55 pm

ScrubaDub has filed plans with the Boston Conservation Commission to use a lot it recently bought next to its existing car wash on American Legion Highway to expand with new queuing lanes, automated payment systems and more vacuums. Read more.

Nature has healed: Roslindale Chinese buffet is back

By adamg - 7/3/21 - 2:52 pm

Buffet today.

Flaming Grill and Buffet on American Legion Highway (in the Stop & Shop mall) re-emerged today in its true nature as a Chinese buffet. Read more.

Not just Franklin Park: Residents complain of loud parties featuring car-speaker wars along American Legion Highway

By adamg - 5/6/21 - 11:42 am

This past Friday and Saturday nights, Boston Police assigned extra officers to patrol the area of American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street to break up any nascent street parties and, residents report, it worked. But no extra officers on overtime Saturday night into Sunday morning meant nobody stationed there and the result was a loud party that lasted well into the morning, residents say. Read more.

Advocates look to new state environmental law to help keep cliff, woods from being dynamited for suburban-style apartments on Hyde Park/Roslindale line

By adamg - 5/6/21 - 10:52 am

Hyde Park, Roslindale and Mattapan residents who want to preserve the 24-acre Crane's Ledge property on and above American Legion Highway near the Walgreens say they hope to make a case that the city buy the land to preserve it in its current wooded, rocky state, but that failing that, they will look to a recently enacted state environmental law that requires extensive study of any large projects affecting poorer or minority neighborhoods. Read more.

No more legal cloud over Sean Ellis

By adamg - 5/4/21 - 8:49 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today effectively threw out the illegal-gun charge that was the last remaining charge against Sean Ellis for the shooting death of BPD Det. John Mulligan in a Roslindale parking lot in 1993. Read more.

Suburban-style apartment complex with tons of parking and a clubhouse proposed for American Legion Highway on Hyde Park/Roslindale line

By adamg - 3/11/21 - 10:49 pm

A Dallas developer says it will soon file plans to build 270 apartments in nine low-slung buildings on the Hyde Park side of the Stop & Shop/Walgreens strip mall on American Legion Highway. Read more.

South Boston aesthetic comes to Hyde Park in new residential building proposed for Hyde Park Avenue

By adamg - 2/24/21 - 9:15 am

Rendering by Context Workshop.

A Framingham developer has filed plans for a five-story, 42-unit residential building at the corner of Hyde Park Avenue and American Legion Highway. Read more.

American Legion Highway between Franklin Hill and Canterbury remains a tire-destroying menace

By adamg - 1/4/21 - 9:30 am

Despite complaints last month, the tire-eating pothole between Franklin Hill Avenue and Canterbury Street on the way towards Roslindale remains unfilled. Yesterday, Boston Police reported at least six cars with freshly flattened tires caused by this gaping maw.

"It is very dangerous," a motorist with a no longer round tire confirms.

Citizen complaint of the day: American Legion Highway has become a tire-eating monster

By adamg - 12/25/20 - 11:17 pm

An alarmed citizen filed a 311 complaint late Friday about conditions on American Legion Highway at Canterbury Street: Read more.

Roslindale supermarket getting new name and renovations

By adamg - 12/2/20 - 11:39 am

Winsight Grocery Business reports the cooperative that owns the Price Rite supermarket on River Street in Hyde Park has bought the Save A Lot chain, which has a supermarket in the strip mall on American Legion Highway (the discount-store one near Walk Hill Street, not the Stop & Shop one near Hyde Park).

The chain is also planning a new market in Dorchester.

H/t Mark.

New Roslindale restaurant lets you walk right in and ask if they serve crabs

By adamg - 10/18/20 - 9:02 pm

In what is probably not at all surprising when the pandemic means no more buffets, Lisa Beatman reports (in Keep Roslindale Quirky) that the Flaming Grill and Buffet, which had been serving up Chinese buffet (and mac and cheese and sushi) on American Legion Highway in Roslindale since 2017 has been replaced by Cajun Crab Shack, which, of course, serves various types of boiled Cajun seafood dishes, as well as po' boys. Read more.

Giant mulch pile bursts into flames on the Mattapan/Roslindale line

By adamg - 9/19/20 - 6:11 pm

American Legion Highway, not Kilauea. Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters are currently at Landscape Express at 415 American Legion Highway, where its landmark mulch pile has caught fire. A ladder truck has been brought in to try to spray it down from the top; the company has been asked to send somebody in with a front-end loader because Mt. Mulchmore will need to be taken apart to get to the inner flames. Also, engine trucks have to line up to relay water from a hydrant; the pile itself has no nearby hydrants.

Roslindale Square liquor store looks to expand to the other side of the neighborhood

By adamg - 9/9/20 - 11:59 am

Update: The board approved the license request.

The owners of Roslindale Liquors on Corinth Street are seeking a license to open a new liquor store at the Stop & Shop strip mall at 950 American Legion Highway, near the Hyde Park line. Read more.

Bad crash at bad intersection in Roslindale sends motorcyclist to the hospital

By adamg - 8/7/20 - 10:09 pm

A crash between a motorcycle and a car where Cummins and American Legion highways and Canterbury Street intersect left the motorcyclist with multiple, but not life-threatening, injuries shortly before 10 p.m.

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