Tag: Mattapan
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Annual JP Open Streets
Local businesses, organizations, food vendors and musicians assembled on Jamaica Plain’s Centre Street last week in celebration of Boston’s last Open Street festival of the season. The city closed Centre Street from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. between Jackson Square and Soldier’s…
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House History project earns DHS a preservation citation
By Madyline Swearing Lisa Murphy’s house on Moultrie Street sits on land once cultivated by descendants of Dorchester’s first English settlers. Though she has lived there since 1998, Murphy didn’t learn this until 2023, when she asked the Dorchester Historical…
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What to know about Bluebikes’ expansion in Dot, Mattapan, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain
By Madyline Swearing Boston’s bike share system is expanding throughout Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, with 20 new Bluebikes stations to be installed in those neighborhoods. City officials hosted an open house on Oct. 1 at the Marshall Community…
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Two Mattapan businesses savor their Legacy Awards
Nazir Ali, the founder of Ali’s Roti, inside his Blue Hill Avenue restaurant. A native of Trinidad and Tobago. He married into a Dot family and “followed love” to his current home. Sarah Khafif photo Ali’s Roti Restaurant has been…
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Frustrations abound over T silence on rehab of Mattapan trolley line
The trolley rumbles up to the Ashmont/Peabody Square platform on a shallow incline before it creaks and rattles to a stop at the eastern terminal of the Mattapan Line. The doors open squeakily to let out a stream of passengers.…
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Plan for new Mattapan complex aims to foster connection among children and senior adults
February 06, 2025 Affordable child care and senior housing are coming to Mattapan in the very same building. The Shattuck Child Care Center, an affordable child care center established in 1969, will have a new home on the ground floor…