The anti-Olympics group NoBoston2024 is staging two panel discussions in Jamaica Plain on Olympics-related housing and security impacts. Among the speakers is Dave Zirin, the sports editor at the magazine The Nation. The first event, May 14, 7 p.m. at…
Author: Rebeca Oliveira
Reporter at the Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill Gazettes.
Boston 2024 changes Franklin Park plan
Boston 2024 has altered its plan for Olympics horse-racing in Franklin Park so that the track would be built around rather than on the golf course. The Franklin Park Coalition says the change raises new questions about park impacts. The…
BRA to codify S. Huntington guidelines
The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is looking to integrate guidelines developed for S. Huntington Avenue into the City zoning code. The BRA completed the community-requested South Huntington Avenue Framework for Future Development Review in May 2013. On May 21, the…
City releases first student housing report
The City of Boston released its first ever “Student Housing Trends” report last month, establishing a baseline toward Mayor Martin Walsh’s goal of creating 18,500 new student dormitory beds by 2030. But all local data in the report is inaccurate…
New eatery opens in Hyde Sq.
A new sandwich and empanada restaurant opened in a troubled spot in Hyde Square last month. Pikalo, which offers sandwiches, empanadas and patacones—sandwiches with fried plantains instead of buns—opened at the former home of The Goods JP and Slice O’…
Roslindale Neighbors: Housing, retail coming soon in substation project
Thirteen years in the making, the Roslindale Substation project is well on its way to opening doors on time. The residential stage of the project is due to be ready by October, and a restaurant and a craft beer store…
Roslindale Neighbors: Parklet returns to Rozzie, but not JP
Roslindale Village will be seeing the return of a parklet this month, while Jamaica Plain will go another year without, due to utility work. According to Boston Transportation Department spokesperson Tracey Ganiatsos, the installation of Rozzie’s parklet—originally created for and…
Roslindale Neighbors: Rozzie library could get $6m renovation
The Roslindale Branch Library could see a $6 million renovation as soon as 2016, according to the Boston Public Library. “Authorization for a renovation of the Roslindale Branch has been placed in the outwears of FY17-FY20, which means the project…
Peace and Love
Rare MFA photo leads to segregation exhibit
It began with a single photograph in the Museum of Fine Arts’ (MFA) collection. Photography curator and JP resident Karen Haas knew very little about it, aside from the fact that Gordon Parks had made it in 1950: a black-and-white…