By adamg - 10/7/17 - 3:38 pm

Why, there were "moderate" delays on the Orange Line and everything, but the MBTA has removed the carcass and things are back to normal again.

By adamg - 7/11/17 - 3:17 pm

Robert Alvarez spotted this request on a fence outside a construction site on Green Street across from Chestnut Avenue in Jamaica Plain today.

Rendering 3353 Washington St.
By adamg - 5/9/17 - 1:02 pm

The Board of Appeal today approved Mordechai Levin's proposal for a 45-unit, six-story building at the corner of Green and Washington streets in Jamaica Plain. Read more.

Apartments proposed for Washington Street near Green Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 3/13/17 - 10:06 am

City Realty of Brookline is proposing two apartment buildings, one on Washington Street near Green, the other around the corner on Green Street near Union Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 11/21/16 - 12:06 pm

Oh, Sidney: Green Street became the last stop for an Orange Line train and now inbound riders get to sit or stand with no place to go.

Painted house on Green Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 11/20/16 - 12:05 am

A dilapidated house on Green Street in Jamaica Plain has become a canvas for street artists while its new owner figures out just what to do with the property. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/16 - 10:55 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the impending demise of Canto 6 on Washington Street, across from the police station.

Ed. question: Given what else is happening at and near that intersection, how long before a developer files plans for a six-story apartment building there?

By adamg - 5/9/16 - 4:50 pm
Meadowcroft

After he was charged with spray painting his tag on the old trolleys at Boylston station, police say, Marc Meadowcroft of Revere promised to never do it again. In exchange, authorities agreed to a plea deal that kept him out of jail.

He lied, police say. Read more.

Proposed building at Washington and Green streets in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 3/26/16 - 12:36 pm

A developer is proposing to tear down some old buildings at Washington and Green streets, across from the E-13 police station and put up a 44-unit apartment building that would feature private terraces for some units and a rooftop deck. Read more.

Car on fire on Green Street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 1/15/16 - 9:03 am

Kate Latak had a ringside seat for a car fire on Green Street near the Orange Line station around 8:40 this morning.

Emily Waggoner also saw the fire: Read more.

By adamg - 11/30/15 - 8:55 am

An E Line trolley gave up the ghost at MFA, a Red Line train went express to Valhalla on the Braintree branch and an Orange Line train turned blue at Green. Or as MBTA Haiku put it:

Holiday season
Kicks off with a delayed train.
Cyber Monday gift.

Search along the Southwest Corridor in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 7/13/15 - 10:07 pm

Around 8 p.m., BPD officers tried to stop a car in the area of McBride Street in Jamaica Plain as part of a drug investigation. Seems the driver didn't want to be stopped, so he took off, with officers in pursuit. Just as a supervisor was about to call off the search, officers managed to box the car in near English High School.

They collared one of the cars occupants, but another took off down through the Southwest Corridor Park. Read more.

Proposed apartment building at Gree and Amory streets in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 6/11/15 - 9:53 am

Developer Chris DiSisto says the condos he built at Amory and Green streets in 2012 worked out so well he wants to replicate their success across the street. In a filing with the BRA, DiSisto is proposing a 15-unit apartment building across Amory from the T stop that would also have retail space - including for a restaurant DiSisto says he wants to run. Read more.

By adamg - 4/22/15 - 8:45 pm

Kate Lockwood reports:

It's not every day you see someone get on the T carrying a live 6-foot snake. So that happened.

By adamg - 3/30/15 - 10:42 pm

Around 10:30 p.m. The robber put a knife to her back as she was on her phone, took the phone and fled. He's described as Hispanic, about 5'6" and 170 lbs with a chinstrap beard. He wore a black and yellow Bruins winter cap with a pom-pom on top, a white track suit and sneakers with pink laces. He may have fled on an inbound Orange Line train.

By adamg - 2/25/15 - 11:51 am

At 9 a.m. on Saturday, Darryll Fernald will be at the Green Street T stop with a shovel. And then he'll go out in search of people who still need help digging out. He's taking requests - and hoping other folks will join him in a roving JP cleanup squad.

Carolers in Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 12/21/14 - 6:06 pm

Mike Fedore caught up with some carolers on Green Street in Jamaica Plain this evening.

Cans of Tab at Green Street
By adamg - 12/7/13 - 12:06 pm

Ezra Freedman wonders:

For years there have been cans of Tab at the end of the Green Street platform, what's the deal?

Ed. note: So that's what happened to Steve Slyne's stash after his place in West Roxbury got turned into the Real Deal!

Steve Slyne's Tab sign