By adamg - 2/19/25 - 3:23 pm

WBUR visited the JFK Library today, and fills in some details of its sudden closing yesterday:

" People were crying. It was surreal," she said. "We were with a gentleman who had just come in from Canada who said, 'I don't understand what's happening in your country.' "

By adamg - 2/18/25 - 8:15 pm

The JFK Library Foundation says the Dorchester library and museum will re-open to the public tomorrow. In a separate statement e-mailed to reporters, it adds: Read more.

Notice on library Web site that it's closed until further notice
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 3:57 pm

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia Point shut its doors today and will remain closed "until further notice."  The Dorchester Reporter reports it's due to Musk-ordered firings. Tori Bedford at GBH reports five workers were told to leave.

By adamg - 1/22/25 - 10:55 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports Harbor Point resident and Corcoran Jennison Companies are asking state regulators to reconsider their approval of the $5-billion Dorchester Bay City project, arguing, among other things, the development would lead to even more flooding on the peninsula.

By adamg - 6/22/24 - 10:17 pm

A man was shot at Harbor Point Boulevard and Westwind Road in the Harbor Point complex in Dorchester around 9 p.m.

One car had a bullet go through one of its tires.

JFK's Victura being unloaded at the JFK Library
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 5:53 pm

Paul Nutting Jr. watched today as a crew from the Crosby Yacht Yard in Osterville unpacked the Victura at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum today for its annual summer stay there. Read more.

By adamg - 5/26/24 - 12:22 pm

A parched citizen files a 311 complaint:

No damn bubbler for miles walking around UMass Boston and JFK museum? That's criminal

By adamg - 4/3/24 - 10:59 pm

UMass Boston Police sent out an alert that a man was carjacked at Harbor Point late this afternoon by somebody who had contacted him over SnapChat, allegedly to buy sneakers from him. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:54 am

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she stabbed four people at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 240 Mt. Vernon St. in Dorchester around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

Rendering of Dorchester Bay City
By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:44 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the BPDA last week approved the 36-acre Dorchester Bay City project, which will include 1,950 apartments and enough offices, labs and stores to employ up to 17,000 people. Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/23 - 10:33 pm

Boston firefighters, including firefighters on a fireboat, responded to Dorchester Bay around 10:15 p.m. on a report of a flashing light about 15 feet off North Point Drive in Harbor Point. Read more.

Bayside Expo Center sign removed
By adamg - 4/11/23 - 2:14 pm

"What a day," Joe Blankenship exclaimed as he watched a crew take down the old Bayside Expo Center in Dorchester. The sign advertised the exposition center that UMass Boston long ago tore down after it bought and shuttered the place in 2010. Last month, part of the sign plunged to the ground.
More photos.

By adamg - 3/9/23 - 10:49 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports a metal panel from the big old Bayside Expo sign, which advertises an expo center on Columbia Point that was demolished years ago, plunged to the parking lot below recently. No injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 5:28 pm

UMass Boston announced today that masks will be required in all campus buildings and buses - and large outdoor gatherings - starting Monday. Read more.

By adamg - 10/28/22 - 8:39 pm

Boston Police report arresting Jamari Searcy, 18, of South Boston, on Island View Place in the Harbor Point development in Dorchester this afternoon after first receiving a report he was at Excel High School in South Boston with the gun. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/22 - 9:53 pm

UMass Boston Police sent an advisory to university staffers tonight about gunfire shortly before 8 p.m. in the Bayside parking lot behind 150 Mt. Vernon St. and the DoubleTree Hotel. Boston and UMass Police are investigating.

Rendering of new clubhouse
By adamg - 10/25/22 - 1:44 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Martin Richard Foundation and the Dorchester Boys & Girls Club for a three-story field house on Mt. Vernon Street in Dorchester that will include everything from basketball courts and running tracks to an auditorium and cafeteria. Read more.

By adamg - 9/12/22 - 11:22 am

The signboards along the Expressway say drivers should expect delays between 1 and 3 p.m. today as the president arrives in town for his "cancer moonshot" speech at the JFK Library.

Only thing is the speech is at 4 p.m. And then the officials White House schedule says he'll be staying in town for a Democratic National Committee reception at 6 p.m. We'll go out on a limb and assume that's not at the neighboring Bayside DoubleTree, so that probably means a motorcade somewhere downtown or in the Back Bay. And then he departs Boston at 7:10 p.m., which means still more traffic issues as he gets taken to Logan.

By adamg - 9/9/22 - 9:33 am

President Biden comes to town Monday to announce a "cancer moonshot" program at the JFK Library - and UMass Boston is moving classes to online for the day. Read more.

Wet turkey
By adamg - 9/6/22 - 3:11 pm

Welcome to Dot spotted these drenched, bedraggled turkeys on the Harborwalk near the JFK Library in Dorchester on this, our second straight day of rain.