jamaica plain

For six neighborhoods across Boston, this summer marks an opportunity to celebrate local businesses and community organizations as the city converts roadways into public space in its annual Open Streets events.

When the Southwest Expressway plans collapsed in the early 1970s, the corridor between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain was already scarred. Decades of diligence by Urban Edge, an affordable homebuilder, have been healing the divide.

For Olanda Fontin, things are starting to look up. The 31-year-old recently obtained a work permit and is starting a new job as a homemaker — she is on her way to securing a better life for herself and her family.

Volunteer researchers have identified at least 27 people who were enslaved in Jamaica Plain as farmers or domestics during the 1700s.

More than 50 tenants, supporters and elected officials gathered outside the Forbes building on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain Saturday morning, demanding that action be taken to secure affordable rents for nearly 150 elderly and disabled low-income residents.

When city workers dismantled the tents in the streets around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard last December, city officials and civic leaders stressed the importance of a regional approach that would distribute the drug treatment programs and transitional housing from the area to neighborhoods throughout the city and throughout the region.

Shortly after polls closed, Sam Moñtano declared victory in her candidacy for State Representative of the 15th Suffolk district, which includes most of Jamaica Plain and all of Mission Hill.

Satisfying skeptics and making good on its promises so far, an almost forgotten attempt at preserving the Blessed Sacrament church building has now made its way back into the Pennrose proposal.

As the primary date for the 15th Suffolk House of Representatives seat draws closer, candidates are gearing up to make the final push to the finish line this September.

The Boston Police Department put on community events across the city Monday and Tuesday in celebration of “National Night Out,” a campaign by the nonprofit National Association of Town Watch to foster positive relationships between the community and law enforcement.

In 2018, with the sale of the Winthrop Square Garage, then-Mayor Martin Walsh committed $28 million to revitalize Franklin Park –– a promise that is now coming to fruition. However, with proposed plans including closing one of the park’s major through roads to automotive traffic, neighbors are expressing concerns over increased congestion and the sacrifice of invaluable community assets within the park’s outer regions.

Over the last two decades Jackson Square has seen major redevelopment with the addition of a supermarket, affordable housing and now a slew of new development on top of previously vacant lots in the neighborhood.