Police and Fire
Knife-Wielding Elm Street Muggers Get Nothing But Arrested
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Boston Police say a trio of would-be muggers not only failed to get cash off their mark in an Elm Street incident late Thursday — they also got arrested.
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Neighborhood Life
Mansard of Madness: Victorian Inspires Visions of ‘Birds’ and Cthulhu
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There's a mansard Victorian on Roanoke Avenue, you probably know the one. It seems to inspire dire thoughts in passing residents — like the return of Cthulhu and a Hitchcockian swarm of birds. The 6 Roanoke Ave. house moved newish JP resident Anthony Penta to produce the altered photo you see above. He used Pixlr to add to the creepy atmospherics.
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Police and Fire
Four Taken to Hospital in Carolina Avenue Basement Fire
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Two workers suffered burns as fire broke out in a crawl space beneath a Carolina Avenue home on Saturday. Firefighters responded to 109 Carolina Ave. at 9:23 a.m. on Saturday to find they needed to bring in saws to get to the blaze, which was under the basement floor, according to Steve MacDonald of the Boston Fire Department. The workers were at the property to install insulation. Two suffered burns and another was taken to a hospital for evaluation, MacDonald said.
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Real Estate
Victorian Mansion, Once Three Apartments, Now a $2.475 Million Single-Family
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A Sumner Hill mansion — which the owners knitted back into a single-family house after it had been split into three units — is on the market. The 14-room house at 40 Greenough Ave. was restored by owners Diane Pienta and Dave O'Donohoe, as they explain in a video about the house. [selfie]
"Even though it's sad for us," Pienta says in the video, "it's time for it to be filled with new life. It's a happy home."
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Photo of the Day
Bottles on a Backyard Fence
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Each weekday we post an image from around the neighborhood for "Photo of the Day." Here's a view of one of the prettiest backyards you'll see in JP. The artfully-arranged bottles on the backfence are just one of the deft touches behind this Everett Street condo. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are three ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews
Tag a picture on Twitter with @02130News
Put your photo in the Jamaica Plain News photo pool on Flickr
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