Safest T·Stop Is Here Allston Street Station Tops MBTA S Low-Crime List
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I Minstrel show coming /",.I..LI.U - I Community Newspaper Company • FRIDAY, MARCH Vol. 11, No. 33 • 40 Pages • 3 Sections 75¢ NO NEED TO BE AFRAID Safest T·stop is here Allston Street station tops MBTA s low-crime list By Karen Elowltt distinction, with only ODe report STAFF WRITER ed incidence of (rime each. he Allston Street stop on Some of the worst tations in the MBTA's "B" line is clude Forest Hills on the Or Tone of the safeSt in the ange Line, wh re 43 crimes oc city, according to crime statistics curred, and the Red Line's recently released by the MBTA Alewife station, where 46 inci Transit Police. dents were reported. Only one single incident of Crime on tho MBTA decreased crime was reported at the station in slightly from 2(106 compared to 2006 - an instance of larceny for 2005. A total Of 972 major inci which no further details were dents were reported in 2006, in available. The stop is at the inter cluding assaultJj, rapes, robberies, section of Allston Street and Com car thefts and larcenies. In 2005, monwealth Avenue in Allston, there were l ,()()(l incidents. Thirty-one other stations in the ''Crime is down ... and we' ll 271-stiWon MBTA and commuter continue to do everything to 'J,croS1se PHOro 8Y WI ttOfM.EY rail network shared the "safest" MBTA, page 5 '. with Jaqu~ Alston, 10, on Sunday afternoon, Mlrch 25, at Rogers Park In up t:ogether December 2005 as part of the Big Brother progrem, CLOSE-OUT SALE IS RE Local er kind of brother C'ompUSAto Big Brother, ll.J£H£t:: U lo,,+I• .IJ pair up for fun, companionship By Karen Elow ltt Thirty-year-Old Jim MacKenzie, a vol STAFF WRITER unteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters of shut doors oon To the_avera1\.e sser he Massachusetts Bay, is a Big Brother to .- two guys playing "SorrY" in a cajr~ I Dleal an impact later in Jaquri Alston, n fourth-grader at Garfield By Karen Elowltt pany-wide' strulegy to improve Boston College would not nn'''''"II" Middle School in Brighton. The two have been paired for a little STAFf WRITER CompUSA's I1nancial balance rate a mention. life. We go bowling, to more than a year, since MacKenzie got A-B computer enthusiasts will sheet. On Feb 27, the company But the two guy .. in the comer museums, anything." announced it was undergoing a Moogy's on Chestnut Hill Av,mUe involved with the program back in De 'soon be losing a major shopping cember 2005 through his employer, mecca, as the CompUSA super realignment t/Wt would involve Sunday afternoon were doing 126 just playing a board game. They Jim McKenzie store at 205 Market St. nears its the closure of stores nation BROTHER, page 4 closure date. wide, a $440 IUion cash capital forging a special kind of bond. The shutdown is part of a com- COMPUSA, page 5 Book offers new look at Bo history in Russian By Julie Malll It ~bes what Boslon was like dur many Russians CORREsf>ONOENT ing thO Revolution and tlte Civil War, and American aspects of "I wanted my fonner There is a new hook out there for the intro<l(JCeS readers to th,: structure of the author, Ella Gorlova. city's Ilovernrnent and Ihe names of its compatriots to learn more thousands of Russian-speaking Bostoni She said Sh,ee!~:;~~~~:i~~~F;:~~~ ans. Entitled "From Boston - About mayon;. 1be hook also tells about ly for elderly ~ . about 8oston's history Boston," it is the first hook that tells the BostOl1'S historic neighb(lrhoods, from the not speak English Hub's complete history in Russian. Back £lay to the North End, and the city's about Boston in En.glisp because many Russians are Written by a native Russian speaker culM I instirutions, such as the Christian Gorlova said she who has lived in Boston for more than 30 ScieIl()e Church, the Boston Symphony clear up some things criticizing many American years, the hook tells the city's 375-year Orch Ira and the isabeL. Stuart Gardner grants often connpl2Lin history from its beginnings in 16th-centu Muse~m. fact that street aspects of life." "I wanted my former compatriots to written on the walls ry England to the present-day Big Dig Ella Gorlova project. learn more about Boston' s history because are in Russia and INSIDE Re idents propose alternate visions for 'Harvard south' By K.''''' Elowitt STAff' 'MtfTER "We need to increase Last Saturdfiy, in a conference penneability. " room at the Honan-Allston Li brary, a group of Allston residents Tim McHale put paint brush to paper and liter ally redrew Harvard's master plan for its neighborhood, sketch creating alternate visions for Har ing its own vi ion of an "ideal" vard's development, and a better community, and in the prooess dialogue between university and outlining its hOpes for a different neighborhood. kind of future relationship be "We have to be able to inte tween town gown. grate Harvard with the communi COIIWli6illait 10 and This group and others in the ty, and not have an us-and-them Allston-Brighton area have situation," said Tun McHale, a CoImuIIty NoIeI 6 Ptt(lTO BY IAN HURt£Y begun to encoUrage more interac resident of Litchfield Street, in reference to how he perceives paints her map of the Allston redevelopment project on Saturday, March 24, at ClIme 8 tive community participation, as part of a map party for local residents. Lyon. _ her mother Usa with the hope of simultaneously MAPS, page 4 same house In Allston that McOonough's grandparents ueed to own. DednatIoII8 21 Call For a Free LIbrary Notes 23 Something For 'I HI. Mortgage Loans Market Analysisl 23 ClIIIWI'H \CI'IC Everyone 0bItuarIeI local knowledge. P80pIe 12 Sport. Experienced answers. 1 Shawmut~!'2l Properties PoIltlcaI Notebook 24 \i Aul(1 134 Tremont Street· Brighton 1 Work Injuries Peoples Oak Square YMCA Federal SavIngs Bank 615 Washington St Your Neighborhood Realtor«> 1 3 Brighton. MA 02135 Allstoo 229 NOM _-ani sum 20 Franklin 51. , Brighlon ..." 617-782·3535 Tel. 611-787-2121 BrigJuon 435 M.ri" sum y. ~ www.ymcoboston.org (617) 787-8700 ,;, (617)15+0707 · www.pfsb.com www.C21. ..· hawmut.com 8 • ~FDIC , J .. _- .. - ~ TAB 2007 Then Now By Bill Here's the answer to this week's contest (we for three decades. Adjacent Wade Street was a specialist in residential and originally formed plirt of the Brown Estate. The gave you the hint last week): Hunningham lIall, also put through in 1897, but remained undevel Brown family resided in a farmhouse at the at 2018 Commonwealth Ave., southeast cOmer oped until much later. !~!rf~~~~~LeWiSof pri is vate credited residences with hav- and northeast corner of ommonwealth Avenue and of Wade Street, was built in 1897, shortly fler This structure is one of the last vestiges of a ~ in the course of a distin Foster street. By 1890, the parcel on which the upper end of Commonwealth Avenue (the time when tll<l upper end of Commonwealth Av extended from 1881, when Hunningham Hall would be built had passed section extending from Chestnut Hill Avenue to enue was tined with large-scale private resi the MIT architecture pro- into the hands of d veloper Edward P. Noyes, the Newton line) was widened in 1895. Hun dences. in 1937. His most notable who subsequently sold it to Margaret Wade, ningham Hall was the residence of Nathani I B. The Georgian Revival style Hunningham Hall was Second Unitarian Church. who laid out Wade treet. Doggett, and continued in th~ Doggett family was designed by leading Boston architect land on which Hunningham Hall sits Winners Bill Donovan N ext week' contest Tommy Woods Hint: Marian Quinn This North Brighton schOOl was taken down about 1960. An apartment building now occupies Tom McCarthy the site. The school was named for a prominent local politician. who served as state senator and Congressman. and who played a major role in se Help the curing Brighton's 1874 annexation to the city of historical society Boston. Can you name the SChool and give its pre If you have photos of old cise location? Brighton-Allston in your fami Please e-mail your lInswer to allston ly photo albums, please consid [email protected],faxitto781-433-82020rcall er allowing the Brighton-All it in to 781-433-8365. 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