Got og questions? Dog .&.....Iu,~ answers ~PAGE 'l1 Community Newspaper Company • allstonbrightontab.com FRIDAY, APRIL 13, Vol. 11, No. 35 • 40 Pages • 3 Sections 75¢ HAND OVER YOUR MONEY FIGHTING CRIME Police launch 'Party line' By Karen Elowttt STAFFW'R ITER " H's seems to be a Uston-Brighton resi­ dents bothered by par­ proactive step they're A ties in their neighbor­ taking to make hood may now have an official place to twn foUowing the estab­ neighborhoods safer." lishment by the Boston Police De­ partment of a so-called "Party Sergeant William Fogerty Line." The telephone hotline would allow residents to report potentially dangerous after-hours York woman after a house party in parties in their neighborhoods. Dorchester. Given the number of parties that "A lot of homicides happen dur­ dotA-B streets most evenings, and ing or after parties," said ergeant on weekends in particular, this William Fogerty of District 14, news may have annoyed neigh­ who surmised that the Pany Line bors heaving sighs of relief. The was primarily implemented to re­ goal of the "Party Line," however, duce violence in Dorchester and is less to belp neighbors who can't Roxbury, wbere three people were sleep because of all the noise than killed in the last six month.! during or after late-night parties. it is to stop deadly violence. SToVF PHOTO BY ZARA TV#EY The line was, in fact, established Police Commissioner Ed Davis Clartbel Peralta, employee of Uberty Tax Servid" dons a Statue of Uberty outftt as she reminds palSlng drivers in the wake of the killing of a New PARTY UNE, p{!ge 13 about the _oachlng tax return dete. St. E's ER .gets IENCE CE ER By Karen Elowltt STAFF WRITER Planned building but height mathfuels debate St. Elizabeth's Medical Cen­ What's ter has the official go-ahead to happening when By Karen Elowttt Behnisch and Harvard officials consider proceed with plans to relocate SfAFF WRITER 76 feet to be the official height of the build­ • Zoning approval "C4~ml)an~ to the previous and expand its Emergency De­ expected, April 25 Harvard architects are proposing lower ing, and a number that represents a fair com­ partment, following the Boston building heights than previously planned for cPllceptudl design, we lost promise which was negotiated openly with • Construction work Redevelopment Authority's ap- . begins, May 1 the university's proposed WestemAvenue sci­ ......" ..1 f100lts in the revision." the community. proval of the hospital's lO-year ence cenll .., as well as more landscaping and "Compared to the previous conceptual de­ • ER Completion Institutional Master Plan. better pemeability on the campus. The sign, we lost several floors in the revision," St. E's does not plan to waste changes ir the new plans, which the architects said Behniscb. ''Ninety-flv feet is what was proposed by a consultant, but the task force any time getting started with live by the second week 01 Au­ presented .Monday evening, are in response to construction, with ground­ main builtling is tenta­ pushed back, saying that wns not appropriate gust. communiW feedback from prior meetings. feeli.\BIJtthe mechanical pent- for the Western Ave. corridor." breaking scheduled to start in Work will begin at the comer Though the April 9 gathering was palpa­ 27 feet high, and the The revisions were presented three weeks less than 30 days, after Zoning of Cambridge and Washin Ion bly more relaxed than previous task force high. So the question after a March 20 subcommittee meeting in Commission approval is ob­ streets around May I , with cun­ meetings, Ihe presentation stiU generated de­ building's height was which task force members worked closely tained on April 25. tainment, topsoil removal and bate, mainly over the issue of how to calcu­ with university officials to hammer out vari­ "Building the new roadway excavation occurring throu - late total builtling height. will be the first thing we start During consultant architect Stefan ~~ft~~~ ,llast night that real- ous details of the project. out May and June. Je " said task force Furthermore, architects said that the trade­ on," said Mark Tarlton, vice The 45,700-square-foot Behnisch's presentation, the heights of the president of facill ties at St. Eliz­ main portions of the structures were distin­ \.-usa~J<. ''On some' buildings a off in height would make the building more structure will allow St. E'~ to guished from both the heights of the "me­ environmentally sound, since a taller me­ abeth's. "We will begin at the significantly improve and x­ pe~'~:r::nw~~OIU~~ld~er~~ no more campus end of the site and work chanical penthouse" and the smokestacks on ie . and would chanical penthouse means that less energy is pand its Emergency and UrI! nL top of the buildings, which some task force a sc ience~' ding it's required to ventilate the building. out toward Monastery Road." Care services when it is com- Tarlton said the road wiU go members tcok issue with. height, use it's a Brent Whelan, a task force member who ER, pB/J 5 In the proposed Building One, for exam- elemen ." HARVARD, page 5 INSIDE Running for memor:r Gardner teacher raises money for A litde trouble . Alzheimer ~\' Association with his bike By Karen Elowltt ~SEE PAGE 15 STAFF WRITER WIIII1 to run Allston resident Stephani next year'l, Marathon? Blake doesn't have a lot of spar LoaII doctIJF oilers PYCCKOE time these days. b ....tlps, ... 27. I1PH.i\O)KE}{lIE! The 24-year-old works at Gardner Elementary School. ~SEEPAGE6 where she spends her d'ays teach­ and literacy. ing a combined third-, fourth- and Oh, and one other thing - she ftftb-grade class. is uaining for Monday's Boston In addition, she is a full-tim Marathon. graduate student in Boston Col­ Blake, who was a middle-<lis­ PHOTO BY MATtHEW HEAlEY Stephanie Blake, who t~ache'S lnllrd,. lrollnn and fifth graders at Gardner Elementary School ._ behind lege's Donovan Urban Schol~ tance runner fc~ William and a healthy snack bar students were running at the school as a fundralser for the program. 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MARCHIONE By Bill Marchione BRtGHTON-AlLSTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Here's the answer to this week's cilities in response to a burgeoning High School (1929). ThlelAndJ"w Jackson School occu­ sical Revival style building, part of contest (we gave you the hint last school-age population in the fast­ The Andrew Jackson School parcel of land that now ac­ the Washington Allston School Dis­ week): Andrew Jackson School, cor­ growing commuter suburb of AlJston­ the intersection of Armington cornm\>d!ltes the rear portion of the trict, contained 15 classrooms that ac­ ner of Armington Street and Webly Brighton. Other local schoolhouses and Webster Place {now Jackson-Mann School. It commodated 400 sludents, and was Place, near Union Square, Allston. dating from the 1920s included the Place), just outside of Union "qu"",. d~rnolish,ed when the Jackson­ staffed by 15 regular and four special The Andrew Jackson School was Garfield (1924), Hamilton (1924), It is one of three local schools was built in the 1970s. teachers. built in 1923 as part of a massive ex­ Baldwin (1926), StOITOW (1926), Pre­ for U.S. presidents, the others the Andrew Jackson School The first principal was Arthur A. pansion of the community's school fa- sentation (1929) and a new Brighton the Taft and Garfield schools. opene<I in September 1923, the Clas- Lincoln. Winners Next week' contest Hint: Here we see a circa-I920 post­ Ellie Hollum Bill Nixon card view of the intilrSeCtion of two Leonard Meek South Allston Streets off Common­ Phyllis Harrington wealth Avenue. Only the building to the Jim Byrne Joe Finn right now stands. Can you identify the two streets that converge in front of this Ollie ''Murph'' Murphy Bing McGilvray building, known as 'The Lindale?" Sammi McGilvray Tommy Woods Please e-mail your answer to allston­ [email protected], fnx it to 781-433- 8202 or call it in to 781-433-8365. If you leave a message, please spell your Help the historical society name slowly and clearly and include If you have photos of old Allston Heritage Museum and/a' your first and last narne. Also leave Brighton-Allston in your family in this column. Ifyou have photos your telephone number in case we need photo albums, please consider al- you would like to donate, orwould to contact you with questions about lowing the Brigbton-AlliIDn His- be willing to hav.: the HiIDlcal your answer. All answm; must be re­ tmicaI Society to copy them fur Society COPY.