W<1s yourb· PAGE 10 mCommunity Newspaper Company allstonbrightontnb.com Vol. 11, No. 1 36 Pages a 3 Sections 75¢ SoHo seeks seven- ay mu Hitchhiker Neighbors say noise already too much attacked By Meghann Ackerman By Meghann Ackerman STAFF WRITER Avenue ufter visiting a friend and STAFF WRITER was attacked by the three men Noise and litter were two reasons t's how Jack Kerouac criss­ who picked him up. neighbors said the restaurant SoHo should crossed the country to write According to the victim, he got • ~t be granted a seven-day entertainment the iconic "On the Road," but in to the front passenger seat of a license, and the Brighton Allston Im­ I modem-day beats looking to fol­ tan minivan. The other three men l'fOvement Association was inclined to lowing in Sal Paradise's footsteps in the car were described as black , 11'gree with them. beware: hitchhiking isn't what it men with slim builds around 19 • · Dave DeMarzo, one of the managers of used to be. years old. The man sitting behind the Market Street restaurant, explained On Aug. 15, police responded the victim put a knife to his throat that they already have an entertainment li­ to Colbome Road around 8 p.m. and said, "Give me everything," cense· for the weekends and have small where a 23-year-old Litchfield the victim said. 'bands and DJs playing at night. With a Street resident reported that he When the van slowed down seven-day license, DeMarzo said, the bad been assaulted. Since police near Colborne Road, the victim restaurant would not have live music were called, the victim had re­ said he jumped out; he also every night, but pick and choose a few turned to his home. said he had been stabbed in the nights a week to host entertainment. SoHo When police arrived at the vic­ chin. Two Colbome Road resi­ would not tum into a nightly dance club, tim's home, they saw that he was dents took the victim inside he assured opponents. and cleaned him up. The victim "Monday through Thursday, we do din- bleeding from the chin and had • ner and music on those nights would be cuts on his hands, arms and refused medical treatment and no louder than it already is," he said. knees. The victim said that he had said nothing had been stolen "We're trying· to get people who are al­ hitched a ride on Commonwealth from hitn. ready coming in to stay a little longer." Neighbors, however, raised concerns BICE NI L LOGO , about the increased volume of live enter­ 1 tainment and the dangers of people stay­ I ing too late. Several neighbors recounted being able to bear music coming out of Slaughterhouse SoHo late at night, and then hearing peo­ i ple out on the street when the restaurant closed down. past best forgotten? i ·~oise is a problem with people com­ ing down the street," said Ed Shanley, a MMtet Street resident. "It's not just By Meghann Ackerman No one denies that cattle were SoHo, but all the places that let out." STAFF WRITER big business in Brighton. Way i .Q.eMru;zQ. said he didri't plan to use the ls having a bull be a part of back in J776 the J:3righton Cattle ..... seven-day license all seven days, nor the Brighton bicenteqnial bull? Mar~et. was established, and it would be host anything louder than dinner Some said that having the· ani, was only in the mid- o.-late- music during the week. mal, symbolizing Brighton's 1900s that bovines left Bnghton. "When people say 'a band' they think past in the meat industry, as But several bicentennial plan­ Motley Crue, but that's not what we part of the celebration's logo is ners mentioned at Monday want," he said. a reminder of history; ~ers Bandm,.mbers, from left, Mike Dalllak, Mike Gree LOGO, page 5 In an interview after the meeting, De­ say it's repulsive. Colllns J,m Trio perform In the basement floor of So + SOHO, page 5 Sunday. ioho Is looking fo1 a seven-day music lice APE Neighbors: demolition ]~lan mo Teen center By Meghann Ackerman as soon as JX1'iSible. STAFF WRITER At past presentations of th1: project, closed for now For more than a year, neighbors and neighbors ha 'e objected to the number of property owners have battled over 1954 units propo~cJ (42) and the demolition of Violenee spike feared Commonwealth Ave. and a proposal to a house located in the Aberdo.!-u Histori­ raze one of the few smaller houses left in cal District. By Meghann Ackerm• A few years ago, the Faneuil 'The community disapprov1~ of the the area to construct condominiums. On STAFF WRITER Gardens Tenants' Association project twic4.: ," said Paula Rosenstock, Tuesday, both sides met with the Boston banded together to establish a referring to tie proposal's other times ap­ It's been a week since the Redevelopment Authority mediating to youth center at Faneuil Gardens youth center after the one that try to work out some of their differences. pearing at community meetings such as the BrightOJ1 Allston lmprovernent Asso­ closed. Residents of the devel­ they had had lost its funding. Both sides left dissatisfied, with neigh­ opment fear that if it doesn't re­ 'There used to be state fund­ ciation. bors worried about not having enough ing for youth centers in develop­ Objection were also raised about the open soon, they're going to see a time to save the historic property, and its PHOTO BY MEGHANN ACKERMAN spike in violence and dangerous ments and we had a thriving, ef­ owners eager to start the building process way the dl:velopers have handled the A proposal to rlc house at 1954 HOUHE, page 5 Commonwea rks. behavior. TEEN page 5 Roote ~ d in tra reaching to the future Sisters ofSt. Joseph revie mission, look ahead By Judy W "5erman Sister Mary, who just CORRES. .DENT her ix-year term as pres The Sisters of '- t. Joseph v.ere smiled ear to ear during a established hundreds of years interview as she recount ago, in 1650, and today, contin­ d eci ion to go high tech. Preschool to high ue the community work and Sister Helen, who has be teaching for wh ch they have ·x-year term as an area o - school adVice in been known for ..o many years. cllor, eagerly pointed out · But a visit to their mother­ in the newly renovated m Back To School house on Can1bridge Street house, which makes it a" shows the Sisters, now under SISTERS, pa e ~ INSIDE TODAY brand-new leadership, are squarely in the 21 st century. l'HOTO BY MATlli H Sister Helen Sulllvan, I And they are very proud of it. chats wtth Sister·M Just ask Sister Mary Murphy 8 Kelly, left, and Sister Commentary and Sister Hden Sullivan, Louise McDonough, c newly elected n embers of the ·Community Notes 4 before the start of the SI congregation's lr'adership team. renewal of vows cere Clime 6 ·d Destinations 18 Call For a Free l\1IAEL AlJTOMOBIL~ Ubrary Notes 20 HOME Market Analysis! CHIROPRACTIC age Loans COIUIEB.CLIL People 4 AAJ~&&Jl knowledge. LOW BATES Poltlcal Notebook 22 Sports enced answers. 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Spofford's most Important Quint Avenue and Radcllffe Road from GI nvllle Quint Avonue was extendad In as uther atlng from 1908, the work of the architectural Allston work was the Princeton Hotel (a luxury Avenue, Allston, circa 1912. direction In 1908, and nelghborln Rad rm of Hurd & Gore, who also designed a apartment bulldlnl) situated a short distance This handsome postcard view of the Road ancl Princeton Avenue (later umber of bulldlngs along Glenvllle Avenue, away at the northwest comer of ... Intersection of Quint Avenue and Radcllffe Road Glenvllle Avenue) were put throu sslbly lncludlng the apartment bulldlng that Commonwealth Avenue and Spofford Streets, • In Allston,-datlng from about 1912, Is time. ppears on the right of the postcard view. and which Is arguably the most beautlful emblematic of the period In the history of South This neighborhood contains much apartment bulldlng In South Allston. Spofford Allston when that neighborhood was ont of lstlngulshed architecture. Another Important Street was named for this prollflc architect. Boston's most fashlonable upper-class rchltect who contributed, at a sllghtly later suburban districts. ate, to the local streetscape was John C. Biii Marchione can be reached at Orlglnally bullt In 1890 as an access road to pofford, who designed the apartment [email protected].