You can make movies in -B ... .L] Community Newspaper Company www.townonline.com/allstonbrightoo FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2002 Vol. 6, No. 27 38 Pages 3 Sections 75¢ Hate crime Keeping the dream alive is on the rise Police say main targets are Muslims and people from the Middle ±st ~ By s~~~!1~~ha "We are IO(;king for a lot llston-Brighton w~ more ~f- of eyes in community fected by the tragic terronst te A. attacks on Sept. 11 than ex- as we are nly as good as peeled. From a rise i~ hate ~ri~es I? the people Out there. Do the reluctance of residents 111 1mm1- "'-- grant communities to report trouble, not approach or confront District 14 police have seen it all. I II Capt. William Evans hosted a meet- peop e - Ca US. ing la<;t week on Wednesday at the po- Even if it's something as lice station, where representatives of ffit" ,, the Boston Police Department's Com- small as gra I. munity Disorders Unit discussed hate Sgt. Detectiye Robert Albano crimes and racial profiling. The meet- ing gave residents some important in­ sights into public safety and crime pat­ There are so many different diversi­ terns in Allston and Brighton. fied groups of nationalities 111 th1' Officers said that the last 50 ca<;es in community that 'even the police were the area associated with hate or bia'i­ amazed that they didn't know the full related crimes were motivated by anti­ extent of who is Ii\ ing in All-.ton Middle Eastern or anti-Muslim senti­ Brighton until these incidents -;wted ment'> and that all non-white people accelerating. are threatened. "It'<; important that we knm\ ahout "Since 9- 11 , there ha<> been an in­ them becau'c our job i' to protect crea<;e in anti-Muslim sentiment-; and everyone." 'trc..,:i.t'<l .Bm\ er, citing the people go overboard in the spirit of pa­ example of a gn•1p ot'Somalians \\ho triotism," said Det. Jerome Bower. live in Charlestown. He didn 't know PHOTO BY JOHN Tl>ACY Meyer Chambers, music di~'tO': of the Boston Black Catholic , leads his song In song at Sunday's 11th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Service .. e need the mwmunit.)' to talk to us the} , ere '"ere until investigating • ~ ._ arid tell us w at to do." at St. J6hn s Serii.nary lri 1~00. ti;s Emineftce Cari1lrial Be Law provided the homily at the service. For more photos from the service, see page 6. HATE CRIME, page 5 Residents want more than airy pro ·ses from Harvard Campbell, project planner with the man of the community taskforce. Officials are waiting for real plans on BRA. "But they are al'>O known for de­ Next June, Harvard has to present its stroying communitie.-., and the prob­ next five-year plan which is required what the university is going to do in lem with all this land is that it doesn't for any proposed development to just belong to Harvard a<; they would show what they want to do and why, By Audltl Guha the area for yem ..... STAFF WRITER have everyone believe." and how it will impact the community. "Right no\\o it\ a guessing game. Harvard and Boston Redevelop­ But Harvard spokesperson Kevin The North Allston Neighborhood and I bet they're fu1thcr in their plans ment Authority officials met with McCluskey insisted that they are open Strategic planning process b bumping than they say." ~d a concerned resi­ about 50 resident<; at the All1,,ton library to comments and feedback from the along with non-plans and community dent who does rn}t want to be named. last week to discu..'s the North Allston community at all times and said that concerns about Harvard University's 'They have a th<>usand things in the Neighborhood Strategic Plan, which is they are happy to present ''the next vision of extension and development waters and haven't even brought out intended to provide the neighborhood steps and a preliminary plan" for North in the area. Residents are concerned the fish so every~can go hungry." with a guide for growth, development Allston. He says it tries to take into about specifics while Harvard Boston Redev opment officials S.1) and infrastructure improvement. It is consideration previous community spokespersons, general a<; ever, spout­ that they have ve little say about the being developed by Harvard, the BRA concerns and improvements. ed promises of an improved North All­ project until a s ific development and the North Allston Community "We will review goals and is.o;;ues ston campus and neighborhood. Har­ plan is proposed. ut with no time lim­ Planning Group, which represents res­ that have come up and relate them to vard officials stress that plans are just its and three-and-0-half years into this idents, businesses. and electc:d offi­ Harvard's planning ideas in sketching "preliminary." strategic plan, Harvard does e\en 11< >t Thls Is a neighborhood Issues diagram, put together by Goody, C ncy & cials. The purpo<,e of the meeting was out preliminary plans," he said. "A But city officials told the TAB that have a schedule for thi~ project. kt Associates based on the corcems of Allston residents and Harv rd's location to receive community feedback, draft will be made in May and present­ the cartoon map presented by Harvard alone a concrete plan. But numerou In the area. something resident'> complained Har­ ed to public in June for more com­ last week isn't a plan at all. Even community meetings ha\·e been vard ha<> been lax about in the pa-;t. ment-;." though they claim to have nothing spe­ planned over the next fe\\ months. .\fa achu-;en Turnpike and c;outh of doe, in Alb.ton what i did in Cam­ 'There has been a gap in the process The taskforce, created to involve the cific planned for a project that can be The project atea stretche.o;; all the Uk! mer. CO\ering ke) All.,ton neigh­ bridge. they would have go. of Harvard meeting with the commu­ community in the process of planning equated to Boston's Big Dig, Harvard way from the Lc(l Binnmgham Park­ bofhotiJ.,. Romar, Pcp.,1 anu WGBH 'They are capable of ery good and nity," pointed out Ray Mellone, chair- ha<; been aggres.5ively buying land in way to Western Avenue. north of the all O\\n propert} he1e and ii Harvard p<).\itive development,' said Lance HARVARD page 5 INSIDE Two stabbings within a w ek Redistricting joy for reps One boy attacked after a gan1e, the other at Burger Ki g By Audltl Guha sion with the U.S. Army Reserve as f( ~\C\P. - STAFF WRITER a legal advisor. "Many communi­ ByAudltiGuha 1."ei\ed a superficial wound to the 1,,1omach With new district lines drawn, ties were splintered and it's impor­ STAffWRITER ckntif) he man who stabbed him" J Allston-Brighton state representa­ tant that we avoided that." t4 There were tw¢ stabbing incident'> in Brighton O\er the ire \ictim. woo too oorre to wab::h the . was taken to tives are glad that they have re­ Golden is in his fourth year as a course of the last week. and police are wprised but tkl\ e Beth lsr.i~I Hospital. OOt ~injury wa.., ~ """",,,_"'1 life-threal- tained most of their territOI) and representative in this area. He repre­ tightened security in these areas. l.'l'ling. y said "\ J &JStOn PoliceSJXlkesrrm OfficerOiff even gained some new ground but sent<; half of Allston-Brighton with ~ A 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in the ~omxh •~ .. x­ ''The) \\-hat cau~ don't know the altercati . but they're the senator hm; lost North Allston the addition of Precinct 2 in Ward pected to make a full recovery. Last week on ThilN!a}. ·re mestig<lting," Connolly said. and is not too happy about it. 21. The district has more of Com­ boy was stabbed 6n Warren Street afternatching a oosket­ Hi!OOrna.'iler Charles Skidmore wa~ unable State Rep. Brian Golden thinks monwealth Avenue, almost the en­ ball oame at Brighton High School. police said. tai~. sa)ingthathe w& not thereat the game that his redistricting changes are a tire Boston University campus, and The teen, not a of the '>C:hool. told the that he ENTERTAINMENT ~udent ~ice the l1aJlX' of the teen who w& stabbed or the \\.ho did it positive move. a piece of Kenmore Square. Thi~ and his friends were at the entrance to the dri\C\\a) of He 1.'0Ul<l not confinn ifthe <;uspect I!> a student f the school. "I am pleased that in the tumul­ clearly gives the representative Brighton High wll!n they were approached b. IOor 15 men ''\\'e are renainly tq)ing it wasn't someone the school," tuous process of redistricting, more authority as a spokesman for 'Chronicle' with black hooded sweatshirts pulled up O\er their ra,:c . I~ said " 1ost of the Slaff were ~there as it w an after-hours Kevin Honan and I were able to the community in discussions «iith One of them took out 11 knife and stabbed him in the <.tom­ e'31'1l! and the suspect ran away befcre the police keep Allston-Brighton cohesively BU about its role in the neighbor­ tums20 ach before e.i;capiryg. Police believe that the victim is a student a high school represented in two districts," said hood.