Fields Corner
Lan Le hasn’t seen Vietnam in this century.
Now 52, she left her native land in the post-war chaos of the late 1970s and survived the horrors of a refugee camp in Macau before settling in Boston in 1981. With her relatives, she carved out a life as a... Read more
A summer job program for young people in Fields Corner has turned into a summer business venture, as a number of teens have used their summer to learn how to take a business from concept to opening.
The fruits of that labor will be paid in froyo – when... Read more
The third annual Little Saigon Night Market/Cho Dem street festival came together in just the right way last Saturday evening as families and people young and old from the neighborhood and beyond mixed and mingled by the thousands up and down Dorchester... Read more
Looking at the landscape of Fields Corner, business partners Junior Pena and Vivien Veth recognized that there was a growing population of residents from the Dominican Republic in the neighborhood, but no restaurant dedicated to their food preferences.... Read more
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a land owner's plans to replace a convenience store and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street, with a five-story, 46-unit apartment building.
The Gordon family, which owns the... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was shot at 417 Geneva Ave. around 12:50 a.m. on Saturday.
Curtis Effee, 41, was shot in the chest and was declared dead at the scene.
As many as 11 shots in total may have been fired.
Police report that around12... Read more
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place.
The board also gave the 60-seat Saigon Chicken House permission to... Read more
Officials at the Fields Corner nonprofit VietAID are shopping around a proposal for 13 units of affordable housing in a new building on an underutilized community garden at 35 Faulkner St. next to the Red Line station.
Executive Director George Huynh and... Read more
A Dorchester man who held up a series of stores at knifepoint this past spring, less than three months after he was released from a a 30-month sentence for armed robberies in New York City, now faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted,... Read more
The second annual Boston Little Saigon Cho Dem (Night Market) presented a cavalcade of exciting entertainment, food, and fun on Dorchester Avenue and Town Field last Saturday, with thousands flocking to Fields Corner to take in the increasingly popular... Read more
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