Please join us for our community meeting to wrap up our walk audit series! We'll report back, discuss our findings and improvements that have already been made, and talk about next steps. BCYF Community Center 6 Cummins Hwy, Boston, MA 02131 📅 Wednesday, November 19 🕞 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Our 2025 walk audit series is made possible by the 

We've submitted a comment letter in support of a proposed affordable housing project at 4259-4267 Washington Street, the old Bank of America location just off the square. As detailed below, it's great to see the Squares and Streets rezoning effort pay off so quickly with a higher density, pedestrian-oriented development, and look forward to welcoming new residents to our neighborhood.

Tonight at 6 PM, there’s a public meeting about B’nai B’rith’s proposal for a 6-story, PassiveHouse-certifiable building with 41 affordable senior homes and new retail — including a new home for the Thrift Shop — on the former Bank of America parking lot on Washington St (between Chilacates and the recycling center). This is exactly the kind of thoughtful, sustainable development that many Roslindale residents hoped would come out of the Squares + Streets rezoning.

Join us on our third and final walk audit in this year’s series this coming Wednesday! We'll meet in Adams Park and depart by 3:35 to observe and document how safe, accessible, and welcoming the streets and sidewalks are for people of all ages and abilities.  We will not be entering the Sarah Roberts school grounds as not to interfere with school dismissal and buses, but we will observe and document the issues and challenges on this busy corridor at rush hour / school dismissal time from the opposite site of Cummins Highway.

Early Monday morning, yet another serious crash on Hyde Park Avenue left a pedestrian critically injured near American Legion Highway. Streetsblog MASS reports that Boston EMS transported the victim to the hospital after being struck by a driver — the latest in a long line of preventable tragedies on this corridor. For years, residents have pushed for long‑promised safety improvements along Hyde Park Avenue.

Just a quick note for interested and supportive folks in our neighborhood that the Small Project Review public meeting on the BBH proposal has been announced by the Boston Planning Department for Monday, 20 October 2025, at 6 pm. It will be over zoom and you can get information on the meeting and register HERE. Hope to see you there to support this ground-floor commercial and certificated, fast-track all-affordable residential proposal that represents the first phase of B'nai B'rith Housing's redevelopment of the former Bank of America site and requires no zoning relief.

The second draft of the city's Climate Action Plan 2025 - which will guide the City through the next 5 years of efforts to reduce our collective carbon emissions and keep on track to hit a 50% drop from 2005 levels for community-wide emissions by 2030 (60% for municipal government emissions) and full carbon neutrality at a 100% drop from those levels by 2050 - has been available since the summer and the feedback period closes on this coming Tuesday, 30 September 2025.

We are happy to report that our walk audit of Washington St on August 23rd has already yielded meaningful results - the Public Works Department was out on the sidewalks yesterday repairing the biggest sidewalk issues we identified! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Enrique José Pepén (@enriquepepen) Thank you to Councilor Pepen's staff for elevating these concerns, and to the Disabilities Commission, the Parks Department, and the Public Works Department for their work, and finally all of you who participated in our walk audits and helped bring these changes about!

The first project to file for approval under the new zoning is the mixed-use ground-floor commercial/all-affordable residential phase 1 of B'nai B'rith Housing's 2-phase redevelopment of the former Bank of America property (which now houses only the thrift shop) and parking area wrapping around from Corinth along Cohasset to Washington. If you take a look at the small project review filing at the link, you'll note that WalkUP Roslindale have already indicated our support, but we will definitely also comment now that the filing has been made, we can see the design and program in more detail, and there's a comment period extending to October 17, 2025.

The 2nd walk audit of our 2025 walk audit series is coming up next week! In this, audit we'll be examining the heart of our Roslindale community. We'll begin in Adams Park and walk around the Roslindale Square area, observing and documenting how safe, accessible, and welcoming the streets and sidewalks are for people of all ages and abilities. Together, we can identify opportunities for improvement.

📅 Saturday, August 23rd 🕥 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Our first in a series of three walk audits is this Saturday - please join us! We'll be meeting at the corner of South St and Taft Hill Terrace and departing shortly after 10:30am. We'll walk north to Washington Street and begin in earnest at Basile St, cross to the other side of Washington St at Healy Field and continue to Archdale Rd.

We’re excited to host three walk audits in the coming weeks and months, supported by an AARP Community Challenge microgrant. These events are open to all, and we’d love your input. A walk audit is a community-led stroll through a neighborhood to observe and document how safe, accessible, and welcoming our streets and sidewalks are for people of all ages and abilities.

We sent in our letter (PDF, DOC) to express our strong support for the Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) project at 1200 Centre Street that will create a 78-unit affordable senior housing community.

Join the Arnold Arboretum for a Block Party on Arboretum Road this Saturday, July 19 from 11am-2pm to celebrate the new entrance to the Arboretum (Phase 1 of the Roslindale Gateway Path)! Free pizza, face painting, and more! View the flyer in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. Please stop by our community table to chat with us about the Roslindale Gateway Path, pedestrian improvements we're advocating for in and around the Arboretum, and more. Hope to see you there!

In line with the way the Wu Administration has been seeking to emphasize systemic planning instead of project-based development review, they're now out with a new initiative on public spaces they're calling "Spaces for You" and which they describe at a very high level as follows: Spaces For You is a collaborative and proactive initiative by the City of Boston to co-create, enhance, and celebrate public outdoor spaces that foster joy, belonging, and well-being for all residents.

With the Project Notification Form (PNF) for Article 80/Large Project Review of Hebrew Senior Life's proposed all-affordable senior residential development at Centre/Walter with the Boston Planning Department having been filed on 25 June, we are now within a public comment period for the project that will end on 28 July. As noted in the headline, a community meeting for the project has been scheduled for 6 pm on 23 July via Zoom.

This week, the Boston City Council held a hearing on Docket No. 0266 – Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Calming, and Expanding the Safety Surge Program. We emphatically support greater investment in pedestrian safety, which also benefits cyclists and motor vehicle drivers. Our comments for the hearing are below and also available as a PDF as submitted.