Blue Hill Avenue: If A Street Could Speak

The murders in late September 2010 of a toddler, his mother and two adult men were described by police as the worst shooting rampage in Boston since 2005.  These homicides, as well as other murders in recent months, have largely taken place in urban neighborhoods abutting Blue Hill Avenue, the street that connects Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and suburban Milton. Violence has given this street a tragic notoriety, but it's also a place with a deep history, and a present filled with complexity and alive with growth.  You can listen to my four-part series here: