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The Boston Little Saigon Night Market will join several other festivals on Dorchester Avenue this summer with a July evening devoted to young people in the community – along with the usual Vietnamese and Asian cuisine sold on the street in Fields Corner. Annie Le, director of Boston Little Saigon, told the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) on April 2 that the third

It’s an out with the old and in with the new situation along a prominent stretch of Dorchester Avenue south of Savin Hill as Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) officials confirmed this week that its laboriously developed PLAN: Glover’s Corner will not move forward and instead will be tucked into the new Squares + Streets process in nearby Fields Corner.

In an effort to enhance attention to pedestrian safety at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, Fields Corner Main Street (FCMS), one of the city’s 20 Main Street organizations, is developing a mural to help with the messaging.  FCMS, located at 1444 Dorchester Avenue, is dedicated to serving residents and business owners throughout the neighborhood. One way

Fields Corner has become the “hot spot” in the city for Bubble Tea and other Asian drinks and desserts, thanks to its cluster of Vietnamese businesses that were well poised to capitalize on an international surge of interest in the market. “I would say Bubble Tea is to Fields Corner what the cannoli is to the North End,” said Jackey West Devine, director of Fields Corner Main

Despite supply chain headaches and increasing food costs, Dorchester retailers and restaurants are reporting a great start to the holiday season as shoppers stay close to home to avoid crowds – a trend merchants hope will continue throughout the month and beyond. Following 2020’s move to online gifting as holiday shopping fell in the path of Covid’s “second surge” – largely at