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Somebody shot on Huntington Avenue in the Fenway
By adamg on Tue, 09/22/2015 - 5:00pm
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Placing evidence cones. Photo by Gail Waterhouse.
Shortly after 4:30 p.m. between the Boston House of Pizza and Sal's Barbershop, at 319 Huntington Ave.
The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries. Police are looking for two suspect, both black and wearing hoodies, who ran in opposite directions after the shooting.
Northeastern has sent e-mail to students to avoid the area.
A man was shot to death a week ago at the other end of Huntington Avenue, just off Brigham Circle.
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319 Huntington Ave
is right across the street from the YMCA. Sad.
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Why does that make it sad?
I assume because families
I assume because families with young children use the Y and it should be a happy place but I certainly wouldn't think of any shooting as less sad because there wasn't a Y across the street from the scene.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume they were stating two unrelated thoughts on this incident.
Yes
I worked at that Y long ago: at 4:30, it would be filled with teens and children in the afterschool program, as well as families who lived in the family shelter upstairs. Many of the families who came to that facility traveled from other areas of the city- ones serviced by other Ys- because they felt it was a safer place for their children.
A shooting anywhere in the city is sad. A shooting during the day in an area filled with children that's generally safe is uniquely sad.
The Y!
It's sad because kids utilize the Y, staying out of trouble and the trouble finds its way to the doorstep.
NU students should
avoid the area. Kinda hard to do, as the shooting happened right across the street from the main campus.
Shady characters
There is always a bunch of shady characters hanging around The Y.M.C.A maybe a hallway house in the area or they stay at The Y
307 Huntington is a halfway
307 Huntington is a halfway house for federal prisoners, and I do recall classmates at NU who lived in the Y would speak of some pretty sketchy people that lived in non-NU housing in their building.
NU prides itself on Internships and real world experience
getting its students out of the ivory tower. Life experience starts right on campus.
A student living at the YMCA
I was a student at NU who lived in the Y dorms. They used it for transfer students. I came as a sophomore and was placed there. We had our own elevator and a work-study student who required our IDs before we entered. We were on two floors (men on one, women on the other) and our elevator on those floors as well as our staircase between Y and NU floors were separated by one of those cage doors. We could open it in case of emergency and it would set off an alarm, but as soon as it was opened it would not re-lock behind you. It had to be reset.
One day a male student saw a man chasing a woman into the elevator (from what was cruelly dubbed the "addict side" of the building). He had scissors and was trying to attack her. The student opened the emergency door thinking he could get the woman to safety. He didn't know that the door wouldn't lock once opened. The man followed the woman into the elevator and while she didn't sustain life threatening injuries, her blood was all over the elevator. Parents were enraged. To my knowledge, that was the last year of co-ed living at the Y. The next year it was men only and the next there were no more students.
319 Huntington Ave is a
319 Huntington Ave is a former hotel now operating as a prerelease center. It and the YMCA shelter put a lot of shady characters lingering on the block panhandling or hussling naive students on the narrow sidewalk.
???
This has what, exactly, to do with gun violence in the area? Those facilities have been there for a while.
Panhandling is not a gateway drug for murder. Pre-release centers are supervised with strict rules.
I'm sorry you can't connect
I'm sorry you can't connect the dots between sketchy people lingering on a block and sketchy people getting shot by other sketchy people on said block.
Not when "sketchy"
Is such a vague term and "sketchy" winos are not the same as "sketchy" college students or "sketchy" locals.
And most of the population you are ascribing "sketchy" to is not loitering and is being tightly supervised.
Read what the guy who lives there has to say, below.
Well maybe the colleges
Well maybe the colleges should stop importing their naive students into my city just to make a buck. Then maybe they would stop land grabbing. I'd prefer this type of facility that helps people over more housing for what are entitled adult sized babies (ie college students aren't real people).
DETROIT
It realy is people like you who are the real problem here. News flash tough guy, you loose those college kids you loose the hospitals and bam! Were in Detroit! This city will always be a hole and treated like a motel 6 because the LOCALS are happy to shoot up the city then blame the only group that's funds everything. Shaking my head. It's people like you that ensure as soon as I get my great education from this city that offeres not much more I'm not gonna settle up in a beauty little shit hole in quincy so scum can bitch about how college kids make this city worse while they fight at stop and shop ovah the hut dawgs you degenerate. Coming from Canada I was told boston is the most blue most liberal and progressive city they have. Well, if this is as good as it gets here, best of luck to you all and when you desperately come seeking refuge in canada I just want you to know if will be me telling you to go fuck yourself ;) line from your favorite movie glorifying "real" boston. "The town" all it really is a town, more like an education truck stop I have no problem pissing all over the floor of.
If only....
...your great education included an English class.
At least we can agree my
At least we can agree my English is the only thing to dispute. I know that's really important to everyone here in boston and it's obvious in how classy this city is. Degenerates ked dood.
Um...more like you're making no sense.
Seriously. When your grammar and basic sentence construction completely obscure the meaning of what you're trying to say...I think you might want to reconsider your course choices. Maybe a little remedial work.
huh
You seem nice.
Canada must be proud.
Thank You
for spending your money in our humble little truckstop.
We appreciate it.
Further
You're one of the few people to come to school here and can't wait to get out. The majority of students come here, enjoy it for all that it has to offer (which is more than you realize, apparently) and tend to stay.
Boston is a great city and I'm sorry you haven't found anything to your liking.
So it's not a good fit for you. No biggie. Get yer lernin' and get out. And quit being so bitchy about it.
Isn't college much cheaper in Canada?
Why come to the US? The fine English classes at Quincy College?
Sorry, did you just blame the students?
Sorry, did you just blame the students for the shootings? And did you just say you'd prefer murderers to students? Also, most of the youth today goes to college. College is the new high school. What you are saying is that you'd rather live in a city without schools. There's Phoenix and Islamabad for people like you.
319 Huntington is also a dorm
319 Huntington is also a dorm. I used to live there.
Wonder how I would avoid it...
319 Huntington Ave
319 Huntington has been an NU dorm since 1981...
I live on the block
In a non-NEU (and non halfway house)building). When I walked home from the direction of the green line stop I saw two ambulances and backed up traffic and assumed an accident. Latest new reports suggest a targeted, gang-related shooting. The "sketchy characters" are primarily residents of the Y shelter and can be annoyingly persistent in panhandling, but I've never felt especially threatened by anyone. The house at 319 runs a pretty tight ship and residents are from all walks of live, including at one time a former state rep.