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South Boston market held up at knifepoint
By adamg on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 9:55pm
The 7-Eleven at 473 W. Broadway was held up around 9:30 p.m. by a white man, about 5'10" with a scruffy beard and wearing a red mask and a dark jacket with a gray lining.
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there's a serious drug problem
in this city that I suspect goes back to the closing of Long Island Hospital. When is the city going to take responsibility for this?
Long island hospital?? In
Long island hospital?? In South Boston?
No
The previous poster is referring to the effect of shutting down facilities that served the entire city on Long Island. Most have since re-opened in new quarters, but that doesn't mean there aren't still effects.
Soon to be sold by the BRA?
I'm just waiting for the BRA to give the island up to a developer. I'll be more surprised if it's actually used for the people of Boston, instead of the elite.
Agree, but...
Agree there is a drug problem, and shutting Long Island shifted a lot of impact into many of our front yards. The methadone mikebon Mass Ave is a reched (SP?) mess.
But it also not like convenience stores in Southie (and elsewhere) haven't been robbed before.
**SoBo
**SoBo
Thank you for clarifying
so i didn't have too.
in all seriousness, i hope the robber gets some help and the people in the store are OK.
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
Its actually fairly infrequent
...especially compared with the regularity that the banks on West Broadway get robbed.
Clearly, this burgler was not
Clearly, this burgler was not ORIGINAL Southie stock. Some "yuppy" burgler who just doesn't get the Southie traditions.