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Seven stabbed in Theater District as clubs let out
By adamg on Sun, 09/25/2016 - 8:30am
Around 2:15 a.m. on Tremont Street, WBZ reports. One in critical, after the attacks outside the Courtyard by Marriott at 279 Tremont.
The hotel is home to the Royale nightclub and Candibar, but Tremont Street at closing is full of people from other clubs as well, heading to a nearby parking garage.
Police have identified a suspect, WBZ reports. After the attacks, Emerson College issued an alert that police were looking for two men, one Asian, wearing a red shirt, jeans and a chain, the other a Hispanic wearing all black.
This is the worst closing-time mass stabbing in Boston since 2012, when seven were stabbed at the now closed Ups N Downs in Dorchester.
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Redesign streets and doorways of Boston Theatre District.
Massachusetts. a) Redesign streets and doorways of Boston Theatre District.
b) A Chinatown area Branch Public Library is needed administered by an outside agency not Boston Public Library.
c) Make streets an extension of the entertainment venues with better planning and development.
d) Engage student design studios at local schools of design, Boston Architectural College, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, School of Fashion Design, RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Boston University Ad Lab http://buadlab.com/
e) Get rid of the awful sign on the SouthEast corner of Stuart Street and Tremont St.
f) Document even more widely in social media the current conditions of Boston Theatre District with art, photography, motion pictures, surveillance video
https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+theatre+district&tbm=vid
see also
https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+theatre+district&tbm=isch
And this would reduce the violence?
How?
Design manipulates
The mind. Better flow better mojo.
What?
I haven't heard a larger boatload of crap since my neighbors septic tank exploded.
heh, nice one - but don't credit that anon too much
pretty sure 'Design Guru' is just trolling.
otoh, thezak has always had a prediliction to bend any topic to municipal administrivia. Whatever the underlying reason for him doing it, it's clearly not meant to antagonize or derail - it just seems to be how he tries to connect with the conversation here on the UH forum.
I love the dipomacy you grant him, Jeff F
"It just seems to be how he tries to connect with the conversation here on the UH forum."
Ooh, ooh, do me, do me.
Several police officers were
Several police officers were also assaulted Friday night near Howl at the Moon and they called for a "city-wide officer in trouble response".
Several officers needed ambulances and were sent to the hospitals.
link to this incident?
link to this incident?
The news didn't write about
The news didn't write about this, but I read the police reports.
A-1 has it right at their front desk if you're so inclined.
Simple
When's the last time you've heard of fights or a stabbing when the library closed? Just turn these drinking and dancing establishments into libraries and places for literary discussion and all violence will cease.
i guess you only have hammers to sell?
#nonsequiturs
a better idea
close the clubs, ban alcohol throughout the city of boston. only way to stop the senseless street violence in the theater district which has claimed no lives in the past 4 years....
after dealing with the scourge we can move onto the fenway, southie, brighton, southie, and the back bay which are even worse hot spots for homicide in our once great city.
agreed
prohibition has proven time and time again to be very effective in combating violence, so i stand behind you 100%
BAN
on Anons.
Sarcasm detector
"Only way to stop the senseless street violence in the theater district which has claimed no lives in the past 4 years."
Check your batteries, gents.
Curious
Woefully off-topic, but I can't help being curious about your point B: why should a public library not be administered by BPL?
For many, many years the City failed to act.
All along the many, many years the City has failed to act, neglecting the areas around Chinatown, Tufts Medical Center area, Theatre District, et al. The Chinatown Library would do better administered by another Library organization like the Boston Athenaeum http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/ or the Social Law Library https://www.socialaw.com/ or Harvard Musical Association Library http://hmaboston.org/
That sign is hideous.
Agree there.
People's behavior has gotten worse
You didn't even see this kind of behavior when the Combat Zone used to exist in that area. Of course there were incidents of crime, but one never saw a headline "six stabbed in Combat Zone as strip clubs let out at 2 AM". And certainly not as frequently as we see them now.
So it's clear
It's probably time to legalize prostitution.
The more peaceful Combat Zone?
Not so sure about that.
Simply many more people and much more drinking
I occasionally spent time in the strip clubs in the zone back in the day and I've found myself in the theater district at closing time much more recently.
2 completely different animals.
The strip clubs were seedy but they (and the pimps too) had a vested interest in keeping the peace: it was better for business. Bouncers at the strip clubs might let a bachelor party get a little rowdy but otherwise order was maintained and getting legless wasn't allowed.
The strip clubs weren't packed to the gills either, many hundreds of people weren't flowing into the streets at 2am. Weren't any single girls either.
My friends and I minded our manners in the clubs and stayed away from the working girls and had no trouble.
The dance clubs are completely different. Packed with drunks and tough guys trying to impress women. And drunk women causing problems, too. Also tons of kooks (probably form the suburbs) that simply don't know how to behave in public after a few drinks, if at all.
Throw in some gangsters and it's a pretty dangerous spot at that hour.
Ah the old "peaceful" Combat Zone
At 3 AM one Saturday night about 20 years ago, I saw bloody fight in the middle of Essex St including a guy swinging a big chain at his opponent and anyone else who tried to get near him. In another incident, I saw a guy on the sidewalk bleeding, who had just been stabbed, right in front of the late great bar, Playland. Ah, the good old peaceful days in the Combat Zone
Before the internet and instant twitter updates on everything, this kind of stuff did not usually get reported on radio, television, and the newspapers. I don't party in that area any more,so I cant comment on the level of violence today. But in the day, the Combat Zone was at times pretty damn violent.
Cold tea and fights
I also used to frequent the area in the 70s through the 90s. After 2 AM, especially in any of the Chinese restaurants that served "cold tea", you could almost guarantee some kind of fight would break out , either inside or outside. Nothing new.
Btw, can any of you young uns who go clubbing these days tell me, do they still serve cold tea in Chinatown?
I was in a few of those fights...
Good times.
Could be me but the sheer numbers of drunks changes the equation. It's frigging bedlam in the theatre district at Fri and Sat night closing times.
BPD close off streets and are out in force every weekend. I never saw that regularly in Zone or Chinatown.
Not a young un, never been
Not a young un, never been clubbing, but I had "cold tea" in Chinatown as recently as January of 2015. Haven't occasion to be back since.
cold tea
NO, the servers laugh at you...it's the new cleaned up Boston..sucks
Don't know which is worse...
So, which is worse, that knife fights break out or that bunch of drunk people are leaving the clubs at closing time to go to the parking lot to *drive themselves home*?
Theater Disctrict
This problem has been brewing for the last three years. Please notice that someone was convicted of murder last week for a killing that occurred in the same area. This appears to be locals and out of town drug dealers fighting for control of Tremont Street. The mayor and the police will be all over this. Next weekend there will be nothing but police between Stuart Street and the Mass Pike. Did anyone else notice that they will not put any names in the paper or that BPD claims that no one had yet been arrested? The last time this happened three years ago all of the names were from either from Pennsylvania or Bristol Country. My prediction is that this will be the subject of the next Dennis Lehane novel. At any rate, its high time to clean up the Theatre District. The crime and open drug dealing are unacceptable in this city.