First of all, I want to start off by apologizing for getting away from my regular perspective which is real estate and how the "Boston Globe" NEVER seems to represent what is happening in the City's real estate markets correctly. It's not my fault that the Globe, particularly the Globe editorials, hasn't said anything stupid about Boston real estate lately. They HAVE said things that are stupid, and avoided commenting on other events that mighty cause them to correct previous positions they've taken, but it hasn't been about real estate.*
By now I'm sure just about everyone has heard about the poor 14 year old "child" that was knocked off his brother's scooter on Bowdoin Street and shot and killed by a few of the local punks on Monday the 31st of May. (Not even animals kill for no reason). "Nightmare Comes True"
In today's (06/02/2010) Boston Globe editorial "No Place for children" the Globe admits that ".. social pathologies that infect the Bowdoin Street area of Dorchester.." are deep seeded and won't succumb to easy solutions", but then goes to add that at, ".. least the city could provide a few safe places for children in the area to play." So they suggest a new "playground or park". Huh???
Here we see the Globe at it's pop-pseudosociology "politically correct" best. While a playground won't solve the problem it at least shows the residents that "... the city is looking out for them." WHAT?? (Can't you just hear someone saying, "My son was killed but, hey, we got a new playground.") The Globe also adds that the playground, or park, will instill a "... community culture that points lives in a more positive direction." (Or, "I gonna shoot yo' sorry ass, but I gotta new playground so I let you go.")
Has the Globe decided that, because the problems are huge and the solutions are difficult, that we just go around and do things that are stupid? Just what are they smoking over on Morrissey Boulevard??? (And how can I get some?)
Now, as usual, you may agree or you may disagree with me. That's fine. But there is just one major problem with the story, though the editorial lauds the City saying that parks and playgrounds are one thing they generally do well, the Globe goes on to add "... but not in this part of Dorchester." Could somebody kindly get the writer of this essay a map?
The child that was killed lived on Norton Street (The exact number isn't important). But if you start at his house and head up Norton Street and turn left on Bowdoin Street, and then right on Mount Ida Road, it's a whopping .4 miles to Ronan Park ... an 11.65 acre park with playground areas for small children, there are basketball courts for older kids, there are large expanses of grass for just running and baseball fields for just having fun. In effect, the Boston Globe has suggested for the neighborhood, what the neighborhood already has, and is underutilized.
It's good that, at least, the Globe admits that the playgrounds aren't a solution, Ronan Park is not without it's own crime problems. There have been muggins and murders on abutting Juliette Street, Draper Street, a triple killing on Mount Ida Road last year and the high profile murder of John Beresford in 2005 (an activist working to improve the quality of life in and around Ronan Park) resulted in the installation of emergency phones to the police in the park.
And even if the Globe editorial writer thinks a "tot lot" would be nice to have even closer than Ronan Park, THERE IS ONE .2 miles away on Tebroc Street (that the writer makes reference to). And though the writer quotes the young murder victim's father as saying he " couldn’t remember the last time the lot was anything but empty, fenced-in space. And he’s been living in the area since 1970." Did the writer check?? I remember when that 'tot lot" was built on the site of a lot long vacant since the house on it was torn down. I don't remember the year but it was during the Menino administration. A Boston Globe article of 12/28/2002, following one of the "let's make Menino feel good" Christmas walks through the neighborhood, was titled "A BOUNCE ON BOWDOIN St.". In it the Globe "puffed up the administration" in that "A tot lot stands on Tebroc Street where the Vamp Hill gang once reigned."
So why does the Boston Globe feel ANOTHER park will be any more successful than the gang "spray painted" dump Menino's Tebroc Street "tot lot" has become?
Maybe it's about time to admit that, since nothing can be done about the violent crime in the area, if you really care about your child's safety ... it's time to leave! The large show of force by the Boston police will fade after a few weeks and move elsewhere ... it always does .. till the next high profile murder.
Moron Men ... I mean, Mayor Menino can say all he wants that the Bowdoin Street area "... is a good neighborhood .." and that crime in the area is "... not out of control ..." as he did in yesterday's Boston Herald. He's wrong! The shooting of an Innocent child on the streets in broad daylight, EVEN IF IT WAS AN EXTREMELY ANOMALOUS EVENT (unfortunately it's not), means things have gotten out of control. That there are good hard working families in the area is true, but that doesn't make it a good neighborhood, as the list below of nearby violent crimes during the last year testify.
(1) Stabbing Inwood Street 09/04/2009
(2) Two shot 56 Norton Street 10/31/2009
(3) Two shot, Norton and Bowdoin Streets 11/16/2009
(4) Shooting 35 Westville Street 11/17/2010
(5) Murder 315 Geneva Avenue 01/01/2010
(6) Murder 85 Draper Street 03/03/2010
(7) Teen killed in gunfight with police 11 Navallus Terrace 04/03/2010
This isn't "out of control"?? This is a "good neighborhood"??
As usual, the only accurate part of a Globe editorial is the title. It's time for Boston's clown mayor (and his enablers at the Boston Globe editorial board) to admit, Bowdoin Street has become "No Place for Children".
* Yesterday I came upon an article in the "New York Times", the Boston Globe''s owner, regarding Boston real estate that is so astonishing inaccurate that will take me a few more days to document all the lies, omission, and factual inaccuracies. It clearly shows that, whatever stupid tricks the (minor league) Boston Globe can perform, the (major league) New York Times can do even better!
I hope to have it for you by the weekend.
By now I'm sure just about everyone has heard about the poor 14 year old "child" that was knocked off his brother's scooter on Bowdoin Street and shot and killed by a few of the local punks on Monday the 31st of May. (Not even animals kill for no reason). "Nightmare Comes True"
In today's (06/02/2010) Boston Globe editorial "No Place for children" the Globe admits that ".. social pathologies that infect the Bowdoin Street area of Dorchester.." are deep seeded and won't succumb to easy solutions", but then goes to add that at, ".. least the city could provide a few safe places for children in the area to play." So they suggest a new "playground or park". Huh???
Here we see the Globe at it's pop-pseudosociology "politically correct" best. While a playground won't solve the problem it at least shows the residents that "... the city is looking out for them." WHAT?? (Can't you just hear someone saying, "My son was killed but, hey, we got a new playground.") The Globe also adds that the playground, or park, will instill a "... community culture that points lives in a more positive direction." (Or, "I gonna shoot yo' sorry ass, but I gotta new playground so I let you go.")
Has the Globe decided that, because the problems are huge and the solutions are difficult, that we just go around and do things that are stupid? Just what are they smoking over on Morrissey Boulevard??? (And how can I get some?)
Now, as usual, you may agree or you may disagree with me. That's fine. But there is just one major problem with the story, though the editorial lauds the City saying that parks and playgrounds are one thing they generally do well, the Globe goes on to add "... but not in this part of Dorchester." Could somebody kindly get the writer of this essay a map?
The child that was killed lived on Norton Street (The exact number isn't important). But if you start at his house and head up Norton Street and turn left on Bowdoin Street, and then right on Mount Ida Road, it's a whopping .4 miles to Ronan Park ... an 11.65 acre park with playground areas for small children, there are basketball courts for older kids, there are large expanses of grass for just running and baseball fields for just having fun. In effect, the Boston Globe has suggested for the neighborhood, what the neighborhood already has, and is underutilized.
It's good that, at least, the Globe admits that the playgrounds aren't a solution, Ronan Park is not without it's own crime problems. There have been muggins and murders on abutting Juliette Street, Draper Street, a triple killing on Mount Ida Road last year and the high profile murder of John Beresford in 2005 (an activist working to improve the quality of life in and around Ronan Park) resulted in the installation of emergency phones to the police in the park.
And even if the Globe editorial writer thinks a "tot lot" would be nice to have even closer than Ronan Park, THERE IS ONE .2 miles away on Tebroc Street (that the writer makes reference to). And though the writer quotes the young murder victim's father as saying he " couldn’t remember the last time the lot was anything but empty, fenced-in space. And he’s been living in the area since 1970." Did the writer check?? I remember when that 'tot lot" was built on the site of a lot long vacant since the house on it was torn down. I don't remember the year but it was during the Menino administration. A Boston Globe article of 12/28/2002, following one of the "let's make Menino feel good" Christmas walks through the neighborhood, was titled "A BOUNCE ON BOWDOIN St.". In it the Globe "puffed up the administration" in that "A tot lot stands on Tebroc Street where the Vamp Hill gang once reigned."
So why does the Boston Globe feel ANOTHER park will be any more successful than the gang "spray painted" dump Menino's Tebroc Street "tot lot" has become?
Maybe it's about time to admit that, since nothing can be done about the violent crime in the area, if you really care about your child's safety ... it's time to leave! The large show of force by the Boston police will fade after a few weeks and move elsewhere ... it always does .. till the next high profile murder.
Moron Men ... I mean, Mayor Menino can say all he wants that the Bowdoin Street area "... is a good neighborhood .." and that crime in the area is "... not out of control ..." as he did in yesterday's Boston Herald. He's wrong! The shooting of an Innocent child on the streets in broad daylight, EVEN IF IT WAS AN EXTREMELY ANOMALOUS EVENT (unfortunately it's not), means things have gotten out of control. That there are good hard working families in the area is true, but that doesn't make it a good neighborhood, as the list below of nearby violent crimes during the last year testify.
(1) Stabbing Inwood Street 09/04/2009
(2) Two shot 56 Norton Street 10/31/2009
(3) Two shot, Norton and Bowdoin Streets 11/16/2009
(4) Shooting 35 Westville Street 11/17/2010
(5) Murder 315 Geneva Avenue 01/01/2010
(6) Murder 85 Draper Street 03/03/2010
(7) Teen killed in gunfight with police 11 Navallus Terrace 04/03/2010
This isn't "out of control"?? This is a "good neighborhood"??
As usual, the only accurate part of a Globe editorial is the title. It's time for Boston's clown mayor (and his enablers at the Boston Globe editorial board) to admit, Bowdoin Street has become "No Place for Children".
* Yesterday I came upon an article in the "New York Times", the Boston Globe''s owner, regarding Boston real estate that is so astonishing inaccurate that will take me a few more days to document all the lies, omission, and factual inaccuracies. It clearly shows that, whatever stupid tricks the (minor league) Boston Globe can perform, the (major league) New York Times can do even better!
I hope to have it for you by the weekend.
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