Born in Boston in 1960 I love watching your series of videos, brings me back to simpler times, you do great justice to modern day Boston without forgetting her past. 🙏🇺🇸
No Southie Projects ? Back in 60s & 70s The Best people, all my dear friends came from the projects in South Boston. Salt of the earth family's🍀 Tony these r wonderful videos, love you're books.👏🏻 Thank you
Interesting video. My mom grew up on Oswego Street and I lived the first three years of my life in my parents’ first apartment on Seneca Street. What’s called “renewal” by some is “displacement” for others; tax bases and property values are just blather when you are forced out of a stable, integrated community because powerful bean counters see more opportunities to add to their wealth from the land you are using. Among my most vivid memories of growing up in Boston is the stench of wet plaster as we walked past` mountains of rubble where our neighbors’ homes and small businesses had stood the week before. We thought this must have been what it was like for the children in the recently bombed out cities of Europe and England. A second wave of destruction a few years later took the rest of the neighborhood all the way to Tremont Street, including the next apartment we rented. Then they leveled the West End, but by the time the developers went for their next target, the North End, residents organized and stopped them.`
You present a heartbreaking story for those who lived there and for the city itself, to lose a beautiful community with so much history. I would have loved to see how this area changed throughout the decades and perhaps lived there myself
Anthony, you do a great job on these min documentaries! I'm a history buff and grew up in the Boston area so this is a real treat. Keep up the good work.
I noticed the aerial photo at 0:55 and 4:00 is not of the old New York Streets but some of the westernmost part of South Boston, including the old Broadway and Dover Street bridges. Still a wonderful video, Anthony. Thank yoj!
Norfolk, VA has it's Texas streets. Like Boston, after WWII much of the old city around Downtown was leveled. It's filled now, but it took decades. Currently, individual blighted properties are removed. Even abandoned manor homes.
Hi Boston Herald and Anthony Sammarco, The first and second historic photos shown in this video--as well as the photo shown at 3:55--are actually of South Boston at and around the intersection of W 2nd and A Streets. Only a small glimpse of the New York Streets can be seen at the top of the photograph. Great find, though! I hadn't seen that photo until now. The close-up view of the map shown at 0:50 is also of the South Cove, not the area that would become the New York Streets (which was water/marshland at the time that map was made). Thank you for making this video!
