I live on the outer edge of the Combat Zone in Boston, just off Tremont and 2 seconds from the Common. The Combat Zone is considered the skeezy part of the downtown area, mainly Chinatown and some of the seedier blocks attached to it, like Emerson College's beloved Stripper Alley. Well I've been around here for two years now but I've never seen the neighborhood get this crazy. There's a 7-11 by my building that is about a 30-second walk away, and a few minutes ago in the 60 seconds that it takes to walk to and from said convenience store I was approached by no less than five drug dealers (some of them again on the way back), was asked for change by three hobos (out of a rather large hobo squad that by and large ignored me), and saw three of the most scantily-clad hookers I've ever seen in my entire life.
My question is this: have any of the other Bostonian Chewers noticed a current upswing in city skeeziness? Is this the seedy underbelly rising up against the gentrification? Or are the drug dealers and hookers simply being pushed from another part of the city to this area?
My question is this: have any of the other Bostonian Chewers noticed a current upswing in city skeeziness? Is this the seedy underbelly rising up against the gentrification? Or are the drug dealers and hookers simply being pushed from another part of the city to this area?
