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Old-school Eastie bar survives changes

WBUR surveys the scene inside Eddie C's in Maverick Square, reports there's even a trickle of tourists making their way across the harbor now. WBUR also reports on the coming gentrification of Maverick Square.

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Eddie C's bar is dirty and dangerous. I highly recommend people stay away. Also stay away if you are not white.

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Been there many times and I'm super white and I've never had a problem there. Actually many of the times I've been there I've seen a large group of gays who don't seem to have a problem.

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Agreed, the couple times I've been in there it's been older white guys and the ocasional gays. It's dirty sure, but I'd hardly call it unsafe.

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Sounds like my kind of place.

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With all due respect to Maverick Square, Eastie has been the next "it" neighborhood for at least the past 10 years.

I'm glad it's seeing some tourist traffic, though. Are those taquerias still open? We would schlepp over there from downtown for takeout sometimes. Long trip, but totally worth it.

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"We would schlepp over there from downtown for takeout sometimes. Long trip, but totally worth it."

Long trip? Maverick Square is two stops away from the State Street T Stop downtown, one stop from Aquarium. It takes all of four minutes or so if the Blue Line is running on schedule (granted, that's a very big IF). Because it's literally an island, the perception of East Boston is that it is "far away" or "isolated" from downtown, even though it is less than five minutes by car or T if things are running smoothly. But you are correct, it will never be the "it" neighborhood of the moment. No EaBo.

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The Blue Line runs very infrequently off-peak. And it ends in a part of downtown that's deserted outside business hours, so you have to transfer (maybe twice, or 3 or 4 times if buses are involved) to get where you're really going.

That's how a 2 mile trip turns into a 35 minute ordeal -- the joys of public transit in Boston.

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it runs every 9 minutes on the weekends..... and it has stops at both ends of quincy market

i'd bet you any day of the year that if we are standing at the sam adams statue (tourist ground zero) and race to Maverick Square--me on the T and you in a car--I win. Unless its like 6am or 11pm or something.

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Long trip from downtown? one T stop? White people stay away? yall are stuck in your own heads, mav is a good neighborhood

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The Maverick square area is pretty quickly gentrifying. The whole Jeffery's Point area is calm and quiet with quite a more and more young people moving in and renovations and construction going on. It is very much a mixed neighborhood but one of the things that stands out after living there for a while is that there is a much greater feeling of community. I've never felt unsafe walking the streets of Jeffery's point as a gay white guy.

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