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South Boston to lose a Dunkin' Donuts

The BPDA today approved a mixed-use building where West Broadway becomes East Broadway that will require the demolition of a Dunkin' Donuts.

The proposal, which calls for ground-floor retail - but not a replacement Dunk's - 18 condo units and 23 parking spaces would also replace Perkins Supply at 482 West Broadway, in a roughly $8.4-million project.

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There are only six other DDs within a mile radius, and a Doughboy Donuts, too.

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Possibly because of the loss of a keno hot spot, or the dunks, but probably just because 18 new condos may lead to 18 new man buns.

Life was so much better when organized crime ran the neighborhood.

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Must have been great when your classmate's innocent dad wasn't killed by Whitey.

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Yup

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I don't think the people of Charlestown really don't care what's going on down Perkns Square.

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now people can walk by without having to step in crumpled up scratch tickets and keno tickets.

also the townies (who supposedly care so much about south boston) smoke right outside so we can all inhale their second hand smoke and then they dump their cigarette butts right outside.

the entire block is going to be better off without this sh!thole. Put in a starbucks or another high end coffee shop.

- The Original SoBo Yuppie

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I've never seen a DD that did.

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the retail space inside was shared with a convenience store....that sold stuff no educated person would buy: lotto tickets, sports magazines, keno, candy, cigarettes...etc.

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Check out all the cigarette butts on the ground outside of Stats. How do you think these educated Yupwipes get their butts? The cigarette fairy?

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Sorry but Stats clientele is not yuppies. It's 20-something meatheads that live in Dorchester, Alston and Brighton who want to tell all their friends they went drinking in South Boston. Also 20-something suburbanites (Braintree).

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Stats is at least 75% yuppies, with the other 25% made up of those types.

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Check it out before it's gone forever

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You have Dunks on one side of the room, and a lottery ticket, keno, and totally random things for sale on the other side.

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do you leave the house? They are all over the state. The next closest I know is at the "new store" at dot and columbia.

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which is a DD on one side, and a convenience store (but no Keno) on the other side. Separate counters, separate cash registers, and (I think) separate employees. I don't go there very often, and the DDs I do usually go to are just DDs, nothing extra.

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Move to Wellesley dude...for real. You're comments are getting old / ridiculous / unrealistic. You're not cut out for the city.

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Move to Wellesley dude...for real. You're comments are getting old / ridiculous / unrealistic. You're not cut out for the city.

...and there pretty much is the problem.

ppl that grew up in the burbs and now live in boston think "hey - its the city! its OK to litter! its supposed to be dirty! its OK for me to obnoxiously loud!"

All cities have residential sections to them and SoBo is a residential section. just because it is within city limits doesn't mean it can be treated like landsdowne street after a sox game.

get a clue about city living because if you don't we will never become a world class city!

- the original SoBo Yuppie.

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And yet somehow, despite we may technically share more of the same values and taste than the people you rail against, I somehow find you and your posts far more irritating then the people you rail against. Constantly forcing the word SoBo over Southie as a symbol to impose and replace rather than any organic evolution. Using college educated as some kind of marker of being better. The constant vibe of hatred.

You know other people who move to Boston actually try to take a blend of things. May not support Boston's sport teams but also don't use support of other teams as some kind of symbol of superiority - just that you root for a different team for whatever reason. May not like the tastes of townie culture, but don't do things like use realtor's advertising gimmicks over historical nomenclature to display glee at a displacement of a group.

If townies were a race rather than subcultural group, would you be so quick to display your excitement at every development that implies more change? Replace Southie with Chinatown (or currently parts of Dorchester - but I'm Asian so I'm running with Chinatown's gentrification) and how does it sounds to you? And don't just say it is different because townies is not a race, it's about the constant stream of disdain towards a group regardless.

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Absolutely kills me.

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You just repeat the same tired jokes.

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18 man buns? Multiply that by three. The brohs who will be renting these units from the investor owners cannot afford it on their own. Also, life was so much better before the drunken fights and stabbings on Broadway that occur far too frequently now. Try taking an early morning walk in the neighborhood. Vomit, everywhere.

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in Southie before with drinking.....

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Now you have the other aforementioned problems with the transplants who don't really get invested in the neighborhood before they move back the the suburbs.

Your comment is a a crude slight against people.

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There's been a few incidents in McCormick over the last few years, but Broadway?

Need to see those receipts

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More tired stereotypes. Nothing original. Some people are just transplants that want to make fun of locals, often because the place they came from themselves was much less desirable and they are upset about the cost of real estate in the place that they really want to live in.

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+ 1 Starbucks
- 1 Dunkin

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No Kenos but dey got ya scratchies.

And of course, their instant classic commercial.

https://youtu.be/_9v238-PkL8

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Hard to imagine that it would make economic sense for a neighborhood coffee shop to buy spots on the Boston TV stations.

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It's a masterpiece!!

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ad like this one, which used to run on NESN during Sox games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1nDjbQQOE

(It's an excellent hot pot place, by the way, just not, as the score might lead you to expect, a set for softcore porn shoots.)

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A Townie is someone born in Charlestown.

And it's Perkins Square, named in honor of Michael J. "Mickey" Perkins, a WW I Medal of Honor recipient that was killed in France on October 18, 1918, this past Tuesday, 98 years ago, only 24 days before the end of that "War to end all wars".

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A Townie is someone born in Charlestown.

there is a whole world outside of boston. you should visit it sometime. you will learn somethings... like the universal term...townies.

- The Original SoBo Yuppie.

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What gave birth to you sobo-yuppie? You make me giggle and want to puke the same time.

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If you are talking about any area in Boston, it means Charlestown. Unless you are too young and self important to value straightforward understanding of the people around you.

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Locals have traveled outside the state and don't really care to leave. That's why so many transplants move here and complain about the cost of real estate and become envious of those that already live here.

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locals. The fact remains, as I suspect you know: in much of Greater Boston, as in the rest of English-speaking America, the uncapitalized "townie" does not have such a specific meaning. I get the tribal neighborhood pride thing and all, but it doesn't buy you much to correct people when it's clear what they mean.

But you're also right: locals ought to recognize that particular corner as Perkins Square. I didn't know it as such until I lived in City Point a few years ago, myself.

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What you are saying only really has any meaning if the person using the word knows the distinction, and often people don't.

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They LOST a Dunkin Donuts! just after approving a STAH bucks?!??

What's next, people stop double parking and stop leaving out space savers for six months after the last snow melts?

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We can only hope. The best part about that Dunks in particular, besides the litter and the smokers, is the people who park in the crosswalk there and make it almost impossible to drive through that intersection safely. I actually saw a car double parked there, in the middle of the intersection, a few weeks back.

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People do that for all kinds of businesses, not just that one.

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Yet another person making fun of the accent, as if no one has done that before.

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It will always be Shuberts to me. Memories of eating a candy bar in a smokey store and my nana scratching tickets, ahhhh yes the good old days.

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Dunks is moving to the old Store 24/Tedeschi's that closed next to the Community Health Center. DD did not sell
lottery tickets but Schuberts who shared the space with them does. Schuberts closes Nov 3 but DD will remain a
bit longer. So no losing Dunks. Yay!

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to the DARK SIDE is now complete...

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right. let's go back to drugs, gangs, violence and racist a-holes running the neighborhood.

South Boston is better now than it has ever been.

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Where did they go?

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Uniformed comment, and not entirely accurate about the locals as a whole either. It takes a narrow impression of the world to vilify people.

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Leave your condo and take a walk around all those things still exist in Southie. Oh and gangs are actually new to the area.

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gangs are actually new to the area

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Frank Wallace, the Killeen Gang, the Mullens, Flemmi, Weeks, Nee and that other asshole rotting forever in prison all think you're a moron.

Or did you mean _black_ gangs?

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Keep watching those movies so you can throw a few other names out there. Oh and I am a Nee and I'm pretty sure the people you mentioned that are still alive don't think I'm a moron. Oh yeah and I'm also married to a woman of color so definitely not small minded enough to think that the gangs in South Boston are all made up of black people if that's what you are insinuating.

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These are all real, actual gangsters, whom you're so fucking proud that love you. These are killers, thieves, liars and snitches, and they're all dogs and pigs. Tried, convicted, sentenced gangsters. And they all showed up in their gangs before any of your so-called gangs came into Southie. Wallace was a gangster for 40 years before little Patty found his way off a boat. Gangs. Gangsters. Gangs.

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