Franklin Park not a fetid swamp of gun-packing drug dealers, so cut that out
By adamg - 9/25/07 - 12:59 pm
After several months living near the park, Hondo reports:
We have lived here for the entire summer, and have been walking in this part of Franklin Park for close to a year now. We currently walk in the park two times a day.
Would we walk in Franklin Park at night? No. But, we wouldn't walk in the Commons at night either. Do we feel comfortable and safe walking during the day? Yes. ...
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Common
I've walked through the Common at night. I cut from Park Street to Boylston. Eh. Not that bad. It's reasonably well lit, and it's a lot smaller than Franklin.
Franky's Place
FP is one of our major parks too and has been for nearly 20 years. When we moved here 29 years ago, it was a dangerous place, frequented by druggies, hookers and car thieves. While that changed a couple of decades ago, many suburbanites and plain old white folk wouldn't consider it, at least doing anything other than the zoo at the edge.
For us, it's our cross-country skiing in-town resort of choice -- much less crowded than the arboretum and with better and more hills. It's a great place to run, walk, picnic and bike and has tons of free music, plays and other events.
I have mixed feelings on this. What if all the honkies decide it's safe and fill it up like they do the arboretum?
Move along. There's nothing to see here.
"Commons"?
Where is this “Commons” you write of? Cambridge Commons?
There was a “Commons” in Boston in the early ‘80s, in the then-new Copley Place mall; a scary singles bar full of big-haired (even of the ‘80s!) female admin staff, mating call “I’m sooo drunk!..” and the CK1-marinated boys who cozied up to them...
Or perhaps you refer to Boston Common? Nations oldest park, started in 1634, recently entered into the scary-place-for-suburbanites list after a bullet from it struck the neighboring State House?