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Downtown gets a residents association

With several thousand people now living in Downtown Crossing and nearby blocks, the Midtown Cultural District Residents Association has sprung up.

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"Midtown Cultural District..." ??? Get over your snobby selves.
I wouldn't hate it if they referred to themselves as the Combat Zone RA, though.

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The Midtown Cultural District is something the BRA spun out of thin air back in the Flynn administration and, so, of course, it's never gone away. I bet the organizers of the new residents' association are just following BRA specs, not because they're haughtier than thou.

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Is not a reference to themselves - it's a reference to the theaters, historical attractions, The Common etc.

With the growth in the area, it's actually time they had some representation - if you look at downtown Boston, it was about the only area that did not have a residents group.

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I don't have much of a problem with inventing new names for neighborhoods (SoWa seems like a convenient enough name for the southeast half of the South End, for instance) but wouldn't this just be the Theater District?

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Where's Midtown?

Is it near the now defunct Ladder District?

Sounds like we have some NY expats.

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Blame the BRA if you must.

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http://www.mcdra.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MCDRA_Latitude-360-Lette...

They choose to live in the middle of a major city yet still don't want noise or city type things happening apparently.

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Somebody better tell the Midtown Hotel that they're in the wrong neighborhood.

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Where the fuck is that? Is it next to SoWa? Do I take a left at the Shake Shack?

Cultural Association? In other words, we can see a lot of well heeled morons complaining loudly to the Mayah about why they can't get rid of "those" people who just refuse to leave their newly christened "Midtown".

First order of business, freaking out about the planned dispensary on Milk Street. You see, that seems to worry the new masters of Washington Street a heck of a lot more than the almost weekly stories of drunken morons starting shit with each other around State Street and Quincy Market place. You see, because it's weed that brings in the bad element of poorly dressed sick people, as opposed to the well dressed violent drunks.

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And a happy Monday to you as well!

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Westie & Rozie are now Uptown?

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The residents of the new Millenium Tower are the primary drivers of this association and it's been spun out of their worries with the redevelopment of the old Felt space on Washington Street. There are also rumblings that a giant club wants to occupy another space in the neighborhood. I forget the name of the club and which building that it's trying to occupy but I think the capacity of that club alone would be something like 4,000 people. Imagine the size of the fights when 5,000 or 6,000 people, most likely the bridge and tunnel crowd, start pouring out of the clubs at 2 AM?

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So now that we have a Midtown, we have a Bridge and Tunnel crowd as well? You are aware that downtown Boston isn't an island...

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Well, but for a single neck it used to be:

IMAGE(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/BostonNeck.jpg)

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Well, if you lived back then, you could call suburbanites the Ferry and Horseback Crowd.

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It will always be The Zone to me ....

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They need a theme song, maybe Billy Joel can help.

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Brahmin State of Mind?

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Movin' Out (Anthony's Song After Being Panhandled Once Too Often)
Scenes from a Twee Hipster Restaurant
Big Man on Devonshire St.
We Didn't Gentrify 'Er
I Go To Filene's

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But you win, with "Gentrify 'Er."

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