West Broadway Looking Towards Downtown
Broadway looks like Main Street in many towns across America.
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Broadway at E Street
Broadway is famous for the St. Patrick’s Day parade -- one of the nation’s largest -- where competitiveness and pride can become overzealous. In recent years, citing court cases that ruled parades can be considered “private,” Southie parade organizers denied requests from GLTB groups to march. It's a boisterous day in South Boston.
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The Bend: Broadway and Dorchester Street
East Broadway begins its march toward the ocean here. While it begins at a low point, you are not far from the top of the South Boston drumlin, just to the south, where the noted South Boston High School commands the district’s high point -- ironically called Dorchester Heights, and a primary point where colonists defended Boston from the British in the 1770s.
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Broadway and H Street
At H Street, you can begin the feel the pull of the ocean beyond. The fabric has changed and is now primarily the residential wooden triple-deckers that South Boston and Dorchester developers favored in the late nineteenth century.
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The L Street Tavern, 658 East 8th St. A
Cambridge natives Matt Damon and Ben Affleck brought notoriety to this bar in their film about a South Boston whiz kid, Good Will Hunting.
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Broadway and P Street
Here you sense the last gentle rise and sequential decline toward the sea. Beyond the Admiral Farragut statue lies the great sweep of Pleasure Bay. Trees on Castle Island are visible in the distance.
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