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Article: South End block bids prostitutes farewell Union Park Street action abates
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1992
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The romance is not gone from Union Park Street in Boston's South
End, residents said yesterday. But the prostitutes and their johns
are no longer part of the landscape.
After suffering night and day for several months at the sight of
prostitutes conducting business beneath their windows, Union Park
Street residents said they no longer leave their homes each morning
to find the curbs littered with used condoms.
"There has been no physical evidence for a while" of prostitution,
said Gladys DeCosta, a spokeswoman and former president of the Union
Park Street Association.
The problem has abated, they said, since the Globe investigated a
resident's complaint and highlighted the activity in a ...