Article: South End block bids prostitutes farewell Union Park Street action abates

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 ...

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