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A Two-Hour Walk in South Boston

The harbor is the main attraction in quickly gentrifying South the toddler-friendly L Street
Boston. Initially populated by refugees from the mid-19th Beach 7, and M Street Beach
century Irish famine, the area evolved into the third-largest 8. The bath house, which
Irish-American community in the U.S. Recent gentrification actually stretches between K
and M streets, was a municipal
has diversified the population and turned Victorian tenements gift from notori ously corrupt
into trendy condominiums. But the defining characteristic of mayor James Curley (last
South Boston has always been its relation to the harbor – a elected to office from jail)
bevy of soft sand beaches and headlands that guard the entry to his friends and cronies of
to the Port of Boston. The steep hill to Dorchester Heights can South Boston. The bath house
now serves a broad public.
be skipped in favor of a continued seaside promenade.
Walk east along William J. Day
Boulevard as it winds past
Park, where the Dorchester the yacht club and private
Heights Monument 3 stands moorings and concludes SHORE ROAD WILLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD
like a lighthouse to mark the at Pleasure Bay. E 1ST STREET
spot where George E 2ND STREET r
Washington erected EAST 3RD ST E 3RD STREET MARINE e
cannons in 1776 to INDEPENDENCE PARK
SQUARE
FORT
force the British EAST BROADWAY EAST BROADWAY FARRAGUT ROAD 0 Pleasure INDEPENDENCE
D ORC H E S T E R S T R E E T
withdrawal EAST 4TH ST EMERSON EAST 4TH ST Bay PARK
from Boston. G STREET H STREET EAST 5TH ST K STREET ST L STREET N STREET EAST 5TH ST P STREET
I STREET
O STREET
EAST 6TH ST
1 Stone column at the entrance E 8TH ST MERCER ST OLD HARBOR STREET 3 4 EAST 6TH ST EAST 7TH ST 9
EAST 7TH ST
to Joe Moakley Park PATTERSON WAY E 8TH STREET EAST 8TH ST 5 WILLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD
The last stop of the No. 5 bus is OLD COLONY AVE COLUMBIA ROAD MARINE ROAD q
at the playing fields and green Andrew w
walkways of Joe Moakley Park ANDREW 8
1, named after the late South SQUARE JOE MOAKLEY 6 7
Boston-born Congressman. PARK
Some of Moakley’s sayings
celebrate the neighborhood’s Dorchester
identity and are etched on 2 Bay
granite columns that can be COLUMBIA ROAD
found around the park. One W I LLIAM J. DAY BOULEVARD Standing
such saying reads “Everyone 1 sentinel over
I knew growing up in South the harbor on the
Boston was baptized, issued a traffic circle connecting
union card, and enrolled in the the boulevard to Farragut
Democratic Party.” Cross the KOSCIUSZKO Road is a bronze of Admiral
park to the broad swath of fine CIRCLE David Farragut 9, commander
brown sand known as Carson JFK / U Mass in chief of the U.S. Navy during
Beach 2, a public swimming the Civil War.
beach with a bath house and The massive building at one Across the street is the
bocce courts. end of the park is South Boston section of South Boston beach
The steep walk up Old High School 4. Walk along East
Harbor Street leads to the 7th Avenue past renovated Tips for Walkers
grand hilltop oval of Thomas homes to L Street and turn right
toward the harbor. Starting point: Joe Moakley Park
Woody’s L Street Getting there: No. 5 bus from
Tavern 5, Southie’s Andrew Sq. to Moakley Park
most old-fashioned (McCormack Housing).
pub and the set for Length: 3 miles (5km).
scenes in the film Stops: Sullivan’s (next to Fort
Independence) and Seapoint
Good Will Hunting, Restaurant (at Carson Beach)
is at the corner of serve fried seafood and American
East 8th Street. favorites. Supreme House of
At the foot of the Pizza, across from Moakley Park,
street is the L Street offers an Italian alternative.
2 Time out on Carson Beach Bath House 6,

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