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Prince Street

Street in Boston, Massachusetts


Street in Boston, Massachusetts

FieldValue
namePrince Street
other_nameBlack Horse Lane (formerly)
imageBoston, Prince St. - DPLA - d2a41a35d4e4f73f60a8ffdbb9ad07a2.jpg
image_size250px
captionPrince Street, near its intersection with La Fayette Avenue, pictured around 1900. Today's number 134 is on the left
mapframeyes
mapframe-zoom15
part_of
length_mi0.32
locationNorth End, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
terminus_aCauseway Street and Commercial Street
direction_aNorthwest
terminus_bNorth Square and Garden Court Street
direction_bSoutheast
inauguration_date

| mapframe-zoom = 15 :For Manhattan, see Prince Street (Manhattan).

Prince Street is a street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It runs for around 0.32 mi, from Causeway Street and Commercial Street in the northwest to North Square at Garden Court Street in the southeast. It is one-way, southbound, except for the block between Hanover Street and Garden Court Street, which is northbound. Prince Street was originally known as Black Horse Lane. Causeway Street, meanwhile, was formerly Endicott Street.

The Boston Draft Riot of July 14, 1863, began on Prince Street.

In the 20th century, the street became notable as the headquarters of the Angiulo brothers, the leading Italian-American crime group in Boston from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. They were based at 98 Prince Street (known as the Dog House), at the corner of Thacher Street in Gaetano Iovanni Square (U.S. Army staff sergeant Iovanni, of 138 Prince Street, was killed in action during World War II). The building had a real-estate agency as a front. Giovanni and Cesare Angiulo, the brothers' parents, lived across the street at number 95. In January 1981, FBI agents placed bugs in Angiulo headquarters for over three months and listened to their discussions about murder.

Notable addresses

  • Thoreau House (1727), 57 Prince Street (now demolished)
  • 92 Prince Street, where, in 1912, Prince Macaroni Company (later Prince Pasta) first had a store. It was established by Gaetano LaMarca, Giuseppe Seminara and Michele Cantella
  • Major Pitcairn House, 130 Prince Street (demolished)
  • William Gray House (1770), Prince Street and La Fayette Avenue, served as a British hospital during the Revolutionary War (demolished) DeFilippo Playground and RUFF North End Dog Park occupy part of a triangular plot of land between Prince Street and Snow Hill Street.

References

References

  1. "Thoreau House at 57 Prince Street (formerly Black Horse Lane). Nowpart of Paul Revere School yard. Built in 1720. Bought from the Orrok family by Henry Thoreau's grandfather when he arrived from Jersey in 1773. In 1800 the Thoreaus moved to Concord where Henry was born".
  2. (1902). "Boston's Streets, Also Its Avenues, Courts, Places, Etc".
  3. William P Marchione. (2008). "Boston Miscellany: An Essential History of the Hub". History Press.
  4. Tager, Jack. (2001). "Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence". [[University Press of New England.
  5. "98 Prince Street".
  6. "Boston mafia leader, 88, to be freed from prison".
  7. Murphy, Shelley. (August 30, 2009). "Mob boss Gennaro 'Jerry' Angiulo dies at 90". [[The Boston Globe]].
  8. "U.S. v. Angiulo, 847 F.2d 956 {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator".
  9. (2015-06-02). "Carr: Last link to epic Boston mob family gone".
  10. (1945-04-10). "Article clipped from The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  11. (1998-12-11). "G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945". University of Alabama Press.
  12. [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/14/us/jurors-told-that-tapes-hold-key-in-boston-racketeering-trial-of-5.html "Jurors Told That Tapes Hold Key In Boston Racketeering Trial of 5"] – ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 14, 1986
  13. "Angiulo brothers, Whitey Bulger's family, other mobsters appear in newly released 1950 census records - The Boston Globe".
  14. "Boston Indictments give glimpse into mob - UPI Archives".
  15. "The Thoreau House, Prince Street".
  16. "Prince® - Our Story".
  17. "Major Pitcairn House, Prince Street".
  18. "The William Gray House, Prince Street and Lafayette Avenue".
  19. "OUR PARKS".
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