Word: cabs
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Crime has declined a bit, at least statistically, in the past five years. Yet, says area Police Commander Stephen Gates, it is "still horrible." Gangs regularly cut one another up. Three weeks ago, young thugs shot and killed a teenager in the cab of his pickup in a parking lot. So many cars were being attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work...
...time, between World War I and World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s campaign in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat from New York. The Catholic son of a sanitation worker and a truck driver, Russert had already worked his way through John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as a sometime cab driver and pizza...
Travel time, Harvard Square to Park Street: 20 minutes by cab ($20), 20 minutes...
...lucky crowds will exit Tercentenary Field feeling like they had a cab ride with a kind of actor that they just don’t make like they used...