Word: chinatowns
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Another favorite tourist spot is Chinatown (T: Orange Line to Chinatown). A good time to visit the area is on a bright, i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the numerous Chinese restaurants, and avoid much of the crime that has plagued the area in the past...
Pornography peddlers are restricted by Boston law to sell their wares only along a stretch of Washington Street between the Downtown Crossing and Chinatown subway stops, a section of the city known as the "Combat Zone...
Times are changing, though, and the expansion of shopping centers near DowntownCrossing coupled with Chinatown business "growingby leaps and bounds" has put the squeeze on theCombat Zone from both sides, driving up rents forthe strip clubs and erotic shops, Quinn says...
...Chinatown's expansion into the Combat Zone ischanging the role of the ethnic center as well asthe pornography zone, according to Paul H.M. Lee,a member of the Chinese Economic DevelopmentCouncil, the first federally-funded organizationthat supplies affordable housing and office spaceto Asian-American businesses...
...Chinatown will be the hub for Asian activityin Boston," Lee says. "Agencies and organizationsare locating there...