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...headquarters is one long room, a former storefront with the green floor tiles peeling up and coming loose. There are eight battered wooden desks with telephones, stacks of brochures, a table piled with sodas and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a fax machine, a Canon copier and a coffee maker at work...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Day at the Races | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Struggle on the Streets | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

Syrita had tried repeatedly to warn Antwan of illicit goings-on at the playground. But such warnings carry little weight for a kid growing up on society's margin. Antwan lives in a storefront apartment just blocks from the drug-saturated playground. His mother and grandmother survive on public assistance, and his mother is battling depression with medication and counseling. His father is long gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corridors Of Agony | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...prosecutors, hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into dummy shops in Manhattan's jewelry district each day from nationwide drug couriers. The cash was bundled into duffel bags or gold- shipment crates and driven by Brink's or Loomis armored trucks to the Saccoccia Coin Co., an unobtrusive storefront in Cranston, R.I. (pop. 76,000), or to a second location in Los Angeles. Thereafter, most of the money was subdivided, deposited in U.S. banks -- ranging from Rhode Island's modest Fleet/Norstar to Bank of America -- and then converted into cashier's checks made out to dummy firms. Next the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: All That Glitters . . . | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...LaMacchia, president of The Ultimate Bagel Company, said he paid "essentially a six-figure number" to sublease the storefront from Emack & Bolio's, which rents it from Harvard Real Estate...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: From Butter Pecan To Buttered Bagels | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

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