On January 17, 1950, the Great Brink’s Robbery took place in Boston’s North End at the corner of Commercial and Prince Streets. Still known today as the “Brink’s Garage,” the property marks where $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities were taken in the “crime of the century” and the largest robbery at the time. See a few photos below and read more at FBI.gov.
Old photo of the Hartt House on Copp’s Hill. The original owner of the house, Edmund Hartt, owned the shipyard that built the USS Constitution. Tune in on Thursday’s to view our featured neighborhood photo from back in the day! Submit your historical photos using our Submit a Post form or tag @northend.waterfront on Instagram. Read More…
The North End crackdown continues with Boston Police District A-1 reporting another 22 arrests on Saturday night in the North End for underage drinking, minor trespassing and related offenses. Most of the arrests were along the waterfront at Sargent’s Wharf and the Commercial Street area, near the Fisherman’s Feast going on this weekend. The roundup Read More…
Recently I’ve researched and written a book about a group of immigrants to America in the 1840s and 1850s. Getting to Grand Prairie: One Hundred Londoners and Their Quest for Land in Frontier Illinois will appear this summer. It tells a true story of the farming community I grew up in. I’m preparing the book’s Read More…
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This one is easy…. Walk over to Patricia Papas Apartment ing the North end and just ask her or her boyfriend. Yah her boyfriend would know. Better yet just drive into Charlestown knock on the Teamsters door. Perhaps Billy O’Brian would know. At least I’m sure his father, if alive would know. His father knows something about get-a-way cars. Or at least renting them.
The bigger crime occurred during the filming of”The Brinks Job”.A NE wiseguy shook down the director of the film into paying him to have residents to remove their TV antennas (No cable back then) off their roofs to recreate the time period. There was even an attempt to steal the film that was already shot and kept in a trailer. The plan was to extort money for the film & sell it back to the director. As for the missing money Tony Pino told anyone who cared to listen that “If you want to become a successful thief became a lawyer because they got all the money”
Pay the monthly parking there and you get robbed again.