The “North End” is always crawling with people, before/after hockey/basketball games, there are street festivals, farmer’s markets, it’s quite the place to be. Some of the best Italian food is there. Some of Boston’s news anchors live in the North End and those people are up all hours of the day and nite so it’s nice to have a place to grab something to eat on the way to work or on the way home at whatever ungodly hour!
I don’t think it’s there anymore but I used to go to the European.
The Anguilo HQ were on Prince St (got wiretapped)
Wiki.:”Angiulo later headed up Boston’s underworld from the 1960s to the 1980s. He and his brothers ran the criminal organization out of Francesco’s Restaurant at 98 Prince Street in the North End, the neighborhood in which he grew up.”
From Howie’s 8/31/09 column, as repro-ed here on FR
>>Who says the Boston FBI office is worthless? At least they recorded all these “Doghouse Tapes” of Boston Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo. For three months in early 1981, the G-men were taping everything that was being discussed in Angiulo’s North End headquarters at 98 Prince St.
Let’s go right to the transcribed adventures of the late Gennaro Angiulo as he muses on Mafia matters great and small, but almost always profane.
Upon hearing of the passing of one of his loanshark victims: “He can’t be dead. He owes me $13,000!”
On bringing in outside help: “I am sending for Vinnie and his partner, Fat Vinnie.”