straight ignorance. and fyi i was help up at gun point leaving walley's, pretty ghetto area, although yes, it is mashed up against some nicer areas.

btw, it's BERKLEE (EE not EY). i agree the jazz career dream is lol but you are a super troll.

this is getting pretty lol...

let me put it this way...25 years ago you just wouldn't be living next to wally's. so gentrification changed who lives in the surrounding neighborhood, that doesn't mean that wally's changed.

why i like the place is because it is THE only jazz bar left from the time period where boston used to have a group of them. its a place that my father went to when he was my age, its authentic boston.

its not super ghetto, its not non-ghetto. its just what it is. and its not some college hangout. berklee students are some of the best musicians in the country so they bust their chops at wallys because its a very legit place to play. anyone who's been can testify that the musicians that play there are no joke.

im not a hipster dude. im the guy watching all the hipsters pour into my neighborhood wondering wtf just happened.

if you hate jazz, well i guess its of no use to you. im no big jazz fan, but i do appreciate good music. and i do appreciate a place to go thats not the standard fan hall/back bay cornball **** that is 95% of bars in this city.

so sleep if you want....more room for me in that tiny ass bar that is one of the biggest hidden gems in boston.

this statement is hilarious

are dorchester and roxbury actually dangerous to live in?

roxbury is pretty dangerous. those few blocks of mass ave are pretty weird. between the corner of boylston and mass and columbus and mass i was help up twice at gun point.

not normally something that happens in safe hoods? :/

Agreed. The codfish po-boy and angry meatloaf are both winners.
If this kind of place is your scene, go to the Jonny D's Jazz brunch in Davis Sq. Its simple but so good- they have unreal oatmeal that comes with pretty much everything and tons of mimosas and such.

Also, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Red Bones. Good ribs/BBQ and Jameson drinks are $2 a pop.

I like their pulled pork, and they got a great draft beer selection.

I def did not know Jameson was $2/pop. I may have to return soon.

that's kinda too broad a question. the thing about boston is alot of the bad areas are really certain corners or streets rather than entire neighborhoods.

Dorchester is big and has alot of different parts. Some parts are very nice and some are just about the worst in the city. I looked at an apartment in Savin Hill a little while back and was really surprised at how nice the street was.

Roxbury has typically been a bad neighborhood, but things have changed. Mission Hill is Roxbury, and that turned from a bad neighborhood to a Northeastern neighborhood a while ago. It's more ****ty now because students trash apartments rather than the gang crime it used to have.

The Fort Hill area of Roxbury has recently started to change over. It's still hood, but is def on the upswing and you can get some amazing apartments.

Seriously. You can go two blocks in Charlestown and go from one of the nicest neighborhoods in town to complete heroin-loving, project Townieness.

JP is the same way. Cambridge can be the same way.

is charlestown really full of bank robbers?

no it is full of heroin and oc's...

does anyone know of any good home poker games in boston?

where are good places to party in dorchester?

dorchester is fine if you live on the east of dorchester ave. the west side is a little more URBAN.

roxbury can be scary during the day, if you are not used to the goings on there. if walking around at night i would walk the main streets for 10 miles instead of taking side roads that save me time.

you will not see white people walking around roxbury unless they are there for business or postal workers. not racist just true. i know from experience

what do you look like?

VERY HANDSOME

This is true. I walked a few miles to get to some school over there and the whole walk I was the only white guy.

I'm also a little surprised to read about someone getting held at gunpoint between Boylston and Columbus on Mass Ave. That whole area is basically the border of Northeastern which in my four years here has seemed very safe.

dude was probably out at 4 in the morning with his berkely buddies after drinking all night, in the street without a shirt on flashing his twenties. now he's thrilled to be stolen from cause he's got a story about how he's from the hood.

It's spelled berklee. I guess you've never been mugged because it's not that great. I didn't actually have any money on me either time but what does my clothong choice have to do with threatened violence?

Its just city life. Anything can happen here and there. That area is not that big deal to walk through at any time usually.

It wasn't that recent. It happened it 03 and 04. A lot can happen to an area in 7 years. Anyone living there now would know better what the area is like, but in 03 other ****ty muggings and jumpings ans scams were happening on those blocks regularly.

This might be a really noob question, but can you pay with cash at No. 9 Park? Thinking of taking a good friend of mine there for her birthday but I kind of don't have a credit card at the moment.

I can't imagine anywhere besides an airplane that doesn't take cash.

wtf i went to a bar Clerey's yesterday it was 40 min. wait to get inside, even though it wasn't crowded at all, then another 25 min. wait to get downstairs to dance floor where it was slightly crowded. why they acting all VEGAS in some ghetto boston pub??

that place always has a line on the weekend nights.

it also sucks pretty hard in that place


how old are you? i thought you were like old for some reason