Greatest Hits : A mob tour of Boston

By Emily Sweeney, Globe Staff Tourists and newcomers may only know Boston for its bookish college students, Brahmin history, and rush hour traffic, but locals can attest to the darker landmarks that lurk just beneath our city's historic landscape and seemingly innocent surface. But parallel to the same streets that Bostonians conduct their daily lives and business, the city’s underworld with its storied Italian Mafia and Irish Mob ran a different town... Throughout the years, mobsters of the likes of Whitey Bulger, Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo and Stephen Flemmi etched their place in local lore through murders, indictments, illegal gambling, loansharking, and drugs. Scattered around Boston's neighborhoods are places where deals were made, people killed, and bodies unearthed. The following sites are not on the Freedom Trail. If anything, these places are part of Boston's underworld; a walk down a lane of memories paved by reputed gangsters.

Located along the narrow streets of Boston's North End, the unassuming mob headquarters is squeezed among a number of row houses. This bar on West Broadway was where Whitey allegedly collected unpaid loans. The liquor store by the rotary on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston became a symbol of Whitey Bulger's power in this section of the city. This unassuming restaurant was the site of four shooting deaths in broad daylight.