BRICCO has a dark little Secret

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The relatively ancient city of Boston has a very long, complicated, and interesting history. In the mid 1800s the city grew about 3 times in size. It did this primarily by adding landfill (from the nearby town of Needham Ma as well as the majority of the actual hill known as Beacon Hill) to the vast marsh connecting Boston to neighboring Roxbury.

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The neighboring city of Quincy still has a significant amount of this Marshland in the Neponset watershed area.

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Much of Boston's landscape was marshy wetlands until this giant landfill project from the mid 1800s. It wasn't long after this time that The city also began importing Italians into the Neighborhood.

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As the story goes the Genoans came first, then the Campanians, Sicilians, Neapolitans and Abruzzesians among others. It has been said that the population of North End Italians went from 14000 in 1900 to 44,000 in 1930. The 1930's population had transitioned to a 99% Italian immigrant residency, in the formerly Jewish then Irish, North End of Boston.

It was also around this time that Italy was first unified and nationalized, and Pasta drowned in meaty, traditional Bolognesian gravy, had somehow became the national dish. The North End was home to a number of spaghetti houses such as the Prince Spaghetti House ,

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located on Prince Street, which is probably the most well known of seemingly hundreds, of restaurant ghosts of the past(a). To this day the Prince house noodles have yet to relinquish their highly coveted status as "household brand", especially after the iconic 1970's television commercial which featured supposed first generation American, " the late Anthony Martignetti" running through the local bocce court to get some Weednesday night Spaghetti.

Currently, most of the Italian families have left the North End. In place of the former shoe stores, grocery markets and barber salons, are restaurants....

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Lots and lots of restaurants. Boston's North End has so many great restaurants and because it is one of the older parts of town, has a very distinct colonial appearance.

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Paul Revere's House is here as is the famous Old North Church of the Revolutionary war.

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So are the 2 bakeries most involved in the Canoli War. Mike's and Modern are both bakeries on Hanover st and are hard places to gain access to without running the gauntlet of waiting in line outdoors here, in the typically chilly, ocean front part of town.