Century-Old North End Bakery Closes Because of Rising Rent, Changing Neighborhood

For decades, the North End was a world apart, an isolated enclave whose streets felt more like a town in Italy than a neighborhood in Boston. But now, thanks to the end of the Big Dig construction, and the push of gentrification, the old North End may soon be an old memory.

[@MrFlyVisuals]

Wow Italians feeling the gentrification pinch as well!

[@freelonmorris3659]

Used to stop in there almost every day when I was a student at North Bennett St School.Great bread and a quick slice of pizza.Will always remember it.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Today the West End would be another neighborhood facing gentrification pressures had Jerome Rappaport and the BRA not obliterated it for Charles River Park.

[@diannemarshall4078]

These are iconic places and should be protected by law. What does a twenty year old know anything about. Legislations should do something about this. I live in Bklyn I walk the nieghborhood and if I didn't know street names I would not recognize my community. Bklyn is very expensive.

[@rickys8848]

I know donato but I don't know you micheal witz how can you speak on something I never seen you in the neighborhood in my life

[@FCm-tq2ho]

Old lady looks out the window and says... ANTHONY!... ANTHONY!

[@richardmorris7063]

It's funny,the young Democrat wants diversity,just not so much in his hood!