by: Rachel McAthy | journalism.co.uk

During the summer, a group of Boston Globe journalists rented an apartment in the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, in a bid to "get away from the drive-by journalism" which it had at times identified in a number of papers, including its own, particularly when covering violence in the area.

According to the Globe, the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, for the last 25 years, "has consistently been more dangerous than Boston as a whole".