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Shot Here · STOP 12 · Waterfront

In 1993 a movie blew up a ship in this harbor, and East Boston's windows broke.

In September 1993 the movie Blown Away blew up a ship in Boston Harbor, and the next day's Boston Globe reported that the staged blast shattered East Boston windows. The Departed came down here too, for Frank Costello's phone call. The wharf goes back to 1710 and once ran more than a quarter mile into the harbor. Walk out past the warehouses and look across at East Boston.

This is stop 12 of Shot Here. Walk it free in the app.

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Blown Away Harbor

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Long Wharf, off Atlantic Avenue at the foot of State Street
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Building started in 1710. At its peak, the Park Service says, the wharf ran 1,586 feet into the harbor and could berth fifty ships; later filling for Atlantic Avenue shortened it.

More footnotes on the story card, in the app.

Film and TV, Planes and ships, Made land and water

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Near Aquarium

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