![]() Five men were executed that night, shot in the head at close range in a basement gambling parlor on Tyler Street. One of the bloodiest nights in this city's long history, it still haunts a neighborhood that desperately wants to look forward, not back. If ghosts can be thought of as unfinished stories, the darkest one here is the mystery of what happened on January 12, 1991. And there are more ghosts where the street ends, beyond the Chinatown Gate, where huge commuter highways ripped through the neighborhood in the late 1950s, wiping out businesses and uprooting families from their homes. Near the end of Beach Street is Ping On Alley, where immigrant Chinese workers first settled in the 1870s. Rooflines remain, defined in weathered brick that shifts from deep red to charcoal black. ![]() ![]() Along the walls of the worn row houses and above the bustling shops and restaurants are the faded plaster markings of the houses, shops, and restaurants that were here before. Walk down Beach Street and you'll see them.
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