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A parking deal for the chosen ones

City-owned space used by the well connected

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By Kate Augusto and Matt Collette
Globe Correspondents / December 15, 2008

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For more than a generation, it has been perhaps Boston's most covert bargain, a city-owned parking lot in the North End where the lucky, the affluent, and the politically connected had assigned parking for just $55 a month - a rate that went unchanged for 26 years. (Full article: 1337 words)

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