Near Columbus Park, South Boston Both housing projects still exist with the scents of multi-cultural foods wafting around the neighborhood and Irish flags adorning windows. The two projects surround Columbus Park in South Boston.

Childhood home to both Bulger and FBI agent Connolly, The Old Harbor and Old Colony housing projects in South Boston was the kind of place where you proved your mettle on the playground and, later on, in the streets.

Despite his increasingly growing underworld empire and wealth, Bulger continued to base himself out of his childhood home in the Old Harbor project with his mother up until her death in 1980. Setting the seeds for a partnership in the future, Bulger broke up an uneven fight between Connolly and other neighborhood kids, leaving the much younger Connolly in awe.