A number of Fells Point bars and retailers are turning in early for Halloween, with owners foreseeing some of the same chaos that’s tarnished the neighborhood’s Oct. 31 festivities in recent years.
“The situation here has gotten so out of hand as far as crowd control,” said Bill Packo, owner of The Greene Turtle on S. Broadway. “There’s drinking in the street, proliferation of smoking pot. It’s just a party atmosphere with no control over it whatsoever.”
Pot aside, there’s plenty of concern out there about a continued pattern of violence. Last year, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the foot in the 400 block of S. Broadway, near Upper Fells Point. Several blocks closer to the harbor, three people were stabbed, leaving one hospitalized in critical condition.
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