The Evilest Bastards in Back Bay
Meet the Kettenbachs.
They're trying to get one of those big, fancy mansions on Commonwealth Ave. all to themselves. Unfortunately, the Wodinskys, an elderly couple who own the fourth floor unit, don't want to sell.
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These people wrote the book on
Evil Back Bay Bastardry.
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These people wrote the book on
Evil Back Bay Bastardry.
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Waddya gonna do?
Rip out the elevator, of course, so that 82 year old Jerome Wodinsky, who "suffers from emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, peripheral vascular disease, high cholesterol, diabetes 2, and has three stents implanted in his legs" has to use the stairs.
“I make sure I only go out once a day,’’ Wodinsky said. “I can’t walk up. I crawl up. I rest on every level to catch my breath.’’
Read all about it here.
Mike, bless you for spreading this story. The entire city needs to know this outrage, and to let these disgustingly selfish and greedy people know that they're disgraces to the community and city they live in.
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Wow...thanks for bringing this to my attention. There is a special place in hell for those jerks. Gross.
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It's the rise of this kind of egregious conspicuous consumption at the expense of one's neighbors that has all but ruined Boston in the last 15 years or so...it used to seem a shabby-elegant city full of professors like the Wodinskys, living in spacious book-lined flats carved from larger houses...(those that weren't in institutional use or chopped into studios with lofts under the grand ceilings - remember those on Comm. Ave.?)...there was a reflective quality that gave the city its appeal - Mark Helprin wrote a perfect little 3-page story called "Back Bay Conservatory" about just this mood in the city. Now, downtown, at least, it's all glossy, utterly self-absorbed money-folk clawing for displays of status, even if it means bankrupting learned old neighbors and forcing them to crawl up flights of stairs, risking heart failure daily. And here I thought it was bad when a 'noted local socialite' habitually double-parked her Range Rover at a hydrant to get a latte while allowing her golden-but-vile spawn to run rampant in Flour...clearly, she's bush-league: this REALLY takes the prize for foul behavior & makes me WISH Dante were right about the afterlife. Charming...
Thanks, Mike, for doing your part to bring back public opprobrium where it's so sorely needed!
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Before you go too far down that "down with the yuppies" kind of stuff, do a bit a research on who Kettenbach really is.
He's one of the Demoulases. And the other guy is his disbarred lawyer. They've been nasty people since the very beginning. This is entirely within their character.
http://www.answers.com/topic/demoulas-market-basket
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Oh, I know the Kettenbachs are Demoulases - not least as it was right in the Globe article), and all about how nasty (and screwy) the family can be, but this particular subset of their behavior is emblematic of larger trends these days...they would have been being nasty in the ritzy suburbs 20 years ago...
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Who Kettenbach really is!! Do you really know? I lived at 303 Comm Avenue and have had the wonderful opportunity to get to know the Wodinskys, and they are wonderful caring people.The Kettenbachs Michael, Fransis, and Teddie. Well all that I can say is that MONEY DOES NOT BUY CLASS!!! and I leave it at that!!!
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