Bohan

"Great for shootings."

- GTA IV Website

Bohan is one of the four boroughs of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Description
It is the smallest borough of Liberty City, only containing seven of the city's sixty-five individual neighborhoods with only four accessible businesses. Its real-life prototype is,.

Bohan is located in the north-east of Liberty City, and is available from the beginning of Grand Theft Auto IV. However, the Bohan safehouse doesn't become available until after the mission 'Roman's Sorrow'. The borough is first featured either during Shadow or Final Destination.

Etymology
According to the in-game Public Broadcasting documentary, Bohan is a Dutch word meaning "Dutch word" (although this is false, as the real Dutch word for "Dutch word" is "Nederlandse woord"). In real life, 'Bohan' is an Irish surname, which is roughly a diminutive of the word 'buadhach' meaning 'victorious'.

Most Bohan avenues are named after prisons, with Alcatraz Avenue, Rykers Avenue, Sing Sing Avenue, San Quentin Avenue, and Guantanamo Ave being five notable examples, while others are named after breakdancing moves, such as Worm Street, Spin Street, Applejack Street and Valdez Avenue. South Bohan is also billed in the game as the birthplace of hip-hop, as the Bronx is in real life.

Character
Bohan is economically poor and is the most deprived of the four boroughs in Liberty City, mainly consisting of run-down housing projects, pockets of small-time businesses and shops that have presumably failed shortly after their establishment. Abandoned buildings and decrepit warehouses are a common sight in Bohan, with notable examples in South Bohan and Fortside. Whilst there is often evidence of gentrification in other deprived districts across Liberty City, there is very little evidence of it in these neighborhoods with the exception of Northern Gardens. More often than not, Bohan has higher crime rate statistics than the other boroughs in Liberty City. This is especially alarming when considering that it is also the smallest borough - meaning that the crime would affect most of the local residents in some way or form. Bohan is also home to two different street gangs - the Spanish Lords and the Albanian Mob, as well as one of the five major mafia families in the Commission - the Lupisella Family (though the Lupisella are not physically seen on the streets they do appear in Drug Wars.

South Bohan and Fortside are large residential areas within southern Bohan, and are very impoverished and full of crime. They primarily consist of apartment complexes, some small-time stores/businesses and abandoned/boarded-up buildings. South Bohan also contains one of the largest housing projects in Liberty City, and the largest in the borough of Bohan. There is a strong gang presence in these neighborhoods, with a high level of gang violence in these two districts, with South Bohan and Fortside being Spanish Lords' primary turf.

Chase Point and Industrial generally consist of abandoned warehouses and archaic docking facilities, serving as Bohan's declining industrial districts. Prostitution is very common in these districts, far more so than anywhere else in Liberty City. Prostitutes can be found gathering on many street corners during the nighttime. Also at night, muggers and street thugs will roam the streets. Luis Lopez warns Arnaud, after he is mugged, that things can often get rough, and he shouldn't wander around the area alone.

The police are rarely concerned for any criminal activity in Bohan, more prominently than anywhere else, noted when Niko Bellic is able to enter a warehouse and kill a gang of drug dealers, without receiving any police attention for doing dirty work for Manny Escuela, who aspired to "clean up the streets" and was filming a documentary about the crime and corruption of the borough. Manny's camera man comments after Niko kills the gang: "More senseless death, and the police aren't even here yet...".

Northern Gardens is a working-class area with a much lower level of deprivation, primarily consisting of housing projects, a busy road to the north, and a beach at the very north of it's boundary, but serves as home to many homeless people that thrive on it's resources. Northern Gardens provides Bohan's law enforcement and medical services, and the main function of the neighborhood is the Northern Gardens Projects, one of the largest housing projects in all of Liberty City. While Northern Gardens is still considered to be "the hood", the projects' main complex shows signs of gentrification with the presence of small convenience shops and comparatively modern housing facilities. The police station is directly connected to Northern Gardens Projects by means of a short staircase, to allow for an improved police presence and more effective response to crime.

Boulevard is Bohan's largest and busiest district in terms of traffic. Boulevard primarily consists of a large busy boulevard running through, along with several overpasses. Boulevard also contains considerable parkland and a beach at it's northern boundary. Boulevard is mostly non-residential with the exception of a few low-rise apartments situated on the boulevard edge. The areas to the south of the district are more urban in character and is focused around the Grand Boulevard thoroughfare. Boulevard has a much lower crime rate compared to the rest of Bohan primarily because it contains so few housing areas.

Little Bay is in the far east of Bohan and is the borough's smallest locale. It contains low-rise apartment housing but is very run-down and deprived. Little Bay is also the territory of the Albanian Mob, who cause much of the crime in the area.

The population of Bohan are mainly of Latin American origin; this population trend is particularly concentrated around Puerto Rican South Bohan and Dominican Fortside. Other ethnic enclaves include the predominant African-American demographic of Northern Gardens and an Albanian presence in Little Bay.

Subway Stations

 * Bohan Line:
 * Windmill Street LTA
 * San Quentin Avenue LTA

Bridges

 * East Borough Bridge: connects to Charge Island to the southwest of Bohan
 * Dukes Bay Bridge: connects to Steinway, Dukes to the southeast of Bohan
 * Northwood Heights Bridge: connects to Northwood, Algonquin to the west of Bohan

Highways

 * The Northern Expressway: the main expressway that connects the Northwood Heights Bridge and the Dukes Bay Bridge

Police Departments

 * Northern Gardens Police Station on Leavenworth Ave.
 * Fortside Police Station on Applejack St.

Hospitals

 * Bohan Medical and Dental Center on Leavenworth Ave.

Fire Departments

 * Northern Gardens Fire Department on Caterpillar St.

Education
Two high schools from Bohan are seen on Hornyhighschoolreunions.com
 * Bohan Leadership Academy
 * Fort Side High School

Health

 * In Boulevard, on Lompoc Avenue; in the northern basketball court, beside the bleachers
 * In the Industrial District, on Leavenworth Avenue; under the 24-7 Supermarket sign near the Bohan Hospital stairs
 * In the Industrial District, on Lomac Avenue; in the southwest corner of the warehouse from Hostile Negotiation
 * In Little Bay, on Sing Song Avenue; on the makeup table in the dressing room at the end of the stage in The Triangle Club
 * In Northern Gardens, on Coxsack Avenue; in a dirt lot on top of a wall near the stoop
 * In South Bohan, on Attica Avenue; in an office in the Sprunk warehouse.

Armor

 * In Chase Point, on Folsom Way; in the corner of the top floor of the unfinished building
 * In Fortside, on Grand Boulevard; on the pier
 * In Fortside, on Folsom Way; behind a green storage unit, behind the ARS building

Notable Residents

 * Carmen Ortiz
 * Elizabeta Torres (formerly)
 * Jay Hamilton (formerly)
 * Huang Lee
 * Mallorie Bardas
 * Mark Lupisella
 * Marta (formerly)
 * Manny Escuela (formerly)
 * Moe Schwartz
 * Niko Bellic
 * Roman Bellic
 * Sonny Honorato (formerly)
 * Tony McTony (formerly)
 * Tyrone Hancock
 * Vincent Lupisella
 * Wade Heston
 * Willy Valerio

Businesses

 * The Triangle Club: a strip club on the eastern side of Bohan on Coxsack Ave.
 * S&M Auto Sales: Stevie's garage in Chase Point where you deliver all 30 vehicles to his garage for money.
 * Bohan Zoo: a zoo in an unknown location in Bohan
 * Burger Shot:
 * one in the Fortside district on San Quentin Avenue
 * one near the docks in the Industrial district on Lompoc Avenue

Neighborhoods

 * Boulevard ()
 * Chase Point ()
 * Fortside ( and )
 * Industrial (, )
 * Little Bay (, )
 * Northern Gardens ()
 * South Bohan ()

Trivia

 * Near the safehouse, there is a mural of a deceased Bohan resident that appears to resemble the mural of the late Bronx-born rapper Big Pun.
 * It's possible Bohan was originally going to be called "the Bronx" like its real-life counterpart, as it is referred to as 'Bronx' in a Liberty Tree article.
 * Additionally, DJ Bobby Konders on Massive B Soundsystem 96.9 refers to "the Brix"; it's possible that Bohan was going to retain its old 2D Universe name.
 * Even though Bohan is its own discrete borough, the stats count it as a part of Dukes and Broker.
 * Bohan and Dukes are the only two boroughs that do not have an internet cafe.
 * Bohan is surprisingly small to have multiple Burger Shots, with the much larger Alderney, Broker, and Dukes having only one. Although this may be a reference to the high number of fast food chains that flourish in lower-income regions in real life.
 * There is a nearby unfinished bridge that the player can perform a stunt jump from if they drive fast enough.
 * It is revealed in Grand Theft Auto V that by 2013, there is now a zoo somewhere in Bohan (a reference to the actual ). The three "masturbating monkeys" which won Fame or Shame originated from said zoo, as evidenced from the in-game website. It is possible that the zoo is owned by Yusuf Amir as he expressed interest in opening one to Luis in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
 * If one tries to take the subway to Algonquin from Bohan’s stations before completing Elizabeta Torres' second mission, The game will force them to disembark and one will get a low wanted level.

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