TEXT: A new Starbucks sits across the street from the building, left, which once housed the Triple O�s bar in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. Four decades after Boston crime boss James �Whitey� Bulger first rose to power, �Southie� is not what it used to be. The once blue-collar, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, is now an ethnic melting pot that has been invaded by young urban professionals who have gentrified the area and smoothed out its once-rough edges.