User talk:Harwood (a fictional GTA neighborhood located in Liberty city)

Harwood is a fictional district located in Liberty city which is a ficitional city in the [Grand Theft Auto] gaming franchise. Harwood is an un developed industrial area of Portland, Liberty city. The Neigborhood is fairly small in land mass, and has a very low population due to the lack of residential housing and buildings.

Landmarks
Harwood has a car dealership shop called capital autos, a junkyard, a firestation, an AM gas station, and a bomb shop called 8 ball's bomb shop which is also where a character in GTA III and GTA Liberty city stoires named 8 ball lives. Harwood is also home of Head radio a fictional radio station in GTA, GTA III, and GTA Liberty city stories. There is not much else in Harwood apart from an old scrap yard north to 8 balls bomb shop with an old train track running over to Portland Habour through a large tunnel.

Geography
Harwood is the first district you will enter coming through the porto road tunnel. It is situated just off the highway running imbetween Hepburn Heights and Harwood which later runs into Saint Marks forming a junction. The district is on the north end of Portland, and is south of Saint Marks and east of Hepburn Heights.

Crime and gang controll
The district is conrtolled by the Leone crime family who are seen walking around the Harwood streets with Pistols at the start of the game, and later carry shotguns. The area is very dangerous for the GTA III protagonist Claude because of the Leone crime family who want him dead because Claude assassinated Don Salvotorie Leone orderd by a Yakuza gang leader Asuka Kassen. The Leone mafia keep the district fairly safe but there have been gang wars between the Diablo's who controll Hepburn Heights and the mafia on the highway imbetween the two districts. 8 Ball lives in a house which is connected to his bomb shop and is highly wanted by the Liberty city ploice department for various crime activities he is involved with.

The Porto road tunnel case
The Porto road tunnel is an underground highway running all around Liberty city. Before the Porto road tunnel was built, there was a ferry terminal located in Harwood that ran a ferry to Staunton island, and shor side vale. In 1998 as seen in Liberty city stories there was a big case of the Ferry terminal being shut down and industrial workers went on strike in feer of losing their jobs. When the new major Miles O'Donnavan sucseeded the assinated Major by a mob boss Toni Cipirani in 1998 he stated that the ferry terminal would not be shut down, this resulted in the strike and the protest to finsih. However in GTA III there is no sign of a ferry termninal in Harwood, it is unknown what happend to the ferry termnal after the events of GTA Liberty city stories.

The Harwood massacare
Harwood is most famous for the massacare of eleven mobsters which took place in 1971. A mobster named Tommy Vercetti who is the main protaganist in GTA Vice city killed a reported eleven gangsters in a ambush, and was sent to prison for 15 years avoiding the death penelty thanks to his old crime family the Forellie crime family who pulled in strings. Tommy was orginally sent to kill one man by his old boss Sonny Forellie who was the Don of the Forellie crime family but it was reveilved at the end of GTA Vice city that Sonny was resbonsible for the ambush. Tommy end up killing Sonny in the last mission of GTA Vice city. The location of the event in Harwood is unknown.