Butcher passionate about perfection takes on meaty challenge

The people who lived in Charlie Haney’s cul-de-sac in southern New Jersey loved him like family.

Haney’s neighborly deed: Regular drives back to his native Boston to his favorite local butcher shops, where he would buy hundreds of pounds of fresh marinated steak tips and chicken. Then he would throw huge, everyone-leaves-full parties back in Jersey. “People would tell me, ‘Oh my God, this is the greatest meat I’ve ever tasted,’” recalls Haney. “Why isn’t there anything like this around here?”