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That is one extremely bizarre looking duplex. I expect to see the American Gothic farmer dude and his wife holding a pitchfork upright, standing in front of this thing.

In any case it is the very early 1970s. The large amount of rail yards in the Seaport district at that time is amazing.

I agree. Just keep the existing westbound roadway, which has enough width for one lane of traffic each direction, plus left turn lanes at intersections (if parking is eliminated near intersections). Totally eliminate the eastbound roadway. .Parks and a multi-use path can be built in its place.

I would date that photo as 1970. The Rutherford Avenue and Gilmore Bridge construction looks like it is just starting. By 1971 it was further along than this photo.

Rte 20 provides that access, but I could add in Rte 12 access.

Ouch! That is painful looking. Thanks for the clarification.

Totally agree. Boston/Cambridge/Somerville look great, have a lot of fantastic new buildings, are loaded with wonderful vibrant neighborhoods, are prosperous, are much cleaner, and have less crime than several other metro areas of comparable size. such as Portland OR, Frisco, Philly...

St. Petersburg, Russia is a low rise city that, I assume, was kept that way to preserve the historical, beautiful look of the city. The buildings are of somewhat uniform height, but are of such high architectural quality and beauty that the uniform height works. It"a just about my favorite...

I like the idea, but I think Boston would have turned into landscraper city, with a lot of sprawling low-rise blobs.

I suppose, but it is provincial and very un-world-class city-like to be held hostage by special interests. MIT is big and powerful but hopefully we still live in enough of a democracy so that the public good overrides powerful money interests.

Eminent domain on air rights and other property rights can still be used if needed for a public transportation improvement.

Transit planning has historically been more timid about demolishing buildings in the way than has highway planning. New highway or widening projects have been able to acquire and demolish buildings, some fairly substantial in size, for the last 80 years or more. The Big Dig took out one very...

In I've thought the same thing about modifying the MIT building to create a second story passthrough portal for the elevated LRV structure. Another alternative would be to have the elevated rail placed on top of the existing building. It would raise the elevated structure a few stories higher...

Todman is right about that. I'm happy to see this complex get built, but I do hope the city builds the ped overpass over the Fitchburg Div. Tracks to connect this dense housing development with Danehy Park and Fresh Pond shopping center.

Thanks for the update. I lived there 1954 to 1966. At the time it wasn't bad, with ample open space and playgrounds within the housing project grounds. The adjacent North Cambridge neighborhood was very pleasant, friendly and walkable. It does pain me a bit to see it disappear, as it is where...

A couple of factors came into play. Massachusetts Senator JFK became President, and of course that meant Boston had better access to federal funding. Another factor was the Federal funding was set up to perform massive scale neighborhood leveling urban renewal mega-projects instead of more...

Here's my concept to redo the Auburn interchange. I believe it's doable, and would open up some land for development: For comparison, this is an aerial of the current interchange:

I hope that means a two-track route, and not single track.

Spme of the pre-CAD renders back in the 1960s were inspirational, absolute works of art. CAD has made the renders these days somewhat sterile and lifeless looking.

Some buildings grow on you. The BU computer science building, the Verizon Building, and now this one absolutely horrified a lot of people on here at first, me included. But the first two I've come to like, and now this one is coming around as well. Funny how that works.