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The lawyers have certainly benefited immensely from the *vigorously litigated* Webster Woods... which are essentially next-door. (The southwest corner of Webster Woods is only a half-mile from the northeast corner of this parcel/development site, I see.) It's too bad there can't be a "grand...

A great piece from the Irish Times, when the Irish Famine Memorial was first unveiled, absolutely savaging its aesthetics for their syrupy, preachy, Disneyfied, simplistic insulting-ness: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/1m-famine-memorial-a-monument-to-kitsch-1.169414 "The actual [Irish...

IAG hearing on the 18th: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2023/01/18/11-21-bromfield-street-impact-advisory-group-meeti

Ah, sorry for my assumption, in that case. I'd been convinced for decades that 660 Washington had to be a remnant structure, given its proximity to the Pike, and how oddly, anomalously alone it stands on the south side of the street.

Exhibit A of what a ghastly impact ramming the Pike through Newton Corner/Newtonville had. It's basically Newton's analogue to the Lone Tenement of Lomasney Way. If it had a pre-recorded greeting for visitors that blared over a loudspeaker, it would announce, "Hello, here I am! 660 Washington...

Yeah--1,530 nm on a straight line, I checked. But, say you start hitting the Rockies' notoriously chronic and brutal downdrafts around, where, the Dakotas/MT border? In that case, you're being buffeted for some 250 nm. I checked the specs on Wikipedia--the A220 is significantly faster (470...

I just walked, via Google Maps, the three-quarters of a mile on Main Street from where 3A junctions with it, north to the Route 9 intersection, to remind myself of what a fantastic downtown Concord possesses. Great architecture--including lots of nicely-rehabbed 19th-c. mill buildings--good...

I was going to pose a question re: where Manchester Regional Airport might stand on this latest (revolting) development (in this wretched saga), on the assumption that the airport is envious that TF Green acquired a CR stop now many years ago (and thus theoretically is now measurably more...

Ah, yes, thanks for supplying the context--agreed!

Is it that surprising, though? The Ballet has their studio just three-quarters of a mile away, at 19 Clarendon, so in that sense the Back Bay is just as much the BB's "home base" as DTX is with their tenancy at the Opera House. And, I looked it up, Symphony Plaza West is owned by an...

Yep, that must be it! Thanks as always. I assume, given that I've seen the mileage chalked x2 now on Amtrak bridges in RI, that many of the Amtrak bridges along the I-95 corridor from South Station to Penn Station would also have it... wish I had the time to take a brief trip to document it all...

This has nothing to do with Amtrak infrastructure (at least, in the traditional sense of "infrastructure" that this forum is passionate about), but it's been bugging me for a while, so I feel compelled to note it. Some years ago, walking in downtown Westerly, I noticed the Amtrak bridge had the...

Facts are stubborn things: this "baby"--that is, PLAN Downtown--was part of the compromise hammered-out by the state legislature in order to get the home-rule exemption for the new shadows that would be cast by the Winthrop Center tower. Mayor Walsh may have lobbied strongly for it in order to...

I find your alleged confusion to be highly amusing, given that nowhere in my post did I say New England-style small-town governance/democracy was "successful," or "better than anywhere else." (But of course I stick to my assertion that the extremely balkanized nature of governmental power within...

I've cited this factoid before on AB--and ultimately, that's all it is, a factoid--but I still think it's marvelously illustrative in terms of how regional planning in E. Mass. is absolutely crippled by how many independent municipalities that "should be Boston," given their density...

Might have something to do with being New England's epicenter for Tabanus nigrovittatus? After all, one of the town's most beloved products practically boasts about it (as perverse as that seems). Joking aside, I'm not so convinced this is true--I always figured the whole stretch of Cape Ann...

WHEREAS: Providence's patron literary saint, despite his appalling racism, remains HP Lovecraft; and, WHEREAS: HP Lovecraft's outstanding contribution to the modern horror universe was his popularization of all things tentacle-y; THEREFORE: it is decreed that all Providence light poles shall...

Except it's almost certainly not. As AB's wonderfully detailed & comprehensive thread on the epic(ally convoluted, controversial, and complicated) redevelopment of the Burnham Bldg/Filene's basement site chronicles: --Oct. 2008: Hynes/Vornado's financing collapses, leaving the infamous...

Excellent memory--I just looked up 51 High on Suffolk Registry of Deeds; Mr. Hardware Store Guy sold it to John Walsh for a cool $562.5k in May 2011. Also, re: your "I think they put it back on [the market] this year"--yes, I supplied the link to brokerage house's page for the listing above...

The one thing this perspective--all these wonderful photos posted in this thread, from this exact vantage point--conveniently overlooks, of course, is this. A remarkably blighted structure, abandoned and given over to rot since at least 2010, if not prior. Of course, it does represent some...