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I wonder if this woman realizes that she may become a meme spread across the internet?

40 years is not that short a time period. And if you look at the condition of the city owned projects even 20 years after they were built, private ownership and maintenance is a good thing. Maintenance is an alien concept to the Boston Housing Authority.

The garage is more like 60 years old. Government Center started to take shape in the early 1960's.

Almost finished! Inside EXP: Touring Northeastern’s New Science Center Lots of pictures and a floor-by-floor description of the building.

I am not sure what is happening to that new Northeastern project. Now that the university has a long term lease on the entire tower 2 of the old Sheraton Boston (39 Dalton) they may be rethinking the whole project. Maybe more academic space, less housing?

Does Wentworth need more student housing? Two of their current residence halls have been partially leased to Northeastern in recent years: Edwards and Rogers Halls.

It also improves the view from Northeastern's International Village.

I think they intended that West Village G would at least partially hide Willis.

Update on Snell renovations with pictures. Snell Library Renovations to Create a More Collaborative Space (northeastern.edu)

Was there a jumper?

If they could do a facadectomy it would eliminate the fire escapes, which I doubt were original to the building. I do not mean build a 12 story building around the facade but something respectful to what that stretch of BSR could have been.

Could you post a link to the video for those of us who hit the paywall?

Reminds me of demands a few years ago from students that the MBTA put the Green Line in a tunnel under Comm Ave. That would cost a billion dollars or so in order for students to be able to look at their phones while crossing the street.

The building is a cousin to the "lone tenement" on Lomasney Way in the West End. While a very interesting facade, it was intended to be in a row of similar buildings, not standing by its lonesome in the middle of a college campus. I don't know if there were other similar apartment buildings on...

They could always do a facadectomy and incorporate it into the Pardee building.

I had to laugh at 1:10 when the resident owner feared that her property value would decrease!

Reading that article Brown also talks about wanting to demolish the "lone brownstone" building that houses social work. That may get push back from preservationists. If a new Pardee building is built on the adjacent parking lot, demolishing the social work building would greatly expand the BU...

Nice touch but I hope they wash it off afterwards.

In the 1950's Victorian buildings were seen as ugly and in need of demolition or at least having those ugly architectural details covered up. Tastes have changed and in some cases they are undoing the damage such as this: