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Is that Sabatinos the same as the one in Waltham? I was there 10 years ago a few times. It's a dump but blew me away. I couldn't believe it was as good and authentic as it was. In the burbs, I find Anthony's Coal Fired to be very good. It's a Florida-based chain. Not NYC-style exactly, but...

I know @Bancars will strike me down for this, but I think you'd get a major uplift for DTX simply by opening up Washington Street to slow-speed vehicles. I'm not sure exactly why, but the picture above drives that home to me.

Did I dream this or was there a proposal to redevelop the Holiday Inn landscraper in Coolidge Corner? I ask because I just noticed it was rebranded "The Inn at Brookline" - seems it's no longer owned/run as a Holiday Inn.

I don't know if "Menino Convention Center" is a joke or not, but I don't mind it at all. Better than BCEC, for sure. He does deserve a memorial. My opinion is that he was a somewhat strange, rather provincial, and all-too-slow-moving mayor who nonetheless took his job very seriously and moved...

Hello, Boston historians.

Remember when a maternity/baby store with a cult-like following called Isis used to be here? Remember when it suddenly closed down and weeks later a shadowy militant group called Isis suddenly took over huge swaths of Iraq and Syria? I always thought that was suspicious. Anyway. Carry on.

Almost certainly you'd need to tunnel under Broadway / Rt 99. That seems unavoidable.

Super cool. The densest km^2 in Boston wouldn't even make the top 200 in NYC. Beyond Manhattan, random swaths of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx exceed Boston's highest density levels by a significant margin. Not surprising, maybe, but a very stark reality. Boston highest density exceeds that of...

Every year or so I find an excuse to repost this: Short of GLX Seaport, nothing better solves the connectivity problem for the seaport, and it doesn't even deign to use the transitway tunnel. Just real goddamned BRT. So the question is, could BTD implement this by itself?

I find this aspect of Japanese real estate so interesting. It seems so wasteful on its face. Will young couples, for example, move into a "used" house to save money when they're getting started? Edit - other random question - what kind of tree is that in ?

You think a building called "The Vinyl" would use cheap materials? :cautious:

I think that concentrating state offices in a single location - whether that's Boston or Worcester - is an outdated idea. My (totally presumptuous) guess is that many state offices work on an increasingly obsolete 9-5-show-up-at-your-desk model. How many jobs could be easily moved into a...

Clever, thanks for this!

I'd also like to play devil's advocate about the Brooke Courthouse. The courthouse is boring to walk next to - no doubt about that - but it employs enough recognizable common tropes of urban form (varied masonry at ground level, sight-lines to a grand entrance) that make it much more...

FK, you're being a good advocate for this building, which I appreciate. But the honest truth - and I don't believe this is very subjective - is that nobody looks at that photo and thinks "hmmm... that's a potentially friendly building there, but a bad unfriendly streetscape."

Just gave myself a streetview tour - I'm not very familiar with the North Shore other than touristy Salem. Cool street.

That plaza... wow. If you thought the Government Center Garage was bad, now consider being surrounded by it on three sides.

I try to be fair to these buildings. I know they're architecturally significant. So, really, I'm sorry to have to say this: a powerwash and new glass would in fact be great... IF this were on a college campus somewhere, or out in suburbia where street level activity is a lower priority. But in...

I'm far from a Dubai fanboi. This superblock is an urban dead zone, lacking in energy, vitality and activity. It's a depressing too-big-slice of Albany right there in the heart of the city. It's cool architecture, and it was fun while it lasted, but it's a fortress that needs to be taken down.

I’m not in favor of closing threads. In a year from now, if someone wants to post something about seaport gondolas (wisely or unwisely) this is the place. Maybe append the thread title to say CANCELLED so there’s no confusion.