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Ah, now I'm caught up.

I'm confused. Does the current inflationary environment have the ability to travel back in time to a week and a half ago when this bill already was passed?

In Christine Araujo’s case, living in the neighborhood has nothing to do with it; this is just what she does. She’s the one who killed a similarly scaled apartment in Nubian Sq apartment building a month or so ago, reading from the same outdated OMG PARKING playbook. When Michelle Wu campaigned...

But it isn't just the part that rises above the roofline that looks diminished to me. There's also less distinction between the glass curves themselves and it all looks kind of flat and fat. I worry that this is just going to look like an oval with a sail on top; the "slit dress" look of the...

I’m starting to worry that the swoop isn’t nearly as… swoopy as the early renders depicted. From this angle you have to look pretty closely to see that it isn't just a straight up oval. The “sheath” effect is less pronounced than I was expecting

Here's a few more that I'm guessing most of you are familiar with, but which I always incorporate in my tours to out-of-towners. The purple window panes of Beacon Hill: A handful of houses still have them, and they're all a result of a manufacturing error by one particular English glassmaker...

Not the most obscure one, but I've always loved this lost little remnant of colonial power, the steps to the back gardens of the long departed Province House: Sadly, the only known pictures of the house are of its 1920s destruction:

I used to live around the corner from this beauty in Brooklyn, "the world's only Greek Revival subway ventilator."

This is the one that used to have the car cut-out, right? As long as that's gone, this is an improvement. The street level interaction here looks solid and I love the idea of extending the paving pattern that exists outside of MT to the rest of the district.

But it is quite historic. It’s where the 1919 White Sox first met with a Boston gambler and plotted to throw the World Series, for one thing. For another, it was once home to what may have been the most important jazz club in the history of Boston - Louie Freaking Armstrong played here...

Eight unit condo with ground floor retail. A pretty important development for defining that corner of the square, I think.

This is it, right here. A city is experienced at street level. That's what matters. I'm not against height either, but (1) it's just not that important in the vibrancy of a city, and (2) given that skyscrapers often have terrible street presences, they can actively detract from a city if...

You're right on, there. My brother-in-law used to live at 12th and Locust and I've had a lot of great times at McGillin's and Sampan. Still, though, if we're talking about the supposed way that tall buildings make a downtown area feel, I would suggest that the streets where most of Philly's...

I consider Philly my third home and, over the past two years, I've probably spent a cumulative time of about 4 months in that city. So yes, I know why the parking lots are there. But no, the fact that the parking lots exist to serve the stadiums does not negate the fact that they are parking...

Wow, a massive sea of parking lots and an elevated highway just two miles from downtown. What a thing for Boston to aspire to...

Right. Signs - or even municipal governments themselves - don’t give a neighborhood its name. People do. That’s why we don’t have a thread called “South Boston Waterfront General Discussion.”

I have never heard a human being refer to this part of Brookline as "JFK Crossing" in my entire life. It's Coolidge Corner.

It's not really supposed to be a park, though, right? I've been envisioning this as more of a pedestrianized mall, sort of a Paul Revere Mall with retail.

Seriously. It’s pretty rare that I would advocate for an empty lot, but the Cisco beer garden might actually be one of the most functional spaces in the whole neighborhood right now.

Some of them are. Others might be ER doctors doing shift work. Even more will probably have flexible schedules going forward, where they'll mostly work from home but need to go into the office for lunch meetings or whatever. Then there's the fact that they might be interested in going Sox...