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Who cares if you do or don't already know if there's cool pedestrian bridge there? The fact is, it's there, and it makes for a substantial amenity. Along with all of the other amenities which I cited above, which you bizarrely dismiss as "literally nothing." The Narragansett Brewery is literally...

I'm not disagreeing with you, but this strikes me as a very myopic lens, in terms of overlooking--from the general public's standpoint--the stunning success that has been the overall redevelopment of the India Point/former I-195 corridor section of Downtown. Realistically, 99% of the general...

Bro, do you even bench? Clearly not--or at least, not in DTX, otherwise you'd be seeing all the hulking specimens that comprise Emerson College's legendary football powerhouse going in there constantly to get diesel. (In all seriousness, there's a very large and conspicuous "EMERSON" decal...

I was also very skeptical at first, but then I did some research: it's only 67 miles from that vantage point to the top of Mount Washington. Also, if you look at the perspective, the Presidential Range is aligned correctly, for a bearing that is almost exactly northwest. Also, there are other...

Harvard gonna Harvard. As this pretty informative Crimson piece notes, Harvard definitely used strawmen agents ("In 1997, Harvard announced it had secretly obtained 52 acres of land...") to buy-up land in Allston in the 1990s. A lot of people know about the abovementioned . . . but before...

JP Morgan took control of of the New York New Haven railroad sometime around 1903 and thus acquired ownership of the brand-new South Station. A key tactic in his overall railroad war strategy vs. the Boston & Maine (then controlling North Station) was to never allow for a conduit track to be...

Yeah, having gotten on and disembarked at Wickford about 10 or so times in that decade, it's been a uniformly depressing experience, given how woefully underutilized it's been. 120-minute trips to Boston and adjacency to central RI's population hole can do that... but then, during the pandemic...

Ah, thanks for the clarification--now I see what you're getting at. Maybe there's a footnote or brief reference in the 11 Bromfield proposal iteration about why they decided to rebrand from "1 Bromfield" to "11 Bromfield"? It is confusing (if one forgets that the 1 Bromfield iteration was...

A reminder of the *benevolent sponsor* of said bifurcated rail termini travesty:

You mean the one the BPDA commanded to be scrapped in 2016--that 683-footer? Yeah, doubtful it's coming back... ;)

The rough midpoint between Lego in Assembly Square and Lego at 501 Boylston St. (which doesn't appear like it's slated for consolidation into the new offices) would be somewhere on the Orange Line between North Station/Chinatown... which of course leads to the logical, modest proposal: perhaps...

Whenever *they* decide to make a noir, "true crime"-style documentary investigating the horrendous (mercifully non-fatal) arson that completely incinerated the Edison development in summer 2017, which I was eyewitness to (at the time I resided just 1,000 yards away), this should be the blurb...

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...