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I get why they can't, but I wish they could demolish the garage over Congress St as quickly as they are putting up the new building.

They can be a little hard to find, but if you spot one, there is this little local chain called Dunkin'....

Thank God I'm still working from home...

Well, I for one, am glad they managed to keep the costs for the Big Dig under control!

I am painfully bad at this. Embarrassing really. 😣 https://virtualvacation.us/guess

Tour of new City Hall

Do you know how many times I tried to make a separate thread specifically for Rifleman and your his, rantings? It was never enough. You He just constantly polluted other threads on the forum with off-topic rantings. Rifleman's banning wasn't about speech, it was about forum management.

When that last bit of the garage over Congress Street comes down, It is going to make such a huge difference in that area.

Yeah Puritanical Bostonians and actual Puritans are very different things.

Here is an old 99% Invisible podcast about the UN Plaza in San Fran that discusses a lot of these issues.

"There are no new buildings on this parcel, therefore it is unchanged" is a special kind of aB blindness.

A bit late...

I didn't know about Roslindale Hardware, that's cool. The Pleasant I am well acquainted with. It's a very cool space. You also reminded me of Sullivan's Pharmacy which apparently opened in 1912 (such a big year for Boston) and moved into their current location in 1976. This is more of a...

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Yeah, I'm really confused about this. All I can find is that 'they need to vacate' which usually means the landlord is jacking up the rent, but that building was purpose built for them in 1912(?), do they not own it or are maintenance costs on a 100+ year old building just too high for a piano shop?

Surviving as a retail or restaurant space is a challenge anywhere and surviving for 100+ years is especially impressive. Perhaps Boston have been lucky in this regard and we had more than our fair share of such places, however it seems that we have lost A LOT of spaces recently that had...

Not sure if this is exactly the right thread for this but WOW https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/europe/subway-train-netherlands-buffers-scli-intl/index.html