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For starters, this isn't Comm Ave, it's Brighton Ave. But regardless, I'm going to STRENUOUSLY object to your desire to rip up all of the lovely stone and brick pre-war buildings lining Comm Ave in A/B and replace them bland, modular-looking 5-over-1s.

I'm with you on not going too cheesy, but I wouldn't mind this guy (currently at the East Boston Shipyard) moving across the harbor and getting lit up at night: Legal Seafoods also has an abstract fish sculpture on top of its headquarters, but the Marine Industrial Park is so out of the way...

Let me make sure I have this right: you don't think there should be a playground here, because sometimes there are protests??

Jesus Christ. Do you actually know anything about liability laws, or are you just basing this on vibes? I truly beg of the posters in this thread to please stop baseless fear-mongering over a goddamn slide. We can discuss other things besides ZOMG, LAWYERS!

Right, which is why I said "within a decade" not "right now." The fact is that Centre Street is mostly lined with one-story tax-payers, while Washington St is seeing a boom of 4 and 5 story buildings, all of which portend the doom for the remaining auto body shops and empty lots that line the...

I think Washington St may supplant Centre Street as the commercial heart of JP within a decade.* And given its closer proximity to the Orange Line, that's probably a good thing. *Not that I'm suggesting Centre Street will suffer in any way. Given its bohemian character and increasing density...

I adore Newburyport. I've never quite understood why it seems to have less seaside cache than places like Marblehead, Rockport, Newport, and Kennebunkport.

Fallon Field in Rozzie:

Jesus Christ, does no one on this board have kids? There are slides just like that in parks in all over the city. Stop making up a litigation boogyman.

I am extremely skeptical that this is any kind of significant improvement.

Fun fact: this little hilltop campus of St. Gabriels, the hospital, and Brighton Marine is what David Foster Wallace turned into his semii-fictional Enfield in Infinite Jest. In light of the fact that the book is considered one of (if not the) most significant works of literature in the 90s, I'd...

Yeah, because that's what happens when you build highways: they get used to capacity. It's called induced demand and we have decades worth of data about it. If we built a fourth parallel highway on the other side of the pike, that one would be at capacity too, but that sure as hell doesn't mean...

It directly parallels a six-lane highway in the pike (that's just a few blocks away) and a four lane highway in Memorial Drive. Of course it's superfluous.

To a Republican (yes, even one of the “good ones” like Baker) the fact that he is bad at his job is a feature, not a bug. One of the core principles of the party is that public services in general - and especially the services that help the types of marginalized groups that tend to rely on...

There's no such thing as having too many pedestrian and bike paths. There is such a thing as having too many highways.

Oh my God. We're going to fill in the massive gap on Huntington created by the existing field, and get rid of a massive surface parking lot at the same time!?!?!

It's hideous, but this location is damn near rural and not remotely close to any train lines, so I suppose row houses or something more traditionally urban aren't really a good fit.

Damn, is this Wu's zoning reform in action already? No way last year's board would've approved a building with that parking ratio.

There is a street in there, just not one built for cars (which, of course, makes it better).

I, too, don't like to pay for things I consume.