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The first one. I sat down on a bench and had that thing staring me in the eye.

I seem to be restricted from uploading photos, so I'll post a link to this article/slideshow about architecture in post-war Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. You'll see a building that looks remarkably like a famous Boston landmark...

I don't seem to have privileges to upload photos, but I was on the Esplanade recently and noticed a modern apartment building facing out on the river that's much taller than the original brick buildings facing the river. It's all full length glass doors and windows and balconies, and sticks out...

Back in the late 80s, I drove up to Portland to get the ferry to Halifax. We drove around Nova Scotia - the coast roads takes you right around the Province. It certainly is a puzzle that they've never had a direct Boston-Halifax ferry. It's really a fantastic vacation spot, assuming you don't...

My faith in humanity has almost been restored. Almost.

What a terrible, small-minded attitude. Boston is Boston, and not Houston, because of its history. If you don't like cities that actually have history to celebrate, then go live in San Jose. If you actually bothered to read the quoted article, you'd know that this was done with private money...

So now we know Boston has a large college population? Actually, what a city should want is working/middle-class couples raising children. Churning college kids do not create stable neighborhoods.

Re: Boston Herald Property Redevelopment

I have a blog based on Stony brook: http://stonybrookinboston.blogspot.com/ It's mostly about ferreting out the original path of the brook, and the construction of the conduit.

My father was a Boston policeman, and worked in headquarters on Berkeley st. He worked in Planning and Research, and through his work he got to go up in the Prudential tower while they were still building it. I think BPD was putting their radio antenna up on the top of the building, and that was...