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*Extremely anecdotal* I've been taking the 7 train into the city some weekday mornings recently. I keep being struck by how my train car will be moderately busy between Queens and Times Square, and then nearly empty between Times Square and Hudson Yards. There have been times where I've been...

Shocked we're still doing this in 2023. I thought this had peaked pre-covid.

What bothers me most with this proposal is entirely out of their control: that stupid skinny triangular lot fronting Kilmarnock Street, being used for about a dozen parking spaces. The site conditions make a good urban street wall impossible.

Maybe not exactly the right environment for it, but I feel like a multi-story video screen on the blank wall facing the Mass Ave and Newbury intersection could potentially be cool.

Old-ish buildings, now evoking older styles. The construction technique is very interesting to me. Looks great today, wonder how it holds up.

Appears to be a fire at Tuft Medical Center

To go a bit deeper still, what you'd likely be looking for is an API that implements the GTFS Realtime standard. This is an industry standard format developed by Google and used by transit agencies for publishing data about trip updates, service alerts, and vehicle positions. There is also a...

When someone defaces their license plate and is able to continuously get away with it, I personally believe they're also more likely to engage in other reckless behavior on the road. Hopefully more enforcement, greater deterrent of other dangerous behavior. This is especially the case here in...

Watertown gets its own mini Cambridge Crossing ❤ Seems positive that the second parking garage has been moved north of the bike lane and is no longer fronting Arsenal St. Still seems like a big missed opportunity that this development doesn't include housing.

The secondary use case that I keep thinking of in this situation is self-storage. Seems to check a lot of important boxes: No natural light requirements. No need for plumbing. Even HVAC could potentially be optional. Doesn't generate many trips to/from the building. Could potentially make use...

Wholly agree. Which is why it really frustrates me that the Globe celebrates Wu freezing out Boston's business leaders. Much better outcomes can happen when you have the city engaging both private developers and nonprofits like CCBA.

A very tasteful use of alucobond panels, in my opinion.

Huh, TIL that we have a megachurch in Brooklyn.

The towers rendered in @stick n move's pictures are happening, but one block up from St Johns Terminal (which @awood91 correctly points out is being redeveloped into an expanded Google campus). 570 Washington street is slated to be very high end residential. Appears to have broken ground two...

Wow, somehow this Globe article is the first time the new Terminal E has come onto my radar. … I’m stunned. I haven’t yet seen what the interior looks like, but from the exterior alone, I think this almost immediately belongs in the conversation when discussing Boston’s best architecture.

Taking advantage of recently passed legislation that gives density bonuses for affordable housing, a developer is proposing a 560' residential tower in the Outer Sunset in SF. It would be the city's 12th tallest building. In Boston terms, it's like proposing a 560' tower in Hyde Park. No idea...

How can one possibly look at the existing conditions and think that a 6-unit apartment would be inappropriate here? Infuriating.

Wu is proposing a rent control bill that would allow annual rent increases up to 6 percent higher than the federal government’s Consumer Price Index, i.e. if inflation is 2 percent, landlords could increase rent by up to 8 percent. Rent increases would be capped at 10 percent...

Seems like this has already been making the rounds elsewhere, but this was the first thing I saw when opened Instagram today. Posted by a non-Boston-oriented meme account, so we're getting coverage far and wide!

Wu is proposing pretty large changes to Boston’s inclusionary zoning policy. Would kick in at 7 units instead of 10 and 20% of units would need to be affordable instead of 13%. https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/standards/inclusionary-development-policy