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The 1974 McAnn’s 50 cent Knick draft beer and free reheated meatballs were a better deal.

They look like crematorium chimneys

Tallest stack of books north of NYC?

I was in Inchon recently and even it might be in the running. Pyongyang (I am told) has a much taller skyline than Boston, so probably a good relocation spot for height boosters.

Sometimes 60 <30 + 30.

That makes a certain amount of sense. But the rehabs of the older properties are no joke, for example in the Oberoi in Kolkata the interior of the Raj era building is more modern than that of the newish Taj 3 miles away in Alipore.

Always thought that this nice academic Renaissance revival building was very similar to the 20s and 30s buildings that give Rome so much of its character. It’s replacement is very boring...

I’d have gone with “The Zany”. But I suppose the design is more Quinn.

Sad for me. I remember going in there for the first time in 1960? when it was the main part of the University Club. It was the most “big city” club of Boston clubland. UC kept the low rise, sold the main building to Hancock because the club was broke. But everything changes I guess. There was...

The re-skinning of the tower is a good thing. The old panels looked cheapskate, bad for everyone’s view. As for height fetishists, I’d trade the old Fed’s crummy hat for 2/3s flat top and a 625’ campanile grooving up slowly in the back corner. Don’t be too quick to put down an old dog.

Nothing bad!...except that roof ;)

The old Federal Reserve Building is located in Post Office Square. It is that 1920’s Renaissance style building on the corner. It has an obtrusive dunce cap on top of it. Been a hotel for a few decades.

Nothing wrong with the Old Federal Reserve Bank building. But that top is like wearing a Yankee cap with tuxedo.

The roof on the old Federal Reserve Bank is so awful. Time for a new hat.

Thanks. It is rough when good organizations have to asset strip to survive.

What was it about this anodyne specimen that aroused passions of the masses?

Tough shit, losers.

Nah. The highlight of my day in the 80’s was flogging a 300 SDL up those ramps as fast as I could to my favorite space on the 8th floor. Never so much as a kiss! A few nervous pedestrians though.

So that’s the design? Looks like a college dorm building that got lost on the way back from the kegger.

It’s the Women’s Industrial Union facade I’ll miss for its own sake. The rest I’ll miss mostly because the replacement is worse.