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Verizon building apparently going to be sold -- according to Boston Biz Journal. http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/07/23/daily52.html?surround=lfn from http://fr.structurae.de

thanks - nice pics as usual. while you were in that neck of the woods did you get to Mass Ave above Porter? There are several very nice developments up there that are starting to make the stretch between Porter and rt 2 much less of a backwater.

i appreciate your work -- especially where you move wandering posts to a well labeled new thread. i'd only request that you generally try to err on the side of free expression.

Re: off topic you're on. i'll bet you three supportive comments on your posts if you can come up with the hard statistics backing all three items (and including reasonable income brackets and white-collar crimes, drug consumption, tax and insurance fraud, "bully" gangs, etc. -- i.e. you have...

Re: off topic but we're having fun, right? Van can always move us into another thread... i have quite a bit of experience with relatively to very poor Chinese, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Ugandan, and UK immigrant families, and some involvement with Indian immigrants. my experience says you are...

Re: off topic what makes you think i'm white or liberal? just wondering? got an opinion on my gender? what's not objective about the references to those high powered small groups with murderous track records? I'm taking NYT reporting, etc. at face value. if it's the international flavor...

nice. when voting finally makes it to phpBB remind me to go back and vote this up... :-)

Dude, can't go with you there. as you may remember I live in Lincoln. I have also lived eight or so years on Beacon Hill, a year on the Pond in Woods Hole, a year in Cambridge, 15 years in Rockport and two years in Manchester By The Sea -- in short: qualified to talk about privileged...

spent a fair amount of time in the aquarium to n. end side. it is a very unlikely landscape. way too open. hard to imagine that stretch turning into anything like the common or garden. no doubt it will be smaller, more integrated at the margins, and with something worth a person walking that...

by my count 3 of 6: the hotels are not bad, but the library, L&T and the supermarket's sides are no good. (i'd give the garage opening a pass since it had to happen somewhere). The Library isn't going to change. that's 1/2 the block.

seems an order of magnitude worse than what we have today at the Pru. Pru complex is reasonably well integrated with the city on the outside and is a somewhat public space with full public access from numerous directions -- virtually all of which sport a street wall with some kind of...

hmm. is that the building that was said to be planned for the area behind L&T and in front of the east-most of the three apartment highrises? is there more on that one?

yes, unless they've moved. i'm guessing the edginess has about a decade to go at least, but i agree. (other than the massive parking lots between there and the pike--that can go away any time...)

when i was at umb there was a lot of life to the place, but it was internalized around people's interests rather than unprogrammed public space. we didn't play frisbee on the garage deck (because for starters, then, you could break your neck on the broken cement), but there were regular hack...

there are a number of very hansom (pun?) converted buildings in the mews on the flat of beacon hill. the modernists should go see...

yes, i get that. but me personally, i thrive on the smallness and density of boston, and the energy and pace of life that comes out of that. 'grandiose' can be one hell of a ponderous thing. i lived at the lower edge of mid-town for some months a few years back. it was fun to walk down...

Re: Evergreens on Rose Kennedy Greenway that's a very interesting question. never thought to ask... doesn't the public garden have a variety of species with labels? or am i mis-remembering... would be nice to have a flavor of arboretum on the greenway -- the Arboretum is out of the way...

i never knew that when i used to go used book shopping around that area. thanks for the history!

multiple theaters side by side is a great way to concentrate eyeballs and get low cost advertising, all other location factors held equal -- probably more so when these theaters were built given the media mix of the time. could be other benefits to proximity as well, likely based on both a...

Brattle book shop did a nice external browse set up in the empty lot next door, at least on weekends. not that the lot was a good idea in itself. kz, the lot is just to the right of your shot of the brattle, right? is it still empty?