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Maybe "they" will be "getting away with it" less in the future, thanks to that noted eco-warrior, the caped crusader, Ed Flynn!: https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025/04/Order%20for%20a%20hearing%20to%20discuss%20expanding%20the%20urban%20tree%20canopy%20in%20District%202.pdf

It's easy to dismiss the USS Massachusetts for precisely that reason--"oh, it's just an attraction for Boy Scout troops"--but I contend it's an amazing (even if not possessing the most slick and sophisticated "production values") WW2 museum, with some haunting memorabilia. I'll always be struck...

In the Something Classic category, the following trio remains indispensable: Crabgrass Frontier Asphalt Nation Cadillac Desert (yes, by definition a non-Boston tale--but you can't tell the story of Boston, New England, and the Northeast in general in the 20th-century without also accounting for...

You mean, like Wickford Junction? (58 miles as the crow flies to Downtown Boston; in contrast, 61 miles as the crow flies from Newport to Downtown Boston). ;) P.S. in all sincerity, thank you, as always, for the comprehensive overview...

Thanks for posting this map... duly inspired, I googled "Newport to Boston train" and found that an enterprising citizen shot this highly educational footage documenting the current state of that rail corridor. I don't believe this has been posted on this thread yet: Note, at the 2:10 mark...

FYI, I haven't seen anyone post this yet on AB... the project slogs along. Sadly, as necessary as it is from an infrastructure standpoint, of course it will do nothing to address a.) the station's relative isolation from prime downtown, which in my estimation doesn't begin until Burnside...

I sincerely recommend you check this out: https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/improving-development-review-process-article-80 Everyone acknowledges the current Article 80 process is broken, dysfunctional, nonworkable; hence, this ongoing initiative. Emblematic of that is the BCDC's role: where...

They're a nonprofit organization. Which means they're paying nonprofit salaries in a metro area with an insanely high cost-of-living. They have zero regulatory power. They operate in an extremely complex and complicated big-city political environment with numerous powerful competing/conflicting...

Normally--and sadly, of course--you'd be right. But for a variety of what in hindsight seem to be fairly obvious reasons, it's turned out that these Downtown office-to-resi conversions have, unless I'm mistaken, required absolutely zero support in the manner you describe. Think about it: 1.)...

You start by asserting there were "more people out on the streets" during the Combat Zone era (circa 1965-2000), but of course you don't offer a shred of objective proof for this incredibly dubious proposition. You don't even bother to define geographically which "streets" you're alluding to...

St. Petersburg's The Ale & The Witch is the Great Good Place to end all Great Good Places. Man, does it tie the room that is Downtown St. Petersburg together. https://www.thealeandthewitch.com/ Typical crowd scene there.

Including a not-insignificant number of sprinters--at least 2-to-3 a week, I estimate--who you'll see doing their best Usain Bolt impression (but in full work attire, with briefcase/satchel), frantically trying to surmount the station's pedestrian overpass in order to get onto the northbound...

The South Attleboro stop reopened many many months ago; however, the service frequency is... modest [to put it mildly]: https://www.mbta.com/schedules/CR-Providence/timetable

1 Lincoln St. garage: GONE 45 Province St. garage: GONE Winthrop Square Garage: GONE Post Office Sq. Garage: SUBMERGED FOR AWARD-WINNING PARK 580 Washington surface lot: GONE 212 Stuart surface lot: GONE 55 LaGrange surface lot: GONE 41 LaGrange surface lot: GONE Nature is healing.

If nothing else, the steps will always serve as an exquisite vantage-point to admire 387 Washington St (aka DSW building), which was just designated as a Boston landmark and, in my opinion (warning: hot take incoming!!!) was as deserving of landmarking status as 350 Boylston was not. In...

Behold: a mere . . . 2,725 . . . days* after the state decreed there would be a Downtown planning initiative, the robust (if not exactly rapid) community process lumbers on, with a public meeting on January 15...

If you want to make lazy, vague, over-the-top assertions and gross generalizations about the neighborhood, there's plenty of space on the Globe comments forum. Otherwise, make some practical, thoughtful suggestions that demonstrate you've been studying and researching the "situation", however...

Although I find your fixation on "respectfulness" to be bizarre--an urban landscape that only regurgitates "respectful" iterations of prior architectural styles strikes me as deathly dreary and dull (and also a bit fascist/totalitarian)--I will grant that the facade preservation being done for...

As promised [threatened] on this thread some time ago, the family and I did the Polar Express holiday train trip up the Blackstone River Valley this afternoon, on the Providence & Worcester's (yes, Genesee & Wyoming's, if one insists on being particular) charmingly restored vintage passenger...

My father and uncle spent their infancy (1944-1949) on T Wharf before my grandparents moved them to the 'burbs. At the time, it was a real proto-Fort Point (before Fort Point got effaced by the post-2010 Seaport gentrification, of course)--a truly bohemian artists' colony. Perhaps Boston's...