I've lived in Boston for longer than that. And for all of our contemporary problems- housing/affordability, public education, aging transit infrastructure etc.- the city is incomparably better than it was when I moved here in 1980. Incomparably.
Kraft will need much, much more than the anti-bike lane vote to get traction.
Mostly, I'm surprised that the largely anodyne Wu, with the cops behind her, a good 'right track' number etc., is below fifty per cent.
I'm going to see the MET show this morning. I lived a stone's throw away from Rudolph's A&A Building (as it was then known) at Yale for a few years and loved its juxtaposition with Kahn's great Art Gallery building across the street.