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What, you're saying that you liked it better before?! It had problems, so you can't complain about the new version. Plus, technically, it IS a piazza (kind of): (Joking, it's terrible and arguably worse than nothing. Just injecting some Copley Square or City Hall Plaza renovation rhetoric.)

Interesting exposure of some legacy tunnels? The area roads and former Joslin Park are full of 'em.

This happened at around the same time, really snarling the Providence line commute: Extremely poor communication by the MBTA - many employees confused this delay and the aforementioned earlier fire, and when PVD trains resumed conductors were assuring passengers that they were making all normal...

What is it used for now? What was it used for before? Are they 100% the same thing? It's been said in this thread and by the City/developer that the muddy conditions and stressed trees were from heavy utilization of the grassy spaces by people (I can find no evidence that vehicles were ever...

Which is nowhere near Park St. MBTA Station, which is named for Park St. on the shortest edge of Boston Common, which is now a centrally-located park, but predates Central Park or even the concept of a public park, and was originally a commons, but was never called Boston Commons. Okay, but so...

It has been recognized as a "park" by the NYT, Globe, WBUR, and other publications since at least the 1990s and certainly the last few decades - because that's what it's been. The major issue seems to have been heavy and frequent enjoyment of the green space by human beings leading to logistical...

Sure, and it seems clear the work of this renovation tilted the balance away from "park" towards "plaza" - and the photos speak for themselves. Bustling during the (twice a week, when it's in season) farmer's market, and I'm sure useful for official car parking during the Marathon and First...

You're totally right, you know better than the City of Boston and the company it paid $19 million to make a park. Here, I fixed it:

Understandable you'd be confused, though, since it's a failure of one!

You're talking about the people passing through it, like a sidewalk? This appears to be the only person intentionally IN the park lol

Nice to see person enjoying the park! $18.9 million well-spent.

Good turnout today?

In all seriousness, that's, what, 5 people in that random "strangely, nobody is using the grass today" captioned photo - how does that compare to post-redesign? That is indeed what my old man memory recalls as unusual, minimum utilization of the grass for lounging on a nice day. Well, there's...

Want me to swing by today and take a photo and we can see if the plaza is a success?

The "build extensive levies/sea walls around the entire perimeter of the city" plan would also require this sort of reinforcement, but on a much larger scale, everywhere, with more points of failure, right?

Isn't the primary concern about Boston flooding related to intense floodwater hitting right at the oldest, most developed parts of the city where there's lots of underground or at-grade legacy infrastructure right up against the water/flood zones and the highest density of residential housing as...

And yet, not as much seating as back in the '70s! I wonder why the Ancestors ever decided to remove this hardscape plaza with ample seating...

I agree with your assessment. Part of the problem with "hostile architecture" (the high-level concept, not just spikes on a wall) is that it makes it worse for everyone in order to dissuade the homeless from using it. If Trinity Church can't open a public bathroom for a farmer's market because...

I mean, look, clearly I think the City's choice of design here was horrible and I would have done it totally differently. They certainly can't add a bathroom anywhere there now. I'm just spitballing ideas here to polish this turd, since having to cross an active Dartmouth to find a BPL bathroom...