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Some pictures i found of New Haven....


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Winter Storm Nemo by chrissam42, on Flickr


Main Line tracks at Stamford by MTAPhotos, on Flickr


New Canaan snow drift by MTAPhotos, on Flickr
 
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Pretty much the same scene in Boston:

Before/after:
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More pix:
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And... my car. -.-
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You should go to Mansfield , Amtrak will be sending some High Speed Snow trains later tomorrow....
 
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Keeping aside the solar power argument context this comes from, I enjoy this for reminding me that, despite blizzards, we actually live in a quite sunny part of the world.
 
There was 1 day in Berlin during my 4 months there when the sun actually came out.
 
My Upcoming Urban Exploring trips and Vacations

Mid February - March
Newark : Downtown Overview : Harrison : Overview , Long Beach,NY and Forest Hills,Queens
New Haven : City Point , Long wharf , The Hill , Transportation , IKEA
Norwalk : East Norwalk , Wall Street , Rowayton? , Harborview , Central Norwalk


April - June
Philadelphia : South Philly , Fairmont Park , Manayunk , University City , Various Trolley Routes
Trolley Suburbs of Philly : Clifton Heights , Aldan , Sharon Hill , Drexel Hill
Newark : Cherry Blossom Festival & Bayonne Bridge
New Haven : Downtown , East Rock , Mill River , Fair Haven Heights , Wooster SQ - Cherry Blossom Festival
Connecticut : Milford , Woodmont , West Haven , Grand Opening of West Haven Station
Washington DC , Baltimore , Alexandria?

July - September
Lower Hudson valley : Beacon , Yonkers : Glenwood ,Downtown , Ludlow
The Bronx : Pelham Bay Park , Orchard Beach , City Island
Worcester - Boston?
Portland,Lewiston,Coastal-Maine?

2014
Cleveland-Chicago - Amtrak Vacation?
Eastern Provinces of Canada?

2015
Czech Republic , Germany , Poland , Britian , Finland?

2016
Minneapolis-Portland-Seattle-Vancouver - Amtrak Vacation?
 
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Walz to step down, introduces a bill to further delay city development
February 13, 2013 A.P. Blake

Good riddance! That was my reaction to news that State Rep. Martha “Marty” Walz (D – Boston) was announcing the intention to resign from her seat on Beacon Hill. Walz made the announcement on Jan. 30, but she doesn’t seek to go out quietly.

Marty Walz – who will become the president of two Planned Parenthood organizations in Massachusetts, as well as the CEO of one – has vowed to squelch Boston’s growth. According to the Banker and Tradesman, Walz has filed one last piece of legislation for Beacon Hill to vote on: a bill which proposes new buildings cannot cast shadows on six Boston parks.

Walz is no stranger to such obstructionist laws, and in 2011 she introduced similar legislation, Bill H.1169. The bill proposed that no new construction would be allowed should it potentially cast a shadow on parks such as the Commonwealth Ave. Mall and Copley Square Plaza. Such legislation would effectively gut any significant project in the designated ‘Back Bay High Spine,’ an area explicitly zoned for lofty developments in Boston.

While her alleged intentions are admirable to some, the effects are far too detrimental to Boston’s growth and residents. With yet another major hurdle for new development, Boston’s already constrained housing supply and high rental rates will only be further exacerbated. This is great for those wealthy enough to own and rent out property in Boston (the same people who I suspect are most likely in their district to get out and vote for a State Representative,) but a huge blow to the working and middle class residents of Boston.

It is no secret that building in Boston frequently requires developers to go vertical in order to turn a profit. In seeking profit, developers expand the supply of apartments, offices, and hotel rooms, thus driving down rents. Many projects have fizzled out entirely due to Boston’s already restrictive laws on new development, with height restrictions principal amongst them. The effects are obvious, and Boston is consistently criticized for its high cost of living.

A special election date has been set for June 25, and the race is already starting to take shape. The favorite thus far in the race appears to be one of Suffolk’s own: alumnus Nils Tracy, a resident of Beacon Hill who obtained a Juris Doctorate degree from Suffolk University. Tracy said in a statement, “We have to deal with rent inflation,” which signals to me that he may not be up for the same games as Walz.

Until it comes time to choose a new representative, however, we must ensure that Walz’s last piece of legislation is firmly voted down. Should the bill come to pass, I assure you that development in Boston will fall even further behind demand. Rents will continue to climb, inequality will continue to grow, and our city’s health will be at stake.

I bid you farewell, Marty Walz. May you never have a say in city development again, for you have shown little understanding of its mechanics. Lest I forget, please take fellow-obstructionist Rep. Byron Rushing with you on the way out.
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http://suffolkjournal.net/2013/02/w...ces-a-bill-to-further-delay-city-development/
 
What's with all the street lights being blown out? You'd think with Citizen's Connect, this wouldn't be such a problem. I finally downloaded the app and reported 3 different segments of two different streets where multiple posts were out within about 5 minutes.
 
I see Walz' new job allows her to continue her crusade against the effects of the big tower.
 
The TODAY Show is actually doing a fantastic job making Boston look AWESOME this morning!! They've been showing great montages, footage, and aerials from all over the city. They seem to be clipping the shots at just the right angle so that you can't really tell that the city is rather compact and stumpy.
 
Good and obvious read over at The New Republic: The Real Problem with Gentrification

But Jacobs’s predictions of multi-generational, multi-race, mixed-income kumbaya hasn’t turned out quite as she hoped. “Unslumming,” she wrote back in 1961, “hinges on the retention of a very considerable part of the slum population within a slum.” Unfortunately, that rarely happens. Today we know the process she described by another name entirely: It’s not unslumming. It’s gentrification, a word that doesn’t sound nearly as quaint or benign. It’s worth noting that the term didn’t come into use until a full three years after the publication of Death and Life, when it was coined by the British sociologist Ruth Glass. Appealing as it sounds in theory, Jacobs’s picture of hard-working locals hammering and spackling their way to an unslummed paradise has proved more romanticized than real.
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In 1990, Graduate Hospital was 78.5 percent African American; today it is barely 32 percent. Ironically, many new residents were drawn to the neighborhood by its very roughness, along with its diverse community. “What I worry about,” Andrew Dalzell, the program coordinator for the local civic association, told me, “is that it’s going to become all $700,000 homes. What we need is the right mix, but how do we preserve that?”
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And in 1990, Graduate Hospital, along with most of Philadelphia was a shithole. Why must accommodations be made for the very population that not only destroyed the neighborhood but perpetuated its condition?
 
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