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castevens said:
That entire post made me laugh out loud. Thanks!

(on a side note: I don't think the word Menino has as much of an effect as Gorbachev)
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quoted for truth!!

I nearly spit out my drink at that line.
 
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I would be happy to see this monstrosity go (though I miss the days when I could park there for $4.00 a day!). Along with it I hope they take away that hopeless piece of junk they call a sculpture. During the Big Dig they removed it (to protect it??). Afterwards, they paved a rough circle around it with cobble stones to keep off the skateboarders and then they surrounded it with jersey barriers! I wish someone could tell me what the rusting hulk represents, why it maintains such a prominent location and the point of all the protection for it.
 
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Padre Mike said:
Along with it I hope they take away that hopeless piece of junk they call a sculpture. During the Big Dig they removed it (to protect it??). Afterwards, they paved a rough circle around it with cobble stones to keep off the skateboarders...
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I split my head open on that friggin' thing when I was in high school - skateboarding.
 
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No, I'm referring to a former viaduct in the current Orange Line and Amtrak Northeast Corridor railroad right-of-way, from around Ruggles Street to Forest Hills. This went away during the early 1980s, when the railroad was rebuilt in a cut (covered in places).
 
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pelhamhall said:
I just walked from the Financial District to Charlestown - I am positively giddy about this development. The garage is such a horror, walking under it, the whole expanse of dead brick plaza and concrete walls... can't wait for it to be gone.

And I never even realized until I arrived in Charlestown what a hole in the skyline it will fill! Although I think the site is big enough for three or four towers, I was able to fake two towers (working in the vaunted design program of Excel)

This is sort of what a 600 and 1000 foot tower might do to the skyline:

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"Boston - Raising The Bar"?
"More Bars in More Places"?
 
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Padre Mike said:
I would be happy to see this monstrosity go (though I miss the days when I could park there for $4.00 a day!). Along with it I hope they take away that hopeless piece of junk they call a sculpture. During the Big Dig they removed it (to protect it??). Afterwards, they paved a rough circle around it with cobble stones to keep off the skateboarders and then they surrounded it with jersey barriers! I wish someone could tell me what the rusting hulk represents, why it maintains such a prominent location and the point of all the protection for it.
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I was wondering about that just this weekend. I was looking at it, and wondering why "art" was surrounded by jersey barriers.

Also, anyone know how much they charge at the garage now?
 
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Where is this supposed sculpture? Even though I frequently get off the Green Line at Haymarket and pass through the busway there, I can't picture it at all.
 
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North side, near the turn that puts you into the tunnels (Tip & Callahan).

It used to be on the opposite side of Congress, close to the elevator tower.
 
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After the garage is torn down and an EPSN Sports Zone is built, if I hear anyone complain about how the city is losing its "grittieness" I swear to god...
 
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jass said:
I was wondering about that just this weekend. I was looking at it, and wondering why "art" was surrounded by jersey barriers.
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I think they're protecting it from the terrorists.
 
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That would be one huge ass ESPN Zone. Oh, and I'd rather have the ESPN Zone in the Seaport. This is a better place for local sports bars, retail, and a small hotel perhaps. I would not, however, put a skyscraper here-it would wreck the scale of things. Maybe 10-15 stories. But either way, this is probably one of the more valuable pieces of real estate available in the city right now.
 
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I think that with the Bulfinch Triangle filling in with mega-block landscrapers, this is the perfect spot to put an exclamation point with something bold and tall that says "welcome to Downtown"

I'd stick the tall building back near the police/BSC building and step the other 2-3 towers down. A smallish (10-20 story) hotel could occupy the eastern block on the other side of newly opened Congress Street.

Once Uncle Ted leaves us, we can begin to have serious conversations about moving the Feds out of the JFK building, and even demolishing the low-rise portion. Uncle Ted has been famously against altering the JFK structure in any way at all because in addition to being a socialist, he's also apparently an urban planner.
 
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pelhamhall said:
Once Uncle Ted dies, we can begin to have serious conversations about moving the Feds out of the JFK building, and even demolishing the low-rise portion. Uncle Ted has been famously against altering the JFK structure in any way at all because in addition to being a drunk, a lout and a socialist, he's also apparently an urban planner.
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Classy.
 
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I really don?t think this is the right place for a huge tower. This is a prime location for beginning to weave residential from the North end back up to Beacon Hill There is a great opportunity to create a street life on Sudbury Street that begins to structure a relationship from Cambridge Street to the new Bullfinch Triangle to Union Street where all those bars and restaurants are located next to the holocaust memorial.
 
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I wasn't talking about his current "situation" just the fact that he's 76 and given his well-documented lifestyle, it's safe to say he isn't going to be around for much more than another ten years or so.

But yeah, my last post was a heat-of-the-moment kind of thing and I'm sure reflects poorly on me. Ted's done a lot of great things for Boston.
 
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And, my friend, what do we have to look forward to after you die?
 
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Think positive, Jimbo. A real estate listing on a very attractive house!
 
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I'm sorry - I make no friends with my hatred of Ted Kennedy, I know that and I let it slip out some times. But as somebody who has lost somebody to drunk driving just the sight of him makes my blood boil. It's personal. That's all I'll say about that.

Now, back on subject, here are some pics of the "art" at the New Chardon street entrance to the Congress Street Tunnel

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The spaceship itself:

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That's a sculpture? I thought it was something left over from the Big Dig that hadn't been carted away.
 
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