"Dirty Old Boston"

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On the Facebook site you linked for this photo, it says 1930. That's about right, because looking at historicaerials.com, the 1938 aerial photo on it shows the Mass DPW building on Nashua Street already built, but in this aerial photo it wasn't yet built.
Thanks for the great aerial. Boston and its environs were quite the industrial and railroad powerhouse back then.
 
South End 1958. Destroyed area of New York streets, laying foundation for the Boston Herald's printing presses and now the site of the Ink Block development.

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South End 1958. Destroyed area of New York streets, laying foundation for the Boston Herald's printing presses and now the site of the Ink Block development.

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I've seen so many photos of the West End leveled but photos of the New York streets and Scollay Square seem to be circulated less frequently online. Thanks for sharing.
 
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South End 1958. Destroyed area of New York streets, laying foundation for the Boston Herald's printing presses and now the site of the Ink Block development.

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Years ago, I got a picture of this site as the Boston Herald building was getting torn down. Not quite "dirty old Boston" yet. But from 2013, that's older than I I was thinking.

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It's amazing how dirty the Custom House got before they turned it into a Marriott.

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The two smaller buildings behind the Garden - what were those, and were they there right up until they started building the new arena? I never realized they were there.
 
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The two smaller buildings behind the Garden - what were those, and were they there right up until they started building the new arena? I never realized they were there.
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The Union Freight Railroad, that ran from South Sta to North Sta, terminated next to those buildings you mentioned. The railroad turned from Causeway St into what is now Legends Way between North Station and the old Analex Building, opposite Haverhill St.
I suspect the two buildings you mentioned were for processing freight transfers between the Union Freight Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad, but reading through the linked Wikipedia article, it didn't say.
Here' a photo of a Union Freight Railroad train turning off Causeway Street into the street between N Station and the Analex Bldg.
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