I'm quite familiar with that unit. Its an awesome apartment. My cousin lived in it from roughly 1995 - 2006. Its obviously huge with the ceilings and what not. When he first lived there with his band mates, yes he practiced and sometimes had shows there, it was all beat up and needing a lot of tlc. But then in roughly 1997 and made for tv movie was being filmed in Boston and used his apartment for certain scenes. The deal was they got the placed fixed up for free and had to let them film and be out of the way. The only draw back was there was hardly any heat in the winter, especially in the tall room with the windows, but a super cool place and the rent was reasonable.
i lived in that building, two floors below the roof/top. there was a balcony/fire escape thing out the back that had direct access to the roof where my group of friends/idiots would do totally mature things like throw stuff on people exiting steve's at 2am and blast tunes while doing our part to deplete costello's supply of castillo silver rum and old thompson while also paving the way for legal dispensaries a couple decades later.
we once managed to get an invite into the unit being discussed (i'd assume invited by your cousin, since this would have been sometime between '95-'98) to watch the 4th of july fireworks, which were semi-visible from the roof where we had been perched/causing trouble, but nearly completely visible from the apartment. the guy who invited us (again, presumably your cousin) was clearly a little wary of whether we'd be rowdy or friendly when we first got in there, but once it was clear we skewed towards the latter he was super chill and generous. great time!
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