The Alcott (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

So when does this go back before the BRA???
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

! Just pointing it out!

When can we get a new name for the project? Frost apartments? Holmes Place?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

JohnAKeith said:
! Just pointing it out!

When can we get a new name for the project? Frost apartments? Holmes Place?
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Pardon my ignorance — are your two suggestions specific neighbourhood references that I'm not familiar with? How about The Nimoy?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I'm gonna go with Robert Frost and Oliver Wendell Holmes in lieu of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston poets, get it.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

SeamusMcFly said:
I'm gonna go with Robert Frost and Oliver Wendell Holmes in lieu of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston poets, get it.
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Holmes yes, frost no. I don't think he ever lived in Massachusetts. Even if he did he certainly is a New Hampshire/rural New England icon, not a Boston one.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

One vote for the Donna Summer.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Just it give a boilerplate or vaguely misspelled name like Over+Look or Diameter or something of that ilk. The names of the developments and the new streets in the West End are pretty clear indications of what the intentions of urban renewal for that area were: clear out the formerly immigrant heavy neighborhood and rename everything after classy, prominent Brahmins.

Probably appropriate that everything that was built was underwhelming, but pricey - I'd go for Nimoy, but I'd imagine if he was around he wouldn't want his name associated with anything built in the rubble of the West End he grew up in.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I bike past that daily. The roadways are already horrific in the area! What a mess.

Any idea how long the garage's demolition would take?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Why not Thoreau? Walden Pond is just a couple miles north.

Also, I believe my sig is relevant.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Scalziand said:
Why not Thoreau? Walden Pond is just a couple miles north.

Also, I believe my sig is relevant.
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Just to keep nitpicking... Thoreau wouldn't want anything to do with urban life whatsoever. Depending on whether you like him or not, either name it after him for spite or don't out of respect. ;)
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Let's just compromise and continue to refer to it as "that tower over by the Garden....no, no, no the other one, the that's across the street....no, no, no that's the Nashua st Tower, this is the one that used to be where the garage was...yeah that one." Concise, yet descriptive.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I would seriously make that the tread title if there wasn't a character limit. :)
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

So, does anyone have any insight as to when this goes back to the BRA?
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Re: Holmes or Frost - towers, streets, and pathways are named after famous men of arts and letters: Whittier, Emerson, Thoreau, and Longfellow.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Frost actually died in Boston.
 
Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

I propose naming it the Sally Keith.

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Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

JohnAKeith said:
I propose naming it the Sally Keith.

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John -- too pedestrian a name -- I suggest either Fanne Foxxe [of Wilbur Mills fame]

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On the night of October 9, 1974, Mills and his stripper friend Annabelle Battistella (better known as Fanne Foxe or the Argentine Firecracker) were stopped by Park Police in D.C. because the driver had not turned on the lights. When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin in an attempt to escape.... On November 30, Mills visited Foxe at a Boston strip club, The Pilgrim Theatre; he received a kiss on the cheek on stage. In light of this second encounter, Mills (and his alcoholism) was viewed as a liability in the upcoming election and stripped of his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee.....Foxe, who was promised a movie career by the congressman, changed her name to “the Tidal Basin Bombshell” and wrote a book, “The Stripper and the Congressman.”
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https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/wilbur-mills-affair/

or the euphonious "Chesty Morgan" whose picture used to "grace" the Combat Zone
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