Posted July 12, 201014 yr It's been almost a year since I posted any Boston photos here (apart from a single shot now and again), so here's something of a miscellaneous photo dump hitting a number of different neighborhoods around town. This is kind of long but even so I left out a bunch. If you are interested enough, it's all on Flickr. First up, Chinatown Various downtown-ish locations Boston Common The haze in the above image was from forest fires in Quebec. There is a slight haze in this image too. If you examine the banner in the background you can guess what caused it. Public Garden Copley Square Elsewhere in the Back Bay Dorechester Heights Monument, South Boston Commonwealth Avenue From a roof on said avenue Farther down Comm Ave, Kenmore Square Pressing on, Comm Ave in the Boston University area. The B branch of the Green Line light rail runs down the middle of Comm Ave west of Kenmore Square Farther still on the same street. Welcome to Allston, a delightfully unpleasant student ghetto. And into similar-but-somewhat-less-nasty Brighton. (Allston-Brighton is technically a single neighborhood and often is popularly thought of that way too.) More Allston-Brighton Cleveland Circle (Brighton) From Cleveland Circle the Green Line C branch runs along Beacon Street through Brookline (a separate town nearly surrounded by Boston), meeting the B and D branches underground at Kenmore Square. The most happenin' part of Brookline is Coolidge Corner We re-enter the Boston city limits at Audubon Circle That was a fun streetcar line tour. Now let's jump to the South End. Orange Line station at Massachusetts Avenue, kindasorta in the South End. Were you to head back to Kenmore Square from here, you'd cross Huntington Avenue near Northeastern University, and see the Green Line's E branch, the only one that (farther from here) operates in mixed traffic. And then you'd pass through some of the Fenway neighborhood. Now skip to the other End, the North End. (There's a West End too, but anything neighborhood-like about it was razed in urban renewal days.) Across a bridge to Charlestown Maybe a quick drop-in on Beacon Hill And a skyline or three The one elevated Red Line station Back underground Good night! And can we just accept as a given that everybody in Boston is a racist, arrogant douche instead of rehashing all that again?
July 12, 201014 yr Well, that's a given. But anyway, great shots Porky. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 12, 201014 yr The built form of that city is wonderful! Certainly the type that offers people the opportunity to be out & about walking around rather than needing to drive everywhere.
July 12, 201014 yr Great photo set! There's such an abundance of historic architecture. Downtown the historic buildings are intermingled with new stuff and everything seems to fit and it's dense with generous areas for green space. Streetcar/light rail lines and cobblestone streets! The built form of that city is wonderful! Certainly the type that offers people the opportunity to be out & about walking around rather than needing to drive everywhere. ... and yet I'd hate to have to look for a parking space! :-D
July 12, 201014 yr fabulous work of incredible density -- what a great tour of boston. you even topped it with the only boston skyline shots i was ever impressed by. nice. bonus -- great tour of photoshop too...! j/k! j/k! :wink:
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