Boston’s Short Streets and a Building that Doesn’t Belong
One of the most startling differences between Boston and New York has to be the shape of the streets. While Manhattan does have its quaint, cobble stone streets downtown, for the most part it is a city on a grid. You can stand on Lexington Ave uptown and look down the stretch for blocks. Boston is a city that has stayed close to its colonial plan– the streets loop back on each other, there are street-named alleys, and photographs of these Ways and Avenues seem to stop short with a curve in the road or a dead end.
Making up for it’s lack of long, easily navigated roads, Boston is packed with beautiful old architecture. This is the Boston I remember from my childhood– old bricks, wooden signs, and cabble stones. However Boston has had a major facelift over the past few decades: the big dig, new construction, and modern architecture that stands right beside the old. As you can tell from the set above “one of these things doesn’t look like the others.”
Sunny Evening and Stone at Fort Independence
Fort Independence is a 375 year old stone fort located on Castle Island– just across the bay from the new apartment. The grounds have now been turned into a park that is filled with families and kids now that the weather is warm. Interesting trivia: Edgar Allan Poe served in the military here in the late 1800′s.
