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.”

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.

I’ve never been much for broad landscapes or skylines. I don’t think they always do a good job of capturing what it’s like to stand in a particular place. However, there will probably be many more of them to come on this blog. How do you begin to visually describe New England without capturing just how far the beauty travels?

Tiny Owl has relocated from New York City to BOSTON!

It’s so nice to be back home in New England where I can :

1) Wear my Sox T-shirt without fearing for my life.

2) Smell the ocean everyday (no smog!)

3) Visit my family sans six-hour trip

4) Say “Charlie Card” instead of “Metrocard”

Look for some of the last photos from NYC and the beginnings of a whole new city to capture in pictures.