This photo is an act of defiance
By adamg - Thu, 03/27/2008 - 9:00pm.
Yeah, it's a cool Art Deco light on the side of the old New England Telephone and Telegraph (now Verizon) building in Post Office Square, but so?
Well, if you stand on the sidewalk right outside the building and take pictures of it, security guards in black suits might come out and tell you you can't take photos of the building.
Take this, Verizon.
Oh, and here's another one:
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Of course you can
take photos of anything from a public sidewalk. I think we should get group of people with cameras to go down there and just spend hours taking photos.
But this may be one of those wide sidewalks
where part of it is owned by the city and another part is private, without a clear dividing line. Anyone know for sure?
If you do put together an army of photographers, it would be neat if all of them used Verizon cellphones to take the photos.
Who owns what and where?
I think that can be answered at the Assessing Department at City Hall..
Looks like they own the property to the street
From the assessors' record:
map doesn't distinguish between street and sidewalk
so it's not really very useful for this purpose. Also, it seemingly shows a small portion of the building as jutting out beyond the property line on High Street.
At each corner there is
At each corner there is sometimes a brass plate in the sidewalk indicating the property lines. I'm pretty sure this building has them. (If not, it's the State Street building next door.) I'll try and take a picture of them tomorrow morning. ;-)
I think that is the case in
I think that is the case in this situation - a short time ago I walked by this building and saw the brass plates you're talking about, with street numbers engraved in them.
Oh, that's not the Assessors' map
That's just the rough online plot plan, designed for the benefit of the General Public to determine who owns what property. Assessors' maps are quite a bit more detailed than the City's Assessing Online feature (the description in the property's chain of title (meets and bounds in deeds, takings, amendments etc) is what actually legally defines a parcel).
Then stand in the road and
Then stand in the road and take all the shots you want.
read, and always carry, this.
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
...and if he touches you, tries to take your camera- call the cops.
Always be the party that called the police [first.]
From the Photographer Himself . . ..
Yeah the Security Guard was sort of a turd.
I work for the company and so thats why it's strange that he was so adamant about me not being able to take photos.
So I think today I will try to take photos of the Property Line.
Let's see if he approaches me again today.
if he does I will take HIS photo. LOL
That was a most cool photo,
That was a most cool photo, by the way.
An employee has *fewer* rights
Greg,
If you work for the utility, they can hold you to company policy. If company policy is "no photos," they can punish you for taking photos. They could even fire you if you make enough of a problem for them.
Regular people -who don't work there- can take as many photos of the place as they like. But they cannot trespass to do so.
CP
Wicked Good Deviance
I remember that Wicked Good Walk a few years ago...we went into the little mini-museum in the lobby..."NO PHOTOGRAPHS"
I think I took 3 or 4.
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