The post-apocalyptic T stop
By adamg - Mon, 06/18/2007 - 8:37am.
Mike Mennonno explores the back side of the Alewife T station:
... The playground here at the base of the exit ramp of the parking garage is probably the strangest, saddest, most incongruous touch of them all. Here's this post-apocalyptic concrete landscape--there's nothing around--and then, at the base of this concrete monolith is this weedy fenced-in parcel with its brightly-colored plastic jungle gyms, swings and slides.
You'd have to pity the children who played there. ...
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Alewife playground
I believe this is a private playground for the day-care center located in the Alewife station building.
He's right
Ron Newman is right -- the playground belongs to Moppets Day Care, which is right next to Bertucci's in the station.
My daughter went to Moppets for four years, and all I can say is that if you ever saw the playground full of the lovely children who play there daily, you would never think it the least bit sad or pathetic.
Just the opposite, it is a cheery and life-affirming place and while that may seem incongruous being in the middle of a busy transportation center, for me it humanized Alewife in a way I did not think it was possible to do.