The Tiffany & Co. Foundation announced today it's giving a $1.5 million grant to the Greenway Conservancy to build a permanent carousel between Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Christopher Columbus Park:
The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove at Carousel Park is destined to be a major attraction for locals and visitors. Plans for Carousel Park include a signature grove of trees, a robust garden perimeter, and comfortable park furnishings.
The new carousel will feature Boston-specific characters: Grasshoppers, lobsters, cods, butterflies, foxes, skunks, sea turtles, sea lions and falcons, based on drawings by Boston school children, as well as an enclosure for winter use.
Construction is slated to begin next week, with an opening planned for September.
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Oooh
By M
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 12:28pm
*Comfortable* park furnishings! As opposed to the artistic unsittable ones down at Fort Point. Nice!
Phillistine! Those are
By NotWhitey
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 1:05pm
Phillistine! Those are conceptual art - you're supposed to imagine you're sitting comfortably in them.
talk about the entitlement generation
By pierce
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 2:06pm
why do you need every single bench in the city to work for your specific ass?
no one is taking away any benches for the new design-y ones.... if you dont like them, sit somewhere else (or more likely, stay home and complain about stuff on the internet)
How do you know what
By zetag
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:21pm
How do you know what generation the poster is? Or is everyone alive now part of the "entitlement" generation.
And may I suggest memory foam benches? That way they would work for everyone's specific ass. Genius.
the poster i replied to is
By pierce
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 7:10pm
the poster i replied to is outspoken enough that casual readers of the site (or at least me) know him to be outsider to- and critic of- the entitlement generation
and will the memory foam remember farts as well as contours?
Boston-specific
By NotWhitey
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 1:04pm
Boston-specific characters?
Skunks I understand - that would represent City Hall. But Pacific sea lions?
Re-Characters
By Charlie
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 1:13pm
Characters are animals you'd find in the Boston area, so it's actually a atlantic harbor seal, lobster, grasshopper, 3 types of butterflies, a barn owl, fox, Cod (state fish of Massachusetts) etc.
Where do you get that? Not in
By NotWhitey
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 3:14pm
Where do you get that? Not in the media release.
Here, among other places
By Allstonian
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 3:41pm
Right [url=http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/the-conservancy..., among other places.
I like the children's lobster
By NotWhitey
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 5:28pm
I like the children's lobster much better.
No masked bandits near Tiffany?
By Nancy
Fri, 03/15/2013 - 12:24pm
Skunks but no raccoons? I've seen more than my share of the banditos in the Boston area in my time.
Maybe Tiffany doesn't want them to try to make off with a grasshopper in the middle of the night.
dunno
By anon
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 2:17pm
I get a bad feeling about this.
I don't know if
By whyaduck
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 3:48pm
I would want to ride on a fish never mind a lobster but what the hey.
"Carousel Park"
By anon
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:32pm
What a joke. I don't care if they pave it with diamonds, they can never make the greenway look like anything other than what it is. A soulless median strip surrounded on both sides by traffic. Calling something a "park" does not a park make.
Visit much?
By anon
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 8:54pm
I got yer' soulless median strip right here:
[img]http://www.unionparkpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
Cods?
By dmcboston
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:34pm
There are no 'cods'. There are only 'cod'. Right? Oh, so "based on drawings by Boston school children" must mean cods with lasers coming out of their eyes and butterflies with giant claws.
Looking forward to it.
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