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This was really nice. Thanks
This was really nice. Thanks for posting it.
Yes! I enjoyed this piece
Yes! I enjoyed this piece immensely. Thank you!
Thanks! This was pure serendipity
I didn't even know this place existed.
After a morning at Licensing Board hearings at City Hall, I usually walk to Back Bay or South Station, get something to eat and come home. Yesterday, I figured I'd walk to Community College instead because, well, because I'd never done it before. As I was walking up Rutherford, I saw these weird light fixtures and went to investigate ...
I ride by daily
On my way over the bridge. I never see anyone use this at all. EVER. Too bad. Looks pretty. One day I'll stop and walk across myself.
my cousin also rides it
my cousin also rides it daily. there are users, and it is pretty. As New Lechmere goes in and new developments spring up i bet it'll get a lot busier.
I have been wondering where
I have been wondering where the walkway next to the Rt 1 onramp off of rutherford went! I'll have to go check that out with my gf soon!
Never forget me! But, at
Never forget me! But, at least I went out in a blaze of glory.
Sure...
... but East Cambridge didn't smell like bacon for days because you had been shut down & abandoned for some time. Now if you had gone up at the same time as the potatoes, the Hub would have smelled like homefries. My mother's family-- the Italian side of the typical Boston mixed marriage (Irish & Italian) whence I came --hailed from East Cambridge & my great grandfather worked a second job as a night watchman at Squire's. My relatives from that neighborhood always referred to a fat baby or overweight adult as "as fat as Squire's pig".
Someone needs to invent
Someone needs to invent freshwater oysters
Already done
Freshwater oysters? Yes, they're called mussels. I don't think they'd be good raw though.
under the new deck
the light fixtures, elements on the fence, etched river depth markers, the information about the place and other elements- like the swing lights up above under the expressway at the Paul Revere Park entrance were all designed by the public artist Ross Miller. The potato sculpture was done by one of the workman from the Big Dig who made it on his off time to commemorate the Maine potato cargo. Who ever made that sculpture was a highly skilled mold maker -
My former Urban
My former Urban Infrastructure professor (Ian Baldwin) actually wrote a piece in ArchitectureBoston about the space below the highway ramps, which he titles: "The unplace."
It's a great short read: http://www.architects.org/architectureboston/artic...
Any pictures of the Seussian light fixtures?...
Any pictures of the Seussian light fixtures?...
Light fixtures
OK, not truly Seussian, because if they were, each would be bent and curved at uniquely odd angles, but something about the colors and the stripes reminded me of Dr. Seuss.
Evocative of Pipi Longstocking
Rather than Dr. Seuss, Pipi Longstocking always comes to mind whenever I see those lights.
Another feature not mentioned in the story is the pattern on the fence panels; there are leaves embedded in some of the grid spaces.
always wondered what they were
they remind me of the barber shop. nice walk with barely anyone there the last time I went, creepy but peaceful.
That ramp always strikes me
That ramp always strikes me as rather dystopian -- a perfectly smooth curve hemmed in between two fences, disappearing in the distance where you can't see it, with custom lamp posts someone thought would be whimsical alternating in a perfect green-blue-yellow pattern.
Granted it's a tough site for a park. But it's not exactly a welcoming design for a public space. Maybe that's why I've never seen any people using that path.
The bridge...
connects to North Point Park in Cambridge, which you should also peruse with your camera, lovely canals and foot bridges wind in and out of interesting plantings and such...
Oh, you are so right
I need to get back there now that it's not largely closed off so that EF can bring Passion Pit in to celebrate the groundbreaking of its new offices.
Tip
Tip: the area is way cooler at night.
Thank me later.
not sure if real tip... or a
not sure if real tip... or a trap
Ha! :)
'tis real, 'tis real...
Pictures I've taken:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonurbex/8209468180/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonurbex/8209482242/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonurbex/8209488554/
I stumbled across it last December
A friend and I went out for a walk and accidentally ended up circumnavigating the city. We wanted to check out the new bridge over the tracks and didn't really know where it led.
We found the bit directly across from the Garden to be extremely spooky. Not in the "you're going to get mugged" sense, but we had the feeling we'd stepped into a dystopian '70s sci-fi movie - which was fantastic.
Isn't this where the promised skate park was supposed to be?
Isn't the area under the bridge where the long promised but never delivered skate park is supposed to be?
North Point Park
So not the Millers River stretch.
The skate park will be on the Cambridge side of the new bridge
near the new EF building.
Proper usage of the walkway,
Proper usage of the walkway, and underside of the bridge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsa_CQzAnBk
crazy stuff.