Italian in Boston wonders what the deal is with these floating huts in Boston Harbor.
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Uh Oh
By Cappy
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 7:48am
There goes the neighborhood.
http://cappyinboston.blogspot.com/
Ancient solution to high land prices
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:28am
Scow villages, floating neighborhoods, etc. They were fairly common in some areas during times of housing shortages. Still are in Southeast Asia.
http://blog.tedx.com/post/59611627986/building-flo...
So because of Hurricane Sandy
By anon
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 1:39pm
So because of Hurricane Sandy, this guy is proposing building floating housing on the harbor?
Does anyone else see something wrong with this plan?
The NYC region had a few houseboat communities. During Sandy, they were either destroyed, or washed up on land. Local governments had hated them for a while, because they avoided property taxes, so they took this opportunity to make sure they don't get rebuilt.
ice fishing
By stevil nli
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 8:16am
Cold bout there this morning
Correction to my post
By Stevil
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 9:51am
This is Boston.
LUXURY Ice Fishing!
Ooohh!
By JimGaffigan
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:30am
Oooh!! Granite fish cutting counter and stainless steel ice box.
$971 per square foot.
Want.
Latest lux trend
By anon
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:33am
In house DIY sashimi station.
The barge on the left was
By Lmo
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:45am
The barge on the left was suppose to be a bar, not sure about the one on the right, could be a work barge?
They were both there all summer and I didn't see any activity on either of them.
on the left and the other on the left?
By Ralph
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:02am
I am trying to figure out which you are referring? You say both are on the left. Hmm.
The one on the left!!
By JimGaffigan
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:31am
Can't you read?
Fixed!
By Lmo
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:46am
Commenting while half asleep leads to mistakes!
wait, I'll call the
By edgarrowesnow
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 9:23am
wait, I'll call the harbormaster
floating harbor huts
By bostnkid
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 9:39am
this is the new long island homeless shelter, its a much safer bus trip now...
I pahked my bahge in Boston
By tcf098
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:27am
I pahked my bahge in Boston hahbah.
Why does the one on the right
By Scratchie
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:45am
Why does the one on the right have a white speech balloon coming out of it. And why can't I read the dialogue? That might clear this whole mystery up.
So frustrating...
Maybe its a Charles Schwab
By Dave
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:03am
Maybe its a Charles Schwab barge.
More like Charles Schulz
By JimGaffigan
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:17am
Of peanuts fame.
No, I meant Charles Schwab.
By Dave
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:24am
No, I meant Charles Schwab. If it was Charles Schultz you'd be hearing muted trombone sounds coming from the harbor.
They got rid of that tagline
By Stevil
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:10pm
You don't "Talk to Chuck" any more. Now you "Own your tomorrow". (although with the fees they charge to manage your money, maybe it should be "Chuck will own you tomorrow")
Chuck's getting old and "Talk to Chuck" could be bad if it becomes physically impossible to talk to him.
That would work, too
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:26pm
Adaption to climate change - buy one of these homes and you own your own tomorrow!
Sea level rise? No problem!
Or the strains of
By roadman
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:25pm
Snoopy vs the Red Baron
Am I the only one who thinks that the one on the right
By Nancy
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 2:21pm
looks like a quonset hut? Am I the only one here who remembers what a quonset hut it?
Like this?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 2:42pm
I think this church in Burlington may be a survivor:
[img]http://saint-malachy.org/Images/church1.jpg[/img]
If these were in the Fort Point Channel, I'd just assume that they were art. Did they escape?
Quonset Pizza
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:01pm
While the shape is no longer visible on the outside, you can still see traces of it on the inside of Quonset Pizza in Waukegan, IL (possibly the first place I ever ate pizza).
See: http://marsmerchandise.com/media/bar%202%281%29.jpg
Floating Restaurant
By DavidA
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 6:43pm
This was supposed to be a floating restaurant. The owner presented to the Jeffries Point community back in early spring and said it was going to be open Memorial Day through Labor Day. It never opened.
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