The East Boston Times-Free Press reports officials pulled the "filter" - an icon the cool kids could use on the social network - after an outcry from East Boston residents. And the paper reports that officials will consult with residents in other neighborhoods as well - presumably including Roslindale, represented by a cemetery entrance in Jamaica Plain - about appropriate icons for their neighborhoods.
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Complain complain complain...
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:02am
Complain complain complain... get a life
Yeah, you tell 'em!
By adamg
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:20am
Stop whining to the city and start whining about people whining.
The view of Boston from east
By Bwaz
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:07am
The view of Boston from east Boston sums it all up
i can see how this could
By Frank Rizzo
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:04am
i can see how this could happen all the innovation department is a bunch of interns.
The city IT department's done some good stuff, but ...
By adamg
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:24am
Yeah, I can see some earnest kid up from the Guyland or something sitting at a desk going "East Boston, East Boston, what's East Boston known for? Oh, yeah, the airport!" And of course he's not going to know about the blinding fury of 10,000 suns that has been the hallmark of any actual East Boston discussion about the airport for, oh, the last 60 years or so.
Where they got the idea that Forest Hills is in any way associated with Roslindale, though, that's a puzzle.
I know...
By carfare
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 8:11pm
Making an assumption that most of the young pups working there aren't originally from Boston, and use internet sources. If that's so, I have a couple of answers for you.
1) Realtors. Zillow until recently had Forest Hills available houses/condos/apts listed as being in Roslindale. They seem to have fixed this issue now. Just looked at one available property and it does now say Jamaica Plain. The good guys prevailed on this one it seems.
2) Google. Search Roslindale and take a look at the red outlined area. Yup, that's Forest Hills inside there too. Until recently the default image for the search term "Roslindale" was the main gate for Forest Hills Cemetery.
Even though I know it shouldn't, this kind of stuff sends me into orbit. I also know the majority out there doesn't give a poop either.
I am shocked! Shocked!
By Snuggles
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:04am
You can't characterize a Boston neighborhood, nor specify the borders or naming of it, without people being up in arms. Also, be careful mentioning the word "bicycle". Anyone with a basic familiarity of Boston area social issues knows things like this.
Your "social media experts" are usually "expert users&products of dotcoms", not experts on anything actually "social".
Had someone used a bicycle
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:28am
... they might have learned a lot more about the neighborhoods.
I used to ride my bike all over Boston
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:11am
But the I turn 17 and got my license and eventually a car.
That's nice, dear
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:22am
What year was that - 1965? Your first car have those fins? Or was it a Vega?
I've been driving for 35 years now. I've had a car in Boston area since I was 18 and still find the bike to be the best way to get around much of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville and environs.
Great way to see the city.
Did you know that over 90% of cyclists have drivers licenses and many own cars, too? Whooda thunk!
Oops
By Snuggles
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 4:23pm
I mentioned the word "bicycle".
Seriously? If you're pitching
By RoseMai
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:06am
Seriously? If you're pitching a fit about a snapchat filter... you have far too much free time.
How many of those offended enough to complain to the city
By zetag
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:47am
about this do you think even have snapchat? My guess is not many had even heard of it before this.
Seriously? If you're pitching
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:01am
Seriously? If you're pitching a fit about someone pitiching a fit ... you have far too much free time.
You call that pitching a fit?
By RoseMai
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 2:40pm
You call that pitching a fit? I guess a lot can be lost over the internet, but I can assure you it's more of an amused statement :)
Peter, your thoughts?
By zetag
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:09am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0
East Boston Is Not An Airport
By John Costello
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:14am
Yes, yes, we know that. However it is where the airport is and has been for nearly 100 years. Lighten up.
Besides, oil tank farms, virgin on the half shellls, wrought iron in front of faux stone front porches, and discarded Tello's bags. aren't as easy to reproduce in Snapchat filters as you think.
50 Foot Madonna Queen
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:32am
Constitution Beach, too.
Much of the airport is built on fill - made land in the harbor just for the airport.
The most recognizable EB icon
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:39am
The most recognizable EB icon would simply be five straight lines, arranged like the Logan runways.
Anytime you look at a map of EB, that's the first thing you see.
But is it East Boston?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 12:40pm
How much of what is now the airport was there when most of the housing and neighborhoods were built? The airport is really its own separate thing attached to East Boston. The city has little control over it, if any.
honestly
By ElizaLeila
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 1:47pm
That argument is true for a lot of Boston.
How many people now living in those
By roadman
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 1:55pm
houses and neighborhoods were living there BEFORE the airport was built? That's the relevant issue here.
Not really
By boo_urns
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 1:25pm
I don't know if that's really the core issue, as that seems irrelevant. The core issue is what sort of neighborhood landmark do residents feel they most identify with or represents them? If it's not an air traffic control tower, I think they have a legitimate gripe. Legitimate as far as Snapchat icons are concerned, at least.
Technically Logan Has Six Runways
By Aeroguy
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 3:57pm
Logan actually has SIX designated runways.
All*
By Kaz
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 5:22pm
I didn't think the A380s land on anything other than the 10,000 ft runways, do they?
A380s are Rare in Boston
By Aeroguy
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 5:16pm
A380s at Boston have been rare, to date.
Probably, the A380s have only landed or departed on one of the two 10,000 foot runways. Since these runways meet at about a 60 deg angle, that gives four options (each runway has two ends) to operate, largely, into the wind.
I've observed B747s landing/departing on all four 150 ft-width runways. But, mostly they also use the two 10,000 ft runways.
3x a week
By Kaz
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 8:21pm
BA has been running them 3x a week (M/F/Su) to Heathrow and back with a landing and a take-off each day. But I've never been paying enough attention to track if they used a different runway than the rest of the larger class traffic that is landing/leaving at the same time.
Tello's...
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:43am
...has been gone for years now.
Sorry
By John Costello
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:41am
I should have said old Tello's bags fished out of stolen cars from the 80's run off from land into Chelsea Creek. My bad.
Um. Tellos is gone
By EastieGirl
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 10:57am
long gone from Eastie. Now the trampy clothing purveyor is Madrags.
Actually there is a music video for that...
By BlackKat
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:13am
...courtesy of V66
Piers
By Ron Newman
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:03am
would be a good representation of East Boston, though they are not unique to that neighborhood (Charlestown and Southie have them as well)
Replacement idea
By Kaz
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:57am
A pair of tunnels with a taxi coming out from one of them.
No, that would assume a taxi
By DTP
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 12:23pm
No, that would assume a taxi was actually willing to drive someone to Eastie.
I say...
By Kaz
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 2:04pm
[img]http://i.imgur.com/93O5Abp.jpg[/img]
Or a pizza that has the
By Kinopio
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 1:10pm
Or a pizza that has the cheese on the bottom for no good reason.
Snapchat icons
By roadman
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 2:24pm
Glad to see this City doesn't have any real issues to devote their time and resources to.
Boston's a big city
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 4:15pm
Full of different city agencies working on different issues. That's how cites roll.
So, what are the folk doing up at your town's town hall? Please tell so I can mock them for it.
Wait until you see what they
By Brent Jeffries
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 5:17pm
Wait until you see what they've come up with for twitter hashtags!
What would you use for Roslindale?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 8:41am
It's a lovely neighborhood but I can't think of anything that visually stands out. The top of Peters Hill doesn't lend itself to representation as an icon, and is memorable mostly for the skyline view.
Some possibilities ...
By adamg
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 8:57am
The clock on South Street. The trees of Adams Park. The exterior of the Pleasant Cafe. Or, of course, my earlier suggestion of the Simco neon hot dog :-).
But really, it needs to be the old trolley substation, which somebody's already conveniently shown can be iconized pretty easily:
Gotta be the substation
By Waquiot
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 1:11pm
And I would have said that 10 or 20 years ago, too.
I kind of miss the murals, though, but that's progress (and good progress.)
Clock
By adamg
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 2:02pm
Might actually be on Belgrade, just past where South Street (or at least, that little bit of it) ends.
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