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Boston's ghost neighborhood
By adamg on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 12:27pm
If you walk past the weird old apartment building on Lomasney Way behind the O'Neill Building, you come to an underpass for ramps connecting Leverett Circle with the Big Dig. ChinatownKicks photographed the imprinted homage to the thriving neighborhood that once occupied the space (and of which that apartment building is one of the few survivors).
Copyright ChinatownKicks. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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Google Maps
Here's the Street View for anyone who was wondering where this is located (like I was).
EDIT: Weird, the Location section of the page hadn't loaded for me (or I missed it somehow) before I added this. Oh well, duplicate info.
Cool And Bizarre
I like the oddness of it as it is, but I'm sort of surprised there hasn't been some sort of art done there, e.g., people going about everyday routines in the windows, etc.
Or, maybe something more interesting. I sort of like the idea of making the door a portal to Hell and having people in flames and other tortures in the windows.
Anyone else with a concept?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I was thinking a WGBH tie-in
Can you tell me how to get...how to get to Sesame Street.
THat IS the concept!
The "concept" is a series of homes. I love it, as is. Then again, I love the look of bombed-out buildings, so take that with a grain of salt.
I vote for hell, flames and torture....
nt
The least we can do
Dump a few snow piles on the sidewalk about 15 feet apart and then put a Southie Space Saver in between the snow piles.
Ding Ding Ding
We have a winner. No more calls, please.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I prefer it blank and bleak
It's a better warning to future urban planners.
Artist of the West End homage
The artist who created the design for what's in the tunnel (and the "Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven" is Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
Details on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Levrant_de_Bre...
Thanks For The Info.
Always good to find out who's behind public art. Thanks, John.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
This is the "memorial" to the
This is the "memorial" to the old West End neighborhood. Just around the corner you will find the motto "THE GREATEST NEIGHBORHOOD THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN" molded into the wall of concrete. Ironic considering that is right where the BRA sent it with the "West End Urban Renewal(Removal) Plan".
A few more ghosts greet you as you walk up Martha Wat toward Leveerett Circle. Laid into the sidewalk, there are plaques tolling the names of the streets which once housed the neighborhood commemorated by the tombstone pictured above.
Lomasney of Lomasney Way has
Lomasney of Lomasney Way has two claims to fame.
The Ward 8 cocktail was created in his honor at Locke Obers.
He also has an alltime political quote attributed to him.
"Don't write if you can speak. Don't speak if you can nod. And don't nod if you can wink. "