By adamg - Sat, 06/14/2008 - 11:09am.
Yes
50% (81 votes)
No
43% (70 votes)
Dunno
7% (12 votes)
Total votes: 163
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Globe: Taste of NY on the Common?
Jay Fitzgerald likes the idea, says we need a couple on the Greenway, too.
A simple cafe
I like Jay's idea; hey let's expand the Frog Pond food stand/dressing rooms into a cafe. But I worry that we'll end up with another Tavern on the Green - a high-priced restaurant catering only to the monied clases, who will get to peer out of their mirrored windows at the rest of us, enjoying their fine meals on land that, for 350 some odd years had belonged to all of the people of Boston.
Excellent point about Tavern
Excellent point about Tavern on the Green. Inclusive is good. But no more sports bars, `Irish pubs', Starbucks, or Dunkins -- we already have a couple of those, no matter how inclusive they are.
The Boston Biergarten
Interesting idea, but of course it will be necessary for a delegation of 20 Boston officials and civic leaders to "study the concept" in Munich.
Yes, but they must remember
Yes, but they must remember that the whole point is to bring life into the common at night. That means, no 8pm closing.
And they should build a restaurant under the fenway-storrow drive underpass while theyre at it.
Food carts
Just drop the licensing fees for food carts. It'll fill up with burrito trucks and we'll all have a good old time.
Good Idea.....
I think a café in the Common would be great - and yes, it can't close at 8:00 PM. One of the things that always made me scratch my head was that so many places in the downtown/financial district areas would close right after rush hour. When I lived on the Hill I would do a little random shopping downtown after work, and I would still be there around 8:00 PM. There was never a spot to just stop in, have a drink and something small before walking home without it being a large and expensive production. A place like Thornton's Café on Huntington would be perfect.
Menino is a lunatic....he must go
If he's so concerned with pedestrian traffic, why not start with City Hall Plaza?
Short memories?
He tried to do something about City Hall Plaza. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, the federal government has veto power over development on the plaza (thanks to that monument to architectural mediocrity known as the JFK Building) and refused to allow the hotel Menino wanted to put there.
did they veto maintaining it
did they veto maintaining it as well? Do they veto snow shoveling, and advocate for city vehicles routinely parked in a moat around the building, and blocking the handicap ramp? Menino's no saint, and city hall plaza and city hall (and the common fountain, and countless other pieces of public infrastructure, ad infinitum) are a mark on his mayorship
How about a beer garden! Go
How about a beer garden!
Go to Munich, study how they set them up there, bring back a braumeister, and get Boston's first true beer garden started on the Common.
That would be awesome.
Not on the Common, but over at Govt Center would be mighty.
Most beer gardens have quite a bit of flora which provides some shade and atmosphere, both completely lacking at Govt Center. Add to that the forward-thinking of actually selling alcohol in a largely outdoor setting (take that, Puritans!). There is little to no residence in that area meaning it could be open late with few, if any, noise complaints. Boston is like a Little Europe anyways...man, this could work so well. Othemts, nice thinking.
i still miss curious
i still miss curious liquids, which was right on the corner by the statehouse. It was such a nice place to sit and have a sandwich and ice tea or coffee after work.
Yeah, but no beer
It could work, but no beer garden. Sheesh, don't we have enough drunk college kids wandering around Boylston St already?
Some of the "gardens" in Paris have indoor/outdoor cafes that serve lighter fare -- sandwiches and snacks. I think that'd work nicely for everyone from (sober and penurious) college students to families. And prices would be lower, so no Tavern on the Green action.