Photos
The Orange Line's portal to another dimension
By adamg - 3/3/13 - 3:58 pm
Go to the front of the outbound Orange Line station at Chinatown and you'll see these mysterious tunnel entrances just past the end of the station, where the tracks curve on the way to Tufts Medical Center.
What strange wonders lie on the other side of this gateway?
Downtown massacre
By adamg - 3/2/13 - 11:05 pmLalunkee took in the Boston Massacre reenactment in front of the Old State House this evening.
Back on the Charles
By adamg - 3/1/13 - 9:37 amSarah Bourne captured sailboats on a reduced-ice Charles yesterday afternoon.
Copyright Sarah Bourne.
Mystery shoppers
By adamg - 2/27/13 - 8:20 pmThe folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when and where this photo was taken. See it larger.
And next somebody'll tell us Spare Change Guy is in Aruba
By adamg - 2/25/13 - 3:10 pmJason Feifer was ambling about Miami yesterday when he stumbled across our very own Jesus Is Lord Guy. "It's nicer here," he told Feifer about his winter home.
Never get into a staring contest with Mayor Curley
By adamg - 2/25/13 - 12:53 amDiego Arciniegas photographed Curley in the snow tonight (also Kevin White).
Boston in the mist at night from space
By adamg - 2/24/13 - 11:33 amChris Hadfield up there on the International Space Station posted this view of Boston on a February night (see it larger).
Compare to his earlier photo on a clear night.
Via We Love Beantown.
The truest love
By adamg - 2/23/13 - 3:29 pm
And somebody's got it bad on Beech Street in Roslindale.
Further proof Quincy is home to the world's most stylish bicyclists
By adamg - 2/22/13 - 11:01 amJuanJoseOle spotted this gentleman riding down Hancock Street in Quincy Center this morning, reports:
I guess he can't afford a winter hat or is hiding from someone. There was a cut out for his face with a Saran Wrap covering it.
So you think you can shriek?
By adamg - 2/21/13 - 9:56 amKelly reports from Downtown Crossing this morning:
Line of shrieking teens all down Washington St in DTX for So You Think You Can Dance auditions.
Apartments by the El
By adamg - 2/20/13 - 12:20 pmWhen and where was this photo taken? See it larger. From the folks at the Boston City Archives, of course.
Can city agencies get tickets for not shoveling?
By adamg - 2/20/13 - 10:10 am
A roving UHub photographer forwards this picture, taken around 4:40 p.m. yesterday, of the handicap parking spaces outside 12 Channel St., an Innovation District building owned by the BRA and EDIC.
They haven't plowed their handicap spaces since the blizzard.
Presidents' days in Boston
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 12:35 pmThe Boston Public Library has posted a series of Leslie Jones photographs of presidents in the Boston area, including Harry Truman campaigning in Boston in October, 1948, with J. W. McCormack, Gov. Paul Dever and Mayor James Michael Curley. Other photos include Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover, Wilson, Harding and Taft. Below, former President Teddy Roosevelt leaves a Beacon Street residence in April, 1916:
Somebody on the Silver Line gets Twitter
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 10:07 amBrendan Kearney notes the impressive social media integration on the Silver Line this morning.
Donut and Donuts and giraffe
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 9:26 am
Yesterday was Drive Aimlessly through Quincy Day here at Chez Universal Hub. We couldn't help but stop to admire the donut shop with the best name ever in the history of donuts, on Hancock Street, and the 15-foot-tall giraffe made entirely of car bumpers outside this mall at Burgin Parkway and Granite Street.

Happy New Year!
By adamg - 2/17/13 - 6:31 pmArturo Gossage took in the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown today.
Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
No street pianos yet, but looks like somebody in Brighton is getting ready for a street electronic keyboard
By adamg - 2/16/13 - 12:40 pm
Marcelo, a roving UHub photographer, spotted this keyboard-stand space saver on Sanderson Place in Brighton this morning.
Earlier:
Random pianos will appear in random places this year.
Snowhearts
By adamg - 2/14/13 - 9:56 amSgalla watched a kid waiting for a school bus on Kneeland Street this morning makes some snowy Valentine's Day hearts.
Shaw's artistry
By massmarrier - 2/13/13 - 3:21 pm
Local lad at Shaw's on Hyde Park Avenue has fun with fish heads.
Citizen parking conundrum of the day: Which takes precedence - a sign or a chair?
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 10:45 pmA confused citizen in Jamaica Plain seeks guidance from his municipal elders about that 48-hour period after the end of a snow emergency:
Does a parking spot placeholder negate a No Parking sign?
Where does it end? In Charlestown, they're saving spaces on the sidewalk now
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 9:05 pmIt's not every day you get to ride a snowboard down Beacon Hill
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 2:09 pmAndrew Ching shares his ride down Pinckney Street.
Earlier:
Ski Mission Hill.
Downhill racing in Charlestown.
Ed. question: Anybody ski down Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale?
The boat abides
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 1:36 pm
A visit this morning confirmed that the weekend blizzard did little to dislodge the sailboat blown onto Carson Beach during Hurricane Sandy.
Ski Mission Hill
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 11:15 pmJosh Ormsby videoed his son Aidan, a 7-year-old first grader, on the slopes of New England's newest ski resort.















