BostonTweet took some video of a new breed of commuters on City Hall Plaza today:

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected a lawsuit against the city by a woman who fell on crumbling stairs on City Hall Plaza and suffered "a complex fracture of her wrist" in 2001.

The court held the city was protected from liability by a clause in a state law designed to encourage property owners to open their land - in this case, the plaza - to recreational use. The court ruled the clause applied even though the city admitted the stairs "were crumbling and in need of repair."

No doubt there's some specific reason a guy in colonial garb is riding a horse around City Hall Plaza as I type this, but I like to think it's just an everyday occurrence; maybe he commuted up from JP or something and is just circling around looking for a space at a hitching post to tie the horse to.

One of the more charming parts of July Fourth in Boston is when a troop of Redcoats fail to collapse in the heat in their woolen uniforms re-take a set of steps on the site of City Hall Plaza. They've been doing it for years, and, amazingly, no Minutemen ever show up to confront them. 16WadeSt watched them advance up the stairs this weekend.

Copyright 16WadeSt. Posted in the Universal Hub Flickr pool.

Cubicle Girl attended the rally against California's Proposition 8 at City Hall Plaza today.

Beth Adelson also posted photos:

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Faegirl took plenty of photos at the annual pumpkin-lighting festival at City Hall Plaza.

David Kruta posted one good shot. Simpson391 has more. Ol' Mr. Boston was there.

Chris Faraone reports on an afternoon of protests on City Hall Plaza:

If you have beef with harsh immigration policies, so-called Wall Street bailouts, or right wing goon supreme Antonin Scalia, then downtown Boston was your liberal Disneyland Wednesday afternoon. From the 4pm Massachusetts Jobs with Justice rally against the bailout plan to the 5pm Moral Voices for Immigration Reform event, there was nary a left wing cause that went unrepresented.

I initially showed for the Jobs with Justice melee – not because I'm hungry like daily news reporters for human faces to attach to the financial crisis, but because their press release mentioned the insultingly played out "Main Street" cliche five times. I respect peoples' right to protest measures that they perceive to burden working people with corporate woes, but this sudden slogan-driven populism eerily reminds me of the reflexive blue state pacifism that followed 9/11. ...

BostonFab was there with a camera.

Mike Ball reports on this morning's police-escorted bicycle convoys toward City Hall Plaza - where participants were rewarded with free coffee and pastry. Feeling left out? There's another one on Aug. 22.

The Herald reports South Boston state Sen. Jack Hart is proposing moving the Aquarium to Southie, City Hall to the Aquarium site and, um, something to City Hall Plaza (ooh, I know, I know: Luxury apartments!).

Of course, the same exact argument made against moving City Hall to South Boston (lack of real mass transit, unless you consider the Silver Line real mass transit) would apply to the Aquarium.