JB Parrett walked the Esplanade at sunset yesterday.
Charles River
JB Parrett watched some folks venture onto the ice off the Esplanade yesterday.
Just another afternoon on the Charles. @universalhub @BostInno #BOSnow #bash3w pic.twitter.com/6rtCLZ0u3p
— Joshua Fabian (@JFabi) February 21, 2015
Sure, people's muscles ache from shoveling snow, T trains drop like flies, there's no place to park, it's freezing out there and more snow is on the way, but we still have views like the one JB Parrett captured this morning from the Cambridge side of the Charles River.
A view of the Back Bay in 1878, when the massive landfill project will still in progress and when Mission Hill had a reservoir. That's Mission Church on the right.
From the City of Boston Archives' Landmark Commission collection of Roxbury photos. Used under this Creative Commons license.
UPDATE, 7 p.m. Boston Fire reports no body found.
State Police have shut the Anderson Bridge between JFK Street in Cambridge and North Harvard Street in Allston so firefighters can comb the Charles for somebody a 911 caller said jumped into the river around 5 p.m.
JB Parrett braved the elements to show us North Point Park in Cambridge this afternoon.
JB Parrett captured more than just the sunset on the Esplanade yesterday evening.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Boston and Cambridge firefighters and Boston and State police began rushing to the Mass. Ave. Bridge on a report of a sailboat tipping over in the wind and dumping somebody in the water. Just as firefighters were about to begin their "tech rescue," however, the person managed to get back in the boat and make his way to shore on the Cambridge side - where he was met by troopers and Cambridge firefighters. He declined medical attention.
Lorianne DiSabato photographed some of the more unsually attired competitors in the Head of the Charles Regatta today.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Historygradguy took in the Head of the Charles Regatta today.
Copyright Historygradguy. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Ari Ofsevit enjoyed the view of the fog from the BU Bridge this morning.
Christopher Schmidt reports he was flying his quadcopter over Magazine Beach on Wednesday when a hawk took exception to the craft's existence. Both bird and drone appeared to survive OK (Schmidt says he shut off the rotors to avoid hurting the bird).
H/t Swrrlygirl.
Last week, two teams organized by the Boston Society of Architects proposed that the $260M reconstruction of the Mass Pike in Allston should include a great new public place and civic amenity along the Charles River.
Monday is the deadline to send comments on this project to [email protected]
Images from the BSA presentations and a sample comment letter to MassDOT are online at http://peoplespike.com/AllstonEsplanade/
The EPA reports it's given the Charles River an A- for cleanliness in 2013:
Reflecting nearly twenty years of focused efforts by EPA, state and local officials, private environmental advocacy groups and concerned citizens, this is the first time the Charles River earned a grade higher than “B+”. As with past years, the grade is based on bacterial sampling conducted by the Charles River Watershed Association during the previous year.