Matt Conti got a bird's-eye view of last night's Boston Harborfest fireworks over the harbor.
After watching the fireworks towed into place, Matt Frank watched the fireworks from the other side of the Tobin Bridge: Read more.
Not much of a skyline along the highway in 1971.
On May 17, 1971, photographer Gene Dixon snapped some shots of traffic on the Central Artery downtown. Read more.
Jessica Kent looked up today and discovered there's no time like the present, or any time at all, really, on any of the sides of the Custom House clock. Read more.
Take, for example, the view from one side of the second floor in the Quincy Market rotunda.
So far, the answer is: Nothing at all. So it was odd to turn on ABC News tonight to see some doctor talking about COVID-19 while seeming to float in the air in front of the Custom House. Read more.
Time for WBZ to bring us up to date on yesterday's citizen complaint of the day.
A white rabbit of a citizen filed a 311 complaint about how off the clock in the Custom House tower was tonight (along with a nice evening photo of the tower and clock): Read more.
Daniel Glennon watched the sun come up over downtown this morning.
Christine Sullivan caught the last sunrise of the year over Boston Harbor: Read more.
Molly Lanza watched the sun go down behind the Custom House this evening. Read more.
Tamas K-L has a good seat to watch the storm over the Custom House and the rest of downtown Boston. Jami Delia, too: Read more.
Tamas K-L looked north shortly before 4 p.m. The National Weather Service radar shows a line of storms north of Boston.
Not long after, Stephanie M. checked in from Malden: Read more.
Matt Frank has a good seat to watch the Tall Ships in Boston Harbor today.
Adam Balsam photographed Ai Weiwei's Chinese-zodiac sculptures on the Greenway the other night.
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One hundred years ago today, the clock inside the Custom House Tower began running. At exactly noon.
In 1950, the federal government replaced the mechanism up near the top of the tower with a new clock, built by E.Howard in Waltham. By the 1980s, though, the clock mechanisms had fallen apart. A key gear sat at ground level, broken beyond repair. Read more.
Ryan Ruel looked up during a recent visit to the Custom House.
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All that melting snow means plenty of fog, as Neal Gaffey noticed looking towards the Custom House from City Hall this afternoon.
R2_SNEWeather looked up from Quincy Market the other night.
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