Photos

A completely abandoned Beacon Park railyard, shot from the air. Harvard is now free to just let it moulder for another 50 years.

Where and when was this photo taken? From the Boston City Archives. See it larger.

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?

Lalunkee took in the Boston Massacre reenactment in front of the Old State House this evening.

More photos.

Boston Massacre Historical Society.

Sarah Bourne captured sailboats on a reduced-ice Charles yesterday afternoon.

Copyright Sarah Bourne.

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when and where this photo was taken. See it larger.

Jason 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.

Diego Arciniegas photographed Curley in the snow tonight (also Kevin White).

Chris 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.

And somebody's got it bad on Beech Street in Roslindale.

JuanJoseOle 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.

Kelly reports from Downtown Crossing this morning:

Line of shrieking teens all down Washington St in DTX for So You Think You Can Dance auditions.

When and where was this photo taken? See it larger. From the folks at the Boston City Archives, of course.

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.

The 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:

Brendan Kearney notes the impressive social media integration on the Silver Line this morning.

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.

Arturo Gossage took in the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown today.

Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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.

Sgalla watched a kid waiting for a school bus on Kneeland Street this morning makes some snowy Valentine's Day hearts.

Local lad at Shaw's on Hyde Park Avenue has fun with fish heads.

Whiteout.

H/t Marc.

A 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?

Cara ran across this chair (well, not literally) in Charlestown tonight.

Andrew Ching shares his ride down Pinckney Street.

Earlier:
Ski Mission Hill.
Downhill racing in Charlestown.

Ed. question: Anybody ski down Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale?