Photos

Brighton, before and after

Brighton, before

Jenni shows the view out her house in Brighton.

Brighton, after

Savin Hill, before and after

Savin Hill, before

Katia forwards these before and after pics.

Savin Hill, after

Webster Street, East Boston

Webster Street, East BostonWebster Street, East Boston. Photo by Miranda H.

Lights, camera, snow!

Park Plaza lights. Photo by Michal Skrzypek.Park Square lights. Photo by Michal Skrzypek.

Across city, lots of snow

Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain around 10 p.m. Photo by Ben Ray.Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain around 10 p.m. Photo by Ben Ray.

Storm brings out wildlife in Brighton, Newton

Domo-kun in the snow

Katie Painter went out tonight and managed to snap this photo of a Brighton snowbank.

Geoffrey Grove tweets:

Very large coyote roaming in Chestnut Hill... People plowing/shoveling beware!

All alone in the night

All alone in the night on Comm. Ave.

Matt Laskowski photographed Comm. Ave. at Griggs around 7:30 p.m.

Empty

An empty Back Bay street.Sven Heistad was amazed how empty Comm. Ave. in the Back Bay was this afternoon.

Empty Comm. Ave. in Allston. Copyright Photographynatalia.Empty Comm. Ave. in Allston. Copyright Photographynatalia.

Oh, come on guys, you need to put at least a little effort into it

Lazy-ass parkers in Dorchester.

Tania deLuzuriaga photographed her neighbor's lazy-ass space saving on Savin Hill early in the storm.

The B Line in the Blizzard of '78

Some interesting photos from back when the T still ran PCC trolleys on the Green Line.

Snow emergency in East Boston

Webster Street, East Boston

Roving UHub photographer Rose captured the scene this afternoon on Webster Street in East Boston, where storm-ravaged residents were forced into desperate measures.

When holidays collide

Matzoh vs. chocolate

At the Dedham Stop & Shop, Passover faces off against Valentine's Day.

We won't see a game like that ever again

1952 football

The caption on Leslie Jones's photo from Nov. 26, 1952:

Joe Sheehan, B.C. High, straight arms Sid Goldstein of Roxbury Memorial on way to Eaglets 18-6 win.

Roxbury Memorial High School closed in 1960 (its Townsend Street building is now home to Boston Latin Academy).

In addition to this photo, the BPL has posted tons of football photos by Jones.

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Has anybody on a local team done something to deserve a kiss off?

Kisses on Arlington Street.

Matt Karolian wonders why there was a pile of Hershey's Kisses dumped on Arlington Street this morning. You may recall what happened in Copley Square after the Super Bowl last year.

Blue Line mystery photo

Blue Line mystery photo

The T wonders if you can figure out where this photo was taken.

Wave at the space station

Boston from space

Commander Chris Hadfield, way up there on the International Space Station, photographed the Boston area the other night, "glowing under a trace of fog." See it larger.

Via BostInno.

The building at the fork in the road

Mystery Boston building

When and where? From the Boston City Archives, natch. See it larger.

Happy Ceiling Collapse Day

Ceiling goes down

First the ceiling comes down at the Forest Hills commuter-rail stop, then, as Lori Magno alerts us, the ceiling comes down at the Downtown Crossing Boston Sports Club.

Not much call for sandwiches in the Common at night in the middle of a snowstorm

Earl of Sandwich in Boston Common

Arturo Gossage walked around the Common tonight.

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

Corner building

Mystery Boston building

Another mystery building from the folks at the Boston City Archives. Can you figure out when and where the photo was taken? See it larger.

On Jamaica Pond

Geese on the move on Jamaica Pond

We spent a some time on the north side of Jamaica Pond today, watching the geese (and some ducks and one seagull) flocked around the one remaining patch of open water on the pond (what looks like open water near the boathouse in the photos below is actually ice):

City at night

Boston skyline and bridges

Scott Eisen shows what you can do with a good telephoto lens and a long exposure at night while looking toward downtown and the Back Bay.

Copyright Scott Eisen. Posted by permission.

Coal, wood, lime, cement &c.

Mystery Boston scene

When and where was this photo in the collection of the Boston City Archives taken? See it larger.

Brr: Fire and ice in old Boston

Ice truck

Leslie Jones (of course) took this photo of Engine 8 outside a major winter fire at North Station in the 1920s (the caption says approximately 1920; the Globe archives shows a four-alarm fire on Jan. 17, 1925).

Winter fire on wharf near North Station in 1919. Winter fire at Haymarket in 1954. 199 Boston fire photos - including a number of the aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove fire.

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