Photos
Brighton, before and after
By adamg - 2/9/13 - 11:21 am
Jenni shows the view out her house in Brighton.

Savin Hill, before and after
By adamg - 2/9/13 - 11:15 am
Katia forwards these before and after pics.

Webster Street, East Boston
By adamg - 2/9/13 - 10:13 am
Webster Street, East Boston. Photo by Miranda H.
Across city, lots of snow
By adamg - 2/9/13 - 1:32 am
Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain around 10 p.m. Photo by Ben Ray.
Storm brings out wildlife in Brighton, Newton
By adamg - 2/9/13 - 12:11 amKatie 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
By adamg - 2/8/13 - 11:09 pm
Matt Laskowski photographed Comm. Ave. at Griggs around 7:30 p.m.
Empty
By adamg - 2/8/13 - 8:09 pm
Sven Heistad was amazed how empty Comm. Ave. in the Back Bay was this afternoon.
Empty Comm. Ave. in Allston. Copyright Photographynatalia.
Oh, come on guys, you need to put at least a little effort into it
By adamg - 2/8/13 - 3:06 pmTania deLuzuriaga photographed her neighbor's lazy-ass space saving on Savin Hill early in the storm.
The B Line in the Blizzard of '78
By adamg - 2/8/13 - 10:13 amSome interesting photos from back when the T still ran PCC trolleys on the Green Line.
Snow emergency in East Boston
By adamg - 2/3/13 - 8:16 pm
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
By adamg - 2/3/13 - 8:04 pm
At the Dedham Stop & Shop, Passover faces off against Valentine's Day.
We won't see a game like that ever again
By adamg - 2/3/13 - 5:09 pmThe 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.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
Has anybody on a local team done something to deserve a kiss off?
By adamg - 2/1/13 - 10:25 amMatt 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
By adamg - 1/31/13 - 1:33 pmWave at the space station
By adamg - 1/31/13 - 12:19 pmCommander 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
By adamg - 1/30/13 - 12:27 pmWhen and where? From the Boston City Archives, natch. See it larger.
Happy Ceiling Collapse Day
By adamg - 1/29/13 - 1:52 pmFirst 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
By adamg - 1/29/13 - 12:04 amArturo Gossage walked around the Common tonight.
Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Corner building
By adamg - 1/28/13 - 12:03 pmAnother 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
By adamg - 1/27/13 - 7:55 pm
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
By adamg - 1/27/13 - 1:20 pmScott 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.
By adamg - 1/24/13 - 12:36 pmWhen and where was this photo in the collection of the Boston City Archives taken? See it larger.
Ninjas stealthily raced along the Charles, then enjoyed a drink, hopefully warm
By adamg - 1/24/13 - 10:43 amArturo Gossage photographed some of the participants in last night's Boston Ninja Race.
Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Brr: Fire and ice in old Boston
By adamg - 1/23/13 - 9:51 pmLeslie 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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