The Globe takes a look at the coming $300 million Longfellow Bridge renovation – and expansion of sidewalks and bikes lanes. The story is accompanied by a terrific graphic.
The two competing visions for the post-renovation Longfellow have more in common than all the loud arguing suggests: They both strive to make walking and biking across [...]

From today’s Boston Herald: Film celebrates long history of Hub department store. A one-hour documentary about the original Filene’s Basement in Boston’s Downtown Crossing will premiere this spring. More than five years in the making, the film recounts the now-closed Basement’s history and stories of its workers and shoppers – including, “60 Minutes” newsman [...]

 Developer Frank Keefe goes to bat for the proposed Boston Museum on Parcel 9 near Haymarket along the Rose Kennedy Greenway. He’s not impressed with a competing bid for residential housing:
 
“Why would you put housing surrounded by non-housing uses plagued by a very dirty, smelly, noisy Haymarket venue? … It’s just not a good housing site, [...]

Interesting to see how much has changed – and hasn’t – since the 1920s:

Source: Universal Hub and ArchBoston

I had heard someone blaming our favorite national scapegoat, George Bush,for the nation’s mortgage meltdown.
That piqued my curiosity so I did a little digging to see if that was actually true. What I found, and what we’re witnessing, is actually part of the Bill Clinton legacy. Probably not the one he has been hoping for, [...]

Remember the Combat Zone?

Best quote: “The Combat Zone is a mere shadow of its self, with only 35 bookstores remaining …” Boston, circa 1983.
Remember how Hudson Street used to look?

But, soon, Hudson Street will rise again, with housing proposed for the eastern side of the street.
The more things change …
More: Boston’s Chinatown – Asian [...]

Know your history!
Back in the day, Downtown Boston was home to many stores that have now gone the way of the horse and buggy and record turntable.
A blog has been set up with some awesome photos and reminiscences about that time and place.
About the blogger: Boston born and very eager to get as many memories, [...]

Considering a move to Boston? Do you know a lot about its history?
If not, I suggest you make your way to the library. Or, to Amazon.com.
Boston’s “busing crisis” unfolded during the mid-1970’s, following on the heals of tumultuous civil rights fights and race riots (none in Boston) of the mid-to-late 1960’s and [...]

The Globe has a cool article on an historic home for sale in Boston’s Bay Village.
Jamie Mambro’s little piece of Boston history is on the block, something he calls “bittersweet” every time he talks of selling his home. The single-family, freestanding house at 1 Bay St. is a precious piece of the past in what [...]

Apparently, it’s going to cost $250 million in state dollars* to reconstruct the Longfellow Bridge, which goes from Cambridge to Boston. The bridge carries cars as well as the Red Line. And, there are sidewalks on either side. This is the “salt and pepper” bridge.
Whether or not the bridge is safe and [...]