Boston crap plus other crap.

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This is such a great tour of Boston! It captures a lot of the traditional charm of the intown neighborhoods with their rich tones of brick and brownstone, the elegant parks (what great shots of the John Glover and Samuel Eliot Morison statues on Commonwealth Avenue, also of the more familiar Geo Washington statue in the Public Garden looking toward downtown!) the contrast in scale and atmosphere between the compressed, almost medieval energy of the North End, downtown, and Beacon Hill; and the more open and spacious Back Bay. But then, after lots of compressed images from the top of the Pru, these guys get back on the subway and head out to Dorchester where they reward us with wonderful three-decker streetscapes, and these are possibly the most distinctive thing of Boston. Every eastern city has its version of brick or brownstone row houses, but nowhere is there anything like these rythmic rows of frame houses with stacked porches like fleets of wooden ships lining the streets. What's more, it's not just an architectural tour; you get to see lots of people, shops, murals--a sense of the life of the city. Nice job! Interesting that some got upset over Seegun's ironic comments about whiteness. It sure feels a lot whiter in Boston than here in New York, but these photos show people of color all over, even in the north end where, 30 years ago, black guys wouldn't set foot for fear of bodily injury. So things are looking up. To a Boston-lover like me, this thread is worthy of careful editing but--hey--it's pretty great as is!