"A Storrowing"

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I understand the concept of putting a couch or a desk on the street when you’re moving out but this is just people dumping trash on the street. Is there a way to hold the landlords/tenants accountable?

Not gonna lie, personally, I’m excited to continue to watch how badly Moulton is gonna lose here. They called it with 2% of the vote tallied!

MA Election Advisory #26-05 outlines electioneering is prohibited within 150 feet of polling locations and to report violations. To report:
- Alert the Presiding Officer at the location, this is usually the Warden (police officer at the site). If unavailable, alert an election worker at the site 

- ALSO CALL ACLU of MA at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) to report these and other violations. Multiple violations already reported today.

Thank you for voting today and keeping election locations fair and safe!!

I moved to Boston for college 20 years ago today and never left. Longest place I've ever lived.

How should I celebrate without getting bed bugs from all the street garbage??

Truly something special to behold.

There are currently 8 trucks piled up on my block alone, each with a crew of very sad, wet looking guys. Tough luck on the weather today, hope y’all stay safe and finish up early

The proposed Magnolia housing development at 920 Centre Street in J.P. remains trapped in a state of Purgatory more than three years after it was first proposed to Boston planning officials. The project would add 158 housing units - split between rental and ownership units - and 24% of the units would be affordable units.

The Boston Globe has attributed the delays to Harvard's outsize influence over the City and the Boston Planning Dept, calling it "a story about how one mid-sized project and a developer willing to make one compromise after the other can’t move in the face of one powerful opponent who has the ear of city hall." The newspaper also called the years of delays the project has faced "a case study on how housing doesn't get built in this city."

The developers are back with a completely revised proposal, one which includes several new concessions, but opposition is also firming up. It's an interesting split-screen moment where the Boston's city review Boards appear to like the project, but the Planning Director appears skeptical. A subcommittee of the Civic Design Commission was downright complementary of the proposal at a meeting in July:

• One member marveled at the small amount of pavement in the design (all of the parking is underground), calling it "beautifully done."
• Another member called the amount of change since the last proposal "pretty remarkable." She added "This is pretty close -within striking distance - of where we asked you to go." While acknowledging the significant neighborhood pushback, she concluded "This is the kind of project the City of Boston needs, and this is a project we would be so happy to get."

But if anything opposition only seems to have mobilized:

• The Jamaica Hills Association is as apocalyptic as ever over the "Magnolia Monstrosity" proposal - https://www.jamaicahills.org/news/magnolia-monstrosity
• Harvard University/The Arboretum is still against it: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/arboretum-response-920-centre-development/
• A "Protect the Arboretum" petition drive has launched to oppose the development and to require any property neighboring the Arboretum not to ever cast shadows on the park for good measure - https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/08/31/whats-up-with-all-the-protect-the-arboretum-signs/
• E-mails released thru a Public Records Request show Harvard University/The Arboretum has a direct line to Boston's Planning Director, Kairos Shen. Shen advised the Arboretum to ignore calls from a Boston Globe reporter inquiring about the project or to only call back after Harvard consulted with the Planning Director. At the same time, Shen has been more hostile to the Nuns and their development team. He only granted a first meeting with them this Spring, three years after a project at the site was first proposed - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/2/arnold-arboretum-monastery-development/
• In the Spring, the developer said he hoped for a City decision on the proposal in Late August, but a public comment period just ended and a decision remains months, if not over a year, away...

I’ve lived in and around the city for 7 years (moved here at 20 from the suburbs for college), and I haven’t really found my “group” here. I am still close friends with friends from high school / my hometown, and the group has expanded over the years, but I feel the strong desire to broaden my horizons and meet new people in this late-20s phase of my life.

I’ve had different social circles (some friends from college, etc) but I sort of always drifted apart from them for various reasons. I got busy with work, relationships, and maintaining my current friendships. At 27, I love my close friends, and I don’t regret investing in our friendship over the years, but I need to grow!

I’ve been to meetup groups in the city before but it felt weird not having anything common to really bond over. Then everyone gets busy and wrapped back into their own lives (me included). I’m thinking of maybe joining a class or attending hobby groups (I like crochet, art, etc).

Would love to hear stories of how you actually made new friends in the city as a young professional out of college. Thanks! 🙏

I dont know that Ive ever felt grosser than I did voting for Hayden. But the other two choices are a blatantly unethical Rollins or Champion who is literally only running to help cops avoid accountability.

Taken with a Sony Mavica CD camera that had a gradient filter attached to the lens.

Because of the rain any furniture/books/stuff that people left on the street on sept 1st is unusable now. As someone who bikes to work I can say there is LOTS of it. What happens now? I don’t think I ever seen that stuff laying around for more than a few weeks, does the city eventually takes care of it?

At the Royal Sonesta off Memorial Drive.

Very fun new interview with Norwell's Grammy winner https://www.boston.com/culture/music/2026/09/01/her-appendix-behind-her-blueswoman-susan-tedeschi-is-coming-home/?p1=hp_secondary

Drove to work today instead of taking the T. Taking local road between Longwood to i93 passing through Wenthworth and Massart :(. When should I start leaving the area? Should I stick around the museums for a bit?