thoughts, rants, and otherwise about the passing world
Posted in Cambridge, architecture on Dec 12th, 2009
I somehow suspected that the new library would not be finished before I moved away from Cambridge. It took perhaps ten years to complete this project. First, there was an interminable years of decision making about where to locate the building. Some, including me, favored a Central Square location. But, in the end, a site [...]
Some comparative data:
Middlesex County
848 sq mi
population 1, 465, 396
density 1,780/ sq mi
Columbia County
land area: 636 sq mi
population 62,363
density 98 / sq mi
Cambridge
land area 6.4 sq mi
population 101388
density 15,767 / sq mi
Estimated median household income in 2007: $58,850 (it was $47,979 in 2000)
Cambridge:
$58,850
Massachusetts:
$62,365
Estimated per capita income in 2007: $41,093
Cambridge:
$41,093
Massachusetts:
$32,822
Estimated median house or condo value [...]
In further proof that Hudson is part of America and more like Cambridge than first glances might reveal, an old love seat has disappeared from the alley running behind our house.
Saturday, with more than a little help from our friend Chris Brown, we moved an old love seat downstairs and out to the “barn”. As [...]
New registration and plates for New York
The big moving truck pulled up this morning and by noon left with all of our possessions. The definitive end of our collective 40 year tenure in Cambridge.
I am still surprised by the ways flags are used. Maybe I am stuck in the 1960s when this would be described as “desecration” and in some quarters [...]
As I was stacking another box on the pile for Hudson, I came upon these guys in a plastic bucket.
Wait till I put on the lid!
Fortunately they don’t whimper too loudly.
Nancy and Louis visited us over this weekend. Besides the catch-up conversations and visits to various local spots, including the Peabody Essex Museum, Louis showed us his working replica short wave transmitter.
Posted in Cambridge, architecture on Mar 11th, 2007
It is rare to find two substantive articles in the Boston Globe on a single day, but here we are. For some, who fled the neighborhood prematurely (even if for compelling personal reasons), this article will be a comeuppance. It is now several years since the first million $ condo was sold on Kinnaird St. [...]
Posted in Cambridge, architecture on Mar 11th, 2007
This building has been source of interest here from its inception. Last fall we walked around and through it with our friends Linda and Eliot. Today’s article by our well-know local architecture critic takes a swing at answering the question of how well the building works as opposed to its now nearly iconic status as [...]
