Wilson’s Farm has a better produce selection than most super markets.

Not sure what else you’re looking for but if your threshold is “ramps, fava beans, morels,” then you’ll be fine.

Wilson’s Farm.

It’s worth the drive.

They’re minor league teams not MLB, but the dogs don’t know that.

Vulnerable to what?

To flooding?

Yes. Which these lily pads don’t help.

To waves?

Revere and Winthrop, but Chelsea and Eastie don’t have any waterfront exposed to ocean rollers.

And Revere / Winthrop wouldn’t compromise their beaches to damped waves.

> "It's a network of floating marsh mats. They are interconnected and in the near shore environment off the coast… of cities and coastal environments and they work to both the physical mats themselves and the forces between the mats, through their connected mooring system, dampen the wave energy as they approach the shoreline," explains Louiza Wise.

I don’t doubt that these work on paper, but I question how they work in practice?

A few enormous questions unanswered by this article:

• Boston Harbor itself doesn’t need them. Boston isn’t Scituate, we have a small harbor and an array of islands that already dampen wave energy. The only chop you see in Boston Harbor is from idiot motor-boaters violating the no wake zone.

• Areas in Massachusetts that do face the full brunt of a Nor’Easter are almost all beaches. It’s almost impossible to get wind turbines approved a half dozen miles offshore because it could obscure their precious views, and now you want to litter their coast with a bunch of man mad floating putting greens?

• if they were allowed and welcomed, how these work physically. With our tidal range of 10’-0” or so the amount of slack on the chain would have to account for that and a decent tidal surge (so they’re not bobbing below the surface) every time the wind and tide shifts these would all move, and being soo close together, some may foul each other and tangle. Who fixes that?

If these were installed on the harbor, especially in Charlestown like shown on the tendering, they’d mostly just collect trash floating in the harbor. Not at all a bad thing necessarily but probably not worth the money.

My buddy sobered up in Vegas after going to the Hong Kong and impulse buying a JetBlue red eye flight.

It can be a good time for sure.

This is awesome stuff.

How fucking lucky would we be to have access to incredibly unique and authentic ethnic food in Boston?

Sure we get some Moroccan here and there but African (sub Saharan in particular) is something way outside of peoples culinary vocabulary.

Thank you soo much for sharing.

I have soo much hope.

This is a once in a generation opportunity to create a new and diverse community with a substantial neighborhood identity and deep cultural roots.

There’s something fucking awesome about going to a Bodgega or restaurant in Eastie / Chelsea, a market or restaurant in Chinatown, walking through a feast in the North End, getting geeked out on Vietnamese coffee st Saigon Night Market, eating Pierogis to pure despair in the Polish Triangle, or ducking into a dark bar for a few pints in Southie.

And this should be no different at all.

I can see Nubian having just insane Afro-centric ingredients (okra, rice, jerk, etc). I imagine markets with fresh and raw ingredients catering to the recent African and Caribbean immigrants. I can hear late night jazz and blues bars and/or a book store / coffee shop that has slam poetry. Block parties with incredible food and dancing and music. Great late 19th and early 20th century architecture offset by murals. A sense of community and belonging and a proud identity. “Yes you’ve heard of Nubian Square, but from a travel blog, not the 6pm News with a backdrop of Police Tape.”

But this hinges on balance. Advocates were long hosting sit ins for more affordable housing, and are now back peddling against “concentrated poverty.”

This requires smart development, and a balance of outside help with buying in from the community.

I worry that the loudest will disguise their motives with “activism” (just like the loudest of the North End and South Boston) and ruin it.

But I’m honestly rooting for it because it adds an incredible dimension to the tapestry of Boston. A community with pride and prosperity benefits everyone.

EDIT: Fixed some grammar once I got responses.

Boston New York Sports Club shaking in their boots.

Blue Hills are inside 128.

If you’re going through Chickatawbut Road you better have high beams.

But aside from very few exceptions, I agree.

Pretty much everything you’re looking for is going to be in Salem or Beverly.

It’s not a literal lottery where the prize is an a luxury apartment.

It’s a lottery and/or waitlist process for those who qualify based on income, etc.

Start here to figure out what you qualify for: https://www.boston.gov/metrolist/search

IIRC the basis of the fraud case is:

In his attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills, he provide the NFL a list of assets and their declared value. I’ve never bought an NFL team and don’t know who’s value you’re supposed to use but I’m sure it’s not common to use municipal property assessments.

The trouble is, in filing his taxes, he provided an identical list of assets, but the value he declared to the United States Government varied greatly from the value he submitted to the NFL.

It’s a game everyone plays to some degree but none quite as brazen as Trump.

This is slightly extreme but the premise isn’t uncommon.

If you bought a $500,000 house a few years ago you’d prefer the city thinks it’s only worth $450,000 because that’s what you’ll be taxed on, but you’d like to think the value is increasing and you could sell it for $550,000 tomorrow.

The city’s assessment is pretty much always less than sales comps.

One of Trumps lawsuits is based on an elaborate scheme of basically this very thing.

>When transit police arrived, witnesses pointed to the suspect, who had boarded the train.

>The suspect “challenged the officers to a physical confrontation” when they tried to talk to him, Sullivan said.

>After de-escalating the situation, officers removed the man from the train and confirmed with witnesses and the victim that he was the alleged perpetrator.

Honestly, the dude just boarded the train and sat there?

That’s a whole new level.

Least known and probably the most powerful police force in the Commonwealth.

They train with/at the Mass State Police.

Generally you don’t see EP unless you’re having a really bad day and they come and help, or you’re doing something tremendously stupid/illegal and they’re going to make sure you have a bad day.

Holy shit that’s a great idea.

That would relieve soo much pressure off of other exits on 93NB SE Expressway.

Even if that was the case, the existing bridge is classified as a Draw Bridge, of which the USCG has oversight.

May be a bit of a “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” Scenario as to which has to happen first: it’s decertified as a water way and then declassified as a drawbridge or vice versa.

It’s not a bridge that’s specifically to access the club.

It’s a bridge that’s unnecessarily expensive to allow the club to access Mass Bay.

You’re missing the point.

The point is you could build a bridge for less than $112M if it didn’t have to open/accommodate boats coming and going, and DYC is responsible for 99.99% of the boats coming and going.

>Plimouth Pawtucket Land, FYTFY

It’s Patuxet.

Squanto was a Patuxet.

Pawtucket is a different tribe (and a shit hole town that lost a minor league baseball team to fucking Worcester)

Saw a road rage incident that involved a volley of Dunkin Donuts iced coffee off of windshields about 10-15 years ago on a Saturday afternoon.

First driver in a late 90’s Mercury Grand Marquis with peeling vinyl roof cut over the solid white merging line from Leverett to force his way on to 93 SB. Pickup truck with a roof rack on 93 honked, Mercury passenger sky hooked a half full iced coffee that left a buttermilk sheen on the pickup windshield. Pickup driver screamed “Nice f@&$ing Splenda & Cream” and then his passenger tossed (coffee & ice only, not entire cup) their drink onto the Mercury’s windshield and drivers side door.

There was a quick flurry of words that rhyme with “disregard” and “maggot” and then they rolled up their windows and went on their way, exchanging middle fingers and one last blade of the horn as the Mercury cut off another driver and made for the passing lane.

You could feel that they were almost just going through the motions and there was nothing really deep seated and seething about it.

We used to be a proper country.

You’re operating with two fundamental flaws.

First is the the fundamental flaw of thinking that “market rate” and “luxury” are synonymous.

What’s marketed is luxury is a means of easing the sticker shock of rent, and is only luxury when compared to the existing housing stock which was built 30-40 years ago.

These are “luxury” in Boston in the sense that a new Honda Civic would be a “luxury” car in Cuba, where the average car on the road was imported before the moon landing.

The more supply that hits the market, the cheaper rent will be.

Second, more importantly, is that the increase in price is always gentrification. You cannot ignore external market forces that depressed the price of real estate in many communities, and cry “gentrification” when the market corrects and those once desirable neighborhoods are desirable again.

Some neighborhoods that are full of tech bros were once full of Irish immigrants. Some African American communities were once Jewish. Fuck, in Boston most land used to be water.

Neighborhoods change, that’s what they do. No neighborhood has remained static in this city, ever.

People think of commuter rail riders as being affluent because the commuter rail schedule is built to service white collar working hours.

They’re not designed for the hospitality or service industry, or healthcare workers working 2nd or 3rd shifts.

I sort of don’t get what you’re saying about pricing being a barrier. If $13/round trip is too expensive, what does their commute currently look like?

Are they currently driving and parking downtown for less than that?

The residents of East Boston will be pleased to know that while the tunnel is closed for five months this summer and traffic is a nightmare, that their mayor made the commuter rail cheaper for people who live on the Dedham line.