In our last few blog posts on this issue, we’ve been hesitant to pop the champagne bottles and fully celebrate the increased inventory we’ve been seeing this spring. All we really had to compare it to was last year’s dreadful winter, and we just didn’t want to get our hopes up. But this month, there’s… Read More
No question things have changed a bit in the past few months, but when I wrote in August that foreclosures in some of the city’s tonier neighborhoods could be right around the corner, I didn’t mean 60 days around the corner. And yet there they are, foreclosures in Beacon Hill (actually, this is in Dorchester)… Read More
So what does 700 billion dollars buy you these days? Certainly not a whole lot of confidence in the stock market. Fortunately, I’m sure The Decider and his cohort have a similarly foolproof Plan B to head off the continuing financial debacle. Not that you need any more good news, but historically speaking, big recessions… Read More
The Somerville News recently featured an article about a garage formerly used by notorious (and still uncaptured) Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Apparently the mob boss—whose persona inspired Jack Nicholson’s character in the Oscar-winning Scoresese flick The Departed—used the place to dispatch rivals, or at least make them offers they couldn’t refuse. The garage is in… Read More
At the time of its construction in 1901, Sullivan Square was one of the most impressive transit structures in the world; an elevated train stop with a trolley loop that ramped up from the street, reducing transfer times to a few steps. But by the 1970s, the station, and the area in general, had seen… Read More