Dumptown Crossing.

Dear Boston,

What’s the deal with Downtown Crossing. I meeeean, i understand the history of this old “department store district” and that is cool. But now it looks like the park threw up after a night of drinking. Are you going for a Yin and Yang feeling Beacon Hill on one side, Downtown Crossing on the other?

A Scenario: I am a tourist. I just flew into Logan and excited to see the city. I look at the T map and think, Hmm where to stop? State Street? No. Government Center? No. Charles MGH? NO. Downtown Crossing? Sounds Great! I lug my bags onto the bus that takes me to the silver line where I struggle on to the red line. What do I get when I pop out from the underground? This??? A ratastic CVS an old Macy’s and a HUGE empty building. This Is Downtown Crossing??? I would turn around and go home. All the way back. to Russia.

Can we risk that type of word of mouth about our city!? These tourist are going to go home to Russia and tell all their comrades that Boston is a dump. We are in real trouble here.

Sincerely,

Shiloh

 

found art? or marketing ploy?

As I sauntered to work (40-minutes late) this morning, I came across the following:

I sneaky took a picture of it using my iPhone, feeling like one of the nerds that’s tripping around town for the Anime convention today. (Aside: Is “nerd” even an appropriate word for these people? They’re like SuperNerds! or something. Maybe uber-nerds? It’s just so far past “nerd” I think we need a new word.)

But, I digress.

So what’s the dilly-o with this tree? Did some tortured artist spray paint it onto the Metro to make us feel bad for taking this piece-o-crap-free-paper everyday?

Another fascinating “Metro Mystery,” brought to you by heartshapedrocks.