The Connection

Question: What do these blog posts have in common? See the purple numbers on the map above (click on the map to enlarge it) for the location of the pictures for all and the text for most.

1. Blatant and Odd Fakery
2. Then and Now – Pier A
3. Arching Action, Too
4. Brothers
5. Bad Soil
6. An Old Project and a Missing Neighborhood
7. Better Than The Alternative, If You Squint
8. Short and Wide
9. Southeast In The Fog
10. Short-Span Bridges
11. Interpreting Historical Photographs
12. Before It Was Put In Place
13. What’s Been Lost
14. An Inelegant But Effective Solution
15. Changing Fashions
16. Seeing The Future From A Balloon (no number on the map, as it’s the whole map)
17. A Survivor Prefigured
18. An Unseemly But Necessary Growth
19. From a Distance
20. Snapshots
21. Composite Structure

Answer: They’re all along one or another of the routes I walk between home and work.

One way of looking at this is that I am extraordinarily lazy. A more useful way of looking at this is to ask if lower Manhattan is uniquely dense with interesting buildings. The answer to that question is no. I fill the blog with posts about buildings I see all the time because the kinds of topics I write about are visible everywhere, and I simply grab at the examples that are most obvious to me…because I am extraordinarily lazy. If I lived in Back Bay and worked in central Boston, the blog posts would be identical to these, but using different examples.