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July 4th festivities spoiled by 'disaster' at parking garage

Last weekend's Fourth of July celebration on the Esplanade was spoiled by what tipster Benjamin Taylor of Hollis, N.H., calls a "total disaster" at the MBTA parking garage near Fresh Pond in Cambridge. "I wanted to make you aware of the events at the Alewife station parking garage on July 4th (and extending into the 5th), which can only be ...

In North Brighton, uneasy passage to river

Though tantalizingly close, the recreational activities along the Charles River feel far out of reach for tipster Lisa D'Souza and many in her North Brighton neighborhood. D'Souza tells GlobeWatch that in order to get to the river, she has to navigate across the congested, sprawling intersection at Leo M. Birmingham Parkway and Soldiers Field Road between the Arsenal Street Bridge ...

When it comes to boat ramps, city is high and dry

For a city surrounded by water, Boston comes up bone-dry if you're a mariner, says tipster Rich Clifford of Dorchester.

New park is open to visitors, but a mystery to many

If you drive by the Museum of Science, you can see the lush green lawns and meandering paths peeking out between the stone columns of the MBTA's elevated Green Line tracks. Surrounded on two sides by the merger of the Charles River and Boston Harbor, there's a lovely little verdant oasis improbably wedged between Monsignor O'Brien Highway and Interstate 93 ...