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Ugh. I said I was fine with the Common/Garden being less popular than Central Park, but this is too much. Battery Park is nothing like the two Boston parks. It plays second fiddle in every way imaginable and isn’t even on the same stage in more ways than that!
Boston Common is a fine, intimate urban park that reflects and showcases its historical connection to the city and as a well used gathering place and respite for its residents but it in no way compares to the vast, varied spacious and intimate areas of Central Park.
I actually think that the Rose Kennedy Greenway of Boston is as important and transformative to the city as any development in it in the last century. It is a delightful sliver of intensely designed urban park connecting the edge of the city to the water and that together with Boston Common really anchors the city as a great urban place.
Boston Common is a fine, intimate urban park that reflects and showcases its historical connection to the city and as a well used gathering place and respite for its residents but it in no way compares to the vast, varied spacious and intimate areas of Central Park.
I actually think that the Rose Kennedy Greenway of Boston is as important and transformative to the city as any development in it in the last century. It is a delightful sliver of intensely designed urban park connecting the edge of the city to the water and that together with Boston Common really anchors the city as a great urban place.
Yea, that greenway is fantastic. I enjoyed strolling the whole thing and how sections had distinct identities. I did think it was weird that they didn’t extend the cap ten to fifteen northwards where the southbound entrance ramp at around Cross Street and Commercial Street. Just that little bit means that the sidewalks on both side of Commercial Street crosses into the park and it also looks more balanced. Given the grade and the depth of the cap, it looks like they could have done it.
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Having been to a number of these.. Chapultepec Park in Mexico City tops them all for me. It also has a royal Habsburg residence and a Global Top 10 Museum.
I honestly think the common/garden is prettier and offers more breathtaking views...Central Park is much larger and would be better for running...if you add the esplanade and parks around the Charles river that are a stones throw from the common this becomes much closer in my opinion
I honestly think the common/garden is prettier and offers more breathtaking views...Central Park is much larger and would be better for running...if you add the esplanade and parks around the Charles river that are a stones throw from the common this becomes much closer in my opinion
I agree. Boston Common is prettier especially if you take into consideration of the surroundings. Central Park/Brooklyn Prospect Park are much better for running and cycling though.
It’s all urban dense and socioeconomically diverse. Much more so than Boston, so the city should have the same problems. It’s not like they annexed a bunch of Needhams and Milton . Even it’s most urban areas are safer than most of Boston. Try again.
Even so, greater Bostons crime rate is nearly 2/3 of greater NYCs
And which park is better known, nationally and internationally?
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