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Originally Posted by lrfox
Regent St. is an interesting area to walk. Center Plaza is a pretty crappy one and all of those differences are the reason why.
Those South End crescents are great, though. Some of my favorite pockets of the city.
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The best curved street in Boston was
Cornhill, the one that got away in making the government center plaza. Here's
what's left of it. I like the
Tontine Crescent blocks in Franklin Street,
Harvard Street in Charlestown and quite a few streets in the North End like
Charter St. There are more crooked streets than truly curved ones, like most of the OP's New York examples, otherwise straight streets that bend at one point. Here's one in the original New Amsterdam area
with a nice arc. New York City has been punishing pedestrians for 40 years with these infernal sidewalk sheds the owners throw up everywhere in atonement for the death of one Barnard College student killed by falling masonry. Hard to enjoy a walk when the sidewalk is covered by an ugly scaffold.
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