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February 08, 2006
Boston and Cambridge
Since I was in Boston for conference activities Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, Derek took the Chinatown bus to join me for the Saturday and Sunday in between. We stayed with friends and jealously coveted their extra non-New-York apartment space (it's like they have 2 kitchens! And by New York real estate standards I'm sure a broker would sell their place as a 4 bedroom instead of a 2).
We ate lots of good food (Oceana in Cambridge had a great vegetarian tasting menu) and walked around Beacon Hill and Copley Place in Boston and Harvard in Cambridge. I had been to Boston a bunch of times but didn't really remember it well, and Derek had never been to anything other than South Station. Beacon Hill seems so colonial and upscale in a quieter, more elegant way than upscale New York neighborhoods. It's an old, landmarked neighborhood of beautiful townhouses (wider and bigger than Brooklyn ones) and cobblestones and carriage houses. It's a bit like Brooklyn Heights but with more gravitas and swankier (I guess there's more detail?). Other (nice) Boston neighborhoods seemed this way too -- there is some lovely, traditional stone and brick architecture there that always appeals to me (think nineteenth century details and endless rows of large townhouses with those parlor floor bay windows).
Posted by csageday at February 8, 2006 04:00 PM