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[Matt]

Only three..., the little one (9 stories) is ground zero central square, the others are about 3 blocks north/west towards Harvard. A 20 story residential just opened at the edge of our neighborhood (south west of these shots), but it's near MIT and I'm never in that corner.

this is the problem with the highrises in cambridge...they're sporadic throughout a few neighborhoods...no cohesive 'center'

these are all on mass ave....the view towards the hancock is what I see when I go to the gym every day. The new Columbus Center (it'll be 35 stories) will be directly left of the hancock.

when I get motivated, i'll do a big tour of mass ave from cambridge to boston









and, just for the hell of it...i'm including this next one..right around the corner from me, on western ave (about 3 blocks from central square)...this was pretty ghetto for years...and only in the past few weeks it's been completely undergoing renovations. As they say...bring on that gentrification!!! HA! (cantabrigians are making vodoo dolls of us as I write this....)

incidentally, i have a friend from new orleans who named this style house 'shotgun' -- she lives in one-- as in you can take a shotgun and shoot through the front window, and it'll go straight through to the back window. Actually, the size of the front windows -- they go right to the floor -- is very common in new orleans.