ArborwayMatters

12/20/2024

Arborway Improvement Project: DCR will be hosting a Zoom meeting on January 14, 2025 to discuss their preferred plan (Alternative 5: signalized intersections at both Kelley and Murray Circles). Revised traffic count data and technical analysis of the existing and preferred Alternate is available here, with pages 35-37 (and beyond) showing future build conditions.

12/08/2024

Sigh…

Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond after oil began flowing into the river from the area of Pond Avenue, behind the Brook House and just south of the Rte. 9 overpass sometime after noon. Read more.

12/02/2024

Renovate Franklin Park’s White Stadium exclusively for BPS athletes AND build a new home for BOTH professional soccer teams - win, win, win.

As the New England Revolution and the BOS Nation Football Club projects sprint forward, maybe it’s time to pause and ask if the teams could just share a venue.

11/27/2024

Going to miss this Jamaica Pond tree - my favorite on the Emerald Necklace

10/24/2024

Enjoy this wonderful 15 minute film about the past and future of Boston’s beloved Franklin Park. Shout out to the friends and colleagues who appear on camera and off.

Based on Ethan Carr’s award-winning book, "Boston’s Franklin Park" describes the landscape Frederick Law Olmsted designed in 1885 as the centerpiece of a uni...

10/23/2024

Scarboro Pond, Franklin Park is looking particularly fine this week.

10/02/2024

The quiet serenity of Scarboro Pond - one of Boston's great birdwatching havens - was shattered this morning when "Patriot Goose Control" arrived to buzz the geese, mallards, American black ducks, establishing populations of wood ducks, green-winged teals, green herons, belted kingfishers and turtles with this racket. Was this contractor for the benefit of golfers? The golf course is over there -->. It certainly wasn't for the benefit of the park users.

09/14/2024

Terrific (gifted) article about the challenges - and opportunities- for reducing the heat islands around public schools:

As extreme heat worsens, schools nationwide are increasingly replacing asphalt playgrounds with green, cooler spaces.

09/04/2024

Must-read on the scheme to rebuild Franklin Park’s White Stadium and turn it over to a professional women’s soccer team for the next 30 years…

I am grateful to Chris Dempsey for his leadership in stopping the Boston 2024 Olympics, which would have irreparably harmed Franklin Park through an ill-advised plan to transform White Stadium into an equestrian center. So I was dismayed to see him author an opinion article for CommonWealth Beacon i...

07/13/2024

Excellent Op-Ed on the threat to Franklin Park...

We shouldn’t be forced to accept immense disruption just to get the high-quality public stadium that our families and Boston Public Schools athletes have deserved — and been denied — for decades.

05/17/2024

My friend Gerry Wright dusted off the Olmsted garb for the 20th Emerald Necklace Conservancy Party in Park this week. Decades upon decades of passionate service to Boston’s parks and so much more; lifelong dedication to Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy for today and for tomorrow. Always makes for lively and animated discussion. And as always, there’s no time to waste.

01/25/2024

Flying sticks, star-shaped holes, melting ice reflections and a fallen birch - all at Scarboro Pond today