Tag: trashed vacant lot
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Tending a vacant lot
We live near a narrow, fenced-in, overgrown lot in the heart of downtown Boston. A section of the chain link fence regularly collapses onto the sidewalk, allowing you to walk inside. Under the shrubs, you can see how the lot has absorbed bottles, takeout containers, and illegally dumped restaurant grease for years. (On a recent…
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Neighborhood events this week
Films at the Gate Wednesday, Sept. 3 – Sunday, Sept. 7 (films start each night at 7:30 PM) For five nights this week, for the third year in a row, a vacant lot near Boston’s Chinatown Gate will become a free, outdoor theater, showing Kung-Fu and classic Chinese-language films. Learn more here. The film series is a community event…