The Fort Pointer
@fortpointer.bsky.social
Tweets and opinions mostly regarding Fort Point, Boston. Lover of all things creative, worldly and aspirational. Otherwise bristly.
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The Midtown Hotel was dead. Long live the Midtown Hotel. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/b... @bycathcarlock.bsky.social
The Midtown Hotel was dead. Long live the Midtown Hotel. - The Boston Globe
National Development has reopened the mid-century motor lodge on Huntington Ave. after plans for an apartment building there fell through.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The Midtown Hotel was dead. Long live the Midtown Hotel. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/b... @bycathcarlock.bsky.social
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There was stuff about accessibiliy and luggage in the last thing I saw about it. www.boston.com/news/transpo...
South Station fare gates are scheduled to go live in December. Here's what to know.
Commuter rail riders at South Station will need a ticket to get in and out of the station starting next month, according to the MBTA.
www.boston.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There was stuff about accessibiliy and luggage in the last thing I saw about it. www.boston.com/news/transpo...
Could be wrong; looking forward to confirming at South Station:
The cloaked fare gates (pic #1) appeared to be installed at random distances apart from each other. Was my mind playing tricks?
The fare gates (#2) appeared to be set apart at different distances, but in a repeating pattern.
The cloaked fare gates (pic #1) appeared to be installed at random distances apart from each other. Was my mind playing tricks?
The fare gates (#2) appeared to be set apart at different distances, but in a repeating pattern.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Could be wrong; looking forward to confirming at South Station:
The cloaked fare gates (pic #1) appeared to be installed at random distances apart from each other. Was my mind playing tricks?
The fare gates (#2) appeared to be set apart at different distances, but in a repeating pattern.
The cloaked fare gates (pic #1) appeared to be installed at random distances apart from each other. Was my mind playing tricks?
The fare gates (#2) appeared to be set apart at different distances, but in a repeating pattern.
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Would be terrific if Boston found a good faith partner in Everett, entering arbitration with Kraft.
From MASSterlist Sunday rundown: ON THE RECORD: 11 a.m., WCVB. The guest is Everett Mayor-elect Robert Van Campen.
From MASSterlist Sunday rundown: ON THE RECORD: 11 a.m., WCVB. The guest is Everett Mayor-elect Robert Van Campen.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Would be terrific if Boston found a good faith partner in Everett, entering arbitration with Kraft.
From MASSterlist Sunday rundown: ON THE RECORD: 11 a.m., WCVB. The guest is Everett Mayor-elect Robert Van Campen.
From MASSterlist Sunday rundown: ON THE RECORD: 11 a.m., WCVB. The guest is Everett Mayor-elect Robert Van Campen.
ICYMI: This piece includes a reasonably accurate account of Seaport history.
Robert Kuttner: Progressive Mayors vs. Developers... prospect.org/2025/11/25/p...
Progressive Mayors vs. Developers - The American Prospect
In New York, one of the toughest challenges that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faces will be preserving and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Same story in Boston, where progressive Mayor Mich...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
ICYMI: This piece includes a reasonably accurate account of Seaport history.
The Downtown Crossing tree has just been installed.
It’s a whole tree, not the half-tree that used to be mounted over Macy*s covered walkway.
It’s a heathy, beautiful tree. The base is sturdy, modest and quite complimentary. Thanks to all who made this possible. 🌲 cc @downtownboston.bsky.social
It’s a whole tree, not the half-tree that used to be mounted over Macy*s covered walkway.
It’s a heathy, beautiful tree. The base is sturdy, modest and quite complimentary. Thanks to all who made this possible. 🌲 cc @downtownboston.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Downtown Crossing tree has just been installed.
It’s a whole tree, not the half-tree that used to be mounted over Macy*s covered walkway.
It’s a heathy, beautiful tree. The base is sturdy, modest and quite complimentary. Thanks to all who made this possible. 🌲 cc @downtownboston.bsky.social
It’s a whole tree, not the half-tree that used to be mounted over Macy*s covered walkway.
It’s a heathy, beautiful tree. The base is sturdy, modest and quite complimentary. Thanks to all who made this possible. 🌲 cc @downtownboston.bsky.social
Now open at 11 West Broadway (formerly Purple Shell) 🔥
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Now open at 11 West Broadway (formerly Purple Shell) 🔥
Robert Kuttner: Progressive Mayors vs. Developers... prospect.org/2025/11/25/p...
Progressive Mayors vs. Developers - The American Prospect
In New York, one of the toughest challenges that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faces will be preserving and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Same story in Boston, where progressive Mayor Mich...
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Robert Kuttner: Progressive Mayors vs. Developers... prospect.org/2025/11/25/p...
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Boston's Downtown, North End and Wharf District are extremely vulnerable to coastal flooding. Learn more about the mitigation plans being proposed to protect our people and infrastructure at an upcoming meeting. Visit Boston.gov/usace-study/ for more info and to register.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Boston's Downtown, North End and Wharf District are extremely vulnerable to coastal flooding. Learn more about the mitigation plans being proposed to protect our people and infrastructure at an upcoming meeting. Visit Boston.gov/usace-study/ for more info and to register.
Grateful for this partnership with Boston.
Trump's DOJ is suing @boston.gov over the Trust Act - a local law that limits local law enforcement's participation in federal immigration policy, builds trust, and promotes public safety.
I'm filing a brief with the courts today to stand with Boston, the safest major city in America.
I'm filing a brief with the courts today to stand with Boston, the safest major city in America.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Grateful for this partnership with Boston.
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The womens locker at the free community pool is glorious. All sorts of ages, languages, races, and bodies, all up early to tend to ourselves at all sorts of speeds. Gossip and local politics and thanksgiving recipes and updates on cancer treatments.
God, this is church.
Thank you, Boston.
God, this is church.
Thank you, Boston.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The womens locker at the free community pool is glorious. All sorts of ages, languages, races, and bodies, all up early to tend to ourselves at all sorts of speeds. Gossip and local politics and thanksgiving recipes and updates on cancer treatments.
God, this is church.
Thank you, Boston.
God, this is church.
Thank you, Boston.
Worth noting that cycle advocacy isn’t arriving from the cycle community alone.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
OPINION: Bluebikes ridership has soared in Greater Boston. While there is no single solution to our many transportation challenges, the growing popularity of Bluebikes is showing that the region’s public bikeshare […]
E-bikes are supercharging the Bluebikes system - and that's a good thing - CommonWealth Beacon
Bluebikes ridership has soared in Greater Boston. While there is no single solution to our many transportation challenges, the growing popularity of
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Worth noting that cycle advocacy isn’t arriving from the cycle community alone.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
DID YOU KNOW District Hall sits on land planned and zoned as public park space (Seaport Common, Block F).
Shuttered for two years, DH was built as temporary, on two 5-year leases to 2023, and one extension to 2033.
Milking profits is more lucrative than completing Seaport Common, so why bother?
Shuttered for two years, DH was built as temporary, on two 5-year leases to 2023, and one extension to 2033.
Milking profits is more lucrative than completing Seaport Common, so why bother?
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
DID YOU KNOW District Hall sits on land planned and zoned as public park space (Seaport Common, Block F).
Shuttered for two years, DH was built as temporary, on two 5-year leases to 2023, and one extension to 2033.
Milking profits is more lucrative than completing Seaport Common, so why bother?
Shuttered for two years, DH was built as temporary, on two 5-year leases to 2023, and one extension to 2033.
Milking profits is more lucrative than completing Seaport Common, so why bother?
Sunrise this morning. 🔥
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Sunrise this morning. 🔥
I’ll pay $100/hour for access to an outdoor pickleball court in an entire zipcode that has no free, public pickleball courts when hell freezes over.
Seaport will be lining pockets until it isn’t, while master developers line up for tax breaks, flim-flams and public bailouts for sea level rise.
Seaport will be lining pockets until it isn’t, while master developers line up for tax breaks, flim-flams and public bailouts for sea level rise.
Think the City of Boston has no leverage in seeing shabby-ass Seaport Common and its broken and abandoned fountains completed as a public park?
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ll pay $100/hour for access to an outdoor pickleball court in an entire zipcode that has no free, public pickleball courts when hell freezes over.
Seaport will be lining pockets until it isn’t, while master developers line up for tax breaks, flim-flams and public bailouts for sea level rise.
Seaport will be lining pockets until it isn’t, while master developers line up for tax breaks, flim-flams and public bailouts for sea level rise.
Think the City of Boston has no leverage in seeing shabby-ass Seaport Common and its broken and abandoned fountains completed as a public park?
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Think the City of Boston has no leverage in seeing shabby-ass Seaport Common and its broken and abandoned fountains completed as a public park?
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
Who do you think is handing out annual permits for use of 1/3rd of Seaport Common land (Block F) as expansion area of the beer garden and Snowport? GMAFB
BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
“People have the power.” 🔥
— Patti Smith
— Patti Smith
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“People have the power.” 🔥
— Patti Smith
— Patti Smith
‘Bad for everybody’: How Trump’s tariffs threaten Nova Scotia’s lumber industry — and Boston’s housing market… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/n... @emmaplatoff.bsky.social
‘Bad for everybody’: How Trump’s tariffs threaten Nova Scotia’s lumber industry — and Boston’s housing market - The Boston Globe
In Nova Scotia, President Trump's 10 percent tariff on timber and lumber has thrust sawmills and the wider industry here into uncertainty. Experts warn the economic pain will spread south.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
‘Bad for everybody’: How Trump’s tariffs threaten Nova Scotia’s lumber industry — and Boston’s housing market… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/n... @emmaplatoff.bsky.social
USPS workers never forget the heartwarming details. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
USPS workers never forget the heartwarming details. ❤️
Chesto: Mass. lawmaker says ‘congestion pricing’ should be considered to address the T’s fiscal woes… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/b...
Mass. lawmaker says ‘congestion pricing’ should be considered to address the T’s fiscal woes - The Boston Globe
State senator Brendan Crighton, who co-chairs the Legislature’s transportation committee, spoke at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Chesto: Mass. lawmaker says ‘congestion pricing’ should be considered to address the T’s fiscal woes… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/b...
The more things change at Massport and MCCA with respect to the bucket of familiar names winning big opportunities, the more they stay the same. Glad I’m not interested in competing in this one horse town, it’s exhausting just observing. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/b...
Massport picks local marina owner to redevelop North Jetty site in South Boston - The Boston Globe
The Massport board voted to designate Boston Marine Terminal LLC to redevelop 16 acres and to rebuild the crumbling North Jetty on the South Boston waterfront.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The more things change at Massport and MCCA with respect to the bucket of familiar names winning big opportunities, the more they stay the same. Glad I’m not interested in competing in this one horse town, it’s exhausting just observing. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/b...
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On Monday, in response to reporters, Wu said she's "not interested in a bromance with the federal regime."
Wu casts some shade on Mamdani; says no thanks to 'bromance' with Trump
It’s a notable divide between Wu and her fellow progressive leader, who has called her the most effective Democrat in America. Every leader needs to decide how to handle this political moment, Wu offe...
www.wbur.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
On Monday, in response to reporters, Wu said she's "not interested in a bromance with the federal regime."
Excellent coverage of cronyism in Trump’s Kennedy Center in DC, with a focus on a $5 million sweetheart deal for FIFA.
@wbur.org and WaPo both failed to mention Bob Kraft’s connections to FIFA and the fact that Kraft’s wife is a Trump-appointed seat holder on the Kennedy Center board.
@wbur.org and WaPo both failed to mention Bob Kraft’s connections to FIFA and the fact that Kraft’s wife is a Trump-appointed seat holder on the Kennedy Center board.
The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are “millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies.” https://bit.ly/48xjHZq
Senate Democrats are investigating the Kennedy Center for 'cronyism, corruption'
Senate Democrats say the new Kennedy Center leadership has led to "millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies." The performing arts center denies the allega...
www.wgbh.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Excellent coverage of cronyism in Trump’s Kennedy Center in DC, with a focus on a $5 million sweetheart deal for FIFA.
@wbur.org and WaPo both failed to mention Bob Kraft’s connections to FIFA and the fact that Kraft’s wife is a Trump-appointed seat holder on the Kennedy Center board.
@wbur.org and WaPo both failed to mention Bob Kraft’s connections to FIFA and the fact that Kraft’s wife is a Trump-appointed seat holder on the Kennedy Center board.