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@bondcliff @berkie1 All four of my grandparents, both of my parents and all ten of their siblings were born & raised in these Boston neighborhoods.

A lot of those neighborhoods were not horrible, just different. Working class folks with street smarts. I know some who lived on one floor and rented the other two to afford the mortgages. But it became gentrified when developers with deep pockets offered big money and then turned them into expensive condos. One fell after another and rental property disappeared block by block. So what was left was two different clashing societies, Urban hipsters and tech workers with big salaries and public housing and section 8.

90% of the triple-deckers in Massachusetts were built before 1935. These homes once helped build the state’s middle class. They didn’t disappear because demand did... we made them illegal to build everywhere.

@KenCook_KC @OnlyInBOS That's different, that is a commuter rail type thing. We're talking about a bullet train here. Obviously getting that Boston to NYC trip to under two hours is still gonna be tough.

@OnlyInBOS I just commuted from Grand Central to Westport, CT and it took me two hours. We have a long way to go to have it under 2 hours from NYC to Boston!

Is it too much to ask for a Boston → NYC train in under 2 hours and under $100 round-trip?

@ADTippet1787 @Super70sSports First of all Alice is a saint! But I think that's the joke basically. Someone in the comments below posted this gif which (other than Marcia's nose getting broken) is probably the worse thing to ever happen on the show. 😂

@Super70sSports You mean like Carol is drunk, Alice has stolen money, Greg is addicted to cocaine, Peter suffering from anxiety and Marsha is pregnant? That is not how I remember it. I remember his challenges being more like this:

Mike Brady arrives home from work and braces himself for the inevitable shitstorm he’s about to walk into.

@mariana057 So it's not just me! 😂

One of the weirdest things about being an adult is having a favorite stove top burner. No one ever talks about it, but you know you have one…

@rob_bravo2 @OnlyInBOS What was that? Like a peep show in the old Combat Zone? 🤣

@OnlyInBOS That was the Pussy Cat theatre not to be confused with the Pussy Cat lounge a 1/2 block up Washington st.

The evolution of 630 Washington Street in Downtown Boston: 1906: Drugstore 1950: Deli 1978: Porn shop 2010: Dunkin' Boston real estate in four acts.

@Tim80151918 @OnlyInBOS Ha! Ha! Krafty being Krafty.

@OnlyInBOS Kraft just used them as leverage. This was never going to happen

In the late 1990s, the New England Patriots were nearly the Hartford Patriots. Connecticut offered a massive $1 billion stadium deal. The plan collapsed months later, and the Patriots instead built a new stadium in Foxborough. si.com/nfl/2017/01/23…

@bondcliff @berkie1 Triple Deck-kahs as my mother used to call them. Yep, over a million for just one floor in neighborhoods that were beyond horrible for 20-50 years ('70s, '80s, '90s and early 2000s).

@berkie1 Those triple deckers in Boston are now three condos selling for 1.5 million a floor. The Middle class moved out to the suburbs.

@TheBostonBuzzer Same for me, Patriots because I'm from Foxboro. Red Sox a very, very close second. Then Celtics and Bruins. Truthfully, I know almost nothing about hockey but I do pay the Bruins a bit of attention since most of my family are die-hards.

Which Boston team would you say you are the biggest fan of? 1. Patriots 2. Red Sox 3. Celtics 4. Bruins Trying to see something.

@Bigmac161616 @BBGreatMoments Yes! Not too many people remember it. Saturday mornings with Johnny Bench. ⚾

@BBGreatMoments I used to love the Baseball Bunch. Great memories

The Kool-Aid Man once injured a kid by not getting a bunt down 😂

@joonlee @BostonGlobe It's funny reading the comments to this, people who have met him have nice things to say, the ones who haven't not so much. He comes off as a dickhead in his column (and also on TV). Hey, we all have different sides to our personalities. Everyone is not one thing.

People have a version of Dan Shaughnessy in their head. Mine is the guy who was incredibly kind to an 18 year old who had no business being taken seriously. He's been one of the genuinely kindest people in Boston media for years. Well deserved.

@markrodrigues23 @Patriots @tkelce A lot of dudes in Ohio look like that. Big Kraut genes.

@Patriots Is he Travis Kelce’s cousin? 90s Vrabel looks a lot like @tkelce

90s Vrabes was a vibe 😎

@lawfollower69 @BostonMassUSA Central MA and Northern CT are big time Polish. I think Connecticut technically has the biggest Polish population in America.

@BostonMassUSA There should be a bright Polish dot over Chicopee Mass, but that's probably why you don't see it

Happy St. Patrick's Day

@sean3377 @LilaGraceRose An English accent!? *gasp* The horror! So is Killarney gonna do a parade for this broad or what?

@LilaGraceRose The problem is that it doesn't represent Hollywood. Jessie is an Irish woman currently living in England (many do for their their careers, I'm wondering if she stays once her children get older and start developing English accents 😬). Hollywood still wants to kill babies.

There’s a cultural shift happening in Hollywood. In 2020, actress Michelle Williams claimed aborting her baby led to her winning a Golden Globe while visibly pregnant. In 2026, actress Jessie Buckley praises marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech shortly after becoming a new mom to a 6-month-old. Kids don’t limit your life—they bring love and are better than any worldly success.

@gintautasd Totally different world now and Billy Bulger is dead. Oh, wait! I think he's still alive. Whoops! Personally I think Mayor Wu should show up and basically do her take on Billy's joke about John Kerry being "only Irish every sixth year." She can say she's as Irish as John is. 😂

Another breakfast, another year of skipping over the "Southie is My Hometown" lyrics about growing Lithuanians like geraniums

Sen. Nick Collins says Mayor Wu won't be at the St Patrick's Day breakfast because she finds it "too taxing" Traffic cone next to him is supposed to be a space saver for her

@DannyDeraney Plus John Ritter (in the pic) still has the haircut he had from playing the priest on The Walton's. He had grown it out more by the time they filmed that very first scene (that would eventually air on ABC) of him in the bathtub. tenor.com/view/threes-co…

Larry Gelbart was asked to write a script for Fred Silverman. The pilot was filmed in 1976, but eventually scrapped. ABC decided to base the series off the British show, Man About The House. They kept The Ropers and John, but recast Valerie Curtain and Susan Lanier.

On the 49th anniversary of Three's Company, the series once looked much different. Before Jack, Janet and Chrissy entered our lives, it was David, Jenny and Samantha. This is the original intro from the pilot that never aired.

@AreUforReal9 @BuckSexton @Ummmmichelle @DM_Maureen_ I think we all know the Kennedy men are bad but we get weirdly defensive of them. I remember my parents talking about Teddy K.'s accident and they were saying how they had been to that bridge in MV and it was just a rickety old wooden thing that you could easily crash off of.

@BuckSexton @Ummmmichelle @DM_Maureen_ It is. Being from massachusetts and growing up with the kennedys, I was four years old when jfk got assassinated, and I lived with my parents telling me all about. I know then needed. Mass peeps wake up the kennedys died long ago

The current fascination with the Kennedys because of Love Story reminds me: The Kennedys are a clan of spoiled scoundrels and lib wastrels who coast off the family name, hope nobody asks about JFK/Teddy's history with addiction and female subordinates

@mausolees @YSLstandards @grok Friends of theirs adopted him. Thank God he wasn't on that plane which actually crashed on a Friday.

carolyn bessette carrying their dog ‘friday’

@JNS_Photos @305Buckeye Yeah, and a lot of the parades are today. In Boston March 17th is also "Evacuation Day" (google it). In this video after the bagpipers you can see some little kids holding a banner for it. 🤣 x.com/mraimonditv/st…

@305Buckeye Lots of celebrating this weekend. It's actually Tuesday

Today is not St. Patrick’s Day

@305Buckeye @DavidHanna1988 Okay, that dude does sound like a character.🤣I was gonna ask if he knew you were from Ohio, but I'm guessing he doesn't and probably has no idea that's where Wendy's got started. 😂

@DavidHanna1988 It is right by my office. The dude is a trip. He always talks about drinking Tequila by the dumpster.

Dude at drive though told me that I am Wendy’s VIP

@DOMTIBERI Happy Birthday! 🎉

I had a great time on my 67th Birthday… Love my family and friends 💜💜💜