Ya, I've done a lot of that, although never 2 blocks. More like 2 or 3 car lengths.

It is also against the law to leave walkways unshoveled, yet the City of Boston mostly doesn't shovel walks in front of their property.

If I saw enforcement of landlords leaving commercial walkways unhoveled or the city actually making an effort to clear sidewalks at crossings on commercial streets after a big storm I might be concerned about moving snow into the first 6 inches of roadway.

My sidewalk is blocked by tree pits. I pile the snow up between the cars and cover the sidewalk to the width of the tree pit, although I am generous towards the tree pit.

Some professionals will clear every inch and throw everything into the street. First the sidewalk is nice and clear, but doesn't actually let pedestrians walk any more freely than if the piled it up against the lamp post or along the curb. In heavy storms, this clear every inch and pile it in the street prevents people leaving the building from going out into the street (our street has light traffic and is better for walking than the sidewalk all year round). Personally I think the professionals have no clue how to clear a walkway that it is good for everyone or even the people in the building they are clearing for.

Ya, our building had it done 20 years ago liner and rebuild of the top of the building. Seems to be it was under 2K then.

If you are constantly bringing in new IT people (which will happen if you offer poor benefits), it isn't going to be a surprise that things don't work well.

Helicopters are tracking them now.

https://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/

I used to get a good sharpening from them back when they had a shop the kitchen place on Newbury. Last time I took it to this location and it seemed like they used a bench grinder on the knives. Not going back unless I hear they have gone back to doing a better job.

Thread from a year ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/qdfams/knife_sharpening/

There are 5 6 total, although I have to admit two three were gimmes.

We were able to add two more!

Whoa, congratulations on the triple. Not easy to get 3 auto mod messages.

My condo was worth about 25% of what it is worth now in the mid 90s. The early 90s a lot of banks collapsed, and this created a pretty depressed Real Estate market. In some Boston Suburbs some condos went down in value by 50% 88-95. Boston was arguably less safe in the early 90s. 98 is more or less the start of thr current run up.

Beacon Hill on the South Slope is an all ages event. Not an all night event, but pretty robust crowd until 7 or 8.

My local Whole Foods (good for prepared food) was opened until 10 before the pandemic. During the pandemic they changed hours to close at 9. A few months back they changed to open until 10, that lasted about 2 months. Back to close at 9 - perhaps partly because of labor shortage.

Walgreens on Downtown Crossing - which has some prepared food - started out as opened 24 hours, then opened to midnight. Last I was there they were kicking people out at 10. Just not enough reason to stay open, although it might also be because a higher percentage of people in the store weren't there for shopping after 10.

There is always South Street Dinner.

Yikes, I didn't realize the XV Beacon hotel advertised it to attract out of town visitors.

https://twitter.com/XVBeaconHotel/status/915965132336922624/photo/1

https://twitter.com/XVBeaconHotel/status/1436282050118492166

South slope of Beacon Hill (sorry, the North slope people are party poopers) has a huge turnout. Close the streets and it still hard to get around, at least on Chestnut St, there are so many people. Home owners go all out for Halloween.

This search gives you and idea of how crowded. https://twitter.com/search?q=boston%20beacon%20hill%20halloween&src=typed_query

You aren't getting the tow money back.