Walking back from lunch today I came across some Downtown Improvement District workers updating the Information Kiosk on Weybosset street with a new graphic featuring the smiling image of a Clean & Safe Team member...
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Probably not a new RIDOT standard
This sign is probably not a new RIDOT standard design, but is helpful nonetheless.
Reader submitted photo.
Hiding from the lightning
Heavens to Betsy, I was almost struck by lightning on Weybosset Street so I hid in the parking garage at PPAC Square.
Now a Brown Way
Street signs marking certain streets on the East Side as “Not a Public Way” have begun going up. This is part of the City’s agreement with Brown to give the University exclusive rights to certain...
1837 tactile map of Rhode Island for the blind
This is a tactile map for the blind created by Samuel Gridley Howe in 1837. The lettering is not in braille because the map predates the widespread adoption of braille. One of five remaining copies of the atlas has been...
Someone please plant us
These trees are just hanging out on a 195 parcel near the corner of Tockwotton and South Main Streets waiting for someone to plant them.
“Blake’s” building renovations
Interior renovations have been going on at the building that houses Blake’s and other tenants on the first floor at the corner of Mathewson and Washington Streets. Window removal also seems to indicate that either...
April showers
People keep favoriting this photo in my Flickr photostream. I have no idea why, nothing is happening in the Fenway/Kenmore area today.