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Park Street Station, the meeting point of the Red and Green lines of the MBTA and gateway to the Common, has always held a special place in my affections. the squeals and groans that the trains and trolleys make, the intermingling smells of apples, pizza, carnations, and urine, the mobs of people at rush hour, have somehow always created an exciting atmosphere that appeals...
...therefore with some dismay that I returned to Boston this fall to find that the MBTA bosses have ruined Park Street station. It wasn't that they remodeled it into one of those sterile, tiled waiting stops like one finds at Copley or Prudential. Nor did they trim it in gaudy patriotism, as they did at Government Center. And they didn't close down the fruit and flower stand. Instead, over the summer months, the MBTA has prostituted the character of the old Park Street complex by injecting one of the most pernicious elements of 20th Century Americana -- Muzak...
...Kennedy Corporation, which is in charge of the Kennedy Library and a museum exhibiting Kennedy Administration memorabilia on the site, but the complex will also include the Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics, both Harvard institutions. The subway yards will be vacated by the MBTA in May 1974, and the library is slated to be finished...
Construction of that part of the library will probably begin early in 1974, as soon as the MBTA vacates the Federally owned land at the corner of Boylston St. and Memorial Drive...
...VIEW westward from Eliot House is not lovely. Across Boylston St. sprawls the MBTA fortifications, the subway yards. Sometime next year, those Red Line subway cars will move out for the last time, and instead of screeching wheels at 1:20 in the morning, jackhammers at 7 a.m will awaken Eliot House residents. And in a few years -- three to the optimist, five or more to the pessimist -- the scenery should be a little better, when the John F. Kennedy Library graces the Charles River's banks...