What Was Forgotten

To me alleyways always seemed like an interesting and unique part of the city. People avoid them left and right always hearing the stories about the long, dark sketchy alleyways, where something happened to someone. The stories in my opinion are endless. When people found out I was moving to Boston from back home they truly didn’t mind the fact the my school was only two blocks away from Roxbury, or the T stop that I get off of was that. Though that every single alleyway throughout Boston was much different than the next. I wanted to go throughout Boston and prove that many alleyways where clean not trashy and dark and try to get a positive name going for the alleyways themselves. I traveled through different parts of the Great Boston area such as, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, The North End, Fenway and Symphony area. The majority of the time the back roads or alleyways were deserted though they were clean and light, not dark and sketchy that we always think about. There was the occasional car that would be going through the alleyway it the width could see as well as some parking behind retail shops over by Newbury Street. There was no contract with anyone on foot through these locations that I documented besides me. With looking at completely different sites throughout the Boston area, I noticed that each alleyway was completely different from the next. The context was extremely unique to go along with the barrow that the alley is located in. In Back Bay alleyways even had the historical bay windows on either side of the building as well as in Beacon Hill many of the alleyways were hilly. When you think of Back Bay you’re truly don’t think of Public Alley 401, instead you think of Newbery Street, or Commonwealth Avenue. These Public Alleyways are as important to the part of Boston that they are in, though many people don’t want to take these urban phenomenons into account.