Community Corner

Letter: Boston Before Copley Place

"Exquisite emptiness" has been replaced with tourist attractions.

Dear Editor,

I remember before Copley Place was built in the early seventies, I often used to bicycle with my young daughter, Vivian, on the seat behind me across the Dartmouth Street Bridge next to Back Bay Station, and descend toward the Public Library. How it saddened me to see that exquisite emptiness filled by glittering shops, a hotel and restaurants, where crowds of tourists from everywhere come to pass and ignore one another as they taste the impersonal pleasures of commerce.

It seems commerce is never satisfied. How about ..."Occupy the Expansion?!"

-Lita Newdick

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