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The ultimate zoomable photo of downtown Boston

By adamg on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 7:18pm

Ryan Ruel stitched together 147 photos he took this morning from Piers Park in East Boston to create a giga-zoomable image of the other side of the harbor, from South Boston to the North End - 1.55 gigapixels of zoom-in action.

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Boston Harbor
Piers Park


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By anon on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 7:24pm.

Link?

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By adamg on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 7:58pm.

Link added to post.

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By Heather on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 9:24pm.

A Naked Guy on His High-Rise Balcony :-)

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By BostonUrbEx on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 9:29pm.

You can see the money tree on the topmost balcony of the Boston Fed. Looks like the Fed picked her dry, though.

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By BostonDog on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 11:49pm.

So there is a tree up there. Interesting. Anyone know what the angled goalpost looking things on the roof are?

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By Elmer on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 2:02am.

They're the machines that operate the window washing swing stage scaffolds. You'll notice cables coming off the "goal posts"; these attach to scaffolds that can't be seen now because they're on top of the roof. The machines travel around a track on the roof so the scaffold can reach all the windows up and down the building. Because of the shape of the Federal Reserve tower, it probably requires two machines, so there's one on either side. Here's a video of a slightly different machine, but it operates the same way:

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