I love all the different regional takes on the triple decker:
Like brockton, fr/nb, Worcester, Marlborough/framingham, lynn, lowell, fitchburg all have different tripledeckers from boston and eachother.
have to make them safer in case of a fire… Brockton triple deckers are basically a giant chimney once they get going. (Source is that I grew up in one)
Yes and no. Yes, we need to make them safer, but it’s a lot easier than you might think and requires basically no structural changes.
There’s an interesting court case from Minnesota with an abundance of evidence — it got them to remove most of their residential sprinkler requirements — that the main way to make buildings more fireproof is modern wiring. The second biggest way is fire-resistant coatings on wood used in construction. Neither would be difficult to implement here.
The one I grew up in in New Bedford burned excalt like that. 3 walls standing, literally razed to the ground inside.
This was 25 years after I lived there, buy still
Yeah, it’s interesting Philly does row houses which ultimately use more space, chicago has their ultra gorgeous even in the hood buildings, new york goes the opposite direction with everything being a tenement.
Of course boston has row houses (the bowties of the southend), brownstones (also south end), and true apartment buildings.
But once you’re outside the northeast corridor and chicago, there aren’t really iconic multi families
That may be true, but I have that same little patch in front of my house with grass and it's an enormous pain in the grass. I've spent countless hours digging it up and reseeding and watering it and \*nothing\* wants to grow but crabgrass, weeds and Fireball nips. It takes like ten minutes to mow, but I still have to have a lawnmower, with all the associated expense, maintenance and storage issues.
I work my ass off on it and it still looks like shit most of the time. I've fantasized many times about just paving the whole damned thing over and painting it green.
That's the side walk, it just looks that way because the owners paves the front yards.
That wire is heavily insulated and does a lot to prevent outages, a lot of times you'll still see super thin old copper wire in neighborhoods like this.
These were originally built for the (mostly polish, I’m told) workers in the shoe factories, with the upper management folks largely living in the big houses on Ash, Elm, Chestnut, etc. As the factories closed down and the jobs ended, they turned into low income and section 8 housing throughout the city.
Thats the way it was on the south side, anyway. Not sure if north is any different.
South side, north side got the triple deckers. East side got the campenellis. West side is “Brockton rich” lol
Pinnacle of MA
I love all the different regional takes on the triple decker: Like brockton, fr/nb, Worcester, Marlborough/framingham, lynn, lowell, fitchburg all have different tripledeckers from boston and eachother.
I’ve got to travel all over the country and nowhere else does them like this! Now if we could just make them legal to build again…
have to make them safer in case of a fire… Brockton triple deckers are basically a giant chimney once they get going. (Source is that I grew up in one)
Yes and no. Yes, we need to make them safer, but it’s a lot easier than you might think and requires basically no structural changes. There’s an interesting court case from Minnesota with an abundance of evidence — it got them to remove most of their residential sprinkler requirements — that the main way to make buildings more fireproof is modern wiring. The second biggest way is fire-resistant coatings on wood used in construction. Neither would be difficult to implement here.
The one I grew up in in New Bedford burned excalt like that. 3 walls standing, literally razed to the ground inside. This was 25 years after I lived there, buy still
Yeah, it’s interesting Philly does row houses which ultimately use more space, chicago has their ultra gorgeous even in the hood buildings, new york goes the opposite direction with everything being a tenement. Of course boston has row houses (the bowties of the southend), brownstones (also south end), and true apartment buildings. But once you’re outside the northeast corridor and chicago, there aren’t really iconic multi families
The trip decker in Fitchburg I just moved out of looked exactly like the ones in this picture
No trees, no shade for sidewalks, cars, porches...
One person/corp owns all those, lack of lawn is so they spend as little as possible on the property.
Drought resistant landscaping.
Is that what the hardscrapers are calling it?
That may be true, but I have that same little patch in front of my house with grass and it's an enormous pain in the grass. I've spent countless hours digging it up and reseeding and watering it and \*nothing\* wants to grow but crabgrass, weeds and Fireball nips. It takes like ten minutes to mow, but I still have to have a lawnmower, with all the associated expense, maintenance and storage issues. I work my ass off on it and it still looks like shit most of the time. I've fantasized many times about just paving the whole damned thing over and painting it green.
So many neighborhoods like this would be made 50x better if they just incorporated trees
Most of the neighborhoods in Worcester with three-deckers have more street trees than this.
>cars, porches My brain read that as porsches at first lol
No space. Not a great living style
Are you sure this isn't Prague or Vienna?
Hell yeah
Do other states outside New England have triple deckers ?
I think upstate NY has them, think cities like Rensselaer and Buffalo.
If there was no vehicles in this pic it could be anywhere from like 1985 to today lol
Other than the pressure treated deck, you could crop the cars and street light fixture out and it could be 1950.
Do they know about plants there?
Still with the above ground wires. What a mess.
Not just above ground, but with the poles in the street. That's a new one on me.
That's the side walk, it just looks that way because the owners paves the front yards. That wire is heavily insulated and does a lot to prevent outages, a lot of times you'll still see super thin old copper wire in neighborhoods like this.
So beautiful there!
These were originally built for the (mostly polish, I’m told) workers in the shoe factories, with the upper management folks largely living in the big houses on Ash, Elm, Chestnut, etc. As the factories closed down and the jobs ended, they turned into low income and section 8 housing throughout the city. Thats the way it was on the south side, anyway. Not sure if north is any different.
Triple deckers mean trouble .....
If you're a scared little boy
You can't be serious
Have you read the news articles about Brockton HS?
Who cares it gives the kids a look into the real world
I hope you’re just trying to be funny
I'm dead serious
I hope you never have children
I would say the same to you, but I think it's too late
Man all those school children and families living in there are so much trouble. 🙄