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Alewife Garage Graffiti Gallery in Cambridge...
The Alewife MBTA station parking garage has been a hulking brutalist presence in North Cambridge since 1985. The garage was designed to serve park-and-ride commuters from Boston's suburbs who would then ride the MBTA Red Line into Cambridge and Boston proper. Sections have been closed or dis-used for decades. On the west side of the garage is a spiral car-ramp running from the street-level all the way up to the top, fifth-floor, of the garage. The ramp is closed to vehicular traffic and has come
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