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The street you
are on and the streets immediately to your right and left used to
form a trio of streets called "Faith," "Hope," and "Charity." The
story goes that the people who lived there resented being told that
they lived on "Charity" and persuaded the city to rename it "Grand."
"Faith" Street became "Flower" Street with only the Hope Street name
remaining. The Hope Street overpass at Fourth Street presents a variety
of perspectives of Bunker Hill: the skyline of pristine modernist
office towers, purposeful pedestrians striding on sidewalks, and mercurial
messengers on bikes weaving amid traffic. Looking from the overpass
to your left at Lower Grand is a playful, colorful assemblage of cars
on a rocker runner fashioned by Lloyd Hamrol entitled, "Uptown Rocker,"
1986. Another sculpture is directly in front of the Mellon Bank Building,
"Ulysses," 1988, by Alexander Liberman. |
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Hope Street to the west and straight ahead is... |
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On display through
a second floor picture window in the Ketchum YMCA are office workers
and others diligently exercising on a variety of contraptions, and
they are probably gazing at you and wondering if walking is, perhaps,
a more pleasant way to keep in shape. |
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