• Joel Brown

    Staff Writer

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    Joel Brown is a staff writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. He’s written more than 700 stories for the Boston Globe and has also written for the Boston Herald and the Greenfield Recorder. Profile

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There are 5 comments on Brookline Building Façade Collapse Displaces 34 BU Students

  1. About a decade ago the cornice of an apartment building on Huntington Ave across from Northeastern University collapsed. No one was injured. The roof of that building was being replaced at the time and it was believed that the workmen loosened some structural component. Was work being done on this building?

  2. Just about the entire length of that block of Egmont Street is the exact same building style, probably all built at the same time. The same building design continues around the corner on St. Paul Street, for the entire length of that block. Are the building owner(s) going to be required to put up protective scaffolding along the sidewalks and building entrances of both streets?

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