Social Security building cordoned off, Chester St closed, Elm St reduced to one lane

[ron_newman]

As I walk by right now, there's a fence around part of the Social Security Building, closing off the adjoining sidewalks on both Elm and Chester streets. Chester Street is closed to traffic between Elm St and Redbones. Dunkin Donuts is closed, and the bus stop has been moved temporarily down the street to in front of Anna's Tacqueria.

A cop stationed nearby said that a piece of the building fell into the street, but I don't see any rubble or any missing piece of the building.

A reddit thread points off to a tweet saying "Dunks + old Social Security bldg in Davis Sq has significant structural integrity problem".

Anyone know more??

Comments

[unferth.livejournal.com]

That seems like a reasonable precaution.

Or maybe it's more of a postcaution.

[ron_newman]

But it's sad to lose all of that detail.

Also, they're removing it all by hand with chisels, since they don't want to cause more vibration by using power saws or stonecutters.