I lived there 20 months (from Sept 2002 to June 2004)
Pros:
- building well-kept, never heard the neighbors..
- Awsome location, right on the T and the Boston Common; relatively safe: area very busy by day, theatres keeep the area busy until 10 PM, then nightclubs keep it busy till 2 AM..
- management on site, courteous, good response time for fixing things
- Man at the desk downstairs for 24 hrs, can take messages and packages for you, monitors who goes in and out

Cons
- Guys at the desk are rude to your visitors
- noisy area: trash truck daily at 4 am in the alley, drunken party-goers at 2AM especially week-ends
- Rent a bit pricey for what they offer, and rent raise by about $35 every year. Also pricings not very consistent: I paid $1100 for a studio, my friend rented 1 year after me and paid $1000.. Maybe you should bargain..
- 1 washing machine & dryer on every floor, the one on my floor (2nd) was often broken, so had to go up or down one floor.
- no parking if you have a car, no parking for rent either. (closest parking for rent is $300 a month!!)
- In 2004, they changed the heating to electric, so your electricity bill will be high

Overall: good place to live, but prices are high for what they offer. But, hey, this is Boston..
Hamilton Company runs the place, and generally has good buildings, several in Boston, check them out

User Responses
From: Anonymous	Date: 05/16/2008
I can`t help but laugh after reading this building review of 62 Boylston St, Boston Mass..... Between 1974 and 1975, I lived in apartment # 223 in this "historic" building . I paid $165 per month for that studio apartment, at that time. In 34 years time, I see that the rent has increased by 1000%, I guess that sounds about right according to todays standards. The noise levels in the neighborhood are no better today than they were back in `74-75, I`m sure. My apartment window on the second floor (223) overlooked a small parking lot and alley next to La Grange street.An occasional mugging victim`s voice could be heard yelling in the night right outside my window below, as well as backed up traffic and horn honkers at 3am amidst the street walking hookers at that time. I`m sure that today, most of that has been cleaned up for the most part. At that time, downtown Boston was cool to live in. I was 23, a student at Berklee College of Music, I had grown up in the NYC area, and Boston was kind of like NYC, but on a smaller scale. I loved it just the same. At that time there was an incinerator type system in the building like a central trash burning chute, and a sort of garbage disposal in the sink drain with a metal cover to keep the roaches from walking in your apartment via your sink drain :-) what a joke ! Some artists, musicians, Many strippers, entertainers, and an occasional hooker lived in this building. I had read somewhere that 62 Boylston st used to actually be the old Touraine Hotel, and even somewhere where even John Quincy Adams even lived. Check this link http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:O99CMNZDpHsJ:www.powys Tourraine Hotel Boston&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us All in all, this is an amazing building to me and always will be, after all, I`m one of the few people alive today who can say I paid $165 per month in rent to live there back in the day. :-) Chris Marashlian/NJ http://www.creativeartistsproductions.com

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