Harvard/Brown away weekend

[A-19]

i was also able to get tickets to brown away, through cu, today

[judy]

mmm....creperie...just off of Thayer St by the Au Bon Pain. It's a little hole in the wall place that serves crepes that I was introduced to a year or so ago.

[A-19]

so i didn't get any responses about directions or parking, so i'll try again.

i managed to get tickets to both harvard and brown, away. do any alums on this forum, or students for that matter, have:
(1) directions from harvard to brown,
(2) know where i can park in brown for the afternoon and evening? is there a lot at the arena, for instance, where i can leave my car all day? i don't know the area at all.

any of that kind of information would be appreciated, and i think others completing the weekend trip could use it too. thank you in advance

-mike rosenberg '04

[Liz \'05]

I haven't been to Brown in years, but my grandparents used to live right around the corner, and I think it's mostly on-the-street parking.  Then again, I've never driven in Providence, so anyone who wants to correct me is welcome. :-)

As for directions...I assume you take 95 south from Boston to Providence - it goes right through the city.  If you can find the address of the rink, look it up on Mapquest.  It won't be far off of 95.

[judy]

get on 95 south from Boston to Providence.

I could give you directions but you'd never be able to follow them, I tend to navigate by instinct when I'm up there so I can't tell you the roads or anything, having grown up in the Boston area, and then spent most of my holidays in recent years in Providence...

There is a parking lot at Brown. Else you can park on the street. Don't know how early you have to get there to park in the lot...I've always gotten dropped off. If you get there in the afternoon, you could always park and then go to Thayer street and shop or eat. Lots of interesting little shopes.

[Al DeFlorio]

The rink is on Hope Street, up on the hill east of 95.  There is a lot in front of the rink where you could leave a car, unless they've changed the rules.  But the rink is in a complex with much of Brown's winter sports buildings (although not basketball, IIRC), so if that afternoon there were a swim meet or wrestling or gymnastics or whatever else goes on in that complex, parking might be an issue.  If we spot a space on the street we usually take it because you avoid the issue of exiting the lot at the same time as everyone else.

As judy said, the Thayer Street area is kind of like Collegetown with restaurants, shops, etc., and is easily walkable from the rink.



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