I want to apologize. I just noticed that I've been posting way to many words, and not enough pictures.
Here are some pictures from the roof of my apartment building. The building is 6 stories tall, and as you can see one of the tallest in the immediate area.
This is looking towards Central Square - where I walk every day to get on the T (subway). The subway stop is just beyond the tall concrete building on the right.
This picture is just to the left of the previous picture. If you look at the building on the far right, it matches up to the tallest building on the left of the previous picture. We are panning away from downtown Boston (which I would have to spin to the right to see) and towards Harvard.