I recommend using a taxi instead. They're cheaper and pick up closer to the terminal.

You're right, I'd missed that this was only a two-month sublet. Accepting full payment as "first and last" should be legal, but there are a bunch of rules around the collection of last month prepayment that OP probably doesn't want to deal with.

It is illegal for a landlord or sublessor to accept full payment in advance in Massachusetts, even if the tenant or sublessee offers.

I think they've had problems with algae in the past.

Studios start from about $2000/mo. I can't speak to one- and two-beds, but they will be more than that.

Old stations are generally exempt from ADA regulation because they predate the rules. However, when stations receive significant upgrades, they become subject to accessibility laws.

MBTA has really gone above and beyond what the law requires in terms of supporting accessibility. Whether what they've done and continue to do is morally adequate is a debate I'm not going to wade into.

There was a temporary ramp at Union for a while because the elevator wasn't ready.

The sidewalks need to be raised to the level of the low level floors to avoid a step up into the train.

Pretty sure I read a couple years ago that a woman and her baby were both tragically killed when she fell down the stairs at a New York subway station while trying to carry a stroller up the stairs. MTA's response? A PSA about why you shouldn't try to carry a stroller up the stairs. No apology. No "renewed commitment" to accessibility. Not even an acknowledgement that this is a huge systematic issue for them.

But they're still way smaller than a car.

For many of those Green Line stops, though, "not accessible" means you might have to lift the stroller half a foot to get it on the train. Not a dealbreaker here. (Though it would be, of course, for someone who uses a wheelchair, so we can still strive to improve.)

The only major problem stations I can think of off the top of my head now would be Bowdoin, Boylston, Hynes Convention Center, Symphony, and Valley Road out on the Mattapan line. Symphony has a project in the works now to add elevators, and Hynes will get them as part of the new developments going up around the station.

This should be top priority. Then the Silver line tunnel can be converted to be part of the Green Line with a connecting tunnel from Boylston.

Middlesex Fells aren't far from Oak Grove.

Just go back to the pine tree on a blue shield, for crying out loud. That was way better than what we have now.

Online passport renewal is not available right now. They estimate it will be available again next month.

Try a humidifier. It may make it feel warmer without having to increase the temperature. Also, visit your city website to find out if you can get a municipal aggregation rate. (Boston and Cambridge both have such a program, but not all cities do.)

Canobie Lake Park?

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the Blue Line used the loop.

Technically, it was was not reversed. The airport predates the "Blue Line," and even the "East Boston Line" (the same service before color names were introduced). It does not, however, predate the BNH North Shore Railroad that used the same right-of-way.

By way of indicating the level of French presence in Wisconsin, know that one of Milwaukee's summer festivals is called "Bastille Day Mardi Gras."

Only place in the US I've had fresh curds is Wisconsin, but they don't do poutine. They do have batter-fried curds, which are excellent.

Yes, that's why I made the distinction, so OP and their mother can make an informed decision.

Boylston, Bowdoin, and Symphony (EDIT: and Valley Road way out on the Mattapan Line) are the only stations that require you to walk up a large number of steps. Hynes Convention Center has an escalator, and the other Green Line stops that are marked inaccessible are ground-level stops where you need to take a step up into the train but otherwise there's no steps.

Though if you want to avail yourselves of the elevator, you should go in the other entrance, since the front entrance requires a bunch of stairs to get to.

The Copley Plaza Mall and the Prudential Mall are connected. You can easily walk between them without going outside.