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Boston is famously in the midst of a building boom—and not a moment too soon given the cost of housing in the city. Here are nine major projects under construction that are not only transforming ...
Triple-deckers are a major feature of the Boston area’s housing stock. Also called three-deckers or 3Ds, they go back to the late-19th century, when the powers that be wanted a more sanitary and ...
An incredible journalistic deep-dive (our copy clocks in at 688 pages) into how the changes in the Boston region and in the City of Boston in particular in the 1960s and 1970s impacted the lives ...
Charlestown is one of the oldest parts of Boston (a city it joined only in 1874—before that, stretching back to the 17th century, it was its own municipality). Consequently, it's got a whole ...
There is not much these days to recommend the Boston area’s subways, buses, trolleys, and commuter-rail trains. Mired in delays and even derailments, the system collectively known as the T seems ...
A sizable part of the Boston region’s historic building boom is the construction of new hotels. Inns either planned, under construction, or recently opened as of November 2018 are adding ...
On June 25, 2004, the last elevated train stopped rolling in the Boston area. For more than a century before, that was how hundreds of thousands of people got around the region: By train and ...
When Massachusetts last debated rent control in any meaningful way in the early 1990s, the parley broke two ways. Opponents saw rent control as a source of distortion of the housing market and one ...
All things urban recreation, from reinventing the sidewalk to innovations in children's playground design. They don’t call Boston the City of Champions for nothing. It is the home base for some ...
In mid-2011, the old New Hope Baptist Church traded hands, with a Brookline-based developer pitching plans for townhouse-style condos. It was just the latest in the Hub's long run of church ...
Another Boston-area bike-share system has stopped spinning. San Francisco-based Lime said Thursday it will not renew its contract with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council to provide dockless ...
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