(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector from whom the painting was stolen during the Holocaust.

We’ve come a long way since the dirty water days of Boston Harbor and the parking lots and industrial wasteland and rotted piers that blocked access to the harbor from Dorchester to Chelsea Creek.

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Fitz Henry Lane, 1804–1865, View of Gloucester Harbor, 1858. Oil on canvas. From the Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. Peter Lynch, vice ...