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 ...

Boston is certainly chock-a-block with history. And one of the best ways to understand that history is through the city's buildings. This map of 10 different addresses explains Boston's evolution ...

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 ...

Beacon Hill is undoubtedly the neighborhood outsiders conjure up when they conjure up images of Boston. Cobblestone streets, Federal and Greek Revival architecture, the Common and the Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 60 percent of Bostonians rent, and the share is similar in surrounding cities and towns such as Cambridge and Somerville. What’s more, these residents pay some of the highest rents in ...

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 ...