BOS: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Explore Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The Hub, as it is sometimes called, is a major cultural, transportation, and economic center of New England. It is also the place where many key events of America's Revolutionary history took place. Today, Boston and its neighboring city Cambridge as well as the region, abundantly offers a wide array of colleges, technology-related industries, and cultural institutions.
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This web helps you explore Boston, Massachusetts, USA; here, you'll find organized and annotated links to Web sites about Boston's current conditions, facts, activities, events, places, sports, civic life, media, education, commerce, and reference works. You can view and link to this information in a variety of ways, and your suggestions are welcome. Use the links at the top of this page to navigate and access this information
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Current
See live conditions and views of Boston
- Weather: Current weather observations and forecasts
- Graphic; shows current weather conditions for Boston
- Forecast:
- Radar: National Weather Service radar
- Satellite: Goestationary infrared image; satellite image for Eastern United States sector, infrared image; provided by National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Dept of Commerce
- Air Quality:
- Bouys: USA Recent Marine Data; get readings from marine buoys about water and weather conditions through a clickable, graphical map of the Atlantic off the Northeast USA coast; provided by the National Data Buoy Center, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Dept. of Commerce
- Earthcam: Boston Cam
- Graphic; shows current weather conditions for Boston
- News: News and reports about what's going on in Boston
- AP News: Boston news from the Associated Press
- Bing News: Boston news stories from a variety of sources
- Media: Media - Periodicals and Broadcast - Boston, Massachusetts, USA; newspapers, magazines, radio, and television covering the area
- Yahoo News: Yahoo news search for Boston; finds news and sports stories in a variety of news sources; includes photos
- Traffic:
Facts
Look up information about Boston such as maps, facts, and census information
- Maps: Online mapping services; these allow you to zoom in and out and select specific features to view on the map
- Open: OpenStreetMap of Boston; zoom down to detailed street features
- Map Quest: MapQuest's Boston map; integration with digitalcity.com city Internet guide
- -USA Maps-: More online mapping services; you can use this list of sites to get more maps of the area or specialized maps such as historical, topographic, or satellite imagery
- Info: Look up basic facts about Boston from online reference works
- Almanac: Information Please Almanac; entry for Boston; gives a page of basic facts about the city, including a general description and current facts
- Books: BOS Books; a page presenting books about the city of Boston
- Encyclopedia: Information Please Encyclopedia; article about Boston giving a very brief overview of the city's economy, points of interest, history, and bibliography
- Census: Information from the United States Bureau of the Census
- Metro Boston: Boston - Cambridge - Newton
- Boston: Boston city; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
- Suffolk: County; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
- Essex: County; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
- Middlesex: County; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
- Norfolk: County; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
- Plymouth: County; US Census Bureau QuickFacts for people, business, and geography
Living
Find out about things to do and places to see in Boston
Activities
Bostonians take part in many clubs and organizations; activities include interest groups, clubs, hobbies, community centers, organizations, and groups
- Groups: People in Boston take part in many clubs and organizations; activities include interest groups, clubs, hobbies, community centers, organizations, and groups
- AMC: Appalachian Mountain Club; conservation and recreation in Appalachian region; main Office in Joy Street, Boston
- Animal Rescue: Animal Rescue League of Boston; dedicated to the rescue and relief of suffering or homeless animals and benevolent acts for the welfare of animals
- Arts & Crafts: Society of Arts and Crafts; fostering the development, sales, recognition and education of crafts; founders inspired the American Arts and Crafts Movement
- Arts Ctr: Boston Center for the Arts; community arts center; theaters, art gallery, artists' studios, Boston Ballet Building
- Arts MAC: Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center; visual and performing arts programs
- Blues: Boston Blues Society; promotes the blues scene
- Chamber: Greater Boston Chamber; association representing businesses in the region
- Chinatown Ctr: Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center; located in the heart of Boston's Asian American community; programs and community needs
- Habitat: Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston; Christian-based housing ministry seeking to alleviate the shortage of quality affordable housing in Boston's urban neighborhoods
- Harbor: Boston Harbor Association; harbor advocacy group promoting a clean, alive, and accessible Boston Harbor
- History: Bostonian Historical Society & Museum; library and museum collections dating from the 1630s; programs for adults and children
- Irish: Irish Cultural Centre of New England; promote Irish culture, the arts, and sporting events
- Legal Bar: Boston Bar Association; association of legal professionals
- Neighborhood BB: Neighborhood Business Builders; small business hub; help with business loans, workshops, mentors
- Youth: Boston Youth Zone; activities and opportunities for kids and teens; City of Boston
- -USA Directories-: Search organization directories; there are hundreds of thousands of organizations, associations, societies, and nonprofits in the US covering many interests; some of these are based in Boston; these directories help you locate an organization
- Listings: Connect to online calendars and databases; show what's going on and where
- Globe: Arts & Entertainment section from Boston Globe
- City Calendar: City of Boston Calendar; shows civic and government as well as entertainment, arts, cultural events
- Happenings: SearchBoston.com calendar of events
- Performing: Boston is home to many performing arts and cultural groups
- American Rep: American Repertory Theatre; resident at Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center
- Ballet: Boston Ballet
- Early Music: Early Music Boston
- Emmanuel Music:
- Lyric Opera: Boston Lyric Opera
- New Rep: New Repertory Theatre; contemporary and classic repertoire; regional premieres and works by promising new playwrights
- Opera BLO: Boston Lyric Opera
- Boston Pops: Summer music series; established in 1885 as "light music of the best class"
- Philharmonic: Boston Philharmonic
- Revels: Celebration performances; seasonal, year-round costumed performances with music, dance, drama, and ritual; noted winter solstice ritual
- Symphony: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras; Symphony Hall in Boston; Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.
- Periodic: Boston has many annual or one-day special events, ongoing summer concert series, and recurring trade shows
- Anime: Convention; Japanese animation
- Arts: Boston Arts events
- Blues Fest: Boston Blues Festival; Boston Blues Week
- Boating: Events
- Book Fair: Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair; rare, collectible and antiquarian books, modern first editions, maps and autographs
- Cyberarts: Boston Cyberarts Festival; international biennial festival of art and technology in all media; visual and performing arts, computers in traditional artistic disciplines, interactive worlds
- Early Music: Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition; concerts by leading early music artists, rare instrument exhibitions, lectures, master classes, and concurrent performance events
- Fine Art Show: Boston International Fine Art Show; fine art fair
- Fisherman's Feast: Italian Festival; in honor of Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca
- Flower Show: New England Flower Show; annual celebration of flowers indoor arena
- Fourth July: Bston's Fourth of July Celebration; fireworks on Charles River
- Harbor Fest: Boston Harborfest; independence day celebration
- Hatch Shell: Hatch Shell outdoor stage; Esplanade on Charles River; outdoor concerts, movies; Earth Day concert in April; Fourth of July Boston Pops show
- Lowell Music: Lowell Summer Music Series
- Marathon: Boston Marathon
- St Patrick: St Patrick's Day Parade; informational links
- Scooper Bowl: Ice cream festival; benefits cancer research
- Spinazzola Gala: Anthony Spinazzola Foundation Friends of Spinazzola Grand Benefit Dinner; showcase of cuisine; raises money for Spinazzola foundation work for hunger-relief agencies, programs for the homeless, and culinary scholarships
- Walk for Hunger: Walk for Hunger; Project Bread
- Wine Fest: Boston Wine Festival
Places
Boston has many neighborhoods, entertainment venues, museums, and other places with Web sites
- Sites: Places such as parks, buildings, public gardens and zoos, notable buildings, libraries, interesting places
- Arboretum: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; collection of living woody plants from around the world that are hardy in the Boston area
- Art Galleries: Boston Art Dealers Association; list of art galleries
- Aquarium: New England Aquarium; presents aquatic life and habitats, conservation; exhibits include Caribbean Coral Reef Exhibit, a 757 cubic meter tank with sharks, sea turtles, barracuda, moray, and exotic tropical fish
- African Am NHS: Boston African American National Historic Site; 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th century African-American community; African Meeting House, Black Heritage Trail; in Beacon Hill; National Park Service
- Boston NHP: Boston National Historical Park; collection of sites important in America's history; Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown Navy Yard, USS Constitution warship; Freedom Trail connects sites; National Park Service
- Buildings: Buildings of Boston; shows information about Boston's office and other buildings
- Cambridge: city across the Charles River from Boston; home of area institutions including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; bills itself as "Boston's Left Bank" because of its cafes, bookstores, and boutiques
- Christian Sci Ctr: World headquarters of the Christian Science Church
- Downtown Crossing: Shopping, residential, work area
- Emerald Necklace: Boston's Emerald Necklace linear park system; a 9.6 km linear system of parks in Boston and Brookline extending from Franklin Park to Back Bay
- Farmer's Mkts: List of farmer's markets in Boston area
- Freedom Trail: Freedom Trail Foundation; a 4 km red brick line linking historic sites between Boston Common and The Bunker Hill Monument; sites: Boston Common, Massachusetts State House, Park Street Church and Granary Burying Ground, Kings Chapel and Chapel Burying Ground, First Public School Site and Ben Franklin Statue, Former site of the Old Corner Bookstore, Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Boston Massacre Site, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Copp's Hill Burying Ground, USS Constitution and Charlestown Navy Yard, and Bunker Hill Monument
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- HarborWalk: 75-kilometer public walkway along the waterfront; parks, public art, seating areas, cafes, exhibit areas, interpretive signage, water transportation facilities, and other amenities; Boston Harbor Association
- Harvard Square: Cambridge; restaurants, retailers, museums, entertainment venues, bookstores, architectural landmarks, and street performances
- Historic: National Register of Historic Places; Historic Districts within Suffolk County; note that Suffolk County itself is historic as it no longer has any central government functions
- Libraries List: List of area libraries; provided by Libweb; gives link to official Web site and information link; includes academic, public, and special libraries
- Library Athenæum: member library and cultural center
- Library JFK: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library; and museum; Columbia Point
- Library Public: Boston Public Library; established in 1848, the first publicly-supported municipal library in America
- Massachusetts: Travel and Tourism across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Metro cities & towns: Boston metropolitan area; clickable map provided by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council; detailed description of over 100 cities and towns constituting the Boston metropolitan area
- Neighborhoods: City of Boston list of neighborhoods; links to individual neighborhood association Web site where available
- Newbury St: Newbury Street; shopping, restaurants, outdoor cafes, art galleries, and salons
- Old N Church: Christ Church in the City of Boston; an active Episcopal church; played role in American Revolutionary War on April 18, 1775 when two lanterns in its steeple signaled Paul Revere
- Old S Meeting House: Old South Meeting House; site of events significant to the American Revolution; built in 1729; National Historic Landmark
- Olmsted NHS: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site; Olmsted (1822-1903) was an American landscape architect and designed many public parks; this site is Fairsted, his design office; Brookline
- Parking-USA: USA Parking; links to information about automobile parking and services that serve a national audience
- Parks, City: City of Boston Parks Department
- Parks, Metro: Metropolitan District Commission oversees Metropolitan Park System; more than 8,000 hectares of woodlands, wetlands, and urban parklands in 34 cities and towns in metropolitan Boston; includes Charles River Esplanade and the Blue Hills Reservation, sites and museums, bandstands, paths, pools, beaches, rinks, islands, parkways; agency also manages watershed and reservoir system; state government agency
- Prudential Ctr Shops: Downtown shopping mall; Skywalk Observatory on top of Prudential Ctr; food court
- Quincy Mkt: Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Quincy Market; adjacent to historic Faneuil Hall are the shops of Quincy Market and North and South Market; popular with many visitors and some residents
- State House: Massachusetts State House Tours; state capitol building
- Trinity: Trinity Church; notable architectural landmark by H. H. Richardson in a dramatic setting in Copley Square; National Historic Landmark
- Visitors: Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Women's Heritage: Boston Women's Heritage Trail; self-guided walks about women's role in Boston history
- Zoo NE: Zoo New England; operates the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts; Franklin park Zoo is 29 hectares in Boston's Franklin Park and includes a farm, savannah, and tropical forest
- Venues: Places for performances, concerts, athletics, conventions, tradeshows, gatherings
- Pavilion: open-air amphitheater on Boston Harbor; formerly called FleetBoston Pavilion, Bank of America Pavilion; check Web site for current name
- Berklee Ctr: Berklee Performance Center at Berklee College of Music; performing arts center
- Center: named Performing Arts Center; community arts center downtown; Theatre seats 3,700, Theatre seats 1,600; formerly The Wang Center for the Performing Arts; formerly City Performing Arts Center; check web site for current name, might be Boch Center
- Fenway Park: Baseball stadium; opened in 1912, 33,000+ seats; home of the Boston Red Sox
- Gillette Stadium: 68,000 seat sports stadium in Foxborough; home of New England Patriots National Football League team and New England Revolution Major League Soccer team; in Foxborough, approximately 30 km southwest of Boston
- Hatch Shell: Hatch Shell outdoor stage; Esplanade on Charles River; outdoor concerts, movies; Earth Day concert in April; Fourth of July Boston Pops show
- Jordan Hall/NEC: Jordan Hall and the New England Conservatory of Music; Jordan hall has 1,013 seats and opened in 1903 and is a National Historic Landmark; other halls also at the conservatory
- Loeb Drama Ctr: Harvard; headquarters of the American Repertory Theatre
- MCCA: Massachusetts Convention Center Authority; owns and oversees the operation of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC), the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, The MassMutual Center in Springfield, MA and the Boston Common Garage
- Memorial Hall: Harvard's Memorial Hall and Lowell Hall Complex; information on Memorial Hall, including Sanders Theatre and Annenberg Hall
- Symphony Hall: Historic performing arts hall; home of Boston Symphony Orchestra
- TD Garden: Arena; sports and entertainment arena; hosts NHL's Boston Bruins and NBA's Boston Celtics, concerts, sporting events, family shows, wrestling, and ice shows; formerly called the YourGarden, TD Banknorth Garden, FleetCenter, Boston Garden, Shawmut Center, and other names; aka The Garden, The Boston Garden
- Housing: Find a place to stay or live in Boston
- Boston City Properties: real estate brokerage; located in the heart of Copley Square in Downtown Boston; search Boston apartments, condos, & real estate in the metropolitan area; listings include addresses, photos, and virtual tours
- First Boston: apartments, condos, and commercial; Boston luxury apartment ,luxury residential sales, rentals, property management and high-end commercial development in the Boston area
- Housing Authority: Boston Housing Authority; public housing; rental assistance
- On Market Boston: Boston Apartments; search an up-to-date, comprehensive inventory of available apartments in the Boston metro region
- Rentals: Boston real estate rentals; apartments for rent & properties for sale throughout Massachusetts
- -USA Housing-: National lodging and housing directories; there are national directories you can use to locate area lodging or housing
- Dining: Find a place to eat in Boston
- Boston Chefs: Menus and food photos; search for restaurants; see information about chef, menu, and photos of food
- Boston Mag: Boston Magazine restaurant reviews
- Hidden: Boston's Hidden Restaurants; locally-known and little-known restaurants in Boston and the rest of New England
- Mayor's Food Ct: Official city records; shows reports of incidents or problems at restaurants
- Menupix: Restaurants with menus in Boston; browse restaurants by area, neighborhood, cuisine, delivery, etc.
- Phantom: Phantom Gourmet; restaurant reviews from anonymous restaurant critic
- Globe: Boston Globe Dining/Food section
- -USA Dining-: National Dining directories; you can use this link to locate restaurants in the area that may not be listed in the local guides
- Museums: Displays of objects; includes planned educational activities related to art, history, culture, or science
- MAAH: Museum of African American History; presents the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New Englan
- Anatomical: Warren Anatomical Museum; collection of anatomical and pathological specimens given by Dr. John Collins Warren (1778-1856)
- Ancient Honorable: Museum of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts; displays artifacts reflecting its mission to preserve historic and patriotic traditions; originally chartered in 1638 by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony for militia training; museum on the 4th Floor Faneuil Hall
- Art Gardner: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; three floors of art galleries surrounding a garden courtyard; paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts
- Art Harvard: Harvard University Art Museums; Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum
- Art ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art; new building opened in 2006 is cantilevered design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro on South Boston waterfront
- Art MFA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; major art museum presenting art from millennia of human history; notable colonial New England, impressionist, and ancient Egyptian collections
- Art McMullen: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; permanent collections include art from Europe, Asia, and the Americas
- Art Point: Arts on the Point; collection of large-scale outdoor sculpture on 80 hectares at Harbor Point on the grounds of the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus
- Children's: Children's Museum; interactive exhibits focusing on early childhood development the three themes: arts, culture, and science
- Gibson House: Gibson House Museum; presents urban domestic life in Back Bay neighborhood in Victorian times (corresponding to the reign of Britian's Queen Victoria, who ruled from 1837 to 1901); founded by Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr. (1874-1954); opened as a museum in 1957; National Historic Landmark
- Commonwealth: Massachusetts Commonwealth Museum; presents the history of Massachusetts
- Harvard: Harvard Museums portal page; presents an overview of and links to Harvard's many museums open to the public; includes art museums (Busch-Reisinger, Fogg, Sackler, Straus Center), natural history (Botanical, Mineralogical & Geological, Comparative Zoology), Arnold Arboretum, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Semitic Museum, and Warren Anatomical Museum
- History: Bostonian Historical Society & Museum; library and museum collections dating from the 1630s; programs for adults and children
- Holocaust: New England Holocaust Memorial; built to foster memory of and reflection on the Holocaust in which millions of people were murdered by Nazis, collaborators, and supporters between 1933 and 1945; the United States didn't enter World War II until 1941
- Longfellow: Longfellow National Historic Site; home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1837 to 1882; Cambridge; National Park Service
- Longyear: life of Mary Baker Eddy; founder and leader of Christian Science
- MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; art, artifacts, drawings, photographs, and holograms; Science and Technology Collection, Hart Nautical Collection, Holography Collection
- Natural Hist: Harvard Museum of Natural History; public museum of Harvard University's three natural history institutions: the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum; presents science and nature; affiliated with and connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Nichols House: historic Beacon Hill townhouse; presents 19th and early 20th century Bostonian life
- Revere House: Paul Revere Memorial Association; Paul Revere house, at 19 North Square, is the wooden home where Paul Revere lived on the night of his famous ride of April 18, 1775 and is Boston's oldest building; also Pierce/Hichborn House, early brick structure
- Science: Museum of Science; works to stimulate interest and understanding of science and technology and their importance for individuals and for society; includes The Computer Museum, Hayden Planetarium
- Historic: Historic New England; includes museums and historic sites
- Sports: The Sports Museum; presents the sports heritage of New England through artifacts, multimedia, and art; Boston Garden Penalty Box, Boston Celtics Locker Exhibit
- Tea Ship: Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum; commemorates the December 16, 1773 event in which American patriots dumped tea overboard from East India Company ships to protest taxation which the British Parliament had imposed on colonial tea
- USS Constitution: USS Constitution Museum; dedicated to the heritage of the frigate USS Constitution, called "Old Ironsides," commissioned in 1798; museum is located adjacent to the USS Constitution itself in Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston
Sports
Boston is home to major-league basketball and baseball, pro hockey and soccer, and NCAA sports
- Pro: Professional sports in Boston
- Bruins: Boston Bruins National Hockey League team
- Celtics: Boston Celtics National Basketball Association team
- Patriots: New England Patriots National Football League team; play in
- Red Sox: Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team; last won World Series in 1918
- Cannons: Boston Cannons Major League Lacrosse team
- College: Area colleges with athletic activities
- Beacons: University of Massachusetts Boston
- Bears: Bridgewater State College
- Beavers: Babson College
- Blue: Wellesley College
- Cougars: Clark University
- Crimson: Harvard University
- Crusaders: College of the Holy Cross
- Eagles: Boston College
- Engineers: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Falcons BC: Bentley University
- Falcons FC: Fisher College
- Gators: Pine Manor College
- Huskies: Northeastern University
- Jumbos: Tufts University
- Judges: Brandeis University
- Lasers: Lasell College
- Leopards: Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Lynx: Lesley University
- Lyons: Wheaton College
- Mustangs: Mount Ida College
- Nighthawks: Newbury College
- Rams: Suffolk University
- Saints: Emmanuel College
- Sharks: Simmons College
- Terriers: Boston University
- Vikings: Salem State College
- Wildcats: Wheelock College
- Community: Amateur, organized sports clubs, and special community sporting events
- Boating: Community Boating; public sailing program
- Marathon: Boston Marathon
- Head of Charles: Head of the Charles Regatta; crew competition on the Charles River
- Outrigger Racing: Boston Outrigger Racing Association; the sport of Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe racing
- Rugby Club: Boston Rugby Club
- Ski & Sports: Boston Ski & Sports Club; sports leagues, travel, and social activities
Civic
Boston's civic life
Government
Boston's government and representatives at all levels
- Local: City and county government; note that Suffolk County doesn't have any central government functions
- State: Commonwealth of Massachusetts access
- Massachusetts: Commonwealth of Massachusetts government portal; information on the Executive Branch, Constitutionals and Independents, Judicial Branch, and Legislative Branch
- Governor: Executive Branch--Office of the Governor
- Legislative: State Senate and State House of Representatives; work to create and modify state laws
- Courts and Offices: State offices as well as state courts
- Vote: Voting information; register to vote, check your registration
- Federal: The United State's government has a presence in Boston through elected representatives and some facilities
- US Senate: United States Senator for MA
- US House: Massachusetts delegation; United States House of Representatives
- FBI: Boston Division Federal Bureau of Investigation; serves northern Massachusetts; headquarters office in downtown Boston and four satellite offices
- FEB: Boston Federal Executive Board; exchanges information between Washington and the local area; coordinates Federal programs
- Fed: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency Region I; serves federal emergency management needs
- USCG: United States Coast Guard Group Boston
- -USA Federal-: USA Federal Government links; links to major top-level Web sites related to the United States government; you can use these to locate federal services available in the area
Services
Support for human needs and infrastructure
- Transport: Boston offers a variety of transit options; it is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country and is part of the transit-rich eastern seaboard corridor including New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC
- MBTA: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; provides commuter rail, subway (the "T"), bus, and boat transit services
- Massport: Massachusetts Port Authority; independent public authority overseeing Boston-area airports, seaport, and transportation infrastructure; including Logan International Airport (BOS), Port of Boston
- Airport BOS: Logan International Airport (BOS)
- MassCommute: Commuting information; from Massachusetts Transportation Management Associations; transit connections
- Hubway: Bicycle sharing
- Bicycling: Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition; promotes bicycling as a means of transportation
- Walking: WalkBoston; promotes walking for transportation; advocates safe walking environments
- Amtrak: Amtrak passenger train service; from Boston's South Station; train service to destinations around the region and USA
- Greyhound: National, commercial bus transit company; offers connections from Boston to the United States, Canada, and Mexico
- GotoBus: Bus reservation system; buses connecting many cities including Boston
- Peter Pan: Regional, commercial bus transit company; offers connections from Boston to northeast cities including Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and DC
- Plymouth & Brockton: Bus service from Boston to the Cape; includes Boston, Logan, Braintree, Rockland, Hanover, Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth, Sagamore, Barnstable, Hyannis, and Provincetown
- Harbor Cruises: Boston Harbor Cruises; commuter service as well as tourism cruises
- Car Free: Possible in Boston; with great walkability and extensive transit systems, you could easily live without a car in Boston
- Car Sharing: Avoid owning a car; be car-free as much as possible, but keep the idea that you can rent or borrow a car only when you need it--for a big project or trip to far-out areas, for example
- Facilities: Institutions, units, organizations, or systems that build, distribute, plan, or and keep area resources or infrastructure working
- Public Works: Boston Public Works Department; maintains roadways, streets, bridges, street lighting; provides street snow removal, garbage collection, garbage disposal, and curbside recycling
- MAPC: Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council; regional planning agency representing 101 cities and towns in the Boston metropolitan area
- Water & Sewer: Boston Water and Sewer Commission; clogged Web site--hard to load
- Human: Health and human services
- Disability Info: Information for people with disabilities in New England
- ElderInfo: Assists elders and families; provides a range of services that address age-related needs
- PHC: Boston Public Health Commission; public health services
- -USA Human-: National Health and Human services; you can use these directories to find doctors, hospitals, dentists, and other health and human services
Media
Access information about and in many cases read (or listen to) Boston's media outlets
- Periodicals: Boston's many publications offer Web sites with online content
- Globe: Boston Globe; daily newspaper
- Herald: Boston Herald
- Haitian: Boston Haitian Reporter; free monthly newspaper covering Haitian-American communities in Greater Boston
- Bay Windows: GLBT Newspaper
- Beacon Times: Beacon Hill Times
- Beacon Online: Beacon Hill Online
- Irish Reporter: Boston Irish Reporter
- Dorchester: Dorchester Reporter
- E Boston: East Boston Online
- Sampan: Asian American Civic Association
- S Boston: South Boston Online
- Broadcast: Broadcast communications; Boston's media broadcasters; directories give current listings of stations for radio and tv
- Radio-locator: List of radio stations within listening range of Boston; from radio-locator.com
- Radio Streema: Web-based radio stations in Boston; from streema.com
- HD Radio: search for HD Radio Stations in Boston, MA (ZIP code 02201); this form requires a zip code for searching; click the city name in upper right hand corner; then enter 02201 for Boston (the zip code of Boston City Hall)
- TV Index: Television stations in the Boston market
- TV Streema: Web-based tv stations in Boston; from streema.com
Education
Boston's educational opportunities
- Higher: The Boston area's colleges and universities; Boston has many institutions of higher learning; in the list below, the institution is in Boston (city) unless a nearby suburb or city name is given at the end of the entry
- Art Inst: The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; independent; undergraduate and graduate; art
- Babson: Babson College; independent; undergraduate and graduate; Babson Park (near Wellesley, Massachusetts)
- BAC: Boston Architectural Center; independent; undergraduate and graduate; architecture; interior design
- Bay: Bay State College; independent; undergraduate 2 year
- Bentley: Bentley University; independent; undergraduate, graduate; Waltham
- Berklee: Berklee College of Music; independent; undergraduate; music
- BFIT: Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology; independent; undergraduate
- BC: Boston College; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- Boston Cons: The Boston Conservatory; independent; undergraduate and graduate; music
- BHCC: Bunker Hill Community College; state; undergraduate 2-year
- Brandeis: Brandeis University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Waltham
- BU: Boston University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- Bridgewater: Bridgewater State College; state; undergraduate, graduate; Bridgewater
- Cambridge: Cambridge College; independent; undergraduate and graduate
- Clark: Clark University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Worcester
- Dean: Dean College; independent; undergraduate; Franklin
- Emerson: Emerson College; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- Emmanuel: Emmanuel College; Independent Roman Catholic; independent; undergraduate and graduate
- Fenway: Colleges of the Fenway Consortium; collaboration of six colleges: Emmanuel College, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Simmons College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Wheelock College
- Fisher: Fisher College; independent; undergraduate
- Harvard: Harvard University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Cambridge
- Holy Cross: College of the Holy Cross; independent Roman Catholic (Jesuit); undergraduate; Worcester
- Lasell: Lasell College; independent; undergraduate and graduate; Newton
- Lesley: Lesley University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Cambridge
- Mass Art: Massachusetts College of Art; state; undergraduate and graduate; art
- Merrimack: Merrimack College; independent Roman Catholic; undergraduate and graduate; North Andover
- MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Cambridge
- Mt Ida: Mount Ida College; independent; undergraduate; Newton Center
- NE Cons: New England Conservatory of Music; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- NE Law: New England School of Law; Juris Doctor degree
- Newbury: Newbury College; independent; undergraduate; Brookline
- Northeastern: Northeastern University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- PMC: Pine Manor College; independent; undergraduate; Chestnut Hill
- Roxbury: Roxbury Community College; state; undergraduate 2-year; Roxbury Crossing
- Salem: Salem State College; state; undergraduate, graduate; Salem
- Simmons: Simmons College; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- SMFA: School of the Museum of Fine Arts; independent; undergraduate and graduate; art
- Suffolk: Suffolk University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- Tufts: Tufts University; independent; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral; Medford
- UMB: University of Massachusetts--Boston; state; undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral
- Wellesley: Wellesley College; independent; undergraduate; Wellesley
- Wheelock: Wheelock College; independent; undergraduate and graduate
- WIT: Wentworth Institute of Technology; independent; undergraduate
- Schools: Boston's primary, secondary, career, and trade schools
- K12: Boston Public Schools
- Road Scholar: Educational program for people 55 and over; Boston is the headquarters city of this world-wide program
- CCEA: Cambridge Center for Adult Education; education for adults; in Harvard Square
- NESOP: New England School of Photography
- JFYNetWorks: JFYNetWorks Innovative Learning Solutions; workforce and career development training center for youth and adults
Reference
Works to help you find out more about Boston
- Guides: Learn more about Boston with online guides that describe area attractions
- Visit Boston: Greater Boston Tourism Council; visitor information on events, hotels, sports, dining, tourism, and shopping
- Avruch About Town: Fran Avruch, Boston's Man About Town; guide of Avruch's personal favorites in events, activities, theatre, movies, music, dance, eating, shopping, hotels, inns, day trips, and sightseeing destinations; Avruch is a Boston native, host of television shows and performance events, performed as Bozo the clown, worked for children's charities
- General: Find more information related to Boston
- craigslist: Online community; classified ads, jobs, housing, personals, for sale, discussion
- USA index: An index for the United States; resources to help you locate information about activities, events, places, sports, government, media, commerce, and reference information in the USA; You can use this page to locate information on other cities or information you couldn't find here
- -USA General-: General reference section of USA Index; lookup information in national directories for classified ads, jobs, discussion, or lookup resources