Among these were Central Park in New York City, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York and Boston's Emerald Necklace park system.

* Passenger service ran between New York ( Grand Central Terminal ) and Boston's South Station approximately every hour.

Built in 1959, it was part of Boston's Central Artery freeway construction project of the 1950s.

Because of public outcry during construction of The Central Artery, elevated for most of its length and reviled because it cut off views of and access to Boston's historic waterfront, it was decided by then-Governor John A. Volpe that the final section of the artery was to be put underground from just south of Congress Street to Kneeland Street near Boston's Chinatown section.

During his tenure as mayor, he oversaw the opening of the Central Artery elevated highway through the city's waterfront district, as well as the opening of the Freedom Trail, which traces many of Boston's Revolutionary War era landmarks.

The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called " The Dorchester Giant " in 1830, and referred to the special kind of stone, " Roxbury puddingstone ", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church ( later called the Church of the Covenant ) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

Boston's oldest continuously operating improvisational theater troupe, ImprovBoston, has recently moved from its longtime home in Inman square to nearby Central square on Prospect street.

A plan for Boston's Central Artery, based on New York City's West Side Highway.

In the 1950s, the Central Artery was constructed through Boston's business district and some of its oldest neighborhoods.

This tour featured sold-out shows at the famous Red Rocks Amphitheater, Central Park Summerstage, and Boston's own Bank of America Pavilion.

A 1920 plan for Boston's Central Artery, based on the West Side Highway

Olmsted, who had made a reputation designing New York's Central Park, suggested in 1880 that the swampy and brackish Muddy River be included in Boston's park plan.

UMass Boston's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 — UMass Boston Chapter.

Beverly is the site of the split between the separate lines of the Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, which provides service to Boston's North Station.

The Haverhill / Reading Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail terminates in neighboring Haverhill, providing rail service into Boston's North Station.

* MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the Hamilton / Wenham station on its Newburyport branch of the Newburyport / Rockport Line.

MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the Haverhill and Bradford stations on its Haverhill / Reading Line.

The town is served by a stop along the Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing service from Rockport along the North Shore to Boston's North Station.

The nearest rail station is in South Lawrence, which is part of the Haverhill / Reading Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing service into Boston's North Station.

There is no rail service within town ; there are two lines ( the Haverhill / Reading Line and the Newburyport / Rockport Line ) of the MBTA Commuter Rail to the west and south of town, both of which provide access to Boston's North Station.

* Commuter rail service from Boston's South Station is provided by the MBTA with the Route 128 station on its Providence / Stoughton Line, and the Islington station on its Franklin Line

* MBTA Commuter Rail provides service from Boston's North Station with the Chelsea station on its Newburyport / Rockport Line.

* Boston's Finest-Split with Toxic Narcotic ( 1998 ADD / Rodent popsicle records )

Boston's best-known works include the songs " More Than a Feeling ", " Peace of Mind ", " Foreplay / Long Time ", " Rock and Roll Band ", " Smokin '", " Don't Look Back " and " Amanda.

For example, KIAH ( formerly KHWB ) in Houston was called " Houston's WB ," WLVI in Boston was called " Boston's WB ," KDAF in the Dallas / Fort Worth area of Texas was called " Dallas / Ft.

Reading is served by Reading station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Haverhill / Reading commuter rail line, which links the town to Boston's North Station.

Andover has two stops, Ballardvale and Andover along the Haverhill / Reading Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing rail service from Haverhill to Boston's North Station.

Ipswich has a station along the Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing service between Newburyport and Boston's North Station.

Rowley is one of the stations along the Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, providing service between Newburyport to the North Shore and Boston's North Station.

Commuter rail service from Boston's South Station is provided by the MBTA with a stop in Kingston on its Plymouth / Kingston Line.

Service was also provided out Boston's Logan International Airport to Rutland, White Plains, Allentown, Burlington, Wilkes-Barre / Scranton, Islip, Saranac Lake, and Plattsburgh.

The Newburyport / Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail passes through neighboring Salem, with service between the North Shore and Boston's North Station.

ACT UP / Boston's agenda included demands for a compassionate and comprehensive national policy on AIDS ; a national emergency AIDS project ; intensified drug testing, research, and treatment efforts ; and a full-scale national educational program within reach of all.

Boston's Logan International Airport is accessible via MBTA Red Line connections at South Station, directly on the MBTA commuter boat ( see below ) or by motor vehicle using Interstate 93 or surface roads to the Ted Williams Tunnel.

The former Memorial Tunnel was used for storage until the mid-1990s, when it became a testing center for tunnel-fire suppression for Boston's Big Dig project.

The Ted Williams Tunnel ( TWT ) was the first major link constructed as part of Boston's Big Dig.

Cincinnati's design was very similar to Boston's Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel ( Red Line ).

In November 2007, Boston's South End street newspaper Whats Up Magazine disbanded and merged into Spare Change News under the umbrella of the Homeless Empowerment Project.

An initial investigation into Ponzi's banking practices found nothing illegal, but Allen was afraid that if major withdrawals exhausted Ponzi's reserves, it would bring Boston's banking system to its knees.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

A " Boston College " streetcar station on metro Boston's " T ", or public transit system is located at St. Ignatius Gate.

The Lowell Line runs from Lowell to Boston's North Station, where one can connect with the " T ", Boston's subway system.

One example was the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employees ( AASCE ) in 1912 which, with the aid of Cyrus S. Ching as company negotiator for Boston's public transit system, reached a system-wide agreement for all transit workers.

Boston's " Brahmin elite " developed a semi-aristocratic value system by the 1840s.

* 1980: Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield, Boston Globe, " for articles on Boston's transit system.

Known informally as " Charlie on the MTA ", the song's lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ).

The Progressive Party had opposed the public buyout of Boston's streetcar system, which it argued enriched the previous private ownership and was followed by higher fares to city residents.

A system at Boston's Logan Airport was shut down after failing to make any matches during a two-year test period.

** Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, for articles on Boston's transit system.

Chestnut Hill is served by three branches of the Green Line of the MBTA, Boston's light rail system.

In 1974 and 1975, the BPD was involved in maintaining order during the public disturbance over court-ordered busing, which was intended to racially desegregate Boston's public school system.

Another notable commuter railroad system is Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail, the fifth busiest in the U. S. ( after only New York, New Jersey, and Chicago area systems ) with a daily weekday ridership of 130, 600 as of Q4 2011.

Like Boston's Green Line and San Francisco's Muni Metro, the SEPTA Subway-Surface line is the descendant of a pre-World War II streetcar system ; however, Boston and San Francisco's systems use longer, articulated LRT vehicles, whereas Philadelphia uses 111 Kawasaki K-Car LRV delivered 1981 to 1982 and similar to ones used on the suburban trolley routes.

Boston's " Brahmin elite " developed a particular semi-aristocratic value system by the 1840s — cultivated, urbane, and dignified, the ideal Brahmin was the very essence of enlightened aristocracy.

The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line ( named after the original name for a section of Washington St, Orange St .).

Several cities ' telephone systems were overwhelmed when Zoo TV tickets went on sale ; Los Angeles telephone company Pacific Bell reported 54 million calls in a four-hour period, while Boston's telephone system was temporarily shut down.

Spot Pond and the Fells Reservoir are part of the Wachusett water system, one of six primary water systems that feed metropolitan Boston's waterworks.

Tufts Medical Center ( formerly New England Medical Center ) is an MBTA rapid transit station located along Boston's Orange Line subway and Silver Line bus rapid transit system.

Some of these puzzles have appeared in ads on Boston's MBTA subway system.