* Chinatown, Boston

She asserted that while 13 Boston schools were at least 90 % black, Chinatown schools were 100 % Chinese, the North End had schools that were 100 % Italian American, and South Boston contained schools that were mostly Irish American.

Years of grassroots activism by neighboring Chinatown residents, aggressive police work and massive urban renewal projects instigated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority helped to stem crime and close most of the adult businesses.

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Additionally, Vietnamese-Americans of Chinese lineage have also established businesses and bringing distinctively Vietnamese elements to most Chinatowns, essentially blurring the line between a " Chinatown " and a " Little Saigon "; some examples would include the Chinatowns of Las Vegas, Chicago, New York City, Boston, Bellaire in Houston, Honolulu or Edmonton, Alberta.

Steven Bailey of The Boston Globe suggested that the move was motivated by Peter Pan's and Greyhound's interest in maintaining their monopoly on the New York-Boston bus route, and Timothy Shevlin, executive director of the state Department of Telecommunications and Energy, said, " The big dog out there, Peter Pan, is dead set against Chinatown bus lines.

With the exception of Eastern Shuttle and services to Boston ( all of which use clearly marked buses ), many Chinatown bus companies use wet leases to provide overflow capacity during the weekend.

New York to Boston Chinatown buses generally use the Massachusetts Turnpike from Boston to I-84, and thence follow I-84 to I-91 to I-95.

The bus was returning to the Chinatown in Boston from Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Massachusetts Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles | Registry of Motor Vehicles on Washington Street ( Boston ) | Washington Street in Chinatown, Boston | Boston's Chinatown

* Chinatown ( MBTA station ), a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts

Several independent, immigrant-owned Chinatown bus lines run from D. C. to the Chinatowns in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.

On the east side of the block from East Broadway to Canal Street, a number of so-called “ Chinatown buses ” ( operated by different companies ) start their routes to cities across North America, including Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C .. On the west side of this block, a greenmarket operates in the shadow of the bridge.

The Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts, United States is located in the downtown area near Government Center and Chinatown.

Like other Chinatown bus lines, Fung Wah operates between South Station in Boston and New York's Chinatown.

* Chinatown ( MBTA station ), a subway station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

South Bay is a 10-acre ( 40, 000 m² ) site in Boston, Massachusetts sandwiched between Chinatown and the Leather District.

Image: Paifang_chinese_gate. jpg | Paifang at the entrance to Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts.

For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

Kennedy administration policies also have been assailed now from another direction by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators.

A reader of the Boston newspapers can hardly escape the impression that petty chicanery, or worse, is the norm in Massachusetts public life.

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* 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

On September 10, 2001, Mohamed Atta picked up Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, where they spent the night in room 232.

The ship landed in 1630 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at what is now Boston, Massachusetts.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel was part of the first rail link between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Category: People from Boston, Massachusetts

* 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

* Boston Stock Exchange, Massachusetts, USA

Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area.

The Boston Herald in Education Program provides teachers throughout Massachusetts with classroom newspapers and educational materials at no cost.

Each day, the Boston Herald distributes approximately 10, 000 newspapers to participating classrooms in over 184 communities throughout Massachusetts.

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

* The meaning of the butterfly: Why pop culture loves the ' butterfly effect ,' and gets it totally wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, June 8, 2008

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

In May 2008 The Boston Globe quoted an estimate of 670, 000 for this group.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

From 2004 to 2008, Spader starred as the lead character Alan Shore in the television series Boston Legal, in which he reprised his role from the television series The Practice.

* Boston Legal ( 2004 – 2008 )

The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

It was given in May 2008 by Opera Boston, a now-defunct company, which used to present unusual or rarely staged works, and the Melbourne City Opera staged it in March / April 2009.

Following the city's launch of the so-called " CleanAir Cabs " program the previous year, in August 2008 the Boston Police Department's Hackney Carriage Unit mandated that the city's entire taxicab fleet must be converted to hybrid vehicles by 2015. web | url = http :// www. cityofboston. gov / police / hackney / drivers. asp >

* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, " Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective ", Conference Series 53, June 9 – 11, 2008, Chatham, Massachusetts.

* 2008: Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe, " for his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting.

The Johnson Building at Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008.

Analytically, the city was ranked 1st globally for a culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and 2nd globally after Boston in 2009 from 256 cities on an analysis of 162 indicators in the Innovation Cities Index on a 3-factor score covering culture, infrastructure and markets.

The First Day of Issue celebration took place September 18, 2008, at Boston University, which houses an extensive Bette Davis archive.

In a 2006 survey the people of Boston were labelled as being the fattest in the country .< ref >< http :// www. timesonline. co. uk / tol / news / uk / article601137. ece ></ ref > Another report, cited in " The Sun " in 2008, highlighted the fact that Boston has the highest number of immigrants per capita of any town in Britain ( an estimated 1 / 4 of the population are immigrants ).

Former Boston Red Sox firstbaseman / outfielder Brian Daubach was hired as the hitting coach midway through the 2008 season.

Most recently this has taken place in Boston with the basketball and fencing teams, and in Hollywood, Florida with the baseball team in 2008.

At the end of March 2008, the Heat posted the third-lowest point total in the history of the NBA during the shot clock era during a 96 – 54 loss to the Toronto Raptors on March 19, followed by a new record for the fewest made baskets with seventeen, in another lost game against the Boston Celtics on March 30.

After losing both the 2004 and 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers won two more championships by defeating the Orlando Magic in 2009 and Boston in 2010.