When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

The project received approval from state environmental agencies in 1991, after satisfying concerns including release of toxins by the excavation and the possibility of disrupting the homes of millions of rats, causing them to roam the streets of Boston in search of new housing.

* 1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon originally wrote the screenplay as a thriller: Young man in the rough-and-tumble streets of South Boston who possesses a superior intelligence is targeted by the FBI to become a G-Man.

Thousands of pedicabs today operate on streets and lots of locales including Austin, Tx ; Manhattan, NY ; Chicago ; San Diego ; Boston ; San Francisco ; Miami ; Washington, D. C .; Denver ; Portland, OR ; Seattle ; Charleston ; New Orleans ; Phoenix ; Salt Lake City ; Cincinnati ; and dozens of other hot spots.

" Copley's letters to Henry Pelham, whom he left in charge of his affairs in Boston, describe minutely the journey across New England, his first impressions of New York, which " has more Grand Buildings than Boston, the streets much cleaner and some much broader ," and the successful search for suitable lodgings and a painting-room ; thereafter they give detailed accounts of sitters and social happenings.

Newspapers reported troops singing the song as they marched in the streets of Boston on July 18, 1861, and there were a " rash " of broadside printings of the song with substantially the same words as the undated John Brown Song!

A new luxury apartment tower, the Archstone Boston Common, currently stands at the corner of Washington and Beach streets.

* The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White, was built in his memory on Beacon and Park streets in Boston in 1897.

Bowdoin's funeral was one of the largest of the time in Boston, with people lining the streets to view the funeral procession.

Hyannis is mentioned in the song " Rock and Roll Band " by Boston: " Dancin ' in the streets of Hyannis, we were getting pretty good at the game ..."

Most of the cross streets in the neighborhood are named after cities and towns served by it or by the Boston and Albany Railroad: Greenwich, Newton, Canton, Dedham, Brookline, Rutland, Concord, Worcester, Springfield, Camden, Maine, Northampton, Sharon, Randolph, Plympton, Stoughton, Waltham, Dover, Chatham, and Wareham.

: ' neath the streets of Boston

City planning during the post-fire reconstruction caused several streets in downtown Boston to be widened, particularly Congress Street, Federal Street, Purchase Street, and Hawley Street, and reserved the space for Post Office Square.

In 1982, a South Boston cocaine dealer named Edward Brian Halloran, known on the streets as " Balloonhead ," approached the FBI and stated that he had witnessed Bulger and Flemmi murdering Louis Litif.

In older U. S. cities such as Boston, Pittsburgh, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, many of the older streets are paved in cobblestones and setts ( mostly setts ); however, many such streets have been paved over with asphalt, which can crack and erode away due to heavy traffic, thus revealing the original stone pavement.

In December 2007, Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, announced that the one night homeless count had revealed that the actual number of homeless living in the streets was down.

* Russell, Jenna, " In their shoes: To better understand the plight of the homeless, Harvard student takes to the streets ", Boston Globe, August 9, 2009

: He took Mother for a ride in his first automobile .... As Dad and Mother, dressed in dusters and wearing goggles, went scorching through the streets of Boston, bystanders tossed insults and ridicule in their direction .... " Get a horse.

The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Gilman Drive West, 3rd Avenue West, Queen Anne Avenue North, Boston Street, and a set of streets, collectively known as Queen Anne Boulevard, that loop around the crown of the hill and reflect a comprehensive boulevard design in the style of the Olmsted Brothers architectural firm.

Now running north, as I-895 returns to ground level, the highway crosses Ponca and Boston streets ; the speed limit increases to ahead of exits 11A-B, Boston and O ' Donnell streets, respectively.

In and around Worcester, Massachusetts, Bancroft's birthplace, many streets, businesses and monuments bear his name:

In some cities, especially in New England, the term " square " ( as its Spanish equivalent, Plaza ) is applied to a commercial area ( like Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts ), usually formed around the intersection of three or more streets, and which originally consisted of some open area ( many of which have been filled in with traffic islands and other traffic calming features ).

Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts where several streets meet: Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue.

Paul Moody was later honored by having streets in Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts named after him, although a section of the one in Lowell was later renamed University Avenue.

Washington, D. C .' s Embassy Row lies along Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., and its cross streets between Thomas Circle and Ward Circle, although the vast majority of embassies are found between Scott Circle and Wisconsin Avenue.

Two streets connecting to Massachusetts Avenue are also home to major diplomatic enclaves.

Additionally, a substantial number of embassies and chanceries are located within one or two blocks of Massachusetts on cross streets, particularly R, S, and 22nd Streets NW near Sheridan Circle, and along Kalorama Road and 34th Street NW in the Kalorama district.

Haymarket is an MBTA subway station serving the Green and Orange lines, located at the corner of Congress and New Sudbury streets in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

Signage on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts | Boston.

Kenmore Square is a square in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, consisting of the intersection of several main avenues ( including Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue ) as well as several other cross streets, and Kenmore Station, an MBTA subway stop.

After graduating from Emerson, Jason lived in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was employed as a Temp worker while also drawing caricatures for pay on the streets of Cambridge.

It has its beginnings from President Calvin Coolidge, then Governor of Massachusetts, in order to curtail union riots in the streets of Boston.

* Massachusetts Avenue ( Washington, D. C .), the longest of the state named streets in Washington, D. C.

Magoun Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts located at the intersection of two major streets, Broadway and Medford Street, with the smaller Dexter Street.

It is the longest street in Boston, and it remains one of the longest streets in the state of Massachusetts.

Located in the Samuel McIntyre Historic District, Chestnut Street District on one of the most historic streets in America at 34 Chestnut Street by Samuel McIntire ( 1800 ), Salem, Massachusetts.

Located on one of the most historic streets in America at 9 Chestnut Street in the Samuel McIntyre Historic District ,, Chestnut Street District by Samuel McIntire ( 1805 ), Salem, Massachusetts

Located on one of the most historic streets in America at 80 Federal Street in the Samuel McIntyre Historic District Samuel McIntire, Chestnut Street District ( 1782 ), Salem, Massachusetts

It is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue NW, New York Avenue NW, K Street NW, and 8th Street NW.

Twenty years later, he established a prize for the best exhibit of shade trees set out in the streets of Rockport, Massachusetts, and for the best loaf of bread exhibited at the annual fair.

Paine's brick row-house development on Greenwich and Sussex streets in Roxbury, Massachusetts is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District.

N Street stops short of meeting the circle from either direction, but is instead connected to Rhode Island and Massachusetts avenues through two short streets, Corregidor Street and Bataan Street.