Centre Street is the main commercial spine of Jamaica Plain, one of Boston’s most vibrant and walkable neighborhoods. Together with adjoining South Street, it forms a lively district packed with independent restaurants, cafes, bookstores, boutiques, bars, and ethnic eateries, reflecting JP’s mix of longtime residents, immigrant communities, and a strong local, progressive character. Murals, small…
Downtown Crossing is Boston’s historic pedestrian shopping district, centered on the intersection of Washington Street with Winter and Summer Streets. The area around that crossing is closed to most vehicle traffic, letting shoppers wander freely past department stores, retail shops, restaurants, souvenir sellers, and street vendors. It sits just east of Boston Common and west…
The Prudential Center is a landmark mixed-use complex in the Back Bay, centered on the 52-story Prudential Tower, one of Boston’s tallest and most recognizable buildings. The complex spans shopping, dining, and offices at 800 Boylston Street, with a large enclosed mall connected via the Prudential Bridge to the adjacent Copley Place, creating a sheltered…
Newbury Street is Boston’s most famous shopping promenade, an eight-block, roughly mile-long stretch running through the heart of the Back Bay from the Boston Public Garden to Massachusetts Avenue. Lined with handsome 19th-century brownstones, it has been converted into an elegant corridor of boutiques, galleries, salons, cafes and restaurants. The character shifts as you walk:…
Charles Street is the lively shopping and dining street at the base of Beacon Hill, running along the neighborhood’s western slope between Boston Common and the Public Garden at one end and Charles Circle near Massachusetts General Hospital at the other. Lined with gas-style lamps, brick sidewalks, and red-brick and bowfront buildings, it is the…
Hanover Street is the main commercial spine of Boston’s North End, the city’s oldest residential neighborhood and its historic Italian-American quarter. One of the oldest streets in Boston, it was originally a Native American path to the shore and predates European settlement. Today it is lined with Italian restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and salumerias, and it…
Copley Place is an upscale, enclosed shopping and mixed-use complex in Boston’s Back Bay, just off Copley Square. Spread across roughly a 9.5-acre site, the development combines two levels of shopping with office buildings, parking, and two hotels, the Westin Boston Seaport-area brand’s Copley location and the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Its skylit atrium and…
Boylston Street is one of Boston’s great urban thoroughfares, running east-west from Chinatown out through Back Bay and into the Fenway. Along its Back Bay stretch it forms the southern edge of the Public Garden and Boston Common before opening into a corridor of shops, restaurants, hotels, and cultural institutions. The street is named for…
Lansdowne Street runs along the back of Fenway Park in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood, directly beneath the ballpark’s famous Green Monster left-field wall. For Red Sox fans it is hallowed ground, packed before and after games with crowds spilling between bars, restaurants, and the street’s long-standing reputation as a nightlife hub. The short, atmospheric block has…
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