BOSTON Planner’s Guide

Prepared by the Chapter of the American Planning Association for the APA National Planning Conference , Massachusetts April 9-12, 2011

  WELCOME TO BOSTON THE HOMETOWN OF PLANNING Boston was founded in 1630 on the Peninsula, jutting out into the and connected to the mainland by today’s Washington Street. On behalf of the Boston Local Host Committee we would like to welcome you to the Through planned filling and “wharfing-in”, the peninsula evolved to its present 2011 American Planning Association National Planning Conference. shape. In 1878, the filling of marshes in the Back Bay began (today the Back Bay neighborhood). Under a plan by famed landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, Boston’s approach to planning & development is to preserve its historic character today’s “” also was formed. These early actions set the stage for while embracing the future. From being the first city to require developments to the modern public works that continue to shape Boston. follow LEED standards to the establishment of an Innovation District for creative jobs, Boston is building on both the strength of its history and its young and In the late 1800s, the first subway in the nation was built under Tremont and educated workforce. Over 80 area colleges and universities educate more than Boylston Streets (now part of the MBTA Green Line). Large highway projects 330,000 students every year. Diversity enriches this city where minorities now also had impacts. In the 1950s, the elevated Central Artery was built by the make up half of the City’s population. Massachusetts Department of Public Works (MDPW). In the 1980s to early 2000s, MDPW’s (now MassDOT) massive Central Artery/Tunnel Project (known as the Big Boston is one of America’s great walking cities and you are located in an exemplary Dig), had the most impact on the City and region in improving mobility and through illustration of that – the Back Bay, named one of the Great Places in America by its massive mitigation program.  APA. Explore the many other neighborhoods in Boston where you will find a city enlivened by sidewalks bursting with shops, restaurants, theaters, museums, great Regarding modern city planning, in the mid-to-late 1960s, ¼ of the land area of architecture, and people. Discover the surrounding cities and towns connected by Boston was redeveloped or rehabilitated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority the oldest transit network in the country, including Cambridge and Brookline, each (BRA). This planning changed the face of the City forever and has stimulated private with their own distinct character and activity. urban investment ever since.  More than 300 sessions and mobile workshops afford you the opportunity to learn What you see today is the cumulative effect of massive public and private real about planning lessons from and beyond. With mobile workshops estate investment. Yet Boston remains a charming, walkable city that good from Boston to Maine, & Rhode Island, you have the opportunity to planning has created and preserved. The result is a balance of the controlled scale of experience one of the most historic, yet progressive, areas in the country. large real estate projects and the protection of Boston’s famed historic character.

History and innovation, economic development and neighborhood preservation, sports and entertainment, food and shopping, Boston offers it all.

The Program Guide Committee created the Planner’s Guide to help you explore this wonderful environment. It includes unique walking tours from a planner’s perspective, restaurant suggestions and interesting planning information.

Enjoy the conference and enjoy our city and region. Learn. Discover. Have Fun.

Local Host Committee Chairs Bob Mitchell FAICP Peter Lowitt FAICP Jennifer M. Raitt Kairos Shen

Don’t forget to check out all of the Boston 2011 products on sale at the Local Host Committee merchandise booth.

Hynes Convention Center  APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide   HOW TO USE THE GUIDE PUBLIC TRANSIT, THE “T” Cities are best visited on foot. Boston is one of the best places to do just that. The walking tours and the other neighborhoods of interest in the Boston Planner’s Guide are “America’s Walking City” is compact, relatively flat and pedestrian in scale. In its easily accessible by subway. The map below shows the Transportation oldest sections, the streets are laid out in an irregular pattern. There are many Authority rail system that serves these 20 areas in the Guide. A full “T” map is available at corners to turn, revealing new vistas. There are many windows and doors at stations and online at www.mbta.com. The Hynes Convention Center is served by two subway street level. This variety at street level is what makes Boston so interesting to poke lines. The Hynes Convention Center Station on the Green Line is located on Massachusetts around. In the redeveloped sections, there are fewer of these “low grain” features, Avenue at , about two blocks from the Hynes. The which but they are still walkable and impressive. serves the Orange Line, Commuter Rail and Amtrak, is located on Dartmouth Street between Stuart Street and , opposite Nieman Marcus in Copley Place. The Boston Planner’s Guide is especially targeted to city planners and those who are interested in planning. It includes several do-it-yourself walking tours, each one- to-two hours long that reveal the planning story of Boston as well as interesting parts of Cambridge and Brookline. The tours emphasize built environments created by planning such as the new Greenway parks built above the new I-93 tunnel, the Harborwalk, and the “high spine” tall buildings in the Back Bay, a deliberate planning policy to focus new development in a corridor and to protect the historic residential sections of the adjacent South End and Back Bay. Other sections of Boston are also referenced and include Beacon Hill and historic Charlestown, for which there is ample information elsewhere.

The walking tours begin and end near subway stations. A small transit map is included in the Guide. The tour maps indicate the transit stations, a marked walking route and highlight interesting sights along the way. Several tours are contiguous; the end of one tour is near the beginning of the next. You can plan to spend an hour or a full day wandering the streets at your own pace. You will see and learn a lot about how planning in Boston and its neighbors influenced the way they look today.

In addition, The Boston Planner’s Guide includes a select restaurant guide at the end with short descriptions and a price guide

Allan Hodges, FAICP, Chair Planner’s Guide Committee

On our maps, you’ll find we’ve shown the T stations and their corresponding colored line or lines like this.

 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide   THE TOURS CONTENTS

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1 Back Bay 10 2 14 3 Downtown 16 4 18 5 20 6 Navy Yard 22 7 Chinatown 24 8 Greenway 26 9 Fort Point 28 10 South End 30 11 Longwood Medical Area 34 12 Kendall/MIT 36 13 Two Cities 40 14 Brookline 44

OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS OF INTEREST

A Beacon Hill & 48 B Government Center & Fanueil Hall 48 C Charlestown Historic District 48 D North End 49 E & Square 49 Hynes Convention Center F Central Square & University Park 49 The locations of the walking tours are indicated by Blue numbers and the other neighborhoods of interest are indicated by Green capital letters on the above map. The Restaurant Guide 50 Hynes Convention Center location is indicated Sponsors 54 by a pink dot. Acknowledgements are on the back cover.

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HARCOURT ST 8 See the Restaurant Guide BELVIDERE ST THE TOUR 11 on page 50 for more tial en sta d ti HUNTINGTON AVE suggestions. Part I – Historic ST GERMAIN ST u o r n p T 1 Begin on the Charles River MASSACHUSETTES AVE Esplanade. You can see Cambridge 9 W NEWTOWN ST and MIT across the river. Also, you will see the and the Prudential Center tower, SW COLUMBUS AVE dwarfing a number of church 10 COORIDOR spires. The 1¼ mile Esplanade PARK forms part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. The onyst ph a ti m o y n first portion was developed in 1910 s T and doubled in size in the 1930s. In the 1950s, was 2 Proceed south on Dartmouth 3 Winston Churchill described result of a community tree planting constructed. Walk east 1,000 feet to Marlborough Street, turn left Commonwealth Avenue as program in the 1960s. Today the to the pedestrian footbridge; cross and walk east. At the next block, the “Princess of Streets”. The Back Bay is vigorously protected by it and proceed east and across the Clarendon Street, turn right and 240-foot-wide avenue with its the Back Bay Architectural Historic pedestrian bridge over Storrow walk south to Commonwealth landscaped mall forms the spine District Commission. Drive to Dartmouth Street. Avenue. At the corner of Clarendon of the Back Bay, tying the Public Street and Commonwealth Avenue Garden to the . 4 Proceed east on is the Clarendon Street playground, Statues commemorating 19th and Commonwealth to Arlington Trinity Church and John Hancock originally built in the 1970s as a 20th century historical and literary Street and enter the Public Tower, . temporary park on the site of a figures grace each block of the Mall. Garden, established in 1837 burned down house. The Magnolia trees are the happy when philanthropist Horace Gray

tour continues on page 12 10 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Back Bay Tour 11 Church is reflected in the mirrored Part II – Modern Back Bay outside. The plaza in front of you skin of the 62-story, 2 million sf is part of the Southwest Corridor BACK BAY John Hancock tower by Henry Cobb 7 Diagonally across from Copley Park, which was built as part of the of I. M. Pei and Partners (1977). The Square on the southwest corner of Southwest Corridor Project (1980s). continued from page 11 tower’s narrowest profile faces the Dartmouth Street and Huntington The original Southwest Corridor petitioned for the use of land as the square, minimizing its imposition Avenue Nearby is the Copley Place Freeway Project was intended first public botanical garden in the into the space. Look near the (1985) Mall. Ascend the escalators for the route of I- 95 from Route U. S. The 24-acre landscape was fountain and see the bronze tortoise and proceed through the corridor 128. However, the State made a designed by George F. Meacham. and the hare sculptures that honor and glazed pedestrian bridge policy decision in the 1970s not to Declared a National Historic the Boston Marathon, the nation’s over Stuart Street into the main build any more expressways into Landmark in 1987, the Garden is oldest and most prestigious race mall. Stroll through the mall’s two the City. Highway funding was managed jointly between the City of whose finish line is near here. levels of designer shops, national instead used to build the Orange Boston and the Friends of the Public retailers, restaurants and cafes. This Line (rail) in this corridor (under Garden. To the right of the John Hancock 9.5-acre air-rights development the park). Walk west down the Tower is the original site of the over the one block. 5 Proceed south one block Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). In (I-90) includes two hotels, 800, Turn right at Harcourt Street and to Newbury Street, Boston’s 1909 the MFA moved to its current 000 square feet (sf) of offices, walk to . Turn premier promenading and window location approximately one mile 370,000 sf of retail space, and 100 left and proceed southwest to the shopping avenue. With a mix of west on Huntington Avenue. In its apartments. Copley Place’s design intersection of Huntington Avenue local neighborhood shops and place, the Copley Plaza Hotel was was controversial largely due to its and Belvidere Street. Flowering tulip tree on Commonwealth Avenue. specialty retail, it attracts locals built in 1912. scale and initial lack of affordable and international tourists alike. 9 housing. In addition, Newbury At the northwest corner Prudential Center from the corner renovation. When the real estate The shops and abundant public Across Dartmouth Street is the Street merchants feared competition is the First Church of Christ, of Huntington Avenue and Belvidere market emerged from the doldrums transportation help make the Back (McKim, from the upscale retailers. To their Scientist. Built in the early 1970s, Street. in the late 1990s, the Belvidere Bay a walkable, transit-oriented, Mead and White, 1887; west wing surprise, Copley Place solidified the Christian Science Plaza was Building (facing Belvidere Street), smart growth neighborhood. At by Philip Johnson, 1971). This is the Boston’s preeminence as a major designed by I.M. Pei & Partners 11 Within the Prudential Center, the South Garden, and the indoor Clarendon Street, turn left and first centralized, municipally funded retail destination in New England. and Cossutta and Ponte. The 14- go up the escalators and stroll MBTA Station head house were proceed to Boylston Street. Filene’s library in the U.S. Go inside and up While the complex has flourished, acre formal, axial plaza includes a along the glazed corridor to the added. The 1990s expansions were Basement, world famous for the grand staircase past the marble its engagement with the street has 700-foot-long reflecting pool and central atrium where multiple coordinated with a citizens advisory bargain shopping, has entrances off lions to the Main Reading Room on been less successful. a circular fountain. The original corridors intersect. The interior committee set up by the BRA. both Boylston and Newbury Streets the 2nd floor, with its soaring ceiling Mother Church, a modest gray atrium and adjacent South Garden between Berkeley and Clarendon and arched windows. Continue to 8 Leave Copley Place’s main floor stone structure built in 1894, is extend the pedestrian environment 12 From the central atrium, walk Streets. the 3rd floor to take in a sequence between Nieman Marcus and Michael dwarfed by the domed Mother indoors. Pedestrians can move between Ann Taylor and the Body

of murals by John Singer Sargent. Kors (“Dartmouth Street Shops”); Church Extension (1906). Inside from the South End to Back Bay Shop along the corridor all the 6 At Clarendon and Boylston Return to the 1st floor and treat take the escalator down and proceed the Publishing House Building is the via the Huntington and Boylston way to Boylston Street. Across Streets you will see the soaring John yourself to some pastry at the café. Mapparium, with its world-famous, arcades 24 hours a day. The original Boylston is the Store, with Hancock Tower. Cross Boylston to three-story, painted-glass globe of 52-story Prudential Center on the its glass façade and stories of Saint James Avenue, turn right, and Swan boats on the lagoon in the Public Garden. the world in 1935. left, which opened in 1965 (Charles sampling stations. A hundred feet proceed straight ahead to Copley Luckman & Associates, architects), down on the right on Boylston Square. Formed into a pedestrian 10 Head toward Massachusetts was the first large office building in is the Mandarin Oriental Hotel zone in 1883, the Square was Avenue. At Huntington Avenue, Boston in three decades and was complex, constructed on the site of named for the American portraitist the Avenue is flanked by Symphony built in response to real estate tax a formerly lifeless plaza. Completed John Singleton Copley, who is Hall and Horticultural Hall. As you abatement incentives. Visit the in 2009, the complex includes the commemorated in a bronze statue. approach the northern edge of the Skywalk Observatory. Like Copley five star hotel, ground floor retail, Set at the eastern end of Copley Christian Science complex along Place, the Prudential Center was condominiums, and apartments. Square, Trinity Church and parish Massachusetts Avenue, note the constructed over I-90 air rights Public benefits included completion house were designed by Henry 2002 renovation to the Mary Baker and in a former railroad yard. The of the pedestrian arcade network Hobson Richardson. As the building Eddy Library. A few steps ahead, Prudential Center was substantially within the Prudential Center, that established Richardson’s turn right onto St. Germain Street. remodeled and expanded in the enhancing the ground level reputation, it is the birthplace and This quiet street of town homes 1990s. The Huntington Office streetscape with active retail, and a archetype of the Richardsonian and mature trees provides a respite Building (), plaza level park and tot lot. Romanesque style, characterized by from the urban cacophony. From glazed pedestrian walkways and an a clay tile roof, rough stone, heavy St. Germain Street, proceed over expanded and improved 500,000 arches, and a massive tower. The Clearway Street and enter the sf shopping complex came with the

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SURFACE ST 27 restoration (2008) to transform it condominiums. 7 Continue along 11 Continuing past the theaters, LINCOLN ST BEACH ST Chacarero into a 125-room hotel. Bromfield Street until Tremont between Washington and Tremont STUART ST B 10SOUTH1 ST Arch Street Street. Directly in front of you is the Streets along Avery Street is KNEELAND ST 13 C 3 Continue southerly along Granary Burying Ground (1660). , a major mixed- 52 Temple Placebus terminal Washington, turn left on to Milk use development. Proceed westerly l cn ica tr D Blu at SportsClub/LA d s e t

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16 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Downtown Tour 17 TOUR NEAREST T STATION TOUR DURATION 90 Minutes Blue Line: Airport Station START 15 1

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EVERETT ST THE TOUR 7 BRENAN ST 1 is a three- 6 is the local 10 LoPresti Park, a 4-acre mile long open space built as part of business district. Recently the open space, affords Harbor and the Central Artery/Tunnel Project. MBTA station was renovated. The downtown views. 11 New Street is SUMMER ST empty parking lot is the future a proposed 230-unit development the boston 2 The East Boston Greenway is a home of the 50,000 sf East Boston that includes a hotel, a marina and 3 WEBSTER ST 5 LAMSON ST harbor MARGINAL ST City-owned linear park linking the Neighborhood Health Center. space allocated for Designated Port neighborhood and the waterfront; Area. it was built within an abandoned 7 Clippership Wharf is the railroad right-of-way. site of a proposed mixed-use 12 Maverick Landing is a 400-unit 4 FOOD & DRINK GOLDEN STAIRS waterfront development including HOPE VI public housing revitalization 3 Portside at Pier 1 Marina is the 400 residential units, restaurants, project featuring photovoltaic roof A Santarpio’s JEFFRIES ST site of a future 500-unit mixed- retail, health club, community and panels and a community center. 111 Chelsea Street income residential project with a educational facilities, docks, and B Punto Rojo 16 HARBORWALK restaurant, health club, community maritime support facilities. 13 Atlantic Works Artists Studios & space, and 700 parking spaces. Gallery is a rehabilitated warehouse See the Restaurant Guide 8 Carlton Wharf is an 80-unit with a 30-member artist work on page 50 for more 4 Phases 1 & 2 were mixed-income rental development studio and gallery. suggestions. Maverick Landing built by the Massachusetts Port with 25 percent at market rate. Redevelopment. Authority as mitigation for Logan See the newest segment of the 14 Boston East is a proposed 196 Airport impacts and provides a Harborwalk. condominium project, a maritime spectacular view of Boston. park, a community gallery, an 9 Hodge Boiler Works is the site of extension of the Harborwalk, and a 5 Brophy Park is in an area that a proposed 110-unit condominium marine facility. 15 Central Square was originally an island that was project with 8 bed-and-breakfast is a park and neighborhood node subsequently connected with fill to units and a marina. that connects to Maverick Square. other islands to build Logan Airport.

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1 AGASSIZ RD Walk along the Back Bay Fens, with neighborhood groups, property 6 Lansdowne Street has grown SYMPHONY RD QUEENSBERRY ST y Emerald Necklace and Fenway and business owners, the BRA and up in the last decade. Make sure to hon s FOOD & DRINK p Victory Gardens. The Emerald other City agencies have been able check out a show at the new House m Necklace is a series of parks along to manage development goals of Blues or grab a beer while staring A Basho 1338 Boylston Street the Muddy River laid out in the while also working to make certain into Fenway Park at the Bleacher B Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill 1890s by landscape architect that the Fenway becomes a more Bar. 1265 Boylston Street Frederick Law Olmsted. The Back sustainable and transit-oriented C Bleacher Bar Bay Fens were former . The community. 7 As the gateway to Boston 82A Lansdowne Street Victory Gardens were developed University, is home D Eastern Standard during World War II to augment 4 Puma City, a unique collection to a reconstituted, multi-modal 528 Commonwealth Avenue war-time food rationing programs. of 24 shipping containers have been transit hub (new bus station above E Petit Robert Bistro 468 Commonwealth Avenue Today, they offer the same arranged into a multi-level retail, the renovated subway station was opportunity for Boston residents to event and restaurant space. This opened in 2009) for the MBTA, as grow produce. The Boston Museum installation will call the Fenway well as numerous restaurants and See the Restaurant Guide of Fine Arts, other institutions and home for the next two years. bars. on page 50 for more suggestions. elegant apartment buildings from the early 1900s line the Fenway. 5 While the Fenway has become 8 Dating back to the mid-19th much more than just a home for century, the Commonwealth Two examples of the new baseball, Yawkey Way and Fenway Avenue Mall is a beautiful tree- Fenway, 2 1330 Boylston Street Park still are a must-see. After 10 lined promenade in the median and 3 Trilogy are successful years of renovations and additions, of Commonwealth Avenue mixed-use and rental housing Fenway Park remains an iconic between Kenmore Square and developments. Both projects were place to catch a game or for a tour. the Public Garden. The Public the result of a 2004 community-led Long known as one of the city’s Garden, Commonwealth Mall, the A game at Fenway Park, rezoning effort that also contributed club and entertainment hubs, Fenway parkland, the Jamaicaway looking east to Back Bay. new restaurants and retailers that and are part of the enliven the street. By partnering Emerald Necklace.

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24 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Chinatown Tour 25 TOUR NEAREST T STATION TOUR DURATION 60 Minutes D Red & Silver Lines: South Station NEARBY TOURS Downtown, Fort Point, END Chinatown

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Station, one of the City’s major May to mid-October. The larger 11 Christopher Columbus CHAUNCY ST SUMMER ST 3 transportation hubs. A popular civic space, known as the “Great Waterfront Park is east of the A Farmers Market is held there Room,” is used for large gatherings. Greenway. 12 Outdoor seasonally. The plantings were Pushcart Market is west of ESSEX ST ESSEX ST donated by the Massachusetts 6 New England Aquarium Greenway and is open on Fridays I-93 fort point h sta ut ti channel o o Horticultural Society, and the is directly east of Greenway. 7 and Saturdays year-round. s n Conservancy intends to pursue a “Walk to the Sea” is a pedestrian 13 include T more in-depth planning process for route from City Hall to the Harbor. lawns and planting beds, shallow

BEACH ST 1 SURFACE ST these parcels. 8 Harbor Islands Pavilion (at State fountains of moving water, and LINCOLN ST Street) is being constructed by the pergolas with moveable chairs and 2 SOUTH ST 4 Independence Wharf has a Boston Harbor Islands Alliance and tables. 14 Freedom Trail is Boston’s south station START bus terminal 14th Floor Observation Deck that the and will most famous walking tour of 16 provides views of the Greenway, be completed by spring 2011. It will historic sites.

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I-90 THE TOUR BINFORD ST 8 From South Station, walk north Note the views of the City’s financial the P&G/Gillette’s World Shaving along the Greenway to the district from the Harborwalk. Turn Headquarters, 11 where razors are Intercontinental Hotel 1 . Enter left at Congress Street, where you manufactured with the help of the and walk through the long hotel will find the FP3 residential project Channel’s cooling water. Take a left 13 lobby to the doors that lead to the at 346 Congress Street 7 . on Binford Street into the 100 Acres A ST Harborwalk for an expansive view Chef Barbara Lynch opened Master Plan area 12 , a planned 14 11 of the Fort Point Neighborhood from three critically acclaimed dining mixed-use district. A walk down A END across the Fort Point Channel. Once concepts here. From Congress, Street will bring you to the Channel CHANNEL CENTER ST FOOD & DRINK a hotbed for industrial activity, turn right on A Street. Climb the Center 13 and Midway Studios 14 , S BOSTON BYPASS RD the Channel is now planned to be stairs up to Summer Street. From a live/work artist’s community. A Hook Lobster 15-17 Northern Avenue a public open space with floating Summer Street, you can see the B Flour Bakery and Café art, cultural uses and small boat Boston Convention and Exhibition Looking down A Street you can see 12 Farnsworth Street programs described in the City’s Center 8 to the East. A walk Artists for Humanity, an innovative C Channel Café Fort Point Channel Watersheet toward the Channel will introduce youth program housed in a DORCHESTER AVE 300 Summer Street Activation Plan. Walk along the you to the long-standing Fort Point LEED-Certified Platinum building. D Miel Harborwalk to cross the Channel Arts Community with the Artists’ From here, you could turn back to 510 Atlantic Avenue at Seaport Boulevard on the Evelyn Building at 300 Summer Street Summer Street or retrace your steps E Barking Crab 9 88 Sleeper Street Moakley Bridge . The adjacent and the Channel Café. Every fall, along the Harborwalk to cross the 2 F Sportello and Drink old Northern Avenue Bridge, slated over 150 neighborhood artists open Channel and return to South Station. 348 Congress Street for restoration, is on the left, as their studios to the public. well as the Federal Courthouse , The Fort Point Neighborhood is a 3 See the Restaurant Guide Fan Pier 4 and the Institute of Walk west on Summer and turn left part of the larger South Boston on page 50 for more Contemporary Art 5 . on Melcher Street, right on Necco Waterfront Innovation District. suggestions. Street, and right again on Necco Explore the Innovation District and On the other side of the bridge, turn Court to walk toward the Channel. check out the restaurants at Liberty right along the Harborwalk past From this southern segment of Wharf. the Boston Children’s Museum 6 . the Harborwalk 10 , you will see Old Northern Avenue Bridge, Fort Point.

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30 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide South End Tour 31 new South End Community Health retail. Center, with ground floor retail and SOUTH END market rate condominiums above. 8 Continue south to On the street immediately behind, Massachusetts Avenue to the continued from page 31 17 new townhouses were built, southeast is the Boston Medical mixed-use developments: Wilkes 6 Continue southwest and pass recreating Cumpston Street. On the Center (BMC) campus. BMC provides Passage Lofts, Rollins Square, and two historic urban parks designed corner of East Concord Street and free care to many in need and has the Savoy. At the corner of Union in the 1850s by the well-known Washington Street is a former bread what is considered one of the best Park on your left is the Cathedral architect of the Massachusetts State factory, now housing for formerly triage centers in the City. Turn right of the Holy Cross, which is as large House, Charles Bulfinch. Named homeless seniors. Continue about (north) on Massachusetts Avenue as Westminster Abbey, the central Blackstone and Franklin Squares, two blocks to Worcester Square at and continue to church for the Archdiocese of note the original elm trees with Washington Street. On the southwest between Shawmut Avenue and Boston. original cast iron fountains. Also corner is the Allen House, once Tremont Street. note the block of row houses facing a single family house which has Washington Street has been Blackstone Square. On the left-hand been converted to condominiums. 9 In the 1950s, Chester Square the subject of considerable side (behind a wall) you will pass by Turn left to Worcester Square, was split in half when the six- transportation planning since the South End Burying Grounds, a another English-style park with a lane-wide Massachusetts Avenue 1997, the purpose of which was to restored historic City cemetery and contemporary fountain. was constructed through the determine the best type of transit a final resting place for over 15,000 park. Chester Square retains its service to replace the elevated people. On the north side of the 7 Return to Washington Street. entire 19th-century architectural Orange Line ()that street are two community gardens At the corner of East Springfield you framework and residential used to operate above Washington (Washington and Rutland Gardens) will find the oldest building in the character. Recently the City of Street. In 2002, $52 million was adjacent to a wood-framed federal South End, the Porter House, built as Boston Parks Department renovated Penny Savings Bank Building, Washington Street, adaptive re-use. invested in new sidewalks, new house on Haven Street. This house a single family house and functions Chester Square with new pathways, acorn street lights, street furniture, is only one of two remaining wood today as market rate condominiums. fencing, landscaping, acorn street elm trees, and most importantly, frame houses in the South End. On Across the street is Minot Hall, lighting, and fountains. a painting of this scene from the 11 Proceed up West Newton a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) the right at 1601 Washington is the renovated for condominiums and 19th Century by Childe Hassam, Street and head north across the system called the Silver Line, which 10 Continue north on which belongs to the Toledo (OH) Southwest Corridor Park (See Tour provides service from Downtown Calderwood Pavilion, Tremont Street. Massachusetts Avenue until Museum of Art. It looks much 1, Back Bay) to St. Botolph Street. Crossing through the South End Columbus Avenue. Turn right the same today, except for the The uniform bow fronts lend strong to Dudley Square in Roxbury. This onto Columbus Avenue (at Dunkin streetlights and cars. Have a look character to this residential street, BRT service operates mostly in a Donuts), and on your right you will down Pembroke Street to the right. a block away from the “high rise reserved lane along Washington find the Harriet Tubman House. Note the uniform steep stairs up to spine” of the Back Bay. Walk back Street. The Washington Street line Walk five blocks to the intersection the first floor of these Victorian era via the Southwest Corridor Park12 serves over 14,000 daily riders. of West Newton Street. Walk a bit town houses. (built above railroad tracks) to reach farther to Warren Street, which Dartmouth Street. The tour ends Since 1997, over $600 million in intersects at an angle. There is here. public/private investment has been made along Washington Street; with 1,950 new /renovated housing South End row houses. units, 150,000 sf of new retail, and 1,500 underground parking spaces. Moreover, 65 new businesses have opened in the area. Washington Street was selected by APA as one of the Great Streets in the America in 2008, and also was selected as one of the best Main Streets in the U.S. by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

32 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide South End Tour 33 TOUR NEAREST T STATION TOUR DURATION 60 Minutes WHEELOCK 11 Green Line: Longwood Medical Station NEARBY TOURS Fenway, Brookline COLLEGE T PILGRIM RD EMMANUEL COLLEGE THE WINSOR SCHOOL TEMPLE LONGWOOD ISRAEL 4 BACK BAY FENS

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the MIT Coop. Enter the parking is Fumihiko Maki’s 2010 addition AMHERST ST A Black Sheep Restaurant garage elevator of One Cambridge to the MIT Media Lab, described 350 Main Street Center, a 1987 mixed-use project by the architecture critic for the B Friendly Toast, Blue Room, Cambridge with hotel facilities, office space, Boston Globe, as the “world’s most MEMORIAL DRIVE 3 an 180,000 sf state-of-the-art Brewing Co. R&D, and retail space. Take the exquisite building.” Double back to Main, cross, turn left and continue west. On lab and workspace designed to 1 Kendall Square elevator to the top, where you will Emma’s your right is the Broad Institute, foster interaction and collaboration C emerge at the rooftop garden. This 40 Hampshire Street among biologists and engineers. lunchtime getaway was part of the a joint project of Harvard and MIT D Atasca public open space requirements by to study biology and medicine Adjacent to the Koch Institute, 50 Hampshire Street the City of Cambridge. Also on Main across disciplines. Interactive on Vassar Street, is Frank Gehry’s E Evoo & Za is the Kendall Hotel, a conversion of displays in the lobby, including 2004 Stata Center, an MIT academic 350 Third Street some components accessible from building used for classes and to F MIT Food Trucks (M-F) the historic Engine 7 firehouse into a Carleton Street boutique hotel and restaurant. the sidewalk, provide information house departments including the on the research conducted within. Computer Science and Artificial See the Restaurant Guide Next door is the Broad Institute’s Intelligence Laboratory. After on page 50 for more Cycletrack along sister organization, the Whitehead crossing Main, you can enter the suggestions. Vassar Street. Institute of Biomedical Research, Stata Center lobby, which flows home of the Human Genome into the winding staircases to the upper levels, most of which have Ray and Maria Stata Center. Project. On your left is the David Frank Ghery, Architect. H. Koch Institute for Integrative restricted access. The building’s Cancer Research at MIT (2010), tour continues on page 38

36 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Kendall/MIT Tour 37 south to Broadway. It was required is expected in 2011. to better connect the neighborhood KENDALL / MIT to Kendall Square Station; it cuts 10 Turn right on to Third Street. between Biogen, Inc. and a large On your left is the 10-acre, 1.4 continued from page 37 Federal property. During the early million sf Cambridge Research circulation mimics a city street, now a business and entertainment 1960s, Kendall Square was slated Park/Kendall Square mixed use with the various academic activities area, including the headquarters to be the headquarters for NASA. development, built as a brownfield located along it, interspersed for Amgen and several restaurants. With the assassination of JFK and redevelopment project on a site with internal ‘plazas’ to foster Follow the pedestrian path through the ascension of Lyndon Johnson formerly owned by Commonwealth interaction. From the second level the area and emerge at Binney to the presidency, NASA moved to Energy. The development permit of the building you can access the Street, across from the Kendall Houston. Much of the block between included requirements for ground outdoor decks and amphitheater Cinema, an art-house theater. the pedestrian pathway and Third floor retail, public open space, and see the stormwater . Street is still owned by the Federal and a walkway along the Broad Its green roof captures greywater 7 Turn right and continue government and houses the Volpe Canal, which provided water for irrigation and flushing the toilets. along Binney Street. On your left National Transportation Systems access between the Charles River are research and development Center of the U.S. Department of and many industries in the area. 4 Back on Vassar Street is buildings, interspersed with Transportation. Of note in this development are Cambridge’s first cycle track, a bike residential and two telecom Behnisch Architecten’s 2003 facility physically separated from buildings. Two blocks to the north 9 Continuing along Binney Street, Genzyme Center, the State’s first the roadway, installed in 2004. of Binney Street is the residential many of the surface parking lots LEED-Platinum green building, Cambridge has recently started neighborhood of East Cambridge, and single-story industrial buildings Steven Ehrlich’s 2004 Vertex work on additional cycle tracks. originally built to house the workers occupied by offices and research Pharmaceuticals headquarters, in the nearby industrial enterprises. laboratories are in the early stages CBT’s Watermark apartments, and 5 Cross Vassar and Main to Over the years this area has housed of redevelopment. In 2010, the the open space designed by and the opposite corner from the waves of immigrants and now is Cambridge Planning Board approved Michael van Valkenburgh and Sasaki Stata Center. Continue west on becoming a preferred location for Alexandria Real Estate’s Binney Associates. Main. You will cross the surface workers in the area. Street proposal to build 1.5 million Grand Junction Railroad tracks, sf of R&D space, 220,000 sf of The space accommodates a skating an infrequently used freight 8 Across from the intersection residential, 40,000 sf of retail, two rink in the winter and outdoor connection between North and of Binney Street with Sixth Street, acres of public parks, and parking dining and lunchtime concerts in South Stations that some hope may there is a pedestrian connection located below-grade. Construction the summer. Also in the summer, carry passenger rail one day as well there is a farmer’s market in front as share the right-of-way with a of the Genzyme Center and canoe multi-use path. On your left, across and kayak rentals available at the MIT’s Media Lab. the street, is Charles Correa’s 2008 Broad Canal boat dock. A 300- LEED-Silver MIT Brain and Cognitive room hotel and performing arts and Kendall Square Farmer’s Market. Sciences Center. On your right is film theater are planned for the two Technology Square, one of the large remaining parcels. Across from the developments that began during the development, at 303 Third Street, urban renewal era. The first street are the Third Square Apartments. on your right, Technology Way, was Several restaurants have opened 12 Turn right at Broadway and Upon emerging from the Marriott, created to break up this large block along Third Street and within walk to the crosswalk in front of the you will be back where you began. and make it feel more similar to the the Cambridge Research Park in Volpe Center. Cross the street and Enter the Kendall Square Station on city fabric. response to the development. enter the Marriott Hotel, part of One the hotel side Outbound platform Cambridge Center. The permit for if you are continuing on to Harvard 6 Turn right on Technology 11 Continue along Third Street. this project requires that the hotel Square, or cross the street to the Way and walk past the various At the corner of Broadway is One provide the public through access Inbound side if returning to Boston corporate buildings, including Broadway, which now houses the between the Kendall MBTA station and the Hynes. Draper Laboratories, to emerge on Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), and the rest of Kendall Square Broadway. Cross the street to reach the largest flexible office facility for and the residential neighborhoods Hampshire Street. On your right is start-up and emerging technology beyond. One Kendall Square, an 11-building and life sciences companies in complex (1914) that was not the area. Over 250 companies are demolished by urban renewal and is located at CIC.

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40 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Two Cities Tour 41 concert venue with 19,600 seats, Park endure a bit of notoriety in home to Boston Celtics basketball, planning history. TWO CITIES Boston Bruins hockey, and Boston Blazers lacrosse. The West End is located on the continued from page 41 northwest portion of the original 4 As you cross the Charles River, the , which is 7 Once outside, walk toward the Shawmut Peninsula and parts of the you will be entering Boston from now a luxury hotel you will see greenery under the highway ramps. neighborhood are filled land. The Cambridge. The Museum of Science near the end of this tour. After the Walk up a two-step pedestrian ramp neighborhood was developed in the will be on your right. You will curve in the road, note on your right to see a plaque depicting the West late eighteenth and early nineteenth cross over the Craigie Drawbridge, underneath the highway ramps is End before 1959 and its replacement, centuries. The peak population currently under renovation as part part of the Artery Arts Program, Charles River Park, after 1959. Also was 23,000, and by the mid- of the State’s Accelerated Bridge a depiction of doorways and note the phrase under the highway twentieth century the population Program. Also, notice the elevated windows reminiscent of the West ramp, “The Greatest Neighborhood declined to about 7,500. Before the Science Park MBTA Station and the End housing prior to 1959. Houses This Side of Heaven,” the motto of neighborhood was razed in 1959, it tunnel entrance to I-93 South to the like these were demolished in favor West Enders. Notice a lone building was a multi-ethnic working class right. Just after the drawbridge, and of “towers in the park” during the nearby at 42 Lomasney Way, known neighborhood known for a strong before Science Park MBTA Station, urban renewal era. as “The Last Tenement House.” neighborhood identity. turn left to Nashua Street. 6 Explore North Station/TD 8 As you walk along Martha Road, 9 As you walk past Six Whittier 5 Walk on the pedestrian Garden, a multiuse facility and exit notice street names inlayed into the Place on your left and Eight path in . The at the West Entrance, which is the sidewalk depicting the West End Whittier Place on your right, Nashua Street Park is part of the second entrance on the same side street pattern prior to urban renewal; you will reach a pedestrian path Big Dig mitigation. Adjacent is the of the building. The ground level this is another part of the Artery Arts leading to neighborhood amenities, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. of North Station is a commuter rail Program under the highway ramps known as Thoreau Path. You Across the street is the Suffolk station. The MBTA Green Line and across the street. The Whittier Place will see small shops. Turn left at North Point Park, Cambridge. County Sheriff’s Department, home Orange Line subways connect under condominiums are part of a larger this path, continuing past the to the Nashua Street Jail. This jail North Station. Above North Station development called Charles River Boston Synagogue and the tennis Massachusetts General Hospital the stunning adaptive reuse of was opened in 1990 and replaced is the TD Garden sports arena and Park. The West End and Charles River courts where the path curves to (MGH) Main and Emergency this facility has won numerous the right. You will pass next to a View of Charles River and Boston’s West End from Cambridge. Entrances for MGH, you will see a preservation and architecture basketball court. The tree canopy 53,000 sf state-of-the-art facility awards. Information panels to the along Thoreau Path can provide under construction on your left. left of the lobby explain the history respite from the bustling urban Continuing the tour, North Grove and redevelopment of the facility. environment nearby. Street becomes Fruit Street. You Cross the street to Charles/MGH will pass the Massachusetts Eye Station (Red Line). Take the inbound 10 Turn left immediately after the and Ear Infirmary. Founded in 1824, train to Park Street Station and basketball court and walk just until this complex includes buildings transfer to the Green Line outbound the beginning of the stairs. Stop from the nineteenth century as well to Hynes Convention Center. here to get a view of the 33-story as towers built in the 1970s; both West End Apartments towers. generations of architecture are Return to Thoreau Path and walk visible on Fruit Street. along this path behind the West End Apartments. At the end of the 12 At the end of Fruit Street, path turn right. St. Joseph’s Catholic turn left onto Charles Street. You Church will be across the street. will soon pass the Liberty Hotel at Continue along William Cardinal 215 Charles Street, a luxury hotel O’Connell Way past Hawthorne in the former Charles Street Jail. Place. At the end of this street, the The Charles Street Jail was built in Shriner’s Hospital will be on your the Boston Granite Style in 1851. left. Turn left onto Blossom Street. Due to overcrowding, the jail was ordered to be closed in 1973 by the 11 Turn right at Parkman Street. 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BEACON HILL & BOSTON COMMON, BOSTON Red Line: Charles/MGH Station NORTH END, BOSTON Orange & Green Lines: Haymarket Station Beacon Hill was settled in 1630 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Beacon The North End is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Boston, and served as Hill Historic District was designated a Registered National Historic Landmark by a home to thousands of immigrants in the early 20th century. Of interest to the U.S. Department of Interior in 1963. The Hill’s architecture is well preserved planners is that Boston’s economic success has put enormous pressure on the and the neighborhood is actively sought. Beacon Street is the southern boundary North End to stay affordable for existing residents. While the neighborhood is and a prominent setting for handsome townhouses and apartment buildings. changing socioeconomically, the ethnic character is not. You will still hear a lot The splendid Massachusetts State House was built in 1795-98. Mt. Vernon Street of Italian spoken on the streets and in the cafes. Hanover Street, the main street, is Beacon Hill’s widest and most stately. (plan by S. P. Fuller, and nearby Salem Street are lined with cafes, restaurants and shops offering 1826; constructed 1834-37) is a residential enclave developed on an English Italy’s flavorful bounty. North Square is the site of Paul Revere’s House. Paul model. Acorn Street is the Hill’s most picturesque. Charles Street is Beacon Hill’s Revere Mall (an urban plaza), with the equestrian statue of Paul Revere, is the main street lined with small shops and few national chain stores. Pinckney Street entrance to the historic Old North Church. Nearby are Copps Hill Burying Ground is reminiscent of an English street because of its scale and consistent red brick and Copps Hill Terrace for views of the Inner Harbor, Old Ironsides (i.e., the U.S.S. color and architecture. Cambridge Street and the Charles/MGH Station have been Constitution) and the Charlestown waterfront. recently reconstructed.

GOVERNMENT CENTER, FANUEIL HALL, BOSTON Green Line: Gov’t Center Station HARVARD UNIVERSITY & SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE Red Line: Harvard Square Station

Government Center, a product of 1960s urban renewal, includes public Celebrating its 375th birthday in 2011, Harvard University is the nation’s oldest offices centered on City Hall. The MBTA Haymarket subway station is topped and one of the world’s most prestigious. Its 21,000 students attend classes by ventilation stacks for the Central Artery (I-93) tunnel and a mixed-use in historic and contemporary structures. The Harvard Yard, where it began, development. The two stacks frame the view of the Old North Church. The is surrounded by an ivy-clad red brick wall, separating its peaceful academic historic Blackstone Block contains Boston’s most intact remaining network of environment from the hectic pace of commercial Harvard Square. Only 210 17th century streets. Alongside is Haymarket, the oldest outdoor food market in acres constitute the main campus in Cambridge, with another 381 acres across Boston. The Freedom Trail winds its way through this area to the new North End the Charles River in Boston. Over 24 million sf of building space accommodates parks, part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Faneuil Hall (1740-42, reconstructed students, faculty and employees in Cambridge and Boston. Harvard Square 1762-63, enlarged by Bulfinch in 1805-06) is the site of Patrick Henry’s famous is the collective name of the mixed-use area surrounding the intersection of “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. Quincy Market and the flanking North Massachusetts Avenue, JFK Avenue and . It is full of bookstores, and South Market buildings (1824-26, Alexander Parris) served for years as including the Harvard Coop, clothing shops, ethnic and upscale restaurants, bars, Boston’s wholesale food market. In the mid 1970s they were reconstructed and pubs, and bakeries. This is one of the Boston area’s most intriguing and vital converted into Faneuil Hall Marketplace. places.

CHARLESTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BOSTON Orange & Green Lines: North Station CENTRAL SQUARE & UNIVERSITY PARK, CAMBRIDGE Red Line: Central Square Station

Near Town Hill and City Square is the Warren Tavern (1780). Look around this Central Square is sometimes referred to as Cambridge’s downtown, but it has a intersection of five streets; this whole area was planned in the 1630s, and is completely different feel from its more famous neighbor, Harvard Square. It is known as Town Hill. City Square was originally called Market Square, and its home to Cambridge’s City Hall but also a center of funky blues and country music appearance has changed drastically over the years. The 1892 Roughan Hall (with clubs, a large concentration of ethnic and diverse restaurants and the center of restaurant) at the corner of Park Street is the only 19th century building one of Cambridge’s oldest and most cosmopolitan neighborhoods. Nearby is a still standing. In the late 1970s as part of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, large real estate mixed-use development called University Park, with offices, highway structures were razed and tunnels were created under the square. The residential apartments and public open spaces. It was developed by Forest City Bunker Hill Monument commemorates the (June 17, 1775) Enterprises on land owned by MIT and constitutes a huge infill project and joint two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord. Walk up the monument, venture. University Park has become a magnet for biotech companies and high but remember it has 294 stairs and no elevator. As you reach Monument Square, tech businesses seeking proximity to MIT research and educational facilities. Its pass Tremont Street and see more beautiful historic homes. The historic innovative design is focused on a landscaped sequence of parks and public art Charlestown Navy Yard is adjacent beyond City Square. works, surrounded by dense mid-rise buildings and attractively clad parking garages.

48 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Other Neighhorhoods of Interest 49 NO. 9 PARK $$$: Barbara Lynch’s personalized upscale cuisine in the chef-owner’s flagship Italian inspired restaurant near JUMBO SEAFOOD $$: Fresh fish straight from the tank includes THE RESTAURANT GUIDE the State House. Low ceilings make the rooms noisy. Try crispy fried spicy shrimp, oysters with black sauce and the prune-stuffed gnocchi. 9 Park Street, 617 742 9991, whole fish with Hunan Sauce. Large Chinese menu. Boston has become a great restaurant town. Small plates, L’ESPALIER $$$: Elegant served by professional no9park.com. 5-7-9 Hudson Street, 617 542 2823, sushi, Latin, and American comfort food are the latest staff in a contemporary setting. Chef-owner Frank McClelland newjumboseafoodrestaurant.com trends. And French cuisine has made a comeback. Back offers degustation of seasonal vegetables, braised greens and SCAMPO $$$: Chef Lydia Shire’s expansive classy space on the Bay, Downtown and the South End sizzle with enticing and gnocchi tossed with sage and more. 774 Boylston Street first floor of this incredibly interesting renovation of a former LES ZYGOMATES $$$: A taste of Paris in the Leather District will moderate to expensive choices. The East Boston, Jamaica (near Mandarin Oriental Hotel), 617 262 3023, lespalier. jail. Well crafted, simple and delicious Italian entrees, grilled test your smile muscles. Delicious authentic bistro fare, such Plain and Chinatown neighborhoods have inexpensive and com , and salads. 215 Charles Street in Liberty Hotel at as au poivre, inspired by its original in the City of Light. more ethnic restaurants. Reserve ahead, especially on the Charles/MGH MBTA Station, 617 536 2100, scampoboston. Large wine list. 129 South Street, 617 542 5108, winebar. weekend. The recommended restaurants are listed by Boston MISTRAL $$$: French-Mediterranean cuisine in a lively setting. com com neighborhood followed by Brookline and Cambridge. Entrée Try delicious Dover Sole, beet mosaic salads, roasted duck, Price Guide: $-low to mid teens, $$-high teens to mid $20s, and wonderful pizzas. Dine comfortably at the bar with TOSCANO $$: One of Boston’s elegant Italian restaurants. The NEW SHANGHAI $: The scallops in sauce are a and $$$-high $20s and more. attentive service. 223 Columbus Avenue, 617 867 9300, antipasto and selections are delicious and reasonably highlight in this popular Chinese upstairs restaurant. The mistralbistro.com priced. The veal and seafood specials are worth the tab. Small regular menu items are much better than the lunch specials. Bon appétit! bar with limited menu. 47 Charles Street, 617 723-4090, Crowded at lunch. 21 Hudson Street, 617 338 6688, Allan Hodges, FAICP PARISH CAFÉ $: Amazing sandwich and salad combinations toscanoboston.com newshanghairestaurant.com from Boston area chefs. Lunch is better. Same owners have different menu featuring Mexican-inspired food at JAMAICA PLAIN O YA $$$: Currently the hottest Japanese sushi restaurant in BACK BAY (APA Conference location) RATTLESNAKE across the street. Boston. $500 for 20 selections! Sea urchin, specialty sirloin 361 Boylston Street 617 247-4777, parishcafe.com and caviar, and sea scallops dot this interesting menu. Try BON SAVOR $: French/South American cuisine including BANGKOK BLUE $: Inexpensive, good spicy and mild warm braised shitake mushroom nigiri ($8) 9 East Street, POST 390 $$: American comfort food served within a lively crepes, Peruvian-spiced and with mushrooms tempt and great crispy Pad Thai and Green Mango salad. Try the Thai near South Station, 617 654 9900, oyarestaurantboston. bar scene. Some unusual entrees dot the familiar menu in a diners in a small quick turnover bistro. 605 Centre Street, Iced Coffee. Pleasant and efficient staff. 651 Boylston Street, com brassy modern setting with see-through fireplaces; admire Jamaica Plain, 617 971 0000, bonsavor.com 617 266 1010, bkkblueboston.com magnificent Trinity Church from second floor. Clarendon at PENANG $: Wonderful authentic dishes combining Chinese, TEN TABLES $$: Sea bass, pork chops, Rhode Island bluefish, Stuart Street, 617 399 0015, post390restaurant.com Indian, Singaporean, and Malay Peninsula influences. Try BISTRO DU MIDI $$$: Typical French Provencal menu presented hanger steak, pasta with fresh vegetables and herbs dominate with flair. Stunning interior décor. Dining room upstairs Canai (Indian pan cake), Prawn Mee (noodles in soup), Seafood SONSIE $$: Interesting International menu and great café/bar the menu at this tiny and popular JP restaurant with an open has great views of the Public Garden. Bar on main floor has Tomyom Soup and Pampano Fish. 685-691 Washington scene. Many seats face Newbury Street action. The surprise kitchen. Interesting appetizers and desserts. 597 Centre appetizers and small plates. 272 Boylston Street, 617 426- Street, at Beach Street, 617 451-6372/3, penangusa.com is that the food is as good as the scene. 327 Newbury Street, Street, 617 524 8810, tentables.net 7878, bistrodumidi.com 617 351-2500, sonsieboston.com DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT CLIO $$$: French-Oriental fusion cuisine of chef-owner Ken CHARLESTOWN TOWNE STOVE AND SPIRITS $$: Large bi-level restaurant and Oringer. Innovative, delicious and expensive. RADIUS $$$: Chef-owner Michael Schlow’s flagship restaurant bar in the Hynes Convention Center. Jasper White and Lydia NAVY YARD BISTRO and WINE BAR $: Squid antipasto and 370A Commonwealth Avenue, at Massachusetts Avenue serving American food haute cuisine style. Try the uptown Shire (chef-owners) offer specialties from New England, French sausages and more with a big selection of wines by the in Eliot Hotel, 617 536-7200, cliorestaurant.com burger and fries for a casual twist from the intriguing changing Russia, Turkey, and elsewhere. 900 Boylston Street, 617 247 glass and interesting ales. Sixth Street in the Navy Yard, 617 selections. Financial types crowd the bar. 8 High Street, 617 0400, towneboston.com 242 0036, navyyardbistro.com DAVIO’S $$: This Northern Italian steak house has soaring 426 1234, radiusrestaurant.com columns, high ceilings and an open kitchen. They set the VIA MATTA $$$: The contemporary interior design sets the stage OLIVES $$$: Mediterranean bistro best describes this lively tone for good chops, and . Handsome bar, LOCKE-OBER $$$: Traditionalists still love the martinis, classic for an equally interesting Italian menu including antipastos and place run by globe trotter chef-owner Todd English. Because comfortable lounge and kitchen front counter. 75 Arlington French cuisine and Lobster Savannah. Sit in the beautiful main crispy . Veal and fish dishes are the best. Service very of its popularity there is usually a very long wait.  Street, 617 357 4810, davios.com floor with a direct view of the silver-laden, heavily wooded good. Great Italian wine list. 79 Park Plaza, 617 422 0008, 10 City Square, 617 242-1999, toddenglish.com viamattarestaurant.com. bar. 3 Winter Place (an alley between and DOUZO $$: Beautifully prepared sushi, sashimi and katsu Temple Place), 617 542-1340, lockeober.com don in this hip, modern Japanese restaurant with efficient TANGIERINO $$: This Moroccan chop house has a romantic atmosphere and serves up exotic tagines, fish stews, lamb, and staff. Watch the chefs prepare the sushi at a counter. 131 BEACON HILL MANTRA $$: Step inside this exotically decorated room for beef with spices and many delicious dishes popular Dartmouth Street (near Back Bay Station), 617 859 8886, some unusual choices blending two of the world’s best in the Maghreb region of North Africa. 88 Main Street, 617 242 douzosushi.com BEACON HILL HOTEL AND BISTRO $$: Well made familiar French cuisines, Indian and French. Hookah Bar. 52 Temple Place, 6009, tangierino.com cuisine (pate, duck confit, steak frites). Also try tea-cured 617 542 8111, mantrarestaurant.com GRILL 23 & BAR $$$: Boston’s most elaborate and clubby duck with salsify and striped bass with bergamot. Save room WARREN TAVERN $$: Traditional American food served in an venue known for its excellent beef steaks. The Grill excels in for tasty and authentic fruit tarts. 25 Charles Street, 617 723 MARKET $$$: Jean George Vongerichten’s newest branch of historic 1780’s restored colonial house. The menu includes seafood and poultry, too. 161 Berkeley Street, 617 542-2255, 7575, beaconhillhotel.com the chic Paris bistro features fresh local ingredients turned soups, appetizers, salads, burgers, sandwiches, and entrees grill23.com into French/Asian and stunning preparations by Chef Chris such as Poached Salmon and Scrod. 2 Pleasant Street, 617 LALA ROKH $$: and other herbs combined into a “cake” Damskey. Lobster with Butter-Fried ! W Hotel, 100 241-8142, warrentavern.com LEGAL SEAFOOD $$: “If it isn’t fresh it isn’t Legal”. This is make for a delicious start. of farm-raised sturgeon, Stuart Street, 617 310 6700, marketbyjgboston.com the slogan of Boston’s original fish house chain. Simple ’s national fish, and lamb entrees are good choices. Quiet, preparations show off the kitchen’s knowledge of how to sophisticated ambiance. 97 Mt. Vernon Street, 720-5511, CHINATOWN/LEATHER DISTRICT handle fish. Wine Cellar below. 26 Park Plaza, 617 426 4444, lalarokh.com legal seafoods.com (many other locations). GINZA $$: Beautiful Japanese sushi, tempura and more served in a smallish room. Crowded at lunch. Late hours. Popular with hip crowd. 16 Hudson Street, 617 338 2261

50 APA National Planning Conference 2011 Boston Planner’s Guide Restaurant Guide 51 STODDARDS $$: American Comfort Food served at an ancient classics with good reviews. GASLIGHT BRASSERIE DU COIN $$: A classic neighborhood (Coolidge Corner), 617 734 1268, fugakyu.net English bar reassembled on site. Great for hamburgers 528 Commonwealth Avenue (in Hotel Commonwealth), Parisian brasserie. Gaslight offers its guests French brasserie and lobster- hush puppies. Try the aged gouda 617 532 9100, easternstandard.com cuisine of impeccable quality and improbable value in an KHAYYAM $: Shirin Polo Morgh, a succulent Persian chicken and ale fondue. 48 Temple Place, 617 426 0048, informal, old world, new age setting. 560 Harrison Avenue, with basmati rice with orange rind, , carrots stoddardsfoodandale.com LA VERDAD $: The truth is that this taqueria serves authentic 617 422 0224, gaslight560.com and barberries sets the stage for more exotic choices at Mexican cocina like fish tacos, carne asada and tortas, not Tex this small eatery. 404 Harvard Street, 617 383 6268, TEATRO $$: Lively, noisy but excellent Italian food served by Mex. Ken Oringer also excites with premium agave tequilas. HAMERSLEY’S BISTRO $$$: One of Boston’s continually best khyyamrestaurant.com well trained staff by one of Boston’s top chefs. Arugula salad 1 Landsdowne Street, across from Fenway Park stadium, French Provencal restaurants for excellent food and service. and Fried Squid for the table and Mussels are excellent choices. 617 421 9595, laverdadtaqueria.com Try Roast chicken, halibut with mussels in a garlicky bourride, LINEAGE $$: Lobster bisque, tacos, brioche rolls give you an Great pizzas! Must call ahead. rabbit with eggplant. Expensive. 535 Tremont Street, 617 idea of the mixed offerings at this relatively new and popular 177 Tremont Street, 617 778 6841, TeatroBoston.com L’PETIT ROBERT $$: Classic French food served with flair in a 423-2700, hamersleysbistro.com venture. 242 Harvard Street (Coolidge Corner), 617 232 cozy small room. Very popular and well recommended. 0065, lineagerestaurant.com WOODWARD $$: American Comfort food served in a 468 Commonwealth Avenue, 617 375 0699, ORINOCO $: Oxtails “on ‘fire”, plaintain-crusted mahi mahi and “modern urban tavern” style, two-level, interestingly petitbistro.com escabache provide tangy, spicy and wonderful flavors, CAMBRIDGE designed space: lower level is the bar and informal; upstairs textures and temperatures at this Venezuelan and Nuevo is more comfortable with a fireplace. Ames Hotel, 1 Latino cafe; also in Brookline Village. 47 Shawmut Avenue, CRAGIE ON MAIN $$$: French cuisine using sustainable organic Court Street (opposite Old State House), 617 979 8200, 617 369 7075, discovervenezuela.com NORTH END food. Try Chorizo Oil-Poached Day boat Sea Scallops woodwardatames.com barley cous cous, preserved lemon, dried black olives, chorizo SIBLING RIVALRY $$$: Two brother-chefs dual it out using CAFFE PARADISO $: , pastries and cappuccinos served, sauce. Unusual and delicious desserts. 853 Main Street (near the same ingredient in different dishes on both sides of EAST BOSTON but Italian ice cream and gelatos are molte bene. Central Square), 617 497 5511, craigieonmain.com the menu. Despite this unique twist, the food is delicious. 255 Hanover Street, 617 742 1768, caffeparadiso.com Very good wine list. 525 Tremont Street, 617 338 5338, EL PAISANO $: Mondongo (tripe) soup, grilled steak, fried pork HARVEST S$$: New England cuisine and many other gourmet siblingrivalryboston.com rind, eggs and sweet plantains, corn flan, and tequila lime IL MARE $$: Coastal Italian seafood in cramped quarters. selections in a refined “designer” setting, off a picturesque chicken bring raves about the tangy Colombian cocina. 1012 Try the Scottish Gigha Halibut in a sea urchin sauce. Food small alley. Popular with academic crowd despite the high Bennington Street, 617 569 5267, emphasis is on sustainability and organic wines. Good reviews. prices. 44 Brattle Street, (Harvard Square) 617 868 2255, elpaisanorestaurante.com 135 Richmond Street, 617 723 6273, marenatural.com SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT harvestcambridge.com

EL RINCON LIMENO $: Peruvian cocina blends flavors from the LUCCA $$: Upscale Italian restaurant with interesting gourmet BARKING CRAB $: Lobster, crab, salmon, steamers, and HELMAND $$: An Afghani specialty such as pumpkin appetizer Incas and Africa into dishes such as pork/chicken with dry twists to familiar dishes. 226 Hanover Street, 617 742 9200, mussels as well as fried seafood platters served in a real clam is a unique taste treat. Great vegetable entrees, lamb sauce, beef heart with potatoes, and empanadas. luccaboston.com shack environment alongside the Fort Point Channel. 88 and breads made in the visible from the attractive 409 Chelsea Street, , 617 569 4942, Sleeper Street, near the Federal Courthouse between the dining room. Thick strong coffee service is excellent. 143 rinconlimenorestaurant.com NEPTUNE OYSTER $$: Small raw bar and interesting combos like bridges, 617 426 CRAB, barkingcrab.com First Street, (in Lechmere area), 617 492-4646, the Neptuneburger (fried oysters on a cheeseburger). The clam helmandrestaurant.com SANTARPIO’S $: Referred by many as Boston’s best pizza place, chowder is made to order. 63 Salem Street, 617 742 3474, DAILY CATCH $$: Sicilian style seafood and pasta dishes that also serves barbeque sausages and meats, in a bar room neptuneoyster.com including Calamari are the specialties in this expansive spot OLEANA $$: Mediterranean is the specialty of Chef Ana Sortun’s with Frank Sinatra’s music blaring. 111 Chelsea Street, 617 567 along the Fort Point Channel at the base of the U.S. Courthouse spice-laden cooking and attracts many looking for her mezze 9871, santarpiospizza.com PICCOLA VENEZIA $: Classic Italian cooking will please the on Fan Pier. 2 Northern Avenue, 617 772 4400, the daily and small plates; fried mussels with Turkish garlic sauce, value-conscious. Wine served in tumblers. 263 Hanover catch.com (other locations in the North End and Harvard spinach and trout spanakopita. 134 Hampshire Street, FANEUIL HALL AREA Street, 617 523-3888, piccolaveneziaboston.com Square). 617 661 0505, oleanarestaurant.com

TARANTO $$: Unusual combination of Peruvian and Southern LEGAL’S HARBORSIDE $$: The seafood chain’s new dramatic RENDEZVOUS $$: Vegetable Antipasto with Roasted Eggplant DURGIN PARK $$: Chowders, the bean and the cod, Indian Italian cooking. 210 Hanover Street, 617 720 0052, flagship boasts expansive views of Boston Harbor. Call before Puree and (red pepper dip), curry Pudding with a dollop of vanilla ice cream and oversized tarantarist.com you go as it was still under construction in February 2011. dusted florlets, Turkish salad with , roasted servings of prime ribs have kept patrons coming to be 242 Northern Avenue, 617 423 1000, legalseafoods.com red beets. 502 Massachusetts Avenue, 617 576 1900, “insulted” by rude wait staff since 1824. All part of the fun. rendezvouscentralsquare.com Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 30 North Market Street, SOUTH END NO NAME $: Fried, boiled and sautéed fish dominate the menu 617 227 2038, arkrestaurants.com at this hidden Boston tradition. No frills. Great harbor views. SANDRINE $$: French Alsatian cuisine with robust flavors. B & G OYSTERS $$: Another Barbara Lynch specialty in a tiny Casual! 15 Pier Street East (off Northern Avenue), Try the tarte flambé (), flat bread with nutmeg YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE $$: Great fun sitting at the small spot emphasizing the freshest seafood. Try the delicious 617 423 2705, nonamerestaurant.com cheese and choice of toppings, and leave room for chocolate historic raw bar and watching the shucking of oysters. Down flavor full clam chowder. 550 Tremont Street, 617 423 0550, kougelhopf. Tempting menu. 8 Holyoke Street (Harvard them with a cold brew. Oldest continuing restaurant in the U.S. bandgoysters.com SPORTELLO $$: Barbara Lynch’s experiment with an expensive Square), 617 497 5300, sandrines.com 41 , 617 227 2750, unionoysterhouse.com gourmet lunch counter has worked. Try the strozzapreti with BUTCHER SHOP $$: Petit charcuterie with a few seats by chef braised rabbit and olives and potato gnocchi. Have drinks at UPSTAIRS AT THE SQUARE $$$: Colorful and glamorous interior owner Barbara Lynch. Great cuts served with select wines by FENWAY/KENMORE SQUARE DRINK downstairs. 348 Congress Street (in the Fort Point sets the stage for serious American cuisine by Steve Brand and popular sommelier Cat Silirie. 552 Tremont Street, Channel area), 617 737 1234, sportelloboston.com Susan Regis. Vegetarian and other tasting menus available. 617 423 4800, thebutchershopboston.com BASHO $$: Palatial Japanese brasserie offers tons of raw and Try the elegant lobster roll. 91 Winthrop Street, Harvard beautiful sushi, shasimi and sake. Try lobster service with Square, 617 864 1933, upstairs at the square.com COPPA $$: Ken Oringer’s and Jamie Bissonnette’s enoteca is tangy spices. Near Fenway Park. 1338 Boylston Street, BROOKLINE very popular. Try wood-roasted meat balls draped in lardo, 617 262 1338, bashosushi.com knuckles of pasta with broccoli and with squash FUGAKYU $$: Traditional and nouveau Japanese specialties and spinach and bacalao. 253 Shawmut Avenue, 617 391 including sushi, sashimi, tempura and saki in an elegant two- EASTERN STANDARD $$: Extensive bar menu in this Parisian 0902, coppaboston.com level setting. Highly regarded by locals. 1280 Beacon Street style café/bistro. Menu includes European and American

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