Best of Boston by Marlene Alderman

Home , Arlington station (MBTA), Boston Park Plaza, Boylston Street, Copley Square, Franklin Park Zoo, Huntington Avenue

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Visit the Boston Local Arrangements Committee’s Web site at www.aallnet. org/events/local04/ for additional and updated information about visiting Boston.

Massachusetts uses 10-digit dialing, which means you must dial the area code even for local calls. All phone numbers are in the 617 area code, unless otherwise stated.

Conference Hotels For the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, take any Shuttle Van Services Green Line train (B, C, D, or E) west- Sheraton Boston Hotel bound, exit at the Arlington station, and Back Bay Coach (headquarters hotel) walk a short distance on Arlington Street 746-9909 39 Dalton Street, 236-2000 to the hotel. 888/222-5229 www.backbaycoach.com Boston Marriott Copley Place For the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Marriott 110 Huntington Avenue, 236-5800 Copley Place Hotel, take an “E” Green J.C. Transportation Inc. Line train west and exit at the Prudential 781/598-3433 Boston Park Plaza Hotel Station. For the Sheraton, walk two 800/517-2281 64 Arlington Street, 426-2000 blocks northwest on Belvidere Street, www.jctransportationshuttle.com turn right on Dalton Street, and walk Coming into Boston a short distance to the hotel. For the Logan/Boston Hotel Shuttle Marriott, walk one block northeast on 561-9500 Travel by Air Huntington Avenue. 877/315-4700 Boston’s Logan Airport is located across the harbor from downtown Boston. If you prefer an air-conditioned walk to Travel by Car A taxi, shuttle, or subway ride to the the Sheraton or Marriott hotels—and a conference hotels should take less than sneak peek at shopping—when you exit Avoid driving, if at all possible. Boston is 45 minutes, depending on traffic. at the Prudential Station, walk through known as the walking city for two good the shopping malls to the hotel. reasons: parking is expensive and driving Ground Transportation is a challenge. Streets are confusing, and from Logan Airport helpful signs are rare. Most street parking www.massport.com/logan/getti.html Travel by Rail or Bus is reserved for residents with stickers. Amtrak If you must drive, see the Parking Guide Taxis Intercity trains arrive at South Station. on the Local Arrangements Web site for Taxi stands are located outside each From the station, take the MBTA Red parking options near the conference terminal. In addition to the base Line train inbound to Park hotels and the Hynes Convention Center. fare, expect surcharges for airport Street Station and transfer to Or consider parking at a suburban sub- and tunnel tolls totaling the Green Line west- way station or one of the Park & Ride $6. The current cost bound and follow lots, and take the T or a bus into Boston. of a taxi, including fees, the Public from Logan Airport to Transportation the Sheraton Boston directions to Headquarters Hotel the conference Important Numbers is approximately $24. hotels. The fare is $1.25. Taxis Emergencies: Police/Fire/EMS, 911 Public are also avail- Police (non-emergencies), 343-4200 Transportation able outside Poison Control Center, Massachusetts Bay the station. 800/222-1222 Transportation Rape Crisis Line, 800/841-8371 Authority (MBTA Intercity Alcohol and Drug Hotline, or the “T”) Buses 800/452-9300 www.mbta.com Buses arrive at Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), the South Station 426-9444 The cost of a one-way Transportation ride from the airport Center, behind the rail Medical Attention is $1.25. station. Follow the signs from the bus station to South Station. Inn-House Doctor From an airport terminal, take the free From South Station you can take the 24-hour medical hotel visits Massport shuttle bus (#22 or #33) to the MBTA Red Line inbound to Park Street and dental service airport subway station on the Blue Line Station and transfer to the Green Line 859-1776 of the MBTA. Take an inbound Blue Line westbound, then follow the Public train to the Government Center Station, Transportation directions to the Tufts-New England Medical Center and go up the stairs or escalator to the conference hotels. The fare is $1.25. 750 Washington Street, 636-5000 Green Line. www.nemc.org 86199 AALL boston insert 6/17/04 10:15 AM Page 2

Getting Around Boston Back Bay and downtown are relatively safe. People will be out and about on Public Transportation Boylston and Newbury Streets well into Massachusetts Bay Transportation the evening. Nonetheless, like most big Authority cities, visitors should know where they www.mbta.com are going and how to get there and take precautions, such as not traveling alone The MBTA, or “T” as known to at night. the locals, provides a good subway and bus network. Fares are Driving—Don’t! $1.25 for subway and $.90 for buses. A car is unnecessary. Our convention Visitor passes are available for one day site is located in the heart of Boston’s ($7.50), three days ($18), and seven days beautiful Back Bay, adjacent to wonderful ($35). The T has a helpful trip planner on restaurants, shops, and many attractions. its Web site. Walking Boston is a city for walking. Streets in Tourist Information There are four main subway lines: Red, Back Bay, the conference location, are in a Orange, Green, and Blue. “Inbound” grid pattern, unlike parts of downtown Greater Boston Convention and trains go toward Park Street Station in Boston where streets seemingly run in all Visitors Bureau the center of the city, where Red, Orange, directions. Within Back Bay, the north- www.bostonusa.com and Green Lines intersect. “Outbound” south streets are in alphabetical order 2 Copley Place, Suite 105 trains go away from Park Street. (from east to west) from Arlington 888/733-2678 Street—bordering the Public Garden— Taking the T from the through Hereford Street—one block east Stop in at the Visitor Information Centers Convention Center of Massachusetts Avenue. at Prudential Center (Center Court) near For Red, Orange, Blue, and Green Lines the convention center or at Boston inbound: follow signs from the convention The east-west streets include Boylston Common for information, including center to the Prudential Center Station. Street, which borders the convention maps, brochures, visitor MBTA passes, Take an inbound train to Park Street center on the north; Newbury Street, sightseeing tours, and coupons for where you can connect to the Red and which is lined with art galleries, various attractions. Orange Lines. Continue to Government cafes/restaurants, and stores; and Center for the Blue Line connection. Commonwealth Avenue, which features Massachusetts Visitors Information a tree-lined promenade from the Public www.mass-vacation.com For Green Line E trains outbound: take Garden to Massachusetts Avenue and is an outbound train from the Prudential considered one of the most beautiful Center Station. Sightseeing and streets in the country. Boat Tours To Kenmore Station and B, C, and D Walk north from the convention center BeantownTrolley/Gray Line/ Lines outbound: walk to Massachusetts through a wealthy neighborhood of Brush Hill Tours Avenue (left as you exit the convention Victorian townhouses and brownstone 781/986-6100, 800/343-1328 center along Boylston). Take a right at residences, take a pedestrian overpass www.brushhilltours.com Massachusetts Avenue and walk about over Storrow Drive to the Charles River 50 feet until you see the entrance to the Esplanade, and walk along the Charles Boston Duck Tours Hynes Convention Center Station (on River, with Cambridge on the far shore. Prudential Center, 267-3825 the corner of Or walk east on Commonwealth Avenue, www.BostonDuckTours.com Massachusetts cross Arlington Street, and wander Avenue and through the Public Garden— Boston Harbor Cruises Newbury Street). America’s oldest botanical 1 Long Wharf, 227-4321 Take the appropri- garden—where you can take www.bostonharborcruises.com ate outbound train. a ride on a pedal-powered swan boat. Continue east Boston Steamship Company Taxis to the Boston Common, 60 Rowes Wharf, 542-8000 Taxis may be Boston’s oldest park, and www.bostonsteamship.com flagged street-side at the Visitor Center on and are found Tremont Street near the Discover Boston Trolley Tours waiting outside Park Street subway station 84A Atlantic Avenue, Commercial Wharf, most hotels down- is the start of the Freedom 742-2194, 742-1440 town. Meter rates Trail, a self-guided three- www.discoverbostontours.com are $1.75 for the first mile walking tour of Boston’s 1/8th of a mile and historic sites. Massachusetts Bay Lines $.30 for each additional 60 Rowes Wharf, 542-8000 1/8th of a mile. To be safe, cross streets using the www.massbaylines.com crosswalks when the traffic light or Boston Licensed Taxi Companies include: walk signal allows. Cars are required by Old Town Trolley Tours of Boston Boston Cab 536-5010 law to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks Central Wharf and Milk Street, Checker Cab 536-7000 when there is no traffic light, but don’t 800/868-7482 City Cab 536-5100 rely on it. www.historictours.com ITOA 825-4000 Metro Cab 782-5500 Town Taxi 536-5000 86199 AALL boston insert 6/17/04 10:15 AM Page 3

Shopping and Services Dry Cleaner Candela Day Spa and Salon Elite One Hour Cleaning 28 Arlington Street, 426-6999 Sales Tax 297 Huntington Avenue, 536-2086 Massachusetts has no sales tax on clothes Movies or shoes under $175 or on groceries, beer, Shoe Repair AMC Fenway 13 wine, or liquor. Otherwise, the sales tax is Instant Shoe Repair 401 Park Drive, 424-6266 5 percent on almost all items, restaurant 219 Newbury Street, 437-1137 meals, and take-out food. Sony/Loews Theatres Eyeglass Repair Copley Place, 100 Huntington Avenue, Shopping Lens Crafters 266-1300 Newbury Street is lined with 699 Boylston Street, 437-1070 boutiques, exclusive stores, and Boston Common, 175 Tremont Street, art galleries. The Copley Place Copying 423-3499 and Prudential Center shopping Copy Cop complexes have an impressive 815 Boylston Street, 267-9267 collection and variety of world Attractions designer stores. Kinko’s Copies Boston Public Library 187 Dartmouth Street, 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Faneuil Hall Marketplace offers 262-6188 536-5400 shopping, restaurants, and www.bpl.org entertainment on Boston’s Post Office historic waterfront Prudential Center Discount Theatre and Arts Tickets (www.faneuilhall (Belvidere Arcade) www.artsboston.org marketplace.com, 800 Boylston Street, The BosTix booth is in Boston’s Copley 523-1300). 267-4164 Square at the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets near the Copley and Groceries Bookstores Back Bay T stops. Half-price tickets go Shaw’s Prudential Barnes & Noble on sale at 11 a.m. Cash only. Supermarket Prudential Center, 53 Huntington Avenue, 262-4688 800 Boylston Street, 247-6959 Institute of Contemporary Art www.barnesandnoble.com 955 Boylston Street, 266-5152 Trader Joe’s www.icaboston.org 899 Boylston Street, 262-6505 Brattle Book Shop 9 West Street, 542-0210 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Convenience Store Used and rare books 280 The Fenway, 566-1401 7-Eleven Food Store www.gardnermuseum.org 261 Dartmouth Street, 262-1212 Brentano’s Copley Place John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Beer, Wine, and Alcoholic Beverages 100 Huntington Avenue, 859-9511 Columbia Point, 514-1600, 866/535-1960 Available in liquor stores, not www.jfklibrary.org supermarkets. Some stores may Trident Booksellers & Cafe be open on Sunday. 338 Newbury Street, 267-8688 Museum of Fine Arts General new and used; 465 Huntington Avenue, 267-9300 Huntington Wine & Spirits free wireless Internet www.mfa.org (open Sunday 12-7 p.m.) 301 Huntington Avenue, 536-0164 Virgin Megastore Old North Church 360 Newbury Street, 896-0950 193 Salem Street, 523-6676 Pharmacy and Film Developing Books and cafe on top floor www.oldnorth.com CVS Pharmacy 587 Boylston Street, 437-7916 Day Spas Old South Meeting House Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa 310 Washington Street, 482-6439 CVS Pharmacy 669 Boylston Street, 267-3080 www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org 240 Newbury Street, 236-2210 Bella Sante Paul Revere House Walgreens 39 Newbury Street, 424-9930 19 North Square, 523-2338 841 Boylston Street, 236-8130 www.paulreverehouse.org Kids •

Kids Love Boston Guide ($3.25) Boston Parents Paper Museum of Science, Mugar Omni Greater Boston Convention http://boston.parenthood.com IMAX Theatre, and Hayden Center and Visitors Bureau Planetarium Prudential Center (Center Court) Children’s Museum Science Park, 723-2500 www.bostonusa.com 300 Congress Street, 426-8855 www.mos.org www.bostonkids.org Boston by Little Feet New England Aquarium and Faneuil Hall, Congress Street, 367-2345 Franklin Park Zoo Simons IMAX Theatre (general info), 367-3766 (recorded tour info) 1 Franklin Park Road, 541-5466 Atlantic Avenue, Central Wharf www.bostonbyfoot.com www.zoonewengland.org next to the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, Boston by Foot guided tours conducts 973-5200 a one-hour Freedom Trail walking tour www.neaq.org designed for children aged 6-12. Kids • 86199 AALL boston insert 6/17/04 10:15 AM Page 4

Places of Worship and Religious Services

The following places of worship are First Church of Christ, Scientist located near the convention center or on 175 Huntington Avenue, 450-2000 the MBTA Green Line. For additional list- world headquarters and Mary Baker ings and faiths, visit www.worshiphere. Eddy Library org/MA/Boston.htm. www.tfccs.com/bostonactivities

Baptist Jewish (Orthodox) First Baptist Church of Boston Chabad House of Greater Boston 110 Commonwealth Avenue, 491 Commonwealth Avenue, 424-1190 267-3148 Jewish (Reform) Catholic Temple Israel Saint Cecilia Parish 477 Longwood Avenue, 566-3960 18 Belvidere Street, 536-4548 Summer Sports Lutheran Saint Francis Chapel First Lutheran Church Boston Red Sox 800 Boylston Street (Prudential 299 Berkeley Street, 536-8851 Fenway Park, 4 Yawkey Way, Center Hynes Court), 437-7117 877/733-7699 Presbyterian and United www.redsox.com Congregational Church of Christ Park Street Church Church of the Covenant Fenway Park is a 10-minute walk One Park Street, 523-3383 67 Newbury Street, 266-7480 from the Hynes Convention Center. Tickets are tough to come Episcopal Unitarian Universalist by, but there’s always a chance for Cathedral Church Arlington Street Church single seats or standing-room-only of Saint Paul 351 Boylston Street, 424-6625 admission. 138 Tremont Street, 482-5800 United Church of Christ July 6, 7, 8: Home v. Oakland Old South Church Athletics (7:05 p.m. game time) Trinity Church 645 Boylston Street, 536-1970 July 9, 10, 11: Home v. Texas 206 Clarendon Street, Rangers (Friday and Saturday Copley Square, 536-0944 7:05 p.m.; Sunday 2:05 p.m.) www.trinitychurchboston.org H.H. Richardson’s 1877 Tours of Fenway Park are available architectural masterpiece hourly at the Souvenir Store on Yawkey Way; daily from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. or three hours prior to game time; 226-6666.

Pawtucket Red Sox Media McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 401/724-7300 Newspapers and Magazines Television www.pawsox.com Boston Globe WGBH (PBS) Channel 2 morning, weekend section on Thursday WBZ (CBS) Channel 4 Boston’s Triple-A team. Just a www.boston.com WCVB (ABC) Channel 5 45-minute trip by train or bus from WHDH (NBC) Channel 7 Boston, Pawtucket will host the Boston Herald WFXT (FOX) Channel 25 2004 Triple-A All-Star Game on morning July 14. Take the MBTA commuter Radio rail to South Attleboro Station or Boston Metro WRKO (680 AM)—talk a Bonanza bus to the Providence daily WBZ (1030 AM)—news, talk, sports terminal, and it’s a short cab ride WGBH (89.7 FM)—NPR news, classical to the field. Boston Phoenix WBUR (90.9 FM)—NPR news, talk weekly arts and entertainment WUMB (91.9 FM)—folk, public radio Sports Museum WZLX (100.7 FM)—classic rock One Fleet Center, North Station, Bay Windows 624-1235 weekly gay and lesbian news www.sportsmuseum.org Improper Bostonian bimonthly entertainment and lifestyle www.improper.com

Weather Boston Magazine Generally very pleasant. July average monthly temperature: 74 degrees; average rainfall: 3.06 inches. Marlene Alderman ([email protected]) is associate director and head of public services at Boston University Pappas Law Library.