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Boston Harbor is a large harbor which constitutes the western extremity of Massachusetts Bay. The harbor is sheltered from Massachusetts Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean by a combination of the Winthrop Peninsula and Deer Island to the north, the hooked Nantasket Peninsula and Point Allerton to the south, and the harbor islands in the middle.
Many of the Boston Harbor islands that are located under Logan's flight paths are part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Although most of the islands are in or near the Atlantic Ocean , several islands in western Massachusetts are found in the Connecticut River and a few others are surrounded by natural or man made lakes ...
The shoreline and topography of Boston, Massachusetts, as it was from 1630–1675, overlaid on an 1880 street map. The public plaza the artwork is located on was historically one of the first Boston Harbor landing places, named Town Dock.
In 1934, the Sumner Tunnel created the first direct road connection under Boston Harbor, between the North End and East Boston. In May 1938, the first public housing project, Old Harbor Village was opened in South Boston. [78] By 1950, Boston was slumping. Few major buildings were being built anywhere in the city.
The Long Island Bridge, sometimes referred to as the Long Island Viaduct, was a bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, that connected Long Island to Moon Island.Both islands are located in Boston Harbor and are connected to the mainland via a causeway from Moon Island to Squantum, a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts.
A streetcar at Atlantic Avenue (now Aquarium) station in 1906. The East Boston Tunnel under Boston Harbor was the first North American subway tunnel to run beneath a body of water when it opened in 1904, [2] and the second underwater vehicular tunnel of significant length built in the United States.
The Broad Sound North Entrance Channel or Boston North Channel is the deepest of three shipping channels connecting Boston Harbor to Massachusetts Bay near Boston, Massachusetts. [1] For this reason, almost all deep-draft ships use this channel.
The First Boston Corporation was formed in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 27, 1932, [3] as the investment banking arm of the First National Bank of Boston.It became an independent firm after passage of the Glass–Steagall Act, a New Deal banking legislation that required commercial banks to divest securities businesses following the 1929 stock market crash.