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Newspapers The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are two of the city's major daily newspapers. The city is also served by other publications such as Boston magazine, The Improper Bostonian, DigBoston, and the Boston edition of Metro. The Christian Science Monitor, headquartered in Boston, was formerly a worldwide daily newspaper but ended publication of daily print editions in 2009, switching to continuous online and weekly magazine format publications.[199] The Boston Globe also releases a teen publication to the city's public high schools, called Teens in Print or T.i.P., which is written by the city's teens and delivered quarterly within the school year.[200] The city's growing Latino population has given rise to a number of local and regional Spanish-language newspapers. These include El Planeta (owned by the former publisher of The Boston Phoenix), El Mundo, and La Semana. Siglo21, with its main offices in nearby Lawrence, is also widely distributed.[201] Various LGBT publications serve the city's large LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community such as The Rainbow Times, the only minority and lesbian-owned LGBT newsmagazine. Founded in 2006, The Rainbow Times is now based out of Boston, but serves all of New England.[202] Radio and television Boston has the largest broadcasting market in New England, with the radio market being the eleventh largest in the United States.[203] Several major AM stations include talk radio WRKO 680 AM, sports/talk station WEEI 850 AM, and CBS Radio WBZ 1030 AM.[204] WBZ (AM) broadcasts a news radio format. A variety of FM radio formats serve the area, as do NPR stations WBUR and WGBH. College and university radio stations include WERS (Emerson), WHRB (Harvard), WUMB (UMass Boston), WMBR (MIT), WZBC (Boston College), WMFO (Tufts University), WBRS (Brandeis University), WTBU (Boston University, campus and web only), WRBB (Northeastern University) and WMLN (Curry College). The Boston television DMA, which also includes Manchester, New Hampshire, is the seventh largest in the United States.[205] The city is served by stations representing every major American network, including WBZ 4 and its sister station WSBK 38 (the former with CBS, the latter an MyNetwork TV affiliate), WCVB 5 (ABC), WHDH 7 (NBC), WFXT 25 (Fox), and WLVI 56 (The CW). The city is also home to PBS station WGBH 2, a major producer of PBS programs,[206] which also operates WGBX 44. Spanish-language television networks, including MundoFox (WFXZ 24), Univision (WUNI 27), Telemundo (WNEU 60), and Telefutura (WUTF 66), have a presence in the region. Most of the area's television stations have their transmitters in nearby Needham and Newton along the Route 128 corridor.[207] Infrastructure Healthcare See also: List of hospitals in Boston Skyline of several white and beige stone buildings and highrises Longwood Medical and Academic Area The Longwood Medical and Academic Area, adjacent to the Fenway district, is home to a large number of medical and research facilities, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.[208] A smaller cluster of prominent medical facilities, hard by Beacon Hill, includes Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is in Brighton Center of the city's Brighton neighborhood. New England Baptist Hospital is in Mission Hill. The city has Veterans Affairs medical centers in the Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury neighborhoods.[209] The Boston Public Health Commission, an agency of the Massachusetts government, oversees health concerns for city residents.[210] Many of Boston's medical facilities are associated with universities. The facilities in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area and in Massachusetts General Hospital are affiliated with Harvard Medical School.[211] Tufts Medical Center (formerly Tufts-New England Medical Center), located in the southern portion of the Chinatown neighborhood, is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. Boston Medical Center, located in the South End neighborhood, is the primary teaching facility for the Boston University School of Medicine as well as the largest trauma center in the Boston area;[212] it was formed by the merger of Boston University Hospital and Boston City Hospital, which was the first municipal hospital in the United States.[213] Transportation Main article: Transportation in Boston Aerial view of Logan Airport with Boston Harbor on the top of the image Aerial view of Logan Airport Logan Airport, located in East Boston and operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), is Boston's principal airport.[214] Nearby general aviation airports are Beverly Municipal Airport to the north, Hanscom Field to the west, and Norwood Memorial Airport to the south. Massport also operates several major facilities within the Port of Boston, including a cruise ship terminal and facilities to handle bulk and container cargo in South Boston, and other facilities in Charlestown and East Boston.[215] Downtown Boston's streets grew organically, so they do not form a planned grid,[216] unlike those in later-developed Back Bay, East Boston, the South End, and South Boston. Boston is the eastern terminus of I-90, which in Massachusetts runs along the Massachusetts Turnpike. The elevated portion of the Central Artery, which carried most of the through traffic in downtown Boston, was replaced with the O'Neill Tunnel during the Big Dig, substantially completed in early 2006. A silver and red rapid transit train entering an above-ground station An MBTA Red Line train on the Longfellow Bridge With nearly a third of Bostonians using public transit for their commute to work, Boston has the fifth-highest rate of public transit usage in the country.[217] The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA—known as the "T") operates the oldest underground rapid transit system in the United States and is the fourth busiest rapid transit system in the country,[19] with 65.5 miles (105 km) of track on four lines.[218] The MBTA also operates busy bus and commuter rail networks, and water shuttles.[218] Beige stone building with columns on the façade and a clock at the top South Station Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and Chicago lines originate at South Station, which serves as a major intermodal transportation hub, and stop at Back Bay. Fast Northeast Corridor trains, which serve New York City, Washington, D.C., and points in between, also stop at Route 128 Station in the southwestern suburbs of Boston.[219] Meanwhile, Amtrak's Downeaster service to Maine originates at North Station.[220] Nicknamed "The Walking City", Boston hosts more pedestrian commuters than do other comparably populated cities. Owing to factors such as the compactness of the city and large student population, 13% of the population commutes by foot, making it the highest percentage of pedestrian commuters in the country out of the major American cities.[221] In 2011, Walk Score ranked Boston the third most walkable city in the United States.[222][223] As of 2013, Walk Score still ranks Boston as the third most walkable US city, with a Walk Score of 79, a Transit Score of 74, and a Bike Score of 68.[224] Between 1999 and 2006, Bicycling magazine named Boston three times as one of the worst cities in the US for cycling;[225] regardless, it has one of the highest rates of bicycle commuting.[226] In 2008, as a consequence of improvements made to bicycling conditions within the city, the same magazine put Boston on its "Five for the Future" list as a "Future Best City" for biking,[227][228] and Boston's bicycle commuting percentage increased from 1% in 2000 to 2.1% in 2009.[229] The bikeshare program called Hubway launched in late July 2011,[230] logging more than 140,000 rides before the close of its first season.[231] The neighboring municipalities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline joined the Hubway program in summer 2012.[232] Notable people Main article: List of people from Boston Sister cities Main article: Sister cities of Boston Boston has nine official sister cities as recognized by Sister Cities International.[233] City Country Since References Kyoto Japan 1959 [234] Strasbourg France 1960 [235][236] Barcelona Spain 1980 [237][238] Hangzhou People's Republic of China 1982 [233] Padua Italy 1983 [239] Melbourne Australia 1985 [240] Taipei Republic of China (Taiwan) 1996 [241] Sekondi-Takoradi Ghana 2001 [233] Belfast Northern Ireland 2014 [242] Boston has less formal friendship or partnership relationships with three additional cities. City Country Since References Boston, Lincolnshire United Kingdom 1999 [243][244][245] Haifa Israel 1999 [246] Valladolid Spain 2007 [247] |
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