Rose Kennedy Greenway

Little Amal takes her first trip to Boston

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 8:16 pm

Brooks Payne walked with Little Amal - who is actually 12 feet tall representation of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl - from Dewey Square to the Chinatown Gate today. Read more.

And how would you build a path from the Greenway to the Esplanade?

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:58 am

The Beacon Hill Times reports on initial proposals for a "West End Green Corridor" to connect the Rose Kennedy Greenway with the Esplanade. One proposal: A sort of mini-High Line path 15 feet up.

Shouldn't he be swinging on webbing off a tall building?

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 3:33 pm

Travis Watson wonders what Spider-Man is running from along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and whether he's run out of his Web fluid.

Are we Federal Reserve or are we dancer?

By adamg - 10/29/22 - 1:55 pm

Art on the side of the Federal Reserve Bank

Adam Castiglioni took in the giant dancer on the side of the Federal Reserve Bank downtown last night.

Pig in a blanket out for a stroll

By adamg - 10/9/22 - 4:40 pm

On the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Why should East Boston have all the fun?

First mural by a local artist goes up on Greenway wall

By adamg - 6/19/22 - 11:38 am

Greg Cook takes a look at Rob "ProBlak" Gibbs's new mural, "Breathe Life Together," going up in Dewey Square across from South Station. It's the tenth mural on the large wall, but the first by a Boston artist.

An ice start to the New Year

By adamg - 12/31/21 - 9:48 pm

Matt Conti took in the First Night ice sculptures along the Greenway and in Christopher Columbus Park tonight.

Developer pledges to redo ugly Greenway entrance to Faneuil Hall Marketplace as it adds more stores, office space

By adamg - 9/23/21 - 11:01 am

The company that owns the retail space between Faneuil Hall Marketplace and the Rose Kennedy Greenway says it will soon file detailed plans to add more retail - and office - space and to replace the current steel canopy entrance to the marketplace with a "grand portal" across from Long Wharf to draw even more people in. Read more.

We could call her Downtown Abby

By adamg - 9/21/21 - 3:41 pm

JK spotted this turkey on the Greenway near International Place today.

New Greenway mural going up

By adamg - 5/16/21 - 11:53 am

See it larger.

Adam Castiglioni watched workers putting up the new mural on the Greenway at Dewey Square this morning.

Beer and wine return to the Greenway next month

By adamg - 4/22/21 - 1:46 pm

The Rose Kennedy Greenway reports Trillium and City Winery will start serving their adult beverages along the lineal park next month, to parties of no more than six people, all of whom must also order food from a food truck along the Greenway. Read more.

Boston parks head takes new job that focuses on just one park

By adamg - 4/1/21 - 9:20 am

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced yesterday it's hired Chris Cook as its new executive director. Read more.

Developer shrinks size of proposed building on Lincoln Street next to the Greenway

By adamg - 12/17/20 - 11:33 am

Rendering by S9.

A Toronto developer has swapped out its plans for a 24-story office building at 125 Lincoln St. - now home to a parking garage and the Hei La Moon restaurant - with new plans for a 14-story building made up mainly of research and development space. Read more.

Greenway becomes birdway as famished chirpers wing south in search of food

By adamg - 11/24/20 - 9:13 am

Hoary redpoll on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston

Mary Ellen spotted this hoary redpoll, a bird more commonly found in arctic Canada and Greenland, this morning on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, near the Hard Rock Cafe. It's part of the 2020 irruption as unusually large numbers of birds head south in search of food.

Earlier:
Some major irruption going on at Millennium Park.

Greenway beer garden opens for first time this year

By adamg - 9/25/20 - 10:26 am

Trillium Brewing announced this morning it's re-opening its beer garden on the Rose Kennedy Greenway at High Street, starting at noon today. Read more.

Covid-19, Black Lives Matter inspire new lantern installation on the Greenway

By adamg - 9/15/20 - 10:55 am

Photo via Greenway Conservancy. See it larger.

The Rose Kennedy Greenway has installed a series of lanterns on its Chinatown stretch by artist Yu-Wen Wu that commemorate the history of both Chinatown and Chinese immigration to the US. Read more.