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• auggiearts

  What is the breakdown of Boston's geography and neighborhoods?

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• BenWolf

  Boston is the fourth most densely populated city in the country not a part of a larger city's metropolitan area. The downtown area and immediate surroundings consist mostly of narrow streets, low-rise brick or stone buildings, with many older buildings in the Federal style. Several of these buildings mix in with modern high-rises, notably in the Financial District, Government Center, the South Boston waterfront, and Back Bay, which includes many prominent landmarks such as the Boston Public Library, Christian Science Center, Copley Square, Newbury Street, and New England's two tallest buildings: the John Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center.

• IIjoeyII

  The Shawmut peninsula was connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, and surrounded by the waters of Massachusetts Bay and the Back Bay, an estuary of the Charles River. Boston is surrounded by the "Greater Boston" region, and bordered by the cities and towns of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy.

• Mbeason

  Much of the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods are built on reclaimed land?ll of the earth from two of Boston's three original hills, the "trimount", was used as landfill material. Only Beacon Hill, the smallest of the three original hills, remains partially intact; just half of its height was cut down for landfill. Along with downtown, the geography of South Boston was particularly impacted by the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project (or the "Big Dig"). The unstable reclaimed land in South Boston posed special problems for the project's tunnels. In the downtown area, the CA/T Project allowed for the removal of the unsightly elevated Central Artery and the incorporation of new green spaces and open areas.

• sktrgrrl

  Boston is so historic in the history of the US. What are brief key importances?

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• sharpey

  One of the original 13 colonies and Bostonians initiated the American Revolution.

• cannonball14

  The Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party are probably 2 of the most famous historical events. The Massacre refers to an incident involving the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops in 1770 which incite brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, and two died after the incident. The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor.

• ehancock

  Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride in Boston. Famous battles around this time included the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston.

• Kailz

  What's the history of the Boston Red Sox?

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• Ballerz

  The Boston Red Sox are a founding member of the American League of Major League Baseball. The team plays its home games at Fenway Park, near Kenmore Square in the Fenway section. Built in 1912, it is the oldest sports arena or stadium in active use in the United States among the four major professional sports. Boston was also the site of the first game of the first modern World Series, in 1903.

• Cparker

  The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1901. After the move from Buffalo to Boston, they became a dominant teamwinning four more championships by 1918, and then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history until their historic win in 2004.

• KLHall

  The Red Sox moved to Fenway Park from the old Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds. In 1911, owner John I. Taylor sold the team at the same time he developed land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street into a larger baseball stadium. Because of the ballpark's age and constrained location in an urban neighborhood, the park has had many renovations and additions over the years not initially envisioned, resulting in unique, quirky features, including "the Triangle", "Pesky's Pole" and most notably the famous Green Monster in left field.