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Boston is a wonderful city for visitors. The downtown has historic
buildings and locations, cultural institutions, distinctive
neighborhoods and green spaces, most accessible by foot from the
conference venue and others by subway. Some highlights that might be
attractive to HLT/NAACL attendees are the Freedom Trail, the Museum of
Fine Arts, the Harvard Museums, the North End, Chinatown, Faneuil
Hall, the Arnold Arboretum, the New England Aquarium, the JFK Museum
and Library, and whale watching tours. Logan International Airport is
served by direct flights from all major and some minor US and
international cities. The airport is only about 15 minutes by taxi
from the Park Plaza, and also reachable by shuttle and subway. Boston
is also served by Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains.
- Maps
- Interactive
- http://www.bostonvtmaps.com/bostoncvb/
- Lonely Planet
- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
mapshells/north_america/boston/boston.htm
- Subway Navigation
- http://www.wizeguides.com/wizeguides/
- General tourism information
- http://travel.boston.com/
places/boston/
- Boston web portals
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- Johnny Jet
- http://www.johnnyjet.com/JJBostonCity.html
- Russian Boston
- http://www.russianboston.com/
- Boston Herald (newspaper)
- http://www.bostonherald.com/
- Boston Globe (newspaper)
- http://boston.com/
- Boston Phoenix (free newspaper)
- http://www.bostonphoenix.com/
- Boston Online
- http://www.boston-online.com/
- Transportation
- Boston Airport (Logan)
- http://www.massport.com/
logan/default.asp
- Public transportation
- http://www.mbta.com/
- The T map. (subway system)
- http://www.mbta.com/
traveling_t/schedules_subway.asp
- Bus schedules
- http://www.mbta.com/
traveling_t/schedules_buses.asp
- Ways to travel to and from the airport
- http://www.massport.com/
logan/getti_typeo.html
Weather
http://www.wunderground.com/
cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?
query=boston+ma
http://www.boston.com/weather/
Entertainment
- Performance
- Blue Man Group
- http://www.blueman.com/
ticketinfo/boston.shtml
- Theater
- http://www.bostonphoenix.com/
listings/theater/
PLAY_BY_PLAY_INDEX.asp
- Comedy club
- http://comedyconnectionboston.com/
- Live Music
- Current listings in the Phoenix
- http://www.bostonphoenix.com/
boston/music/index.asp
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- http://www.bso.org/
- Exhibits
- Museum of Fine Arts
- http://www.mfa.org/
- Museum of Science
- http://www.mos.org/
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
- New England Aquarium
- http://www.neaq.org/
- Decordova Museum
- http://www.decordova.org/
- Institute for Comtemporary Art
- http://www.icaboston.org/
- Harvard Glass Flowers Collection
- http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
exhibitions/glassflowers.html
- History
- Boston Public Library
- http://www.bpl.org/
- Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market
- http://faneuil-hall.
visit-boston-massachusetts.com/
- The Freedom Trail
- http://www.cityofboston.gov/
freedomtrail/default.asp
- U.S.S. Constitution
(Charlestown Naval Yard)
- http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil/
http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/
- New England Holocaust Memorial
- http://www.nehm.org/
- Professional tours
- Duck Tour
- http://www.bostonducktours.com/
- Old Town Trolley Tour
- http://www.historictours.com/boston/
- Athletics
- Baseball (Boston Red Sox)
- http://www.redsox.com/
- Basketball (Boston Celtics)
- http://www.nba.com/celtics/
- Hockey
- http://www.bostonbruins.com/
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Local government
http://www.cityofboston.gov/
Exercise
- Charles River running map
- http://www.math.harvard.edu/
~knill/run/region.html
- Boston running route
- http://www.soundkeepers.com/
running/boston.html
Shopping Areas near the Park Plaza
- Newbury Street
- http://www.newbury-st.com/
- Downtown Crossing
- http://www.downtowncrossing.org/
- Prudential center
- Copley Place
- http://www.simon.com/
mall/default.aspx?ID=784
Boston common and public gardens
http://www.pps.org/gps/one?public_place_id=10
Esplanade
http://boston.about.com/
cs/attractions/a/esplanade.htm
Hatch Shell (public outdoor ampitheater)
http://www.hatchshell.com/
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