Walking and driving through Boston is an entirely new experience with the tracks down and the Central Artery gone, as these images reveal.
Central Artery seen from Atlantic Avenue
Jan. 18, 1976
There are some amazing old buildings in Boston, and if the death of the Central Artery did anything, it let those buildings breathe. Like the ornate Grain Exchange building on Milk Street (completed in 1892), in front of the Custom House Tower.
Central Artery seen from Atlantic Avenue
Jan. 18, 1976
There are some amazing old buildings in Boston, and if the death of the Central Artery did anything, it let those buildings breathe. Like the ornate Grain Exchange building on Milk Street (completed in 1892), in front of the Custom House Tower.
(Globe Staff Photo by David L. Ryan, text by Doug Most)