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Cape Cod train service begins in time for Memorial Day weekend
MBTA service from Boston to Cape Cod begins Friday when the new CapeFlyer will depart South Station, with stops in Braintree, Middleborough, and Buzzard’s...
Bus tours ramp up in Big Apple
By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe CorrespondentCitySights NY has announced the return of its double-decker hop-on/hop-off tours across the Brooklyn Bridge with a revised Brooklyn Tour,...
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A semester in England
A passion for travel writing and English literature led Alexandra Churchill, a junior majoring in journalism at the University of New Hampshire, to Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge in England.
New hotels in New York City
For New York’s annual influx of holiday travelers, deciding where to stay is harder than ever. More than 2,700 hotel rooms were added to the city’s inventory this year. Here are some of the newest spots to check-in.
Salt air, smoothies, the slow take on Montauk
Past the glitz and glamour of the tony Hamptons, Montauk is a sleepy village determined to retain its charm. For many, it’s a quintessential surf town, a dusty throwback to the ease and simplicity of summers past.
The place to learn how to take a punch
Gleason’s is an everyman’s gym with aged equipment made from wood and iron, and no-frills weights and treadmills. It’s not the shiny fitness center that makes you feel good about getting into shape, but the purposeful place to do it.
Uptown
Perhaps no other area in New York so eagerly honors its history as Harlem, with streets renamed for Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and 10-foot-tall, 2-ton statue of Harriet Tubman leaning over Central Park.
- photos A day in Harlem
Men's shopping tour
“Insider’’ shopping tours for women, has launched a tour for fashion-savvy male travelers.
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The new guard in the kitchens across the river
Brooklyn has always been a good place for a meal out, but the borough's recently resettled culinary scene has an new appreciation for the innovative and trendy.
Keeping your feet high above the Hudson
The Walkway Over the Hudson connects the small industrial city of Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson’s east bank, with the hamlet of Highland, on the west.
Arrested development
Stroll Greenwich Village, SoHo, Washington Square and celebrate the legacy of Jane Jacobs's battle against urban renewal.
Chinatown treats and tastes
With an insider’s take on Chinatown, the author steers the throngs of New York tourists to a snack, a dinner, or a drink.
