BOYLSTON STREET

'Boylston Street' is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs. It begins at its eastern end in central Boston as the continuation of Essex Street at the intersection of Tremont, and forms the southern boundary of Boston Common, and, past Charles Street, the southern limit of the Boston Public Garden as well. West of Arlington Street it becomes a major commercial artery in the city's Back Bay neighborhood, and forms the northern boundary of busy Copley Square. The street then forms the northern boundary of the Back Bay Fens, the direction of traffic switching from west-east to east-west. It then runs through the Fenway neighborhood through a swath of parking lots and other underutilized space, before ending at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive.
The street continues to the south through the town of Brookline and the city of Newton as the continuation of Boston's Huntington Avenue (Route 9), where it forms a divided highway.

Contents

Landmarks

Shopping

Suburbs

Transportation

Boston

Suburbs

Landmarks

★ Boston Common

★ Emerson College - several buildings are located along the street across from Boston Common

★ Boston Public Garden

★ 500 Boylston Street - a gaudy postmodern office building

★ Trinity Church

★ Copley Square

★ Old South Church

★ Boston Public Library

★ Hynes Convention Center

★ 941–955 Boylston Street - formerly a fire station and then home to the Institute of Contemporary Art, now part of the Boston Architectural College

★ Berklee College of Music

★ Back Bay Fens

★ Saint Clement's Eucharistic Shrine

★ Boston Public Garden

Shopping

★ Anthropologie

★ Marshalls

★ Filene's Basement

★ Escada

★ Hermes

★ Chanel [worldwide flagship; 16,900 sq. ft]

★ Shreve, Crump, and Low

★ Sonia Rykiel

★ St. John

★ Alexander McQueen

★ Burberry

★ Roche Bobois

★ Thos. Moser Furniture

★ Borders

★ Giuseppe Zanotti Design

★ H&M

★ Gap

★ Lord & Taylor

★ Tom Ford

★ Van Cleef & Arpels

★ Lanvin

★ Prada (epicenter megastore opening June 2008) [25,000 sq. ft.]

★ Balenciaga (U.S. flagship location opening June 2008) [19,590 sq. ft.]

★ Missoni

★ Shops at Prudential Center

★ Jasmine Sola

★ Pottery Barn

★ Louis Vuitton (United States flagship; opening to be announced) [30,000 sq. ft.]

Suburbs

★ The Mall at Chestnut Hill

★ Atrium Mall

Transportation

MBTA Green Line transit links along Boylston Street, from east to west:

Boston

★ Boylston (MBTA station)

★ Arlington (MBTA station)

★ Copley (MBTA station)

★ Hynes Convention Center (MBTA station)

★ Fenway (MBTA station)

Suburbs

★ Brookline Village (MBTA station)

★ Eliot (MBTA station)