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The North End Parks on the Rose Kennedy Greenway have reconnected Boston. Green space has been created in an area that was formerly an eyesore. It is also utilizing previously underutilized space as well as creating a beautiful segue into Boston as one enters via the Zakim Bridge and descends into the tunnel known as the “Big Dig”. With the dismantling of the old elevated Central Artery, the North End Parks now serve as a sun-splashed link between this historic neighborhood and the rest of the city. ==History/Overview== The North End is bound by Atlantic Avenue, Cross Street, and Commercial Street, which abuts the Boston Harbor waterfront. Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, two of Boston’s most popular tourist attractions, are also closely associated with the North End, though technically they fall just outside of its boundaries. The North End is Boston’s oldest neighborhood. Over the years, it has been home to almost every group of immigrants to come through Boston, but today it is mostly associated with the Italians. The neighborhood has a strong Italian flair and is the home of some of the city’s best Italian restaurants, which is why it is sometimes called Boston’s “Little Italy.” Although the North End is the oldest neighborhood, most of the surviving architecture dates from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Tenement style housing is particularly common, though the neighborhood has a mixture of architecture, including such historic structures as the Old North Church (1723), and the Paul Revere House (1680). The parks are a significant "hinge" point between the grand civic spaces of Quincy Market, Government Center, Haymarket and the intimacy of Boston's oldest neighborhood. The city's historic Freedom Trail, which used to sit in the dark shadow of the elevated highway, weaves through the park. The North End Parks site is defined by the surrounding streets -- John Fitzgerald Surface Road, North, Cross and Sudbury streets - and by the O'Neill/I-93 tunnel structures and interchanges at the Callahan and Sumner tunnels beneath the parks. Once a "land bridge" that connected the peninsula of Boston with Sudbury Street to the west, the site has a rich history, more than 300 years, as a crossing ground for Bostonians. This site was also the low point between Beacon Hill and Copps Hill and subsequently was the logical choice for a mill canal that connected the swampy area known as the Mill Pond (later the Bulfinch Triangle) with the bay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North End Parks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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