Local News Here’s what the new Northern Avenue Bridge will look like "We didn’t want a just cookie-cutter bridge going over the Fort Point channel." ...

It’s finally time to say goodbye to the old Northern Avenue bridge. The 640-foot span over the Fort Point Channel opened more than a century ago, a compressed air-powered swing bridge that ...

The city is considering regularly scheduled openings of the pedestrian-only swing bridge to accommodate new boats docking in Fort Point Channel and others that want to ply its waters. “There’s ...

Turning a liability into an asset requires an unusual kind of corporate alchemy. General Electric is betting $1.5 million that it can pull off such a transformation with an abandoned pedestrian ...

Now that the bridge is set to be demolished, calls for its replacement have been renewed – although the city has no immediate plans to replace it, the Boston Globe reported.. But that hasn’t ...

Around 2:45 a.m., officers conducting a traffic stop on Congress Street were approached by a “frantic witness” who said a person had just jumped off the bridge and into the Fort Point Channel ...

BOSTON -- Fort Point Channel was once nothing but swampland and tidal marsh. In the 19th century, it became an industrial center, warehousing wool from around New England. Today, the 55-acre ...

Fort Point Channel was once nothing but swampland and tidal marsh. In the 19th century, it became an industrial center, warehousing wool from around New England.

A Trader Joe’s grocery store could be coming to the Thomson Place retail corridor, a collection of brick-and-beam properties that serves as a bridge between Boston’s historic Fort Point ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Rolling-Lift Bridge over Fort Point Channel, Boston ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 82 No. 24 (June 1900), p. 8 doi:10.1038 ...