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 ...

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 ...

The historic Congress Street bridge that spans Boston’s Fort Point Channel is slated for star treatment, even as the fate of the old Northern Avenue bridge is up in the air.The Congress Street ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...