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“Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit,” located in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center in the Boston Public Library, is the first transit map exhibit at the center and displays more than 400 years of the Boston’s transit system’s history through an extensive collection of maps, primary documents and...

If you ride the T on a daily basis, you probably have your own inside jokes about certain stops or lines. Well now, a group of Boston Public Library donors...

The Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday posted a new MBTA map featuring a host of creative station names — and they’re not what you might expect.

Hear from the author of a revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.<br/><br/>Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockd...

"Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit" opened at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map & Education Center in September

A Night In the Stacks celebrates and supports the Boston Public Library. Read more about this event on Boston.com.

"A lot of these historic maps illuminate modern-day mobility issues," says Garrett Dash Nelson, the President and Head Curator of the Leventhal Map and Education Center. "We want people to think, this isn't just about the past, but about building a more inclusive transit system for the future."

BOSTON, MA – September 12, 2023 – The Boston Public Library today announced its Fall Genealogy Series, offering a range of workshops and…

From the ferries and stagecoaches of the 19th century to the trains, buses, and trolleys of today, Greater Bostonians have used public transit to make their way around the region. With routes planned out 150 years ago still in use, the city’s neighborhoods are living with the shape of its transit system, albeit slowly these days due to underinvestment spanning decades.

The Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library will launch its latest free exhibition this fall with the opening…