We asked Boston.com readers about their favorite spot to relax and take in views of the city skyline, and put together a list of the most popular places. Read more on Boston.com.

This week, I’m sharing some other fun water-related activities in the Boston Harbor and Charles River. Red Bull Cliff Diving at the Institute of Contemporary Art. One of my absolute favorite events of ...

Just north of the Charles River is Boston’s oldest neighborhood, Charlestown. The charming area has a striking mix of old roots that date back to the early 1600s and the new residents that ...

When the Pilgrims founded Boston in 1630, the Charles River looked even more undisturbed than this. It was a tide-tugged flow that met the sea in Watertown, which today is 9 miles from the nearest ...

Boston’s outdoor dining season has returned as restaurants all over the city have started to open their patios. Whether it’s sitting seaside in Seaport or people watching in Back Bay, each ...

The skyline of downtown Boston could soon be getting a lot taller. Zoning changes proposed for downtown, stretching from the Boston Common to the Rose Kennedy Greenway, would allow developers to ...

The Boston Athenæum is one of the country’s oldest independent libraries, with a circulating collection of over half a million books, including everything from books from the 1800s to the ...

The city takes pride in the tremendous progress it has made toward a cleaner Boston Harbor and cleaner Charles River since the Standells sang about loving that “Dirty Water” in 1966.