In economic collapse — “dying on the vine,” as U.S. News and World Report described it in the late 1950s — Boston’s Old World sense of itself as a New World European village was crumbling as surely as ...

Boston City Hall was designated a historical landmark on Jan. 25, to both praise and disapproval from readers.

To envision its new city hall, Boston held a competition in the 1960s and eventually selected the submission from ...

Both beloved and reviled, the brawny Brutalist building, recognized for “redefining the city’s architectural identity and the ...

First Night Boston, New England’s largest New Year’s Eve party, returns to City Hall Plaza this year to celebrate the start of 2025. The free event runs from 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31 ...

BUT DESPITE THAT, YOU CAN SEE CREWS ARE HERE PREPARING CITY HALL PLAZA AHEAD OF THE BIG NIGHT. WE JUST HEARD THEM DOING SOME SOUND CHECKS, AND THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF THE FESTIVITIES WILL HAPPEN.