Now that the dust from the Big Dig
- the largest, most complicated highway project in US history
- has settled, Boston is free of the unsightly elevated expressway that scarred its cityscape. Formerly divided neighbourhoods are reunited, making sightseeing more accessible & appealing. Other regeneration projects, including the gleaming glass Institute of Contemporary Art (the first new museum in almost a century) on a formerly barren stretch of the waterfront, have come to fruition, bolstering Boston's claim to world-class status & bringing new vitality to the city. Reflecting this is an explosion of chic shops & restaurants, some creeping into long-neglected areas. Time Out Boston's team of local journalists, h&-picked from the mainstream & alternative press, is on top of all the latest developments.