Newbury Street
A shopping street of more than one kilometer in Back Bay, where the 19th-century brownstone row houses have boutiques, galleries and cafés on their ground floors.
The street runs about 1.4 kilometers from Arlington Street beside the Boston Public Garden to Massachusetts Avenue. Victorian brownstone row houses line both sides, and their ground and semi-basement levels have been converted into fashion boutiques, vintage shops, galleries, bookstores and cafés. The further west you go, the more affordable and youthful it becomes. You can detour to Commonwealth Avenue Mall, which runs parallel, to see the mansions of Back Bay. On some summer Sundays, part of the street is closed to traffic and becomes a pedestrian zone. Walk west from the Public Garden, and the street ends at the Prudential Center and the View Boston observation deck.
Opening hours
Open all day; shops about 10:00–19:00
Nearby sights
- View Boston (Prudential Tower)
- Boston Public Library, Central Library
- Trinity Church, Boston
- Charles River Esplanade
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Fenway Park
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum