New England Medical Center (MBTA station)

Infobox Station
name= New England Medical Center


type=MBTA rapid transit and bus rapid transit station
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address=750 Washington Street
Boston, Massachusetts
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opened=May 4, 1987 (Orange Line)
July 30, 2002 (Silver Line)
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New England Medical Center is a metro station located along Boston's Orange Line subway and Silver Line bus rapid transit system.

It is named for Tufts-New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center) and is built under a wing of the facility that crosses over Washington Street in downtown Boston between Kneeland Street in Chinatown and the Massachusetts Turnpike.

It was built during the late 1960s during what were to be the early stages of the abandoned Interstate 695 project, in anticipation of the future abandonment of the Washington Street Elevated, but was not put into service until nearly 20 years later, in 1987.

Bus Connections

*6 South Station - Haymarket via North End
*11 City Point - Downtown via Bayview
*43 Ruggles Station - Park Street & Tremont Street via Tremont Street

Artwork

The modern artwork displayed beside each of the escalators to the train platforms was installed circa 1990 and consists of painted aluminum shapes that are the result of what the artist, Richard Gubernick, called "high-class doodling". According to Gubernick, who also has artwork displayed in LaSalle Station in Buffalo, New York, reports:

"A lot of people ask me, does it move? Does it move? well, it looks like it does, but it doesn't....If you move it, you bought it." [ BostonNOW, March 31, 2008]

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